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Our Certified Contributor VirileVagabond called it "Flipping the name", but officially it is named the "Eastern name order": family name (surname) first and then given name (first name).
Hungarian is one of the few national languages in Europe to use this Eastern name order common among languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
I seem to remeber from the discussion in https://secondhandsongs.com/topic/73951?offset=20#m185514 , that SHS use the "normal" western order as the artist's common name and the Eastern name order as the real name.
And that is what I did for the Hungarian singer Andrea Szulák, who is called Szulák Andrea in Hungary and on Hungarian Wikipedia.
https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szul%C3%A1k_Andrea
I entered some VV entries on her 2009 album with musical covers Musical is meg nem is. And since we here have an official Hungarian release with the Hungarian name order prominently shown on the cover of the album, I used Szulák Andrea as the name of the performer and this then later shows up as an alias! There is not much I can do about this...........
Szulák also released a tribute album: Darabok a szívemből - In memoriam M.P. a tribute to Máté Péter as Clee J entered this artist's common name, but we would call him Péter Máté..............
So what is the advice of experts like Quentin, what should be the way to go forward with these Hungarian artists? Because now SHS is sending mixed signals.............
Thom