Halsey explains why she can't release a new album 'right now'
Halsey has revealed she is unable to start work on a new album.
Halsey has claimed she is unable to make a new album "right now" due to their 2024 LP The Great Impersonator underperforming.
The Without Me hitmaker says their record label Columbia Records expects them to emulate their previous success as a pop star and that they viewed the record as a "failure" commercially.
Halsey told Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1: “I can’t make an album right now.
“I’m not allowed to. It’s the reality."
Halsey elaborated: “If I’m being honest with you, the album sold 100,000 f****** copies first week.
“That’s a pretty big first week, especially for an artist who hasn’t had a hit in a long time."
Halsey continued: “It would be considered a success for most artists, 100,000 albums in the first week, in an era when we don’t sell physical music. But it’s a failure in the context of the kind of success I’ve had previously. And that’s the hardest part of having been a pop star once, because I’m not one anymore, and I’m being compared to people that I don’t consider lateral to me.”
Halsey's recent live run, the My Last Trick Tour, marked their highest-selling headline trek to date.
The star just announced the Back to Badlands Tour to celebrate the 10th anniversary of her acclaimed debut album.
The GRAMMY-nominated artist will celebrate the triple platinum-certified Badlands —a record that not only launched her into pop stardom in 2015, but also became one of the rare albums in history to have every track RIAA certified gold, platinum, or multi-platinum - with a global trek from October 2025 through to February 2026.
The run will kick off at the iconic Hollywood Forever Cemetery on October 14, with further stops including Mexico City, Dallas, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington DC, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Denver.
At the top end of next year, Halsey will play Toronto, Canada, on January 9, before heading to New York, and Detroit. The European and UK leg will include dates in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Paris, Manchester, and London.
The New Americana singer will then head Down Under to play Syndey, Brisbane, and Melbourne.
