Taylor Swift drew criticism online this week after unveiling three new editions of her album The Tortured Poets Department just one day before Billie Eilish released her latest record, Hit Me Hard and Soft.

The Tortured Poets Department variants were made available digitally Thursday evening. Each edition includes a bonus version of one of three Swift songs: The Black Dog, Whos Afraid of Little Old Me? and Cassandra.

Eilish, meanwhile, has been teasing the release of Hit Me Hard and Soft since April. Given the fervent anticipation for the nine-time Grammy winners latest, it didnt take long for some fans to accuse Swift of making a transparent attempt to outpace Hit Me Hard and Soft on the charts.

One person on X, formerly Twitter, wrote : i love you taylor, but this is just greedy. couldnt have released this last week or next week? but now that you know theres competition for #1 this week, you gotta go and play these stunts. its honestly tiring.

Another X user suggested that Eilishs recent criticism of excessive album variants really got into Swift, adding that doing this on her album release day is so nasty.

Others, however, came to Swifts defense by suggesting it was simply indicative of the music business as a whole.

This is a competitive industry, shes not playing any stunt shes following the rollout, one person wrote . Still, even if it wasnt why should Taylor move?