Itunes reorganized my music HELP

Recently my itunes decided to reorganize some of my music. The problem is that some of the bands that start with "the" as in "the expendables" and "the fugees" are now listed under T because of the "the". Whereas half of the work by the same bands are stll under E and F. Why is my itunes choosing to screw with me? I have OCD about this so I need to fix it. Thanks

Welcome to AD!
Did you recently take a WIndows update or anything?
iTunes doesn't just reorganize things randomly, but if you have it set to manage your music folder and something gets changed on the song file, it will reorganize things.
WMP default settings have it getting info from the internet, so maybe something like that happened.

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