Plexamp merging artists with similar, but different, tagged artist fields

Nothing of this has to do specifically with Plexamp. It has to do with how Plex Server is reading your files, thereby interpreting the embedded meta tags and the folder structure of your files.

See this thread: I want a definitive solution to naming singles in Plex

Read it in entirety.
Ignore that it refers to singles and EPs. There is zero difference to regular albums in Plex.