Music artists listed Alphabetically

I was listening to my music on shuffle today, when walking on my treadmill. I was using my iPhone, which is running iOS 8.3. I was very surprised to see the name of the artist when I looked at my phone and this track was playing:

Now, Bob Dylan has played with the Grateful Dead, and even recorded an album with them. But the Dead didn’t play on Blood on the Tracks. I checked all the Bob Dylan tracks on my iPhone, and they all say Bob Dylan & Grateful Dead. But if I look in iTunes, here’s what I see:

I don’t see anything about the Grateful Dead there. The only way this change could have been (incorrectly) made was during the sync. As I showed in the article I link to above, about album art, iOS devices connect to the iTunes Store during the sync, and they must now be changing tags, not only album artwork.

Note that I do not have iTunes Match turned on. I do not have any music in my iTunes library listed as Bob Dylan & Grateful Dead (I have the Dylan and the Dead album listed under Bob Dylan). And on my iPhone, as you can see to the left, there is no Bob Dylan & Grateful Dead listed as an artist. The only possibility is that iOS is contacting the iTunes Store and getting incorrect information.

Bob Dylan & Grateful Dead – in that exact spelling, with the ampersand – is an artist name on the iTunes Store. That’s how the Dylan & The Dead album from 1989 is listed. But, again, I don’t list that album under that artist title:

THIS SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING. There is no scenario where Apple should be changing the tags on my music files, any more than they should change its album artwork.