Some artists won't display on my Classic

After syncing my 80 gig iPod Classic with my iTunes, I can access the song by song name, album, genre, playlist, etc. However, I can't reach the song by artist. This has only happened with a few artists, and I have tried to rename the artist on iTunes and re-syncing. This hasn't helped. My friend also got a Classic for Christmas, and his is doing the same thing. We are not having trouble with the same artists. Please help!

Two things often contribute to this.
One is that some songs might be tagged as Part Of A Compilation (see the Get Info on those songs/albums) in which case they will not show up under the artist. This was already pointed out by the other person's reply.
Second, is that an artist needs at least two different Albums identified for their songs to all list under the artist. In other words, if you import a CD with album name then add a handful of misc songs without album names associated, those handful will not show up under the artist name.
But add an album name to at least one of those handful of misc. songs and then ALL of the songs should show up under the artist.
You don't have to do it for all of them, just enough to have two different albums identified with the artist. But in general, it is a good idea to make sure your tunes have Song name, artist name, and album name associated with them as a minimum.
Patrick

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