Why are some songs greyed out on iTunes?

oh my gosh really I had the same darn thing happen to me! I had collected a good set of music over the summer then when the trial ended the music had disappeared from my phone, computer, and iPad.

Thank You!! After trying all other methods, this was the only one that worked for me.

Sorted at last! thanks fisholito01

some songs are on multriple albums. So when a song is greyed out, just search for the song and youll be able to download it as a single.

I wish I would have read this 2 hours ago! This is what solved the issue for me too. Thank you very much.

Thank you! This solved my problem that I never had before til today. Wham,did exactly what you instructed and frustrated problem went poof! Thanks!

Thank you!!! I don't know how I did that in the first place, or how I missed it either!

be prepared that doing this is going to lose all ur saved iCloud data for songs already transferred. tried this and lost everything.

I agree. I definitely did NOT go in and 'un' check the box either. Weird

Wow! Thanks!! You have answered two of my questions tonight that I have been having problems with.

Thank you so much. marking all the songs as checked fixed my grey issues. Don't know how so many of my songs got unchecked.

Thank you for that "Duh" moment!

This was the answer! I ended up doing a "Ctrl = A" to select all and then adding checkmarks to the entire catalog. I can go through later and uncheck just a few items. Thanks so much!

This worked! Thank you. What is the check/uncheck section even for other than fixing brokenness 😟

Thanks! This took care of the few songs (Apple Music downloads) that were greyed out.