Song shows as "Purchased" in iTunes and won't let me re-download it, but it doesn't show up in my Purchased list. I want the song back, don't mind re-downloading, but it won't let me

Most of the responses didn't help me, as it seemed to not be any of those issues (I was looking in the right music folder on my computer, my music was unhidden, etc.). I too had a new album that said purchased, so the only option was to play the track. I went to the album within iTunes, where to the right it said downloaded. Clicking the ... shows the option to remove download. I downloaded it again and the album files popped up in the iTunes media library folder on my computer (I needed the physical file). Hope this helps someone else too!

Go into iTunes on iPhone

View account and sign in

Scroll down to iTunes on the cloud and hidden music and you can download the songs

This is the stupid easy way to get rid of this problem:

1. Go into Itunes on your phone

2. Find the album or song in question

3. Play the preview for it

4. Let it play for a few seconds, and then go back to Music and find the little extras bar in the top right corner

5. It will show up as previewed with the song price. Click on song price and sign in as prompted or just click on price

6. After this, it will say that the song has already been purchased and will ask if you want to download it again for free. Click yes

7. Bam, all of this other stuff has been bypassed. You now have your songs back!

It took me hours but it appears they have separated the viewing from the downloading I guess. When you go into iTunes if you will click the little dots on the bottom right and there go to purchased. I FINALLY found the download symbol. I can once again enjoy my music without being pursued to buy their monthly service. Just about pushed me to Samsung for a minute there. Hope this helps!!

This worked for songs that were synched to my iphone but somehow disappeared from my laptop. Not sure why but I could not find the songs and by toggling off Remove Download, the cloud appeared and let me redownload. Super annoying on the part of Apple

Same issue, maybe this will work for you?

iTunes > Account > View My Account . . .

iTunes in the Cloud > Hidden Purchases > Manage

If you find your missing album, "unhide" it and then follow the other instructions on this thread to download.

IMHO iTunes has been featured to death, was far better ten years ago . . . #spotify

The same thing happened to me, go on iTunes and click the three dots that say more and then click downloads, then if you can't see it click the back arrow. Then do it a couple more times. After you do it you should see your song downloading, then go to music and you'll find your song.

See Hide and unhide iTunes Store, App Store, or iBooks Store purchases - Apple Support to unhide any currently hidden past purchases from the iTunes Store and Redownload music, movies, TV shows, apps, and books from the iTunes Store, iBooks Store, and App Store - Apple Support to download them.

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Follow the guidance in this link.

Hide and unhide iTunes Store, App Store, or iBooks Store purchases - Apple Support

Songs would not download to my iPhone or computer from iTunes. The circle would show three quarters done and than stop. Finally turned of iCloud sharing which solved the problem. Five year old thread and we still have the same problem,come on.

This sounds like a bit of an odd situation. Since you say the song is not in your purchase history and it is not hidden then it is possible the record label has removed the original item you purchased from the iTunes Store at some time between when you bought and it and now. However is that is the case the track in the iTunes Store shouldn't indicate you've purchased it. I suggest you log out of the iTunes Store, quit iTunes, wait a few seconds then open it again and log back into the iTunes Store. Once you've done this check for the track in your purchase history and see if it is hidden. You ought to be able to re-download it at this point. If the track in the iTunes Store still says you've purchased it you might need contact iTunes Store support directly.

If you had backups of your personal data you'd be able to just restore the track from the backup.

Had the exact same problem with Violence Fetish, by Disturbed. Searched the song itself like you did and it worked. Thanks a ton!

If the problem is only that the track (or tracks) isn't showing up in the "Purchased" playlist, simply find the track (or tracks) in the iTunes library and drag-n-drop them to the playlist.

FYI you are looking in the iTunes Store for your purchased songs; they cannot be re-downloaded from there. You must re-download music from your purchase history. See this Apple KB article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519. If a track is already in your iTunes library you will not be able to re-download it until you delete it from the library.

I went to the itunes store app, all the way at the bottom where it shows your ID & balance, view apple ID, scroll to "hidden purchases", unwise all.

found all my lost albums there, hope this helps!