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/kaw_21 8h ago

lol Adele did have album color/cover variants, a target exclusive variants, certain CDs with extra songs, kept it completely off streaming. And you know what, that’s fine that she did!

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u/UngovernableOatmeal 5h ago

exclusive versions and deluxe/extended editions have always been a thing.

re-releasing the same song 10 times has not

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u/kaw_21 5h ago

Remixes (yes, often multiple), acoustic, live, and other alternate versions of a song have actually been a thing for quite awhile for a lot of artists way before Taylor was in the industry. In the 90s and 20s I bought a ton of single CDs when I already had the album because that was the only way to get the remixes or acoustic. I would re-buy deluxe albums I already had for the extra songs. Also, there’s three versions of one song in this case.