My music is missing!

Hello. I recently just bought itunes money and started using it to get more songs. While downloading things I clicked on "artists" in my music app and the only artists there were the ones I had just downloaded. So now I am missing about 200 or so songs from my phone and I don't know what to do to get it back. The PC I use that has my itunes installed in it isn't working so I can't access it and when I use my sisters laptop for it it wouldn't show anything of mines. I only have 19 songs and I had almost 200. How do I get it all back please tell me

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