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Per the overall MOS guidance to use logical quotation, punctuation should be placed outside the quotation marks (title formatting) of songs: Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited album includes the songs "Like a Rolling Stone", "Ballad of a Thin Man", and "Desolation Row". Of course, if the song title itself contains punctuation, it goes inside: "Help!"
The English-language titles of compositions (books and other print works, songs and other audio works, films and other visual media works, paintings and other artworks, etc.) are given in title case, in which every word is given an initial capital except for certain less important words (as detailed at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters ...
Capitalization of song titles and album titles should be consistent with the guidelines for composition titles; in particular, capitalize the first and last word and all other words except: coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor; also for, yet, so when used as conjunctions)
Song titles are not really treated differently from other titles. According to modern conventions for works written after the introduction of moveable type, the title of a book or journal or magazine is rendered in italics but the title of a smaller work within a book or journal or magazine is placed within quotation marks.
I understand a quotation to be something different from a list of song titles that use quotation marks for punctuation. Listing four song titles in a sentence and placing the commas outside the quotation marks punctuating the song titles makes the resulting changed text appear to my eyes like some sort of programming language, rather than English.
Please be civil and make sure your argument covers all Wikipedia and Manual of Style rules. The common-sense guideline should be to punctuate titles as though you were writing and speaking them out in a sentence. Some titles use the artist's name as part of the title, in which case the article title should also include the artist's name.
The aesthetic style, which is only really now used in North America, [citation needed] was developed as early typesetters thought it was more aesthetically pleasing to present punctuation that way. In the aesthetic style, the punctuation goes within the quotation marks: For example: Arthur said the situation was "deplorable."
Please be civil and make sure your argument covers all Wikipedia and Manual of Style rules. The common-sense guideline should be to punctuate titles as though you were writing and speaking them out in a sentence. Some titles use the artist's name as part of the title, in which case the article title should also include the artist's name.