Multiple duplicate categories

I have noticed that for some reason iTunes shows some of my music as seperate categories although they have the same information. An example is James Brown. In the browser, under my category of R&B (Soul) there are two identical listings for James Brown. Some of the albums are under one listing and one album is under the other. The artist category is the exact same: James Brown (I even copy and pasted them all together to ensure that they were the same). However, James Brown is listed twice. Does anyone know what's going on?

Hi Dandy
Webmaster Tools only shows you areas that may be a concern and just because it shows something it doesn't mean your ranking etc will be affected. However, if you are really concerned you should look at canonicals. You can read more about it here http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394. Basically you are telling the search engines whichj is the main version of that product so simply show the product url in the main catalogue.

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