I'm trying to retrieve total counts for musical band/artist type from a single table called 'artist'.

For the sake of simplification, let's say the table has only two cols a VARCHAR 'artist_id' and an ENUM 'type'.

My problem is, there will never be any matching criteria for which to JOIN upon.

Here's my code which is bringing back empty counts for both:

Code:
select count(band.artist_id) as bands, count(combo.artist_id) as combos 
from artist as band
right outer join artist as combo on combo.artist_id = band.artist_id and combo.type = 'combination'
where band.type = 'band'