This song is not currently available in your country or region
I have noticed several songs I purchased and downloaded can no longer be played on my iPhone 8, and the number of such songs is increasing. The songs still appear in my library, but the message: “this song is not currently available in your country or region” appears when the song is selected to play. iTunes still shows that I have previously purchased the songs, yet I cannot play them. I could understand if I just was paying monthly for the right to play songs available on the Apple Music service, but what did I pay for when I purchased and downloaded the song on iTunes if I can’t play it now? At first it was just a song or two, but now I’m running into the issue with many songs I bought and downloaded from iTunes. I wouldn’t have paid $1 for the song if I had known I didn’t really “own” it to replay forever.
iPhone 8, iOS 14