Unfortunately I don't know any function in MySQL that lets you
retrieve the auto-increment ID of a field you just created. You
normally have to do another select, which is not hard if you do
this: "SELECT ID FROM Artists ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 1" This will
give you the last created ID, which normally would be the last
record you created.
This function can retreive the last insert id from the database
select last_insert_id() as feild_id
and make this query immediately after the insert and it will return
the last id that was inserted by auto increment.