# Sorting Artists Names, Ignoring Articles "The"

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorting-artists-names-ignoring-articles-the/16582
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [February 7, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorting-artists-names-ignoring-articles-the/16582 "2015-02-07T13:47:50Z")
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### Author: ![Sosha](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sosha](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sosha)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sorting-artists-names-ignoring-articles-the/16582/1 "2015-02-07T13:47:50Z")

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I've read through the threads trying to find where you discuss sorting and I came across a couple of threads about completely removing the word "The" at the beginning of an artists band name and putting a coma and adding it to the end. i.e. The Beatles / Beatles, The

But I don't want to do that, I just want it to sort alphabetically and ignore the leading word "The" when I am making a compilation album.

As an example I have a 200 track album that has 200 different artists and some of those artists have the word "The" at the beginning of their name. I want sort it by artist alphabetically the assign track numbers so they are in order by artist name. It's a pretty standard rule to ignore articles like "The" isn't it? So I am thinking there must be a way to do this without rearranging their names? Thanks for any help.

Currently Artist Column Reads:  
Bask  
Down  
Greenleaf  
Mos Generator  
Soundgarden  
The Blackwater Fever  
The Fur  
The Lone Crows  
The Oath  
Vega  
Wo Fat

I would like it to be like this:  
Bask  
The Blackwater Fever  
Down  
The Fur  
Greenleaf  
The Lone Crows  
Mos Generator  
Soundgarden  
The Oath  
Vega  
WoFat

Thanks for your help! 🙂

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