Hi Noel
take a look at artist bucket value 'doc_counts'
doc_counts: returns document counts for each of the various artist document types
audio: "0"
biographies: "7"
blogs: "2877"
images: "167"
news: "913"
reviews: "20"
songs: "58"
video: "468"
this should give you the values required to create pagination etc..
at0m