Why are most of my purchased songs missing

Many of my purchased songs are missing.  How do I contact Apple to find out what has happened.
I checked in my account and in the cloud section and they are not in there either.

If you've moved countries since buying them, of if the rights-holder has removed them from the store, then you won't be able to redownload them. If they are still in the store then check to see if they are hidden : iTunes Store: Hiding and unhiding purchases.
If they aren't hidden and are still in the store (and it's the versions that you bought that are in the store) then you can contact iTunes Support via this page : http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/
If you have changed countries or if they are no longer in the store then have you got copies of them on your backup of your downloads/library ? Ideally you'd be keeping and maintaining a backup of all of your downloads, any item could be removed from the store at any time, and you are only guaranteed one download of each item.

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