IPhone purchases won't transfer to itunes?

Recently I purchased some albums on itunes directly from my phone. Normally when I even open itunes, it automatically downloads the albums I purchased from my phone without my phone even having to be plugged in. However, I was syncing my ipod with the same library and noticed a couple of the albums weren't showing up so I looked on my itunes library, and they're not there at all. I've tried going to file>transfer purchases from "iphone name" and it hasn't worked. My itunes has the same email as my iphone and ipod (obviously) so it should work. I've tried plugging in my phone as well and it doesn't ask me if I would like to transfer my purchases, nor does it let me manually do it.

If anyone has any idea what the problem might be, that would be helpful.

I don't think you can, honestly. I've tried a thousand times, and it never worked.

On your computer…
Open iTunes
Go to the store
Click, Purchases
Enter ID and password as required
Click on the cloud icon to download to computer.

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