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diff --git a/core/matching_engine.py b/core/matching_engine.py
index 76fb95f3..1f8d9301 100644
--- a/core/matching_engine.py
+++ b/core/matching_engine.py
@@ -53,7 +53,14 @@ class MusicMatchingEngine:
         if not text:
             return ""
         # Handle Korn/KoЯn variations - both uppercase Я (U+042F) and lowercase я (U+044F)
-        text = re.sub(r'ko[яЯ]n', 'korn', text, flags=re.IGNORECASE)
+        char_map = {
+            'Я': 'R',  # Cyrillic 'Ya' to 'R'
+            'я': 'r',  # Lowercase Cyrillic 'ya' to 'r'
+        }
+
+        # Apply the character replacements before other normalization steps
+        for original, replacement in char_map.items():
+            text = text.replace(original, replacement)
         text = unidecode(text)
         text = text.lower()
         
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diff --git a/database/music_database.py b/database/music_database.py
index 1866ffd9..f799b879 100644
--- a/database/music_database.py
+++ b/database/music_database.py
@@ -874,6 +874,24 @@ class MusicDatabase:
         except Exception as e:
             logger.error(f"Error searching albums with title='{title}', artist='{artist}': {e}")
             return []
+        
+
+
+    def _get_artist_variations(self, artist_name: str) -> List[str]:
+            """Returns a list of known variations for an artist's name."""
+            variations = [artist_name]
+            name_lower = artist_name.lower()
+
+            # Add more aliases here in the future
+            if "korn" in name_lower:
+                if "KoЯn" not in variations:
+                    variations.append("KoЯn")
+                if "Korn" not in variations:
+                    variations.append("Korn")
+            
+            # Return unique variations
+            return list(set(variations))
+
     
     def check_track_exists(self, title: str, artist: str, confidence_threshold: float = 0.8) -> Tuple[Optional[DatabaseTrack], float]:
         """
@@ -895,7 +913,10 @@ class MusicDatabase:
             # Try each title variation
             for title_variation in title_variations:
                 # Search for potential matches with this variation
-                potential_matches = self.search_tracks(title=title_variation, artist=artist, limit=20)
+                potential_matches = []
+                artist_variations = self._get_artist_variations(artist)
+                for artist_variation in artist_variations:
+                    potential_matches.extend(self.search_tracks(title=title_variation, artist=artist_variation, limit=20))
                 
                 if not potential_matches:
                     continue
diff --git a/ui/pages/__pycache__/artists.cpython-312.pyc b/ui/pages/__pycache__/artists.cpython-312.pyc
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diff --git a/ui/pages/artists.py b/ui/pages/artists.py
index 2f5598ac..56b7bb12 100644
--- a/ui/pages/artists.py
+++ b/ui/pages/artists.py
@@ -732,7 +732,8 @@ class DatabaseLibraryWorker(QThread):
                 
                 # Try different artist combinations
                 artists_to_try = spotify_album.artists[:2] if spotify_album.artists else [""]
-                
+                if "Korn" in artists_to_try:
+                    artists_to_try.append("KoЯn")
                 best_album = None
                 best_confidence = 0.0
                 best_owned_tracks = 0