[SquareWheel]

That's awesome, I'll link last.fm now then.

I do have a suggestion, which may or may not be a terrible idea. If somebody does a perfect search for an artist, why not go directly to that artists page instead of a search page? If I type "Supertramp", I'm probably not looking for a genre or album by that name.

I suppose it could have adverse effects in corner cases (common sounding artist names like "rock" maybe?), but I bet there's a way to determine with pretty good accuracy if they're trying to do a search or go directly to an artist page.

[cowpewter]

If we find an exact match, we should feature the artist above the song results. Not exactly going straight to the artist's page, but just one click away.

It does seem to work for me for "Supertramp" http://cl.ly/image/0S253x0J3p2v

I wrote about half that feature and I made extra sure that something like "rock" should highlight the Rock genre and "kid rock" should highlight the artist and "party rock" should highlight the album.

[SquareWheel]

Oh I see, I figured Artists were just listed above songs. I didn't realize it made guesses about your search. Okay, cool, that's neat. I guess you guys opted to show search results in all cases even if you were pretty sure you knew what the person was looking for - which is fair.