Why are my albums out of order chronologically?

Ok so I have my library sorted Album by Artist/Year. This worked fine until just recently. I bought some Lady Gaga Remix EPs, and things are starting to get out of order now. However, everything is bought from the iTunes store, so I don't know why it would be messing up. Here is what the stuff looks like:
The Fame (2008)
Just Dance Remixes 2 (2008)
Poker Face Remixes (2008)
Bad Romance Remixes (2009)
The Cherrytree Sessions (2009)
Christmas Tree (2009)
LoveGame Remixes (2009)
Paparazzi Remixes (2009)
Paparazzi Remixes 2 (2009)
Bad Romance Remixes 2 (2010)
The Fame Monster (2010 (this is the explicit version, so was released a couple months after the original))
The Remix (2010)
Born This Way (2011)
Born This Way The Remix (2011)
A Very Gaga Holiday (2011)
Telephone Remixes (2010)
It should look like
The Fame (2008)
Just Dance Remixes 2 (2008)
Poker Face Remixes (2008)
The Cherrytree Sessions (2009)
Christmas Tree (2009)
LoveGame Remixes (2009)
Paparazzi Remixes (2009)
Paparazzi Remixes 2 (2009)
Bad Romance Remixes (2009)
The Fame Monster (2010)
Bad Romance Remixes 2 (2010)
Telephone Remixes (2010)
The Remix (2010)
Born This Way (2011)
Born This Way The Remix (2011)
A Very Gaga Holiday (2011)
The bolded things are ones that are wrong. They are also the 3 most recent items of these that I bought.
I can understand (maybe) the mix-up of same-year things not being in order, but having a 2010 thing be after the 2011 stuff makes no sense. Especially when they all have the correct years and were bought from the iTunes store...
Any ideas? Also have a couple other albums with similar problems, but not bought from the iTunes store, so I attributed it to that.

You may want to make sure some of these albums are not checking the compilation
box under Get Info. That has screwed up my sorting in the past.

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