Adding or deleting whole artists or albums

How do you delete a whole artist from the iTunes library?
How do you add a whole artist/album to a playlist?

Go to List view. Arrange the list based on Artist by clicking on the artist. Go to the list until you find the artist that you want to delete. Click on the first song from that artist now go to the last song, now shift click that last song (holding shift and click). That should highlight all the songs from that artist. Press optioncommanddelete will prompt iTunes to ask you if you really want to delete it, select yes. Do this for making a new playlist too except don't delete but move that selection to the new playlist in the source list.

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