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Halsey explains why he’s not releasing new music.
“I can’t make an album right now,” the 30-year-old singer-songwriter revealed to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in an interview aired on Thursday, September 18th. “I’m not allowed. That’s real.”
Halsey said that this is why she points out that her 2024 album, the Great Impersonator, “didn’t perform the way they wanted it.”
After being released on October 25, 2024, Halsey’s fifth studio album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart.
“If I’m honest with you, the album sold 100,000 f —–copy in the first week,” Halsey told Lowe. “It’s a pretty big first week, especially for artists who haven’t had a hit