Help with a new metadata field name

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Hi folks,

I'm working on adding some new metadata fields to songs, but I'm stuck on the terminology to use for one. The new field is for musicians who played on the track—for now it'll just be a single field without distinguishing instruments (we might add that at some point, but best to do the simple thing first).

When we display this kind of metadata, the format is always a label and then a name, which together read like a sentence:

As you can see, the labels "Featuring", "Produced By", and "Written By" all read as natural English when followed by the names of the people involved.

So the question is: how should we label the musician field? "Instrumentals performed by" is way too much of a mouthful, but the closest thing we've been able to think of so far. We'd love to hear ideas that are brief, read smoothly, and convey the information clearly.

Many thanks!

@rap-genius @pop-genius @RBgenius @rock-genius @country-genius @genius-editorial-board

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