Why does itunes separate the songs in the same album into two albums with the exact same info?

i have this album in my itunes thats shown as two, they both have the exact same info, artwork, and the files are even in the same album folder, but they just appear as two albulms. the first one has only track8 and the second one has all the other tracks? how can i fix this plz?

Sometimes iTunes does that. What I find often works is to add an "x" onto the end of all the artist and album names for the problem album, save it, then remove it again.  If that doesn't work, try setting an album artist.  I have also toggled problem albums as compilations even though they aren't, but some don't like using compilation.

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