Taylor Swift - Bad Blood

I've been thinking about posting a question on this song for a while now. What is the most commonly played version on radio? Billboard lists the Kendrick Lamar version on the Hot 100, but I figure that has more to do with sales than airplay.

On the Mainstream Top 40 chart, they also list the Kendrick Lamar version, but on Adult Top 40, it's just listed as by her. At Mediabase, both corresponding charts list just her. And from personal experience, I've never heard the Kendrick Lamar version on the radio, though I mostly listen to Sirius radio and not my local Top 40 station.

How about around the country. Is the Kendrick Lamar version getting any airplay at all?

JMD1961 wrote: How about around the country. Is the Kendrick Lamar version getting any airplay at all?

I've heard the Kendrick Lamar versions coming out of CHR stations in Boston and while in Pennsylvania on vacation a few weeks ago. My CHR station in NH plays the Kendrick Version.

A local Top 40 station plays a version of this song
(with Kendrick Lamar) that has a remixed intro. It
doesn't start out with an acapella intro like the copy I
have.

Could this be a custom edit?

I have a d/l that purports to be the album version. No rap
there.


Edited by Hykker

I found the rapless remix version here:
http://www.josepvinaixa.com/blog/taylor-swift-bad-blood-remi x/

I have looked all over but cannot find an official release on this version
which IMO is the best version.

To Hykker:

Eliminate the space between "i & x" in "remix".

It's the same version as aaronk posted (TM Studios has serviced it also).

Andy

PopArchivist wrote: While it states 3:16 in the Whitburn Annual for 2015 as the single running time, the actual running time is 3:18 as Aaron pointed out and I can confirm it.

That is incorrect. The time shown in the Pop Annual is
(3:18).

I can confirm a couple of details regarding Taylor Swift featuring Kendrick Lamar's "Bad Blood". First, the version featured on Taylor Swift's 1989 CD (Big Machine Records 0500A) running 3:31 is the LP version without Kendrick Lamar. (I can't possibly be the only one here who owns a copy of this CD, can I? 😳)

Second, the download single version is the remix version featuring Kendrick Lamar. This is the one that appears on the Now 56 CD, albeit with a severely truncated fadeout. (By the way, there is a long decay at the tail end of this song on both the single and the album versions. Thus, when listening at a higher than normal volume, I am able to detect an extra second or two longer of audio for both versions, which likely accounts for my slightly longer actual run times than what others here have reported.

Both database CDs containing "Bad Blood" need to be updated with the appropriate comments.

By the way, I recall primarily hearing the album version and possibly the "Remix - No Rap" version at the time on my local Pittsburgh Top 40 CHR station.

Edited by Todd Ireland

My music service in 2015 was TM's PrimeCuts. They issued
the Remix - No Rap running 3:18.

The Remix - No Rap has no Kendrick Lamar in the song.