Unable to sync DRM free music to AppleTV

I recently purchase an album from itunes and recently converted it to the DRM free option. When the album synced with my apple tv, the album and the album art should up correctly along with the number of tracks in the album, but no music, the album summary reports "0 songs". Has anyone seen this before and is there a workaround?
I have already wiped the apple tv by de-linking it with my mac and reauthorizing it and my itunes account. Still no luck. Can the sync processs be forced? Is this a media problem? This is the only album i have noticed this with. Incidentally, I was playing the album in itunes when it updated the DRM free content.
Any help would be appreciated. It is very interesting...

It's a tagging issue. the artist and album artist fields need to be identical or the album artist field needs to be empty. Putting differing info into each of these fields results in the problem you are describing.

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