In song view, order by artist then album year?

Is there a way, in Songs View, to order the songs first alphebetically by artist and then chronologically by album year? The default for Songs View is alphabetically by artist and then alphabetically by album title. Can this be changed? I'm using 11 for Windows but would switch to any version that supported this. Thanks for any help!

Clicking on the heading of the Album column cycles through three options:
Album
Album by Artist
Album by Artist/Year
The last of these should meet your needs,  I actually use a different approach which is to define the Sort Album value for every album to be "<sort artist name> yyyymmdd", where the latter part is the date of release (or, for some live albums, recording date).  This has the advantage of listing albums in "correct" chronological order even in cases where an artist has multiple releases in a single calendar year.

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