Halsey says she’s “not allowed” to make a new album
Halsey has said she’s “not allowed” to currently make a new album due to the commercial performance of her last record.
The singer, who recently announced details of a ten-year anniversary tour celebrating her debut album Badlands, last album was The Great Impersonator, in 2024.
Now, during a recent interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music, Halsey shared that she’s not currently considering her next musical project, stating, “I can’t make an album right now. I’m not allowed to”. She expanded, “That’s the reality, because The Great Impersonator didn’t perform the way they thought it was going to.”
The Great Impersonator landed at second place in the Billboard Chart in the United States, and was beaten to the top spot by the surprise release of Tyler, the Creator’s Chromakopia. It was the third consecutive album by Halsey to reach second position on the chart in the US.
Halsey is happy with the numbers achieved from The Great Impersonator, telling Lowe, “If I’m being honest with you, the album sold 100,000 fucking copies first week, that’s a pretty big first week, especially for an artist who hasn’t had a hit in a long time.”
“The tour is the highest selling tour of my entire career, but they want Manic (her 2020 album which sold 239,000 units in the first week) numbers from me… I can’t do that every single time,” she added.
Halsey also felt it was unfair that her recent work is being put “in the context of the kind of success that I’ve had previously”, which she doesn’t believe is relevant to the artist she is today.
“That’s the hardest part of having been a pop star once. Because I’m not one anymore, but I’m being compared to numbers and to other people that I don’t consider lateral to me,” Halsey shared.
Halsey’s Back to Badlands Tour will begin with three nights at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles in October. Early next year, she will play Aviva Studios in Manchester and three nights at O2 Academy Brixton in London.
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