Why do songs that I just had on my iPhone have a dotted circle next to them and won't sync to my phone?

I recently downloaded about 20 new songs and put them into iTunes. I synced my iPhone with iTunes, but suddenly unchecked songs started syncing to my iPhone and the songs i had downloaded would not. I looked into it and under "on my phone," the songs had dotted circles to the left of them. I restarted the phone, i restarted the computer, and finally i cleared the phone and restored it to the back-up. After restoring it didn't work, I unsynced all of my music from the phone and tried to resync all of the checked songs onto it but ALL of the songs i previously had on the phone have the dotted circle next to them. I am so incredibly frustrated and have no idea why this is happening. Why it 1) downloads unchecked songs, 2) has dotted circles next to all of my songs, and 3) won't sync any music I have checked as they are all now marked with the dotted circles. Please help! How do i fix this?

I had this issue on my iphone 4, and two songs listed on the iPhone in iTunes had the dotted circle.  I researched it, and I found a hundred different answers.  Some were complicated like uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes.  All I did was this...  In iTunes under Music, I simply unchecked Sync Music, and I deleted all music from my iPhone.  I then checked Sync Music, chose all the songs I wanted.  No songs in iTunes had dotted circles, and all songs on my iPhone played.

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