ITunes Radio on Apple TV Automatically Skips through Artists/Songs

Recently when listening to iTunes Radio through my Apple TV it will just start skipping through artists between songs. Sometimes when a song ends a new one will start with no problem. Most times though, it will just start scanning through artists/songs, sometimes scanning through 20-30+ artists before it plays the next song. This just started yesterday and I have the latest update installed. Any clues?

I am having the same problem. Here is some info:
ISP: Cox
Router: ASUS RT-AC68U
Computer: PC Running Windows 7 in 64-bit mode
iTunes: 12.1.2.27
AppleTV: 7.2
iTunes Radio on the PC would just flat out not work. It would load the song name into the status bar and then just sit there. You could skip songs and change radio stations with no results.
iTunes Radio on the AppleTVs (I have 2 of them) would work for the first song, then skip 20-30 songs until settling on one to play. Curiously, it was consistently either the same song again or another song from a group of 3-4 artists. If left running long enough, it would play only the same 5-6 songs from the same 3-4 artists. This phenomenon was the same across multiple days of use.
I tried changing my iTunes password, updating my iTunes contact and payment information, flushing and changing DNS servers multiple times, and running trace routes via the Command prompt to check for excessive latency issues. Nothing. The only thing that worked was forcing my AppleTV devices to connect to my hot-spotted cellphone (Verizon) and that worked every time.
One thing that HAS worked is to disable the hardware firewall on my router. So far, so good.
Can anyone from Apple tell me if I can setup certain ports to forward within the router (or something else) so I can re-enable the HW firewall, yet still use iTunes radio successfully?

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iTunes Radio on the PC would just flat out not work. It would load the song name into the status bar and then just sit there. You could skip songs and change radio stations with no results.
iTunes Radio on the AppleTVs (I have 2 of them) would work for the first song, then skip 20-30 songs until settling on one to play. Curiously, it was consistently either the same song again or another song from a group of 3-4 artists. If left running long enough, it would play only the same 5-6 songs from the same 3-4 artists. This phenomenon was the same across multiple days of use.
I tried changing my iTunes password, updating my iTunes contact and payment information, flushing and changing DNS servers multiple times, and running trace routes via the Command prompt to check for excessive latency issues. Nothing. The only thing that worked was forcing my AppleTV devices to connect to my hot-spotted cellphone (Verizon) and that worked every time.
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