Yeah that sounds strange, and at some point Billboard changed its policy on digital tracks being traded in to complete the CD. Coldplay gets the credit now, moving 43 to 10, and Luke Bryan moved from 27 to 22 the week fans exchanged the "Crash My Party" digital track for the digital album with the same name.
However, in 2012, Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" fell from 4 to 11 the week her fans completed their purchase of Red by trading in her hit song, and in that case Billboard counted the large number of negative sales (around -70,000 if I remember right) against her point total for that week.
The next week, Swift's song sold over 100,000 copies again, re-entered the Digital Songs Chart inside the Top 10, and moved back up from 11 to 5 on the Hot 100. Amusingly enough, Swift earned the Greatest Gainer Sales award on that week's Hot Country Chart the week people bought the single again. Billboard changes these policies, but does not bother to tell us about it, so we are left to wonder what is going on.
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Originally posted by Ger-55
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I was worried it would drop a spot again.