Artists Names

I would like to know if it is possible to do this...
I hate when song titles have names of artists on and i like to keep featuring artist in the artist section only.
the only problem is many artist albums will not group together on my ipod because the files come up as seperate artists.
example:
nelly feat. someone2
nelly feat. unknown
nelly feat. random
is there a way to keep the main artist as nelly as this would mean all his album would be in not in several
please help as i would like to try and keep my itunes organised.
Message was edited by: iPodforever

You could create playlists containing a particular artist's music or you could browse for the album instead of browsing for the artist.
Because of the vast numbers of similarly named artists, iTunes will not clump different artist names into one artist, unless it is only a matter of capitalization (the as opposed to The, etc.).

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