Artist being linked to country without country tag?

[VeraJunior]

Per the FAQ "An artist's associated country is determined by its user-generated tags on last.fm, and these are not always correct. Mistakes will often occur when there are more than one artist with the same name. It's a problem with the data that we can't do anything about." I assumed this was the case with artist Ariel showing up in Argentina, since there are many artists with this name collected in one profile. But looking at the profile it doesn't have a tag "Argentina" or "Argentinian" or even any mention of Argentina in the Bio. So why does Ariel show up as being Argentinian?

[fymmot]

Hi @VeraJunior !
The API returns a lot more tags than the ones that are shown on the Last.fm website.

Here is the full list we get for Ariel:

As you can see, there are multiple countries all with the same number of tags. So Ariel might have ended up in France, Russia, Italy or Argentina. But it should be possible to nudge this artist to another country by adding more tags for your preferred country.