diff --git a/app/models/artist_url.rb b/app/models/artist_url.rb
index 965cb622c..8c0cac456 100644
--- a/app/models/artist_url.rb
+++ b/app/models/artist_url.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ class ArtistUrl < ApplicationRecord
   before_validation :parse_prefix
   before_save :initialize_normalized_url, on: [ :create ]
   before_save :normalize
-  validates_presence_of :url
+  validates :url, presence: true, uniqueness: true
   validate :validate_url_format
   belongs_to :artist, :touch => true
 
diff --git a/test/unit/artist_test.rb b/test/unit/artist_test.rb
index d61f819fc..84d4ad0db 100644
--- a/test/unit/artist_test.rb
+++ b/test/unit/artist_test.rb
@@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ class ArtistTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
       refute(@artist.urls[0].is_active?)
     end
 
+    should "not allow duplicate active+inactive urls" do
+      @artist = Artist.create(name: "blah", url_string: "-http://monet.com\nhttp://monet.com")
+      assert_equal(1, @artist.urls.count)
+      assert_equal(["-http://monet.com"], @artist.urls.map(&:to_s))
+      refute(@artist.urls[0].is_active?)      
+    end
+
     should "should have a valid name" do
       @artist = Artist.new(:name => "-blah")
       @artist.save