None of my music shows up on my iPod when I sort by 'Artist' but it shows up everywhere else, what's going on?

I have a new-to-me iPod touch from a friend, great condition never had any problems with it. I restored it so I could load my own stuff on it, and all the music I loaded onto it shows up when I sort by 'Album' or 'Songs' but when I click the 'Artist' tab nothing shows up. What could be going on?

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Have you successfully synced from this iTunes library/computer before?
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Since yuor computer crashed, you have to reload your music into iTunes. If in the USA you can redowload iTunes purchases by:
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Why does deleted music stay on my IPad I light grey and yet it isn't really the?

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HT1386 I have a new computer and when I tried to sync my iPod Touch with the new iTunes, it has lost all of my music and videos from my iPod/old iTunes library: including all but 4 songs of my bought songs, videos and audeobooks!

I have recently updated my computer since my old one broke and therefore had to download a new iTunes. When I came to add my iPod to this new iTunes, I was given no option to transfer the contents of my iPod library to this new iTunes and was forced to try 'sync'; when my old computer was repaired once we lost all of our data so I had to download a new iTunes then,all of my iPod downloads were transferred and I could easily reburn my CDs so I didn't think the wiping of my iPod would be a problem. When I clicked 'sync' it warned me that it would replace the contents of my iPod with the new iTunes library, as I said I didn't think this would be a problembut then it asked if it should transfer my recent iTunes downloads so I said 'yes'. The sync was completed but now I only have 4 downloaded songs and 5 albums which I burned to my new iTunes! I have lost all the music I bought, all the videos I bought and all the audiobooks I bought! (Luckily I still have my apps.) I tried to restore backup but realised that only covers calendars, contacts E.T.C and I checked my iTunes account and that shows all my downloads but I can't see a way to restore them or anything like that!
Please help! I am in despair as you can imagine how much moneys worth I have lost and am losing faith in Apple

Correct. When you update via iTunes all synced media that is not in your iTunes library will be lost.
As IO said before:
You can redownload most iTunes pruchases by:
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I do not think it included audio books.

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