Sort messed up

The new iTunes has messed up my sort order on composers. I routinely change the composer's names on the "get info" screen to lastname, firstname. But the newest version of iTunes is sorting many of the songs according to firstname lastname. When I check the "get info" screen, the names are just as I changed them, so I can't understand why the names are not being sorted that way. 
Even worse, it happens for only some songs, so to look up something from any given composer, I have to check both his/her first name and last name.
Note that if the change is by albums. That is, either all the songs on an album are sorted by firstname lastname rather than as I have entered them on the "get info" screen, or all of them are sorted by the name I have entered on the "get info" screen (lastname, firstname).
Can someone help me get this glitch corrected?

mrwhites wrote:
I've found a better solution,
set Arrange by as you want and then hold down option key before opening the menu again.
This way you'll be able to sort indipendently.
I'm still searching for the "Use as default" option in my View Options...
I think we've covered that already.
That is the way it does work, but sometimes it reverses the order, which there is no way to control. Instead of sorting A to Z, it decides it is going to sort Z to A.

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