Unable to merge the same albums in Itunes

I have put a bunch of music on Itunes but some of the albums are duplicated because the artist may have a song featuring another artist. Itunes separates these as two albums with the same name and artwork. So when I view my music I can have two or three of the same album but two of the three will only have one song because it is the original artist featuring another. I there any way I can merge these albums to give me only the one?

Mark these as compilation albums in the Get Info feature. You can highlight a set of files at one time and do them all in one go.

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