Sorting Same Year Albums

Hello, I have looked for a solution, and so far nothing. Hope someone can help me here!
Here's my situation. I have separate Smart Playlists for my Artists, and I sort by year within them for the artist's chronological library of songs. Here's the issue: I have an instance or two where the artist released two albums in the same year (in this case - KISS released self-titled album "KISS" and "Hotter Than ****" both in 1974).
And again in this instance, it places these albums in Alphabetical view based on album title. This causes Hotter Than **** to be placed first, which isn't correct.
Is there a way to either refine for more precise release date, or a totally different way of going by this?
Any help would rock

I've had this problem too.
I solved it by entering a new value in the Album sorting field.
Select all songs > get info > Sorting
Note: The album title will still show as "Kiss".

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