---
title: Artist
framework: musickit
role: symbol
role_heading: Structure
path: musickit/artist
---

# Artist

A music item that represents an artist.

## Declaration

```swift
struct Artist
```

## Topics

### Instance Properties

- [albums](musickit/artist/albums.md)
- [appearsOnAlbums](musickit/artist/appearsonalbums.md)
- [artwork](musickit/artist/artwork.md)
- [compilationAlbums](musickit/artist/compilationalbums.md)
- [editorialNotes](musickit/artist/editorialnotes.md)
- [featuredAlbums](musickit/artist/featuredalbums.md)
- [featuredPlaylists](musickit/artist/featuredplaylists.md)
- [fullAlbums](musickit/artist/fullalbums.md)
- [genreNames](musickit/artist/genrenames.md)
- [genres](musickit/artist/genres.md)
- [id](musickit/artist/id.md)
- [latestRelease](musickit/artist/latestrelease.md)
- [libraryAddedDate](musickit/artist/libraryaddeddate.md)
- [liveAlbums](musickit/artist/livealbums.md)
- [musicVideos](musickit/artist/musicvideos.md)
- [name](musickit/artist/name.md)
- [playlists](musickit/artist/playlists.md)
- [similarArtists](musickit/artist/similarartists.md)
- [singles](musickit/artist/singles.md)
- [station](musickit/artist/station.md)
- [topMusicVideos](musickit/artist/topmusicvideos.md)
- [topSongs](musickit/artist/topsongs.md)
- [url](musickit/artist/url.md)

### Default Implementations

- [FilterableMusicItem Implementations](musickit/artist/filterablemusicitem-implementations.md)
- [MusicLibraryRequestable Implementations](musickit/artist/musiclibraryrequestable-implementations.md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

- [Copyable](swift/copyable.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Decodable](swift/decodable.md)
- [Encodable](swift/encodable.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Escapable](swift/escapable.md)
- [FilterableMusicItem](musickit/filterablemusicitem.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [Identifiable](swift/identifiable.md)
- [MusicCatalogSearchable](musickit/musiccatalogsearchable.md)
- [MusicItem](musickit/musicitem.md)
- [MusicLibraryRequestable](musickit/musiclibraryrequestable.md)
- [MusicLibrarySearchable](musickit/musiclibrarysearchable.md)
- [MusicLibrarySectionRequestable](musickit/musiclibrarysectionrequestable.md)
- [MusicPropertyContainer](musickit/musicpropertycontainer.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Music Items

- [Album](musickit/album.md)
- [Curator](musickit/curator.md)
- [Genre](musickit/genre.md)
- [MusicVideo](musickit/musicvideo.md)
- [Playlist](musickit/playlist.md)
- [RadioShow](musickit/radioshow.md)
- [RecordLabel](musickit/recordlabel.md)
- [Song](musickit/song.md)
- [Station](musickit/station.md)
- [Track](musickit/track.md)