Create New Artists

[Smudger]

I have sorted it thnx by creating a new album manually (fictitious) and then deleting that album and the new artist is now showing in the artist listing

[Jazz_North]

Actually you can just type in the artist name if you are in the Record Properties display. The only exceptions are if there is a collaboration or if the artists are Various Artists. In these cases the the background to the Artist field will be gray. To change this just click on the right arrow(head) next to the artist entry box and de-select whichever is checked; then you can type in whatever you want. I do this all the time.