While lyrics and annotations are the heart of Genius, song bios, album bios, and artist bios all provide overviews that allow readers to dive deeper.

Guidelines for all types of bios

• Be original — don't just use another write-up
• It's okay for some information to live in both the bio and the Q&A section
• Don't make it too long
• Steer away from embedding images and videos
• Verified artists may write or edit their own bios and often it's okay to let them control the content, at least to some degree
• Removing bios
• All the same formatting and linking tips from the Annotating Guide of course apply.

Song Bios

Tips for song bios, the most common kind of bio on Genius:

• Do not restate metadata
• Don't explain individual lines
• Note about pre-release songs
• Good topics

Album Bios

• Note about pre-release albums
• Note about alternate editions
• Avoid fluff details
• Good topics

Artist Bios

Artist bios are perhaps the trickiest to write and you will see different styles across the site. Tips:

• You can be more creative than Wikipedia
• It can be okay for artist bios to be kind of sparse, especially when there are not a ton of great resources about the artist
• Good topics