Song Artist Help, iPod Gen 4

Hey all, I have the iPod touch 4th gen and I'm having trouble with some artists names on the iPod. I write in the artist name but it stays as the original old one and never updates to the new artist. It shows fine in iTunes with the new name, on my iPod it has the original one. Also, I have played the song lets say 20 times and it only has 3 plays, so there is something wrong there too. It's just annoying having to search the one song when I would rather listen to the artist all in one. Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you for reading.

Do a reset (Hold Sleep/Wake and Home buttons about 10 secs or more till Apple logo appears)
Delete the song from iPod Touch and sync it back.
And in iTunes > Preferences > Sharing > Home Sharing computers and devices update play counts SELECTED?

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