Re-sorting album info in i-tunes

Hey guys
Quick question, probably a duplicate but nevermind. When going through the i-tunes set-up, I clicked for i-tunes to auto-arrange my music for me. Little did I know it would arrange albums alphabetically rather than year of release. Eg. Beatles Abbey Rd will appear in I-tunes list before Beatles Revolver even though the latter was released first.
How do you re-sort this? Many thanks
Ben

Try adding the years column into the Library. Open iTunes, right click at the top of any column and in the pop-up box click on Year. If you want the library sorted by year then just click on the Year column

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