Country star Morgan Wallen today unexpectedly released a new recording of his 2015 track called “Spin You Around (1/24),” following in the footsteps of Taylor Swift in an attempt to overshadow what the artists thinks are earlier and inferior versions released by former business partners and current rights holders.

In Wallen’s case, the move to release the new version follows news that Wallen’s old Panacea Records label, which released Morgon’s first batch of songs back in 2015, are re-releasing them recordings today agasint Wallen’s wishes. The country singer has said he signed with the label in 2014 when he was 21, ill-informed in the ways of business and without legal representation.

Apparently unable to stop the release of what Wallen considers recordings inferior to his more recent and highly successful music, Wallen re-recorded one of the songs – “Spin You Around” – as “Spin You Around (1/24), hoping fans’s focus on that new...