Capitalization, Abbreviations, Accents and Characters

Modified on Mon, 29 Jul at 5:35 PM

To ensure that accents and capitalizations appear correctly on Stores, the appropriate language must be set in the metadata.

Nonstandard Capitalization. Titles must not be in all capitals, all lower case, or random casing.
Incorrect
Reason
YOUNG AMERICANS
Title is all upper case.
the downward spiral
Title is all lower case.
a TIMe to lOVE
Title has random capitalization.
Abbreviation of Part and Volume. The words Part and Volume must be abbreviated with “Pt.” and “Vol.” Titles should be formatted as “Title, Vol. x” and “Title, Pt. x,” where x is a number.
Album Title
Dead Presidents, Vol. 1
Track Title
The Payback, Pt. 1
English Title Casing. English titles must be in title case format and follow the casing conventions as outlined in Appendix 2: Title Case. In addition, for English, words before and after a dash (-), slash (/), or colon (:) must be capitalized.
Title casing is not required for content sold in Japan, as long as these titles are localized in Japanese.

Incorrect	Reason
YOUNG AMERICANS	Title is all upper case.
the downward spiral	Title is all lower case.
a TIMe to lOVE	Title has random capitalization.

Album Title	Dead Presidents, Vol. 1
Track Title	The Payback, Pt. 1