What does the solid grey circle in iTunes mean?

I am not sure why there are no posted anwers to this prevalent question! I have the same issue since I upgraded to iTunes 11.1.3. The music that I purchased from the Apple Store does not synchronize to my iPhone. I see a grayed circle next to the songs that did not synchronize from my MacBook Pro to my iPhone.

Hopefully, Apple's Technical Support Team will POST a solution to this prevalent issue!!! Thanks.

There seems to be a lot of issues with the newest iOS update/itunes update. I also have been having weird syncing issues between my Mac/iPad/iPhone. My purchases playlist is different on each device, and is not updating properly at all for new purchases.

I also have the grey dot on a recently purchased song in itunes...it also says it is still downloading that item but it says processing 100%. The song does play and did download on my iPad/iPhone so not really sure why it still has the grey dot and says that it is downloading but if I go to check if there are downloads it says I have none.

I went in to an Apple store to see why the purchased playlist was not syncing properly and they just said it looked like it was the operating system. So I could either wait for an update or restore my iphone and ipad.

Apologies for rambling, but it doesn't seem like there are too many discussions on this annoying issue.

Thank you ipam2 for sharing, but my music does not synchronize to my iPhone at all; those are the songs with the dotted gray circles next to them.

I am still waiting for a resolution to this. Thanks for your help!!!