Harddrive Crashed-One artist missing from purchased...

My harddrive crashed recently and I had to replace it. When I went to get back my purchased songs from iTunes, all of them were there except for the songs of one artist (Utada Hikaru). I had 5 songs from her and none of them were found and when I go to "check for purchases" it says I have all the songs associated with this account (and I only have one).
I bought these songs from the US iTunes so I don't understand why those are the only ones missing. Does anyone know?

Just a thought. Are the songs of the 'missing artists' marked as 'Part of a compilation'?
You will find the checkbox when Getting Info (command-I) of one of the songs (Info tab).
Artists whose albums are marked as part of a compilation do not show up in the iTunes browser. Their albums will show up when you select Compilations (left part of the browser pane, below 'All (xxx Artists)').
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Having synced my ipod, there are certain artists missing from the list on the ipod, but the tracks are there under the songs list. Any reason why and how do i correct this. Thanks.

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We'll assume for now, that all the songs and albums in your iTunes Library are correctly labelled (dangerous assumption, by the way!), and that a Compilation album is one with songs by different artists. Unfortunately, the music industry (bless their little cotton socks!) often mark an album by one artist, that has a collection of their songs from old albums, as a compilation! iTunes doesn't think it is!
The missing artists will be those who only appear on Compilation albums. For example, if you have one song by Fleetwood Mac in your Library, and it's on a multi-artist Compilation album, then Fleetwood Mac will not be listed in the Artists menu. But, if you then import a Fleetwood Mac album (or even a Fleetwood Mac single) into your Library, then not only will Fleetwood Mac appear under Artists, but the song by them in the Compilation album will also be listed.
One way to sort this out is to remove the Compilations option from the Main Menu and the Music Menu on your iPod. To do this, go to Settings/Main Menu/Compilations and press the Select (centre) button to turn off the tick. Then repeat this in the Settings/Music Menu/Compilations.
You should now find the missing artists listed in the Artists menu.
By the way, I now routinely check all albums I import from CD into my iTunes Library. Before I start the import procedure, I make sure that Compilation CD is turned on (highlight the album in the import window and right-click/Compilation CD) if it really is a multi-artist CD - and off if it's a single artist CD. Once imported, I manually change the album info to; (highlight album and select ) File/Get Info/Info/Album Artist has "Various Artists" in the box. Make sure it's the Album Artist box, not the Artist box.

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Sure, you can select multiple tracks and use CTRL-I to *Get Info*, then on the Options tab set *Part of a Compilation* to No. You might also find my previous post on Grouping Tracks Into Albums useful.
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