How do you organise artistes by surname rather than forename?

How do you organise iTunes library by artistes surname rather than forename?

This requires a fair amount of work so you might want to consider how many artists you have before you decide to proceed.
For each of the fields Artist, Album Artist, Album, Composer and Show there is an associated Sort field. When the main field starts with A, An or The, iTunes auto-populates the sort field so that, for example, The Beatles sort under B as Beatles.
Say you want David Bowie sorted under B instead of D. The easiest way is to select a single track of his from the Songs or a list view, edit the sort fields where appropriate to Bowie, David and press OK, then right-click on the track and click Apply Sort Field > All Matching Fields.
Repeat for each artist.
If you enable the column browser you can work systematically through the Artist/Album Artist column fixing one artist at a time until you reach the end.
I've done this for the authors of my books and audiobooks and also my classical composers, but I don't have the patience to do the rest.
tt2

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