Nano7 changes my library's artist name

i edited the artist info in my library so that "john cougar"& "john cougar mellencamp" are all consistently titled "john mellencamp".
on my iphone, this works great. there's just one artist entry for him (even though his albums have 3 different variations of his name).
however, my nano7 overrides my changes!!
on my nano, he has 3(!!!) different artist entries. this is very frustrating when i want to shuffle through his entire catalog at once (and why artist name has to be made the same on all his LPs.)
my library is displaying "artist name" as i want it to. so this must be a nano issue rather than a library one.
what setting do i need to change on the nano to correct this?

i figured this out.
while i previously had changed "artist name" so that they would all be the exact same, you also must also change "album artist" to be consistent too.
fyi, this is a great webpage to help with this sort of thing.
http://www.samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp

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