The 20-year-old pop star's record label, Big Machine Records, released a statement explaining that the MP3 was of subpar quality, and they'd decided to let fans hear the song in all its glory on iTunes and country radio.
The song was officially dropped hours after the bootleg surfaced online, says the site, and "Mine" promptly rocketed to the top spot on iTunes.
According to Reuters, an MP3 leak forced the Grammy-winning songbird to move up the release of her newest single, "Mine," by about twelve days.
"I landed in Japan and got 20 texts and looked at iTunes and got tears in my eyes," Swift tweeted on Thursday. "And so, we begin again :)"
While "Mine" sounds a lot like Swfit's previous lovey-dovey chart-toppers, the song's origins are grounded more in failed relationships than storybook ones.
"I think I've developed this pattern of running away when it comes time to fall in love and stay in a relationship," Swift told MTV.com last month. "The song is sort of about finding the exception to that and finding someone who would make you believe in love and realize that it could work out, because I'm never ever going to go past hoping that love works out."
On the sing-along chorus that's sure to light up high school proms nationwide, Swift croons, "you made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter/you are the best thing that's ever been mine."
The track is the first single off of "Speak Now," Swift's follow-up to her Grammy-festooned "Fearless." That record beat out Dave Matthews Band and the Black Eyed Peas for the Album of the Year Grammy earlier this year.
According to MTV, Swift reportedly taped a performance of "Mine" for the "CMA Music Festival: Country's Night to Rock" music special, scheduled to air September 1st on ABC.
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