ITunes Store ridiculously slow

I have a £25 iTunes voucher, and so I tried to buy a song today on iTunes. BIG MISTAKE, it's currently been downloading for 5-10 minutes, and is at '448kb - 3 hours remaining'.
This is ridiculous - I have a fine connection - Spotify would just play the track, Amazon would download it in 3 minutes. I can't see how I'm going to be able to spend any of my store credit if it's like this. Sort it out Apple. This is a joke.

There's tons of people in Australia also experiencing majorly slow downloads from the iTunes store, which is completely abnormal.
This problem has troubled me since November 3, and so far it's been getting worse. I used to be able to download at over 2 Megabytes/sec from the store, now downloads are crawling at anything from 30 to 200 k/sec

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