Music app: artist appears, but no songs

Hi everyone,
On my old phone (an acer liquid something) I downloaded some songs from various artists on my SD card, which would appear in my music library. Now, on my Nokia Lumia 720, the artists of the songs I downloaded still appear in my Nokia Music app, but when I tap any of them it says there are no albums or songs to be found. This doesn't happen with my regular music & videos app (the artists simply don't appear there). I already checked my SD card twice; but I can't find those artists on there either.
I really want those artist names to disappear from the list in my Nokia Music app, as I prefer it to the standard music & videos app. I can't delete them though, because the app won't let me. Does anyone know what I can do about this?
I hope my description is clear enough to understand. Thanks in advance!

Logging out and back into store seemed to get the artist pics downloaded. Should be working straight off the bat though

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