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Missy Elliott name displays incorrectly for users in Ukraine

  • August 16, 2026
  • 4 replies
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Hello,

Recently I discovered that Missy Elliott name is displayed as Мелісса Елліотт for users from Ukraine. 

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Nina Nebo
Superuser
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  • Superuser
  • August 16, 2026

 

Hi ​@Oleksii.Karzhaiev !

Streaming services like Deezer automatically localize artist names into regional alphabets based on your IP address and account language settings. For Ukrainian users, Latin names are often transliterated or translated into Cyrillic (such as Мелісса Елліотт for Melissa/Missy Elliott), matching local catalog display rules.

 Music platforms use metadata tagging that allows regional storefronts to display artist names in the local script.

Change your display language settings inside the app to English or report metadata translation errors directly via Deezer Support .


 

Hi ​@Oleksii.Karzhaiev !

Streaming services like Deezer automatically localize artist names into regional alphabets based on your IP address and account language settings. For Ukrainian users, Latin names are often transliterated or translated into Cyrillic (such as Мелісса Елліотт for Melissa/Missy Elliott), matching local catalog display rules.

 Music platforms use metadata tagging that allows regional storefronts to display artist names in the local script.

Change your display language settings inside the app to English or report metadata translation errors directly via Deezer Support .

1. That's simply not true, because no other artist has such a ridiculous transliteration.

2. That makes no sence. Why any world-renowned/trademarked name should be transliterated into Cyrillic? I want to listen to Tina Turner, but not Тіна Тьорнер😂


Alfredo.Deezer
Community Manager
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  • Community Manager
  • August 17, 2026

Hi ​@Oleksii.Karzhaiev 

Could you share with us the correct translations and the links of the artist profiles that you have spotted with these mistakes to check them and be able to change them, please?

Thanks! 


Hi ​@Oleksii.Karzhaiev 

Could you share with us the correct translations and the links of the artist profiles that you have spotted with these mistakes to check them and be able to change them, please?

Thanks! 

Hello!

The only artist I spotted with the translation into Cyrillic is Missy Elliott.

https://link.deezer.com/s/3494c29CslIVPP5pLed9t