Organizing Itunes for multiple artists

Is there a way to to make a song with multiple artists appear under the names of both the artists? Is there a character I can use so that the song appear under each artist's list and doesn't create a special folder for the two artists together?
For example, a song which is recorded by Madonna and Britney spears will be filed under a new folder of Madonna and Britney Spears, and not under the folders of Madonna and Britney Spears separately. I have tried using commas, semi-colons,slash etc. and none of these have worked. Is there a way to make this work

iTunes stores files based on the tag information in the file. Specifically artist, album and track tags in that order.
The folder structure will be artist/album/track.
Make the artist tag be Madonna and Britney. Or whatever else you want.

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This is great news as I've been struggling with this issue for some time. Mainly because my wife is a little old school and likes to put music on CD's and this solves that problem. Thanks again!!
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