ITunes imports songs but they wont appear in iTunes

When I go to import music, iTunes will go through the whole import process but when I go to search in my library, the songs dont appear. I can search for the album and it appears in the search box but when I click on it, nothing happens. I can go through my iTunes media folder in finder and find the album with all the songs in there but for some reason, they're not showing up in iTunes itself.
Please help.

Do you have itunes Match switched on People have reported that switching it off can help speed up imorted content appearing.

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