Can't find songs in my artist section

So I recently got a MacBook Pro and burned a ton of cds onto it, but when I put all of the songs onto my iPhone, I noticed that some of them don't go into the actual artist group. For example, I put on a Coldplay cd and I can find the songs in the songs section but when I go to the artist name, I can only find the Coldplay songs that I've bought and downloaded from iTunes, not the ones I burned. Weirdly enough, some of the cds I burned went into the artist section just fine. Hopefully that wasn't too confusing.. Thanks for any answers!!

When you import a CD into iTunes, iTunes contacts the Gracenote music database to automatically download song titles, artist, year, etc. However, since the data is user-submitted, not all of the data is accurate. It seems like some of your albums did not have "Coldplay" written in as the artist.
Go to Music in iTunes, and select the albums you want (Command-click to select multiple items.) Secondary-click on one of the selected items and select Get Info. Manually enter "Coldplay" as artist. Click OK. Sync.

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Welcome to Apple Support Communities
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