Grouping single songs under one artist

Hi,
I've been busting my brain; how do you group single songs to appear all under ONE artist? Is there a way to do this without changing the artist field? Has it something to do with compilations/sorting category?
Note, this is for playback on the iPhone but hope this is the right category as you have to do this in iTunes!
Thanks

MusioMan wrote:
Haha, i'm now talking to my email subscriptions so i've gone mad! I do thank you for the help though.
So say you have these random songs;
Yesterday by the Beatles
Hey Jude by the Beatles
Hotel California by the Eagles
Respect Aretha Franklin
On my iPhone, they each appear under the artist name (Beatles/Eagles/Aretha)
There still doesn't seem to be a way to plan all these songs from the ARTISTS menu by selecting say, 'various artist' or miscellaneous.
The only way i can think is rename every artist field to 'various artists' but you loose the artist name this way.
Message was edited by: MusioMan
Nope, the artists menu is just that, a list of artists. If we had an *Album Artists* menu then you could find such collections under say "Various Artists" if you grouped them together with an Album name. Even though we don't get an *Album Artist menu* if you do go to the trouble of creating an album name for this collection then you can just choose it from the Album menu. If you happen to be browsing the artists and notice the Beatles entry you can drill down into it, then the album for this collection then having selected a track, turn your iPhone into landscape mode and reselect the album so that all tracks play. Otherwise playlists may be a better bet, and at least you can then leave these tracks with their original album art and other details.
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