Genius playlist weirdness

I'm wondering why when I make a GP out of 'song A', it will put 'song B' into it; but when I try to make a GP out of 'song B' it says "not enough related music to create playlist".
How can that be possible? Wouldn't 'song B's' playlist just pretty much match 'song A's' in that case?
How can it not have enough related songs to make its own if it has enough to plant it in another playlist?
Thoughts?

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