Featured Artists (FA) are music artists that have worked with osu! to make a selection of their tracks available for use in osu! World Cup live streams. 4uu4x
The website's Featured Artist listing showcases each involved artist. Each artist's page houses general information about their music and a list of their tracks licensed for use in osu! accompanied by pre-timed .osz files for beatmapping.
The osu! originals. These are labelled as such in the Featured Artist catalogue.
Additions to the Featured Artist library are selected indirectly by the osu! community. If mappers create and rank beatmaps for an artist, the osu! team may reach out to the artist to discuss the Featured Artist program. However, some artists are occasionally invited to become Featured Artists based on other factors, such as their expected appeal to osu!'s mapping audience.
All songs in the Featured Artist program are non-exclusively licensed for use in osu!. Details for musicians who wish to the Featured Artists can be found in the music licensing article.
New Featured Artist releases per year:
New Featured Artists are announced weekly on osu!'s Mappers' Guild.
Beatmappers are encouraged to create maps for Featured Artist tracks. These tracks are provided with osu!(lazer), will mark these maps prominently in-game.
All mapping contests published on the Mapping Olympiad, require participants to map Featured Artist songs. Some community-run contests utilise these songs as well.
To promote mapping Featured Artist content, of the community created the osu! Discord server.
If a pre-timed .osz from the Featured Artist listing has errors of any kind, they can be reported on this forum thread.
Featured Artists with an osu! can be identified by a cyan "Featured Artist" group badge that reads FA to show their involvement.
The Featured Artist listing lists all Featured Artists.