Multiple Plays not individually represented in Recently Played

Question

I am having a problem with my Recently Played playlist. It overwrites if I listen to a song more than once. If I listen to a song, it puts it on there, but then if I listen to it again, it removes it from the list and places it at the top again. For instance, if I listen to an album that starts with a song called "Baby," it will show my Recently Played list as 1. Baby 2. Doll. . . etc, but if at the end of the album, I listen to Baby again, it will take it off the top of the list and put it on the bottom again. I could listen to an album of 11 songs sixty times and it will only show 11 entries in the Recently Played list. I don't want this. I want how it used to be, that if I listened to Baby twice in a session it would be at the top and the bottom of the list (or wherever it fell). If I listened to an album 20 times it would list all the songs 20 times, so I'd have 200+ entries in my Recently Played playlist. How can I do this?
I've tried going back to previous iTunes versions (I'm using 9.1.1, and have tried going back through the 9 versions and even to 7). I've tried adjusting my Recently Played preferences. Nothing works. I can't figure it out.
Why do I want it the way it was? Because that was an accurate record, this is not. Plus at the moment I'm trying to choose an order for an album and I want to have a record of each way I've listened to song placement.
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

All I'm asking for is help getting my iTunes to do what it did previously. This problem started sometime over the summer. I really need help with this, and I'd rather not have to go to a Genius Bar, especially because I'm on a timetable with this record.
Chris CA wrote:
It lists the tracks you listened to recently.
It does not keep track of every time you listen to a track and display them as different tracks.
Why do I want it the way it was? Because that was an accurate record, this is not.
Yes it is. It lists the most recently played tracks. If you listen to one song ten times, it will not list it ten times.
How is it accurate that if I listen to Welcome to the Jungle on Monday, Crystal Ship on Tuesday, Layla on Wednesday, Superstition on Friday, and Welcome to the Jungle on Saturday, it only lists Welcome to the Jungle once, as having been played Saturday? That's not accurate at all.
I could listen to an album of 11 songs sixty times and it will only show 11 entries in the Recently Played list.
Maybe. If it's set up to show only 11 songs, then yes.
It will show the songs based on the rules of the *Recently Played* playlist.
Select *Recently played* and right click - Edit playlist.
Mine is set up to show all song played in the last two weeks.
Mine is set up to show all songs in the last 18 months. I have listened to an album of 11 songs several times, in various orders (some songs 14 times, some 26 times) and there are only 11 items in my Recently Played list. I even made another Recently Played list to see if it was a glitch with the smart playlist, but it does the same thing. I tried making a list of "last played" to a limit of 700 songs; same result. I could listen to Shambala in August, then listen to 300 other songs, and listen to Shambala again in October, and iTunes will remove the August-dated play of Shambala and put it down as played in October, with no record of my having played it in August.