Random songs are deleting themselves every 2 weeks

I have become very frustrated at the fact that certain songs that i have bought from the iTunes store are deleting themselves every 2 weeks or so. I am running off an iPhone 5 on IOS 8.1.3(although the problem has been occurring ever since 8.1.0). I have searched the interweb and found nothing but another user with the exact same problem. Apple really needs to fix this as is becoming a hassle to re-download songs that I bought legitimately.

xXbega2550Xx wrote:
i am manually downloading these straight to my iPhone.
It's a fine point, but do you mean:
Connecting to iTunes and manually dragging them over to the iPhone?
Manually re-downloading previously purchased songs directly from the iPhone? (e.g. tap the cloud icon)
First purchases, downloaded directly to your iPhone?
It shouldn't matter, but songs shouldn't be mysteriously deleted either. I don't know that one method vs. the other means any particular thing, but in my experience downloading songs directly to the device (the last two choices) can produce quirky results. However, in my experience it's been the opposite problem, where I have a hard time deleting songs I've downloaded directly to the iPhone.
Is there a chance you're deleting the "Purchased" playlist from your iPhone, or clearing its contents? Sorry if I'm grasping at straws here, but I've never had this problem. If you describe some of the habits you do with respect to managing your music, perhaps someone here can spot something.

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