r/Music • u/ebradio • 10h ago

article Taylor Swift sparks chart-blocking accusations with new “Patient Zero” alternate versions

https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/taylor-swift/taylor-swift-sparks-chart-blocking-accusations-with-new-patient-zero-alternate-versions
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u/AnAussiebum 10h ago

Charts should just ban alternative versions from being listed. Or give them one remix/deluxe edition, only. If the majority of the album has not changed it just shouldn't be considered.

There, problem solved.

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u/hotlibramess 9h ago edited 5h ago

I agree. multiple variants being sold should not count. Adele didn’t need a hundred variants of her music to sell the amount she sold. She just made good music.

If you rewound it to the times before streaming and everything else, and you took away the multiple variants, TS wouldn’t be breaking records. That’s why it’s disingenuous to compare her to people like Michael Jackson.

ETA: I want people to read what I said. I did not say that Adele did not have variants. I said she didn’t need a whole slew of them. Right now life of a showgirl has like what? 35 variants? Roughly? TTPD had over 30 variants.

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u/lumynaut 7h ago edited 7h ago

Adele did all of those things, it just wasn’t in conversation because people don’t have Adele brain worms the way they have Taylor Swift brain worms

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u/hotlibramess 6h ago

She didn’t though. Not even close. 2-4 variants maybe. You’re making a false equivalency.