{{allmusic|<<allmusic-ID>>|<<link text>>}}

where the ID is the bit in bold:

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/artist-name-mn0000012345

http://www.allmusic.com/album/album-title-mw0000067890

http://www.allmusic.com/performance/performance-title-mq0000067890

http://www.allmusic.com/album/album/release/album-release-title-mr0001757811

http://www.allmusic.com/song/song-title-mt0000101010

{{allmusic|mt0000726831|Arnold Layne}}

allmusic: Arnold Layne

• Pages in the main namespace using this template are added to [[Category:allmusic/pagetype]], where pagetype is Artist, Album, Single, Film or Song.

• variable allmusic is set to 1.