Unable to download song message on my iphone 4 (only 1 song from an album)

I purchased an album from the iTunes and 1 song out of the whole album keeps saying "Unable to download song"
It also appears that that song is indeed already downloaded ?

I have the same issue, and reported it over 2 weeks ago, but if you read all the topics on this forum it is clear it is a widespread issue, and they don't know how to fix it.
Come on Apple, this is silly now, iPhone 5's are not cheap and too have no music at all is pretty bad! Even my 5 year old Nokia can do that!

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