ITunes Library is not organized

My itunes library seems to have suddenly been unorganized. It used to be in alphabetical order, but it seems to have broken up the library. Some are still grouped in order, but most of my songs are all out of order. How could this of happened and how can I fix it?

Have you accidentally clicked on a different column heading that sorts your Library into a different - apparently haphazard - order? Make sure you've clicked on the Album column heading and see if that organizes things.

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