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/MotherofOtters25 10h ago
Personally I don't really think her creating variants helps her streaming that much. She usually releases most of her variants at the same time of the album release. Showgirl variants were all preorder last year. Meaning before the album even came out.
Even though she had like 8 of them, only the first 4 count towards record record sales. Meaning the rest are essentially just for funesies and fans/collectors.
Sure, her maybe releasing extras a few months down the line might help keep showgirl on the charts, but it was already the highest selling album ever.
It's been charting for months. 4 variants or 30, it doesn't matter. They stop counting for sales at 4, and they all came out before the album did.
Many artists have remixes, and I'm not saying whether they should or shouldn't be counted individually. That's not my call, but she's not the only one doing it. So it's not fair to say "she posted this one songs remix after an artist did her album and they didn't get number one".
If one remix of Taylor's song knocked an artists whole album out of number one, than tbh, the album was probably never going to get number 1. Every artist in the world doesn't know when something is going to drop, and a song doesn't relate to an album. Dates overlap.
It happens. Artists goal is literally to chart and sell albums. It's like their only job.