After thinking about the problem, I finally realized that I needed the listbox to make the selection for me on click.....
added this code and it works.
Private Sub lstSelection_Click() Range("SelectionLink") = lstSelection.ListIndex + 1 End Sub
attached working ver. only first 9 artists-albums have tracks added, the rest return a 0 until I get the rest of the data added...
thanks for your feedback Jacob