I forgot to put it into the screenshot, but my question was exactly that, despite the column highlight, I see nothing
The column highlight works correctly with the highlight rules set in the Tags (2) panel
But this panel has a different set of highlights rules that don't apply to the tracks panel
Indeed in the screenshot, every track should have the blue highlight as every track has Green Day as Artist which should be the rule, and also every track (not shown in this particular screenshot) correctly display highlights from the other set of rules
So this is a different set of rules specifically for the Artists view, but don't know for what