Taylor Swift Just Had A #1 Single In Canada That Was Eight Seconds Of White Noise
This should...silence...her critics. Eh? Eh?
T-Swift’s upcoming album 1989 is set to drop on October 27, at least in the US, and the marketing machine has gone into overdrive in the lead-up. About a week ago Swift posted this teaser of the album’s third track on Instagram:
Which meant that when the third track from 1989, ‘Track 3’, went live for sale on iTunes Canada yesterday, it shot straight to #1, leapfrogging every other T-Swift single and the entire musical output of humanity at that particular moment.
Problem was, the track wasn’t a track: it was eight seconds of static and literally nothing else, most likely released by mistake. Fans took to Twitter to have some feelings, as fans are sometimes wont to do.
Track 3 static sound .. What @taylorswift13 pic.twitter.com/cMNpAyoXgo — ☽Moon Goddess☾ (@AmikX15) October 21, 2014
@taylorswift13 do you realize that 9 seconds of your static is #1 in canada pic.twitter.com/cqXDpmtNZv
— barney stinson (@hedwigyitzhak) October 21, 2014
TRACK 3 IS STILL NUMBER ONE TAYLOR SWIFT LADIES AND GENTLEMAN pic.twitter.com/y8lvbNb1Yl — ONE WEEK (@Enchanted4Tay13) October 22, 2014
TRACK 3 IS SO BEAUTIFUL. LOVE THE QUALITY OF THAT STATIC. OR IS IT THE OCEAN. WOW. @taylorswift13 #TALENTED
— 1989!!! (@taynnessee) October 22, 2014
The track has since been taken down, but it sat at the top of the Canadian iTunes charts for much longer than eight seconds of nothing has any right to.
If you want to listen to an Exclusive Preview of the track that Junkee’s gotten our hands on, go sit in a soundproof room, count to eight in your head, and walk back out again. Await further instructions.