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

[u/ebradio]

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

[u/AnAussiebum]

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.

[u/hotlibramess → u/AnAussiebum]

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.

[u/soultokeep → u/hotlibramess]

Sighs I’m just going to reply to the OG comment since I see several people already making the argument that Adele did “the same thing” or used multiple variants to achieve success. This is factually untrue. Anyone who was around at the time 25 came out remembers how massive it was of a release.

25, which is the album people are talking about when they bring up Adele with this “she didn’t need variants” point, had a cd, a vinyl, and a target deluxe. That’s it. 2-4 variants at most in terms of charting. And yes, it was off streaming for 6 months but all the singles were still available there, in a time where streaming was nowhere near as big as it is now anyways. Spotify was big, but not nearly as ubiquitous in 2015 as it is now.

I really don’t care for the variant discourse in general but I do dislike when people say 25 is at all a comparable example to diminish its actual success. 25 really is not even remotely the same in terms of todays standards with variants and color pressings.

And to add, I own Taylor vinyls myself, so I’m not at all saying let’s pit them against each other. I just think it’s also okay to let 25’s success be the organic accomplishment it really was, that’s all! We don’t need to get upset for pointing out Adele didn’t need variants for 25, because she really didn’t.

[u/LYPX → u/[deleted]]

You didn’t read anything the user typed other than “I own Taylor’s vinyl myself” and chomped on that. Read the rest and you’ll find that your comment was unnecessary.

They literally spent three paragraphs celebrating Adele’s success during the infancy of streaming.

[u/LYPX → u/[deleted]]

Nah your main point was “found the swifty” as if they hid it. Good luck with further discussions. This one is done