Making an album with singles of various artists.

I have Googled this query but so far I have not had any luck.
I have a number of singles from various artists bought through amazon mp3 that I would like to merge into one Album of singles. I have changed all their Album names to Singles and ticked the box to make them part of a compilation. I havel also amended track numbers but it has failed to merge them into one album. I now have numerous singles all with the same album name xD
Any tips would be greatly appreciated =/

Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
Change the Album Artist to *Various Artists* and enable the iTunes preference to *Group compilations when browsing*.
For more info see http://www.samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp
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