Trouble with soundtrack entries in music library

I am having difficulty with soundtrack files that are present in my music library. Specifically, these are songs that I have purchased through the iTunes store. Most of these files list "Various Artists" as the album artist tag in the sorting info. I will delete this and usually leave it blank so that the file merges and sorts within the specific band or artist name, and fall in the correct order of release date. iTunes keeps changing it back to "Various Artists" any time i close the program and reopen it. It's a minor annoyance really, but this never used to happen so I was curious if there was a way to fix it/prevent it from happening.
I've attached 3 pics: The first is how I want it to be in that it shows the album in the right order in my library, and how i adjust the sorting fields to make it so.
The next photos show how iTunes puts it back after I change it. Again this happens any time I close iTunes and reopen it.
As you can see not only does it add the name of the artist again under the song title but it also moves the whole thing to the bottom of that artists order. No matter when the soundtrack was released. This happens on quite a few files in my library and generally I just keep changing it back until I close iTunes again.
Any thoughts?
Thanks for reading!

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