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Genius API: List an artist's songs

Lists an artist's songs on Genius by popularity or newest release date, with featured artists, release dates, page views and song art. The artist can be given by name or by Genius artist link; dates or views may be unavailable.

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Inputs

Values from the run on Oct 31, 2026, shown under Output.

Sort optionalsort

Order songs by popularity or newest release date, for example popularity.

popularity

One of popularity, release_date. Default popularity.

Artist, requiredartist

Artist name or Genius artist link, for example Taylor Swift or https://genius.com/artists/Taylor-swift.

Grimes

Max Results optionalmax_results

Maximum number of songs, for example 20.

100

Whole number from 1 to 100. Default 20.

Output

From a run on Oct 31, 2026, shortened for this page.
{  "songs": [    {      "title": "Genesis",      "song_link": "https://genius.com/Grimes-genesis-lyrics",      "page_views": 628397,      "release_date": "2012-01-09",      "genius_song_id": 75097,      "featured_artists": [],      "song_art_image_link": "https://images.genius.com/70f421b88d0e9ddb2e7e6a4f5461148d.1000x1000x1.jpg"    },    {      "title": "Kill V. Maim",      "song_link": "https://genius.com/Grimes-kill-v-maim-lyrics",      "page_views": 612612,      "release_date": "2015-11-06",      "genius_song_id": 2338809,      "featured_artists": [],      "song_art_image_link": "https://images.genius.com/1632f5fb43077e89d687fdb7a82533b3.1000x1000x1.jpg"    },    {      "title": "Oblivion",      "song_link": "https://genius.com/Grimes-oblivion-lyrics",      "page_views": 564235,      "release_date": "2012-01-31",      "genius_song_id": 75096,      "featured_artists": [],      "song_art_image_link": "https://images.genius.com/0b192fee179867f83aaad83e10688389.1000x1000x1.png"    }  ],  "artist_link": "https://genius.com/artists/Grimes",  "artist_name": "Grimes"}
Price
1 credit per completed run (1¢ with pay as you go); failed runs are free.
Method
genius.com/list_artist_songs
Returns
artist name, artist link, songs (title, featured artists, release date, page views, song art, link, Genius song id)

Use it from your agent

Give your agent this line. It reads SKILL.md, gets a Fous API key and connects the Fous MCP server. Its run then takes the method genius.com/list_artist_songs with the inputs above.

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