# How to move the word "The" to after the artist?

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-move-the-word-the-to-after-the-artist/135585
**Category:** MusicBrainz Picard
**Created:** [September 17, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-move-the-word-the-to-after-the-artist/135585 "2016-09-17T20:23:54Z")
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### Author: ![outsidecontext](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/outsidecontext/32/90_2.png) [@outsidecontext](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/outsidecontext)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2016, 5:11am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-move-the-word-the-to-after-the-artist/135585/4 "2016-09-18T05:11:10Z")

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If all you want is handling The and A, but you don’t want to use the sort name in other cases, you can also use the $swapprefix function.

$swapprefix(%artist%)

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