Album art the same if album artist field is the same-any way to avoid this?

The situation - It appears that even if an album with various artists (compilation) has different album art for each song sometimes coverflow displays the same album art in coverflow for all songs (it randomly picks one) and not the album art for a given song (in the coverflow view). Filling in a unique album artist appears to resolve the problem (i.e. the specific artwork shows in coverflow for that one song) but if the album artist is the same (i.e. if you autofill the album artists field with something generic) the album art reverts to the behavior of showing the same art for all songs. The goal is to have a way to show the individual album art for these song without having to type in unique album artists entry in the album artist field for each song (optimally being able to either clear the album artist fill for the entire library or do an autofill with some generic label). Basically I want the album art to show for an individual song? Any ideas? (Breaking up the compilation does solve the problem but I am attempting to avoid that. Any other ideas?)

Technically the Album is different if the Album Artist field is different (you are right of course) but that is not the point here. I am trying to achieve a desired result. A combination of different artists songs put together as a compilation and named as an "album" (using iTunes terminology, even though it is not a real album.)
Here is a made up scenario to make sure the situation is clear - Consider 3 songs one by Prince, on by Beyonce and One by Jay-Z. - Now I take the one song from each of them that I want to group together and make it compilation and call an album, called "Wild Combination" or whatever ). There is different artwork for each song obviously (art from its original album or single). Well - I want to see that individual artwork when a given song is playing, not the same artwork for all songs in the "album". Right now, iTunes picks one of the songs and shows the same artwork for all three (i.e. it may be Prince playing but a picture of Jay-Z showing up in coverflow - by the way, the Now Playing box always shows it correctly or the way I want it, coverflow does not and Apple T.V. does not). In the above example the Album artist field is blank.
Partial fix - If you enter an Album artist into that field (i.e. a unique name in the Album artist field for each artist then the individual art shows up in coverflow). If the Album Artist field remains blank it reverts to showing a single art for all songs. If there is some generic text in all three fields (i.e. non-unique, easily filled in generic text) then the art shows the same for all three songs.
The question again, is how to make the individual artwork show up without entering unique text in the album artist field (imagine not 3 songs but 500 hundred or 5000 songs with this problem, unique entries is a no-go). Hopefully that clears up the situation.
Regarding your question about the sort of the art - I have both scenarios but for the sake of this question, lets assume the art is in the song file itself.
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated?

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