diff --git a/api/_bootstrap.php b/api/_bootstrap.php
index e197b36..7c8dac7 100644
--- a/api/_bootstrap.php
+++ b/api/_bootstrap.php
@@ -102,6 +102,46 @@ function request_track() {
     return [trim((string) $artist), trim((string) $title)];
 }
 
+/**
+ * Strip a featuring-artist credit ("(feat. X)", "(ft. X)", "(featuring X)",
+ * "(with X)", bracket variants, or an unparenthesized trailing "feat. X")
+ * before it goes into a Genius/dumb search query.
+ *
+ * Genius's canonical song title never includes the featuring credit (it's
+ * separate metadata), but translation/cover pages often spell it out
+ * verbatim in their title — e.g. searching "Havana (feat. Young Thug)"
+ * surfaces only German/French translation pages (titled "... ft. Young
+ * Thug ... (Deutsche Übersetzung)" etc.), while "Havana" alone correctly
+ * finds the original as the first hit. Leaves other qualifiers like
+ * "(Remix)"/"(Live)" alone — those genuinely change which page you want.
+ */
+function strip_feature_credit($title) {
+    $title = preg_replace('/[\(\[]\s*(?:feat\.?|ft\.?|featuring|with)\b[^\)\]]*[\)\]]/i', '', $title);
+    $title = preg_replace('/\s+(?:feat\.?|ft\.?|featuring)\b.+$/i', '', $title);
+    return trim(preg_replace('/\s{2,}/', ' ', $title));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Loose "is this search hit actually by the artist we want" check —
+ * case-insensitive, ignores punctuation/spacing and anything in brackets
+ * (so "Camila Cabello (Ft. Young Thug)" still matches "Camila Cabello").
+ * An empty side always matches (nothing to compare against). Used to skip
+ * past hits attributed to someone else entirely — most notably Genius's
+ * "Genius Deutsche Übersetzungen" / "Genius traductions françaises" / etc.
+ * pseudo-artist accounts that translation pages get filed under.
+ */
+function artist_loosely_matches($hitArtist, $wantArtist) {
+    $norm = function ($s) {
+        $s = preg_replace('/[\(\[][^\)\]]*[\)\]]/', '', (string) $s);
+        $s = preg_replace('/[^\p{L}\p{N}]+/u', '', $s);
+        return strtolower($s);
+    };
+    $a = $norm($hitArtist);
+    $b = $norm($wantArtist);
+    if ($a === '' || $b === '') return true;
+    return strpos($a, $b) !== false || strpos($b, $a) !== false;
+}
+
 /**
  * Return the inner HTML of a balanced <div> whose opening tag starts at $lt.
  * Correctly handles nested <div> elements. Shared by the Genius and dumb
@@ -154,15 +194,36 @@ function container_to_text($fragment) {
  * templates, these regexes may need updating.
  */
 
-/** Search dumb for a track; returns the first song result's page path (e.g. "/Artist-title-lyrics"), or '' if none. */
+/**
+ * Search dumb for a track; returns a song result's page path (e.g.
+ * "/Artist-title-lyrics"), or '' if none. Scans the first 5 song hits for
+ * one actually attributed to $artist (see artist_loosely_matches) and
+ * returns that; falls back to the top hit if none match rather than
+ * returning nothing, so an unusual artist-name spelling can't regress
+ * availability entirely.
+ */
 function dumb_search($artist, $title, $timeout) {
     $base = cfg('dumb.url');
     if ($base === '') return '';
-    $query = rawurlencode(trim($artist . ' - ' . $title, ' -'));
+    $query = rawurlencode(trim($artist . ' - ' . strip_feature_credit($title), ' -'));
     $html = http_get($base . '/search?q=' . $query, $timeout);
     if ($html === null) return '';
-    if (!preg_match('/<h2>\s*Songs\s*<\/h2>.*?<a[^>]+id="search-item"[^>]+href="([^"]+)"/is', $html, $m)) return '';
-    return html_entity_decode($m[1], ENT_QUOTES | ENT_HTML5, 'UTF-8');
+
+    if (!preg_match('/<h2>\s*Songs\s*<\/h2>(.*?)(?=<h2>|$)/is', $html, $section)) return '';
+    if (!preg_match_all('/<a[^>]+id="search-item"[^>]+href="([^"]+)"[^>]*>.*?<span>([^<]*)<\/span>/is', $section[1], $hits, PREG_SET_ORDER)) {
+        return '';
+    }
+
+    $fallback = '';
+    $checked = 0;
+    foreach ($hits as $h) {
+        $href = html_entity_decode($h[1], ENT_QUOTES | ENT_HTML5, 'UTF-8');
+        if ($fallback === '') $fallback = $href;
+        if ($checked++ >= 5) break;
+        $hitArtist = html_entity_decode($h[2], ENT_QUOTES | ENT_HTML5, 'UTF-8');
+        if (artist_loosely_matches($hitArtist, $artist)) return $href;
+    }
+    return $fallback;
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/api/artwork.php b/api/artwork.php
index e0ab207..18520cd 100644
--- a/api/artwork.php
+++ b/api/artwork.php
@@ -85,11 +85,24 @@ function genius_artwork($artist, $title) {
     if ($token === '') return null;
     $headers = ['Authorization: Bearer ' . $token];
 
