Can't manually rearrange playlist

This is really weird. I just bought some new songs and dragged and dropped them into a playlist. Normally, iTunes just puts the new songs at the bottom of the playlist and allows me to rearrange the songs into the order I want manually. But for this playlist, it won't let me do that. Is this something to do with the settings on a certain playlist? I bought several songs a few days ago and didn't have this problem with any other playlists. Any suggestions on how to solve this one?
Thanks!

Check at the top of the iTunes window and see what heading (i.e. Name, Artist, Album, Time, Year, etc.) you have selected. I believe that the arrow on the far left — which allows you to order the tracks by dragging them into place — is iTunes' default, but if you’ve inadvertently selected a different heading, it forces the tracks to be sorted according to that criteria.

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