r/Music • u/ebradio • 11h 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 6h 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/myassholealt 7h ago

I know it's not an Apples to Apples comparison, but it's similar way I feel about box office records. In the 90s I got a ticket for less than $8.

Now, a ticket that's not a discount or promo ticket in the same area is $21 for standard. Premium formats go up to close to $30. Of course modern day movies are gonna top box office records from decades ago. Each ticket is 3x more value. Even if they sold the same number of tickets, 2026 is gonna beat 1995.