To Much artists for iTunes. Good Idea present.

I recently started using iTunes and a few things weren't as good as they could.
What did I like: iTunes automaticly removes "The" from the artists name.
What I didn't like: I have more then 2000 artists in my list, reason is lack of 'smart' thinking of iTunes.
For Example i have (dutch artist):
Ali B
Ali B ft. Brace
Ali B ft. Andre Hazes
Ali B ft. Gio
Ali B ft. Yes-R
Ali B ft. Yes-R & partysquad
Ali B ft. partysquad
Ali B is a HipHop artist and the same problem occurs with for example jay-z.
The solution can be very easy. Artist whom are always a duet like Simon & Garfunkel you write with a "&". Temporary duets always have one main artist and one guest artist (like with ray charles's - Genius loves company) the guest artist is always writte with "ft." or "feat." or "featuring".
In my artist list i want to look for Norah Jones and also want to find her nummer: Ray Charles ft. Norah Jones - Here we go again.
I Hope there will be an update soon with my idea implamented.
In the mean time:
Are there any opinions about this idea and do you have the same problem?

I take the featured artist out of the Artist filed and put it in the song title.
Smooth - Santana featuring Rob Thomas
becomes
Smooth featuring Rob Thomas - Santana
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