Songs in Wrong Order for iTunes 7

I have my music sorted by album, and when I upgraded to the new version of iTunes, about ten or so albums are randomly in the wrong order. I have the track numbers listed next to each song, and they are correct, but for some reason they are ordered, for example, 3, 4, 5, 2, 7, 1, 6. When I sort by artist, they are in the correct album order again. I don't want these albums to be in the correct order only if I sort by artist or if they are in a playlist, I want to keep sorting by album. Also, going to Get Info doesn't help since the correct track numbers are listed, but they are still incorrectly ordered. Can anyone help?

Hi Missara!
Everytime I got an album sorting issue like yours, it had something to do with the information tag. In the new iTunes version, the album grouping have been modified.
Select a whole album and do a get info on the songs. There you have to make sure that ALL album related fields are identical; i.e. Artist (if not, write an artist name in the Album Artist field), Album, Year, Disc Numbre from and Of, Track Number of.
For all these fields, click the check box next to them if the field is blank. Sometimes if can even be a white space messing up.
This should correct your situation.

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