Itunes Genius changes album names

Having a strange issue...After changing albums/songs imported from cds to the album names on itunes, I update itunes match and genius. It then promptly reverts them to other names and removing the info I edited.  Anyone know why this is happening?

Hi,
When you update metadata you do do not need to select update match or genius. The changes will work their way through naturally.
Jim

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