Some music files missing in iTunes folder, yet work fine in iTunes

I am using current version of iTunes on OSX 10.7.5.
Let's use a song for example: Piano Man - by Billy Joel on the Greatest Hits album
In iTunes, this song works fine and all songs are there.
If I go to finder>user>music>itunes>itunes music>Billy Joel>Greatest Hits> ..... and not all the songs are there, maybe just a couple. We will say Piano Man is missing right now.
If I go to iTunes and click on Piano Man> Show in Finder.... it takes me to the mentioned folder and then suddenly some more songs appear including Piano Man.
I don't like this because my backup hard drive is not backing up all my music, some of it is missing. What's going on?

Found the issue:
At first glance my itunes music folder looks normal, but after some careful reading of the location data...it turns out all of my music is also stored in a subfolder "MUSIC" in with all the artist names. I found this after discussing with a genius today while having my battery replaced. Together we found the issue.
How? iTunes at some point started making a MUSIC and MOVIES and maybe some other folders in the iTunes folder. When I redid my library some time ago, it must have changed the directory and copied all my music to the user/music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Music folder. This would also explain why I found that sometimes my library took up more data than I had expected. iTunes would say 45 GB but the folder would say 90GB.

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