ITunes missing songs from iCloud

Hi
I received a new macbook air for christmas and connected it all with my existing appleid.  However, I have clicked into iTunes and only 10% of my songs are on there - yet I know they are on the cloud as I have checked iPads and iPhones also connected to the apple id.  Why are they missing?  Do I need to do iTunes match and pay £21 ?   I must be doing something wrong surely.
Any help appreciated

cb200732 wrote:
I received a new macbook air for christmas and connected it all with my existing appleid.  However, I have clicked into iTunes and only 10% of my songs are on there - yet I know they are on the cloud as I have checked iPads and iPhones also connected to the apple id.  Why are they missing?  Do I need to do iTunes match and pay £21 ?   I must be doing something wrong surely.
Any help appreciated
Did you copy your entire user folder from old computer to new computer?

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