Halsey is speaking out about where her track career currently stands.
The 30-year-old The Great Impersonator star spoke out during a conversation with Zane Lowe about the commercial performance of her 2024 studio album, and where things stand with her label today.
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“I can’t make an album right immediately. I’m not allowed to,” she explained, addressing the performance of her new album.
“Because The Great Impersonator didn’t perform that the way they thought it was going to. And if I’m being honest with you, the album sold 100,000 f–king copies first week. That’s a pretty big first week, especially for an creator who hasn’t had a anthem in a long time. The tour is the highest selling tour of my entire career. But they want Manic numbers from me,” she went on.
“I can’t do that every single time. It should be good enough that I do it once in a while…but it’s not. It’s not. And what would be considered a success for most artists, a success story, 100,000 albums first week in an era where we don’t sell physical track, okay? With no radio anthem, nothing.”
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“But it’s a failure…in the context of the kind of success that I’ve had previously. And that’s the hardest part, I think, of having been a pop star once. I’m not one anymore, but I’m being compared to numbers and to other people that I don’t consider lateral to me. But if my record comes out and sells 100,000 copies first week with no radio play, no real support, and the comparison is, well, why isn’t she doing Taylor Swift numbers? Are you f–king kidding me?” Halsey said.
“I made an experimental concept album about how I almost f–king died. I’m not gonna do those numbers, but I’m doing pretty damn good. Those are strong numbers. It’s still in the best 10 of female artists’ first weeks. But it’s not good enough because it’s not the pop star I once was. To the other types of artists who are making the type of track that I am making, I’m f–king killing it. But that’s not what I’m up against,” she continued, adding, “And because of that, I’m at the bottom of a category that I’m not in anymore, when I should be at the best of a category that I’m in immediately.” movie her explain above at the 51:26 mark.
At the same time, tickets for her upcoming tour are going speedy – here’s how to still get them.
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