ITunes is splitting up albums because the 'date added' differs between songs?

For example, 2 songs from an album were added on the 31st so they are shown as being a seperate album than the songs added today?
I can just re add those 2 songs but I was wondering why this is suddenly happening?

Start at the beginning.... Grouping tracks into albums.
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