Album sorting question

I just got the classic and I love it so far. I've managed to sort most of my albums the way I want. I am bugged by one thing, though. When I'm browsing by Artist and click the artist name it will bring up all the albums by that particular artist. However, when I click an artists name that only has one album it goes straight to the track listing. Is there a way to have it display the album first? As though that artist had multiple albums...
Thanks

That's how it works in mine (iTunes verions 10.1 on windows 7). My albums are listed in alphabetical artist order, with compilation albums being listed as being by 'various artists'.
For the individual tracks for the album do you have 'part of a compilation' ticked when in 'get info' (bottom right of the info tab when viewing a single track, middle of the options tab when viewing multiple tracks) ?

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stryder wrote:
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