Accidentally deleted purchased music

I accidentally deleted 12 songs from a purchased album.  I have looked for the files in icloud and the left column tells me 13 songs are available, but in the right hand side downloads column, only one song shows (which is the one I have already).  I have searched in finder and the files are no longer their either.  How can I re-download them when they won't show up?

Hi David,
1. Buy another song, as previously mentioned (iTunes will recreate your purchased folder automatically)
2. Within iTunes: go to your entire music library (make sure the "Kind" column is displayed, the one that shows whether your songs are formatted in MP3, AAC, Protected AAC, etc.)
3. in the iTunes search field type: protected
4. all of your purchased music should pop up > select it all and drag and drop it all into your newly recreated "Purchased" folder.
note: if you have any drm free songs this method will obviously not work for those particular songs, and whatever song you purchase to recreate your purchased folder will end up twice in that folder.
Joe

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