Finding songs in your iPod

In my library I have only one song checked to go onto my iPod nano by a certain artist, but when I go to the 'Artist' option in my iPod, that artist doesn't show up. Why doesn't it show up if I have only one song from her? Is there any way to change this? I thought I didn't have the song on the iPod until I went to the 'Songs' option and scrolled down to find it. Why?
  Windows XP  

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