Song in iTunes Library seperate from album

I just bought a Glee single called "A House is Not a Home". Whenever I buy the Glee singles I put them into one album called "Glee" so that they are all together on my iPod. But when I changed the "A House Is Not A Home (Single)" to be called "Glee" as the album it is still with the "H" albums and will not move into the "Glee" album. No matter what name I change the album to the song stays in the same spot with the "H" albums.
Hope what I said makes sense.

I know the solution cause this happened to me too.
You almost did it all right, and normally it WOULD be all right. However, the title of this song has an article word (or whatever they are called, I'm not an english major haha.) It has an "a" at the start of it. SO BY DEFAULT, iTunes crates a "Sort Album" value of whatever the title was without the a (because it sorts by ignoring these words like "the" or "a" or "an")
So, that song's "Sort Album" is currently still "House is Not a Home" like iTunes set it. Since that's still there, it's sorting by H. Right click the song, select GET INFO. Click the sorting tab, and completely delete the "Sort Album" value. It will then default back to the G for Glee that you put in for the "Album" value.
Hope that makes sense!

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