Albums not syncing correctly in iOS 7

I have an iPad Air running iOS 7.0.4 and an iPod touch 5th generation running iOS 7.0.4 and have this problem on both. I have purchsed songs from various albums on iTunes, then bought other tracks from the same album on Amazon MP3 or bought the phsical cd. When I combine them in iTunes, everything is fine.
I'll use The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) as the exmple here. As you see, I have bought three songs. I bought Atlas when It was released as a single on iTunes, then I bought Elastic Heart when the album was released on the iTunes store as well. I bought We Remain on Amazon MP3. All three songs are from this album, I have edited all the info, including the "Sort By" boxes.
Now, when I sync them to my iPad and iPod, it splits the album as If I did nothing.
The odd thing is that they both sync to the same iTunes, I have the same sync settings (sync entire library), yet they sync differently to each device as you can see in the above screenshots.
If someone can help me fix this, or if someone else can confirm I'm not the only one with this bug, I'd appreciate it. It's been annoying me since iOS 7.0 and after four minor bug updates, I'm feeling like Apple completely gave up on the music app. Not going to lie here, it's so ugly and impractical on the iPad. I miss the old album view, when It looked like the one in iTunes. Made a lot more sense for the large screen...

I had exactly the same issue, and ghost tracks were appearing on my phone that were not on itunes. On your phone, tap settings->Music->Show all music (turn off)
Then go back to your Music icon on your phone and voila

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