R2 Audio File Does not Trigger Download but Redirects

I have a small website that focus on sounds, and I am using R2 for stroage, and the player reads the R2 public link and plays the sounds but when I do this:

hreff=“pub32 link.mp3” download>download< a >

it does not trigger download, but instead redirects to the sounds file location

in that player the button "download’ works… how come I cant trigger the same response from the button?

what I am do doing wrong?