Trying to get my music library back!

I just bought a new laptop, and never had to re-establish my itunes on another computer. unfortunately my old one crashed, and i do not know if i had all of my music backed up prior to that on my external hardrive. when i downloaded itunes, i had hoped that my music would just come right back up as i thought it was saved with my account as well as on the computer. i have a feeling that i am wrong and just lost all of the music i've spent lots of money on over the last few years. a horrible lesson to learn. can anyone confirm this? i will go on a hunt through my external hardrive, but i think i only had my music backed up on the laptop that crashed.
i do not want to try to resync my device right now for fear that the songs on my phone are the only copy that i have. is there a way to at least get the artists i have on my phone (downloaded from my old laptop) back onto my computer and saved into my itunes account? i'm not very tech saavy so any help is greatly appreciated! i definitely don't want to end up erasing all the songs on my phone...

i think i figured it out, i found in itunes how to download previous purchases. so they were saved!!! thank goodness.

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