How to change itunes to sort by album

Everytime i have a new cd and i go to albums, it separates every artist. How can i fix this?

Generally setting a common Album title and Album Artist will fix split albums.
For compilations of tracks by different artists set the album artist to Various Artists and also tick Album is a compilation of songs by various artists if using the new version of Get info or set Part of a compilation to Yes on the Options tab if using the old dialog box (which you can invoke by holding down shift as you right-click > Get Info).
For deeper problems see Grouping tracks into albums.
tt2

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