Songs are on my iPod, but don't show up under the "Artist" heading

My problem is that all my music DOES import onto my iPod and work, but some songs do not appear in the "Artist" catagory. I can find the songs by looking through the "Album" catagory, but it doesn't work in Artist. Also, they cannot be found via the "Search" option. All the song data are correctly tagged and are correctly imported and such. The "Search" option works for other songs however.
If it will help, the artists are Green Day and Bryan Adams.
Also, some of my songs have album art downloaded for them, the majority come up on my iPod fine, except a certain few which just display as pitch black.
Any ideas?

There are usually two things that contribute to songs not appearing under Artist on the iPod, both due to information either in or missing from the Get Info>Info tab against the song in iTunes. 1) the song is incorrectly marked as part of a compilation (and you have Compilations enabled on the iPod) or 2) the song has no album name associated with it.
if the tracks are ticked in the Get Info>Info tab as part of a compilation, they will not appear under Artist on the iPod. Highlight a song in iTunes that you know is not appearing correctly on your iPod. Right click on it and choose Get Info and click the Info tab (alternatively choose Get Info from the File menu), if "Part of a Compilation" is marked untick it and afterwards update your iPod, you should find it now appears as normal. If you are using iTunes 8, in the the multiple items info box the compilations setting is in the "Options" tab. Setting "Compilations" on your iPod main menu prevents you getting lots of single artist entries when you load an album by various artists.
Also if the tracks are missing an Album name in the Info tab, this information needs to be filled in. The no album one is a bit quirky as the songs will appear under certain circumstances (for instance I read somewhere that if you have at least two tracks with different album names the rest will appear), however the simplest remedy is just add None or Miscellaneous to all the blanks in place of a title. See this link for more detail: I don't see some of my songs when browsing by artist on my iPod

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