Halsey says she’s been benched by her label after her newest album didn’t meet expectations—regardless of a robust debut and sold-out tour.
“I can’t make an album proper now,” she instructed Apple Music’s Zane Lowe throughout a latest interview. “I’m not allowed to. It’s the truth.”
The 30-year-old singer revealed that Columbia Data has halted her means to document new music following the discharge of The Nice Impersonator, which dropped on October 25, 2024.
The album opened at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and moved 100,000 models in its first week—a determine that will be a win for many artists—however not sufficient for her label.
“If I’m being trustworthy with you, the album bought 100,000 f###### copies first week,” she mentioned. “That’s a reasonably large first week, particularly for an artist who hasn’t had successful in a very long time.”
Columbia reportedly measured the album’s efficiency in opposition to Halsey’s 2020 venture Manic, which featured the 6x-platinum single “With out Me” and debuted at No. 2 with over 239,000 equal album models.
“It could be thought of successful for many artists, 100,000 albums within the first week, in an period once we don’t promote bodily music,” she mentioned. “But it surely’s a failure within the context of the type of success I’ve had beforehand. And that’s the toughest a part of having been a pop star as soon as, as a result of I’m not one anymore, and I’m being in comparison with folks that I don’t contemplate lateral to me.”
Halsey Gears Up For “Again To Badlands Tour” In October
The feedback add to a protracted historical past of friction between Halsey and the music enterprise. She left Capitol Data in 2023 after inventive disagreements and signed with Columbia that June, hoping for extra freedom.
Capitol had launched her first 4 albums, together with her 2015 debut, Badlands, and the critically praised Manic. Regardless of the label freeze, Halsey’s stay exhibits are thriving. Her “My Final Trick Tour” wrapped in July after promoting out 32 dates and breaking her private touring document.
“They need Manic numbers from me,” she mentioned, pointing to the strain to repeat previous success.
Nonetheless, she credited her supporters for conserving her profession afloat. “I like them, God bless them, as a result of they’re the one cause that I’m even in a position to make something in any respect, that I can promote that many copies of an experimental idea album about dying,” she mentioned. “They help me.”
Halsey is now gearing up for her “Again To Badlands Tour” in Los Angeles. The trek is a 10-year anniversary of her breakout debut.
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