How to handle a tracklist change on the same Barcode/URL

I’m working on an album by SwMG, lets call it GEM2.

The original MB release was imported here 3 months ago from Spotify. Since then, it appears the tracklist has slightly changed near the end (track #17 has been moved to #23 and others have been shifted up). Apple Music and Deezer also have this updated tracklist. I can confirm this old tracklist was correct at one point (and can still found on YouTube and the SoundCloud release I also imported to MB.

Since the newly updated tracklist uses the same Spotify URL, it will have the same barcode too? And looking at the different releases from the release group page won’t indicate much change because they still have the same number of tracks + same release date. Would it be more correct to remove the URL from the old tracklist release? Or to mark the streaming link relationships in that release as ended? Or to mark the whole release as withdrawn? Maybe add a disambig of “original tracklist” to the original release? Or to use the annotation field on the newer release? Thank you for your guidance.

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I would say, the initial release was *Withdrawn" and replaced by a new release. Don’t change the track list of the existing release if it was available before.

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