Sorting Songs By Album!!!

I have transferred my music from windows to Itunes BUT, I have 10 albums for 50cent, each album only containg one song!!! IS THERE A WAY I CAN HAVE MY MUSIC IN CORRECT ALBUMS?? This is without having to do it individually to each song, can I wipe all music in ITUNES and recopy them so it sorts it into its albums like in windows AND NOT BY ARTIST? As you can imagine, this has occured on most of my albums not to mention complinations!! PLEASE HELP!

In general iTunes will always use artist first not album. To get around this there are several options:
Fill in album artist - this overrides artist info, album stored using album artist
Set as compilation - files will store under compilation/album
Edit tags - remove information causing iTunes to sort the way you don't want, most often due to different artists in artist tag
I tend to use album artist method instead of compilation except when album is truly a compilation of different artists (soundtracks).
Message was edited by: camoracer

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