im looking to have my albums in one place and my singles in the other. so when I click my music there should be my albums and my singles

As far as iTunes is concerned there is no distinction to be made. Every track is part of an album, even if that album has only one track.

tt2

As tt2 says, iTunes regards everything as being part of an album. However, you could use playlists or playlist folders to group your library as required ... one possibility would be to use the Grouping field, setting this to "Album" for everything you want to see as an album, and "Single" for singles, and then set up smart playlists that select on the appropriate Grouping value.

Indeed, though it might be more efficient to use just the one label for whichever class of tracks there are fewest of, or a regular playlist, then determine the remainder as music items that are not in the first list.

tt2