Artist name will not show up on iphone 5s

I have synced my iTunes correctly.  On my iTunes, the artist name show up.  On my iPhone it is labled as "unkonw artist".  but when I play the song, it will scroll the name of the song and the name of the artist.
any ideas how to correctly put the album with the artist instead of the "unkown".
Like I said, on my iTunes on my iMac it is organized and labled perfectly.
On my iPhone, it is labled as "unknown artist", except when I hit play, it will display the artist name.

Thanks for all the quick replies.  Much appreciated.  The person who said go to your iTunes, highlight the songs in the album and make sure the part of a compilation was not clicked was genius. 
oh wait, that was me.

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