Over capacity?

On my itunes i have over 18gb of music, but only want half of that on my iPhone 14gb, i have ticked in the summery tab "sync only checked videos and song" and on the music tab "selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres" and only ticked a certain amount of music to transfer.
My problem is that itunes is telling me that i am over capacity by 6.5gb? i have tried "automatically fill free space with songs" everytime i try to sync any music i just a get a window appear saying "iPhone cannot sync due to not enough space"
Can anybody give me a hand with any of this?

Yeah sorry haha, it must be the 16gb then
I have 11gb free without my music synced but when i go to put music on my iphone it overwrites everything with the music files then says i cannot finish the sync due to no space

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