-    $query  = rawurlencode(trim($artist . ' - ' . $title, ' -'));
+    $query  = rawurlencode(trim($artist . ' - ' . strip_feature_credit($title), ' -'));
     $search = http_get('https://api.genius.com/search?q=' . $query, 5, $headers);
     if ($search === null) return null;
 
-    $hit = dot_get(json_decode($search, true), 'response.hits.0.result', null);
+    $hits = dot_get(json_decode($search, true), 'response.hits', []);
+    if (!is_array($hits) || count($hits) === 0) return null;
+
+    // Same artist-attribution scan as api/lyrics.php — skip translation-page
+    // hits filed under a pseudo-artist account, falling back to the raw top
+    // hit if nothing in the first 5 matches.
+    $hit = null;
+    $checked = 0;
+    foreach ($hits as $h) {
+        if ($checked++ >= 5) break;
+        $r = dot_get($h, 'result', null);
+        if ($r && artist_loosely_matches((string) ($r['artist_names'] ?? ''), $artist)) { $hit = $r; break; }
+    }
+    if ($hit === null) $hit = dot_get($hits, '0.result', null);
     if (!$hit) return null;
 
     $out = [
diff --git a/api/lyrics.php b/api/lyrics.php
index e488597..70756f7 100644
--- a/api/lyrics.php
+++ b/api/lyrics.php
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ $token   = cfg('genius.token');
 $headers = ['Authorization: Bearer ' . $token];
 
 /* -- Find the song on Genius ----------------------------------------------- */
-$query  = rawurlencode(trim($artist . ' - ' . $title, ' -'));
+$query  = rawurlencode(trim($artist . ' - ' . strip_feature_credit($title), ' -'));
 $search = http_get('https://api.genius.com/search?q=' . $query, $timeout, $headers);
 if ($search === null) json_out($empty);
 
@@ -120,23 +120,33 @@ $json = json_decode($search, true);
 $hits = dot_get($json, 'response.hits', []);
 if (!is_array($hits) || count($hits) === 0) json_out($empty);
 
-$pageUrl = (string) dot_get($hits, '0.result.url', '');
+// Scan the first 5 hits for one actually attributed to $artist — skips
+// past translation pages, which Genius files under pseudo-artist accounts
+// like "Genius Deutsche Übersetzungen" rather than the real artist. Falls
+// back to the raw top hit if nothing matches, so an unusual artist-name
+// spelling can't regress availability entirely. When prefer_english is on,
+// keep scanning matching hits until one is confirmed English.
+$pageUrl = '';
+$fallbackUrl = (string) dot_get($hits, '0.result.url', '');
+$checked = 0;
+foreach ($hits as $h) {
+    if ($checked++ >= 5) break;
+    if (!artist_loosely_matches((string) dot_get($h, 'result.artist_names', ''), $artist)) continue;
 
-// Optionally prefer the first English-language match (a few extra API calls).
-if (cfg('lyrics.prefer_english')) {
-    $checked = 0;
-    foreach ($hits as $h) {
-        if ($checked++ >= 5) break;
-        $id = dot_get($h, 'result.id', null);
-        if (!$id) continue;
-        $songRaw = http_get('https://api.genius.com/songs/' . rawurlencode((string) $id), $timeout, $headers);
-        if ($songRaw === null) continue;
-        if (dot_get(json_decode($songRaw, true), 'response.song.language', '') === 'en') {
-            $pageUrl = (string) dot_get($h, 'result.url', $pageUrl);
-            break;
-        }
+    $hitUrl = (string) dot_get($h, 'result.url', '');
+    if ($pageUrl === '') $pageUrl = $hitUrl;
+    if (!cfg('lyrics.prefer_english')) break;
+
+    $id = dot_get($h, 'result.id', null);
+    if (!$id) continue;
+    $songRaw = http_get('https://api.genius.com/songs/' . rawurlencode((string) $id), $timeout, $headers);
+    if ($songRaw === null) continue;
+    if (dot_get(json_decode($songRaw, true), 'response.song.language', '') === 'en') {
+        $pageUrl = $hitUrl;
+        break;
     }
 }
+if ($pageUrl === '') $pageUrl = $fallbackUrl;
 if ($pageUrl === '') json_out($empty);
 
 /* -- Scrape the lyric containers ------------------------------------------- */