Mess up with music library on iPhone

I purchased some albums of David Guetta!
It was organized correct!
But today, I synced with iTunes and the album songs are completed shuffled!
For an example, Nothing But the Beat Ultimate, was a single album before, and now, there are lots of albums of one song only!
But on my iTunes PC is OK!
I deleted all songs and downloaded from the iPhone and the shuffled continue!
Any suggestions?

I saw on another discussion thread that someone said something about powering off their phone, so here's what I did:
Went into Settings - Music and turned group by album artist on then off again (don't know if that had an affect, but that's what I did so I thought I'd include it). Then I completely powered off my phone. Then I turned it back on and opened up the music tab and my music was back in the proper order.
It fixed my issue, so maybe it will help others too.

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