Songs don't show up under artist

I recently got my first ipod (newbie to ipod, but not to digital music). All my songs in my itunes library have the correct artist name and song name. But after i synced my ipod, most of the songs from my library do not appear under the artist name. How do I fix this? Is there an easy way.
The songs are on my ipod, but they are not showing up under the artist heading with the other songs by this artist. It seems fine in the itunes library though. Please someone help!

The songs that are not showing up need to have an album name.
All songs should have an album, artist and song name.

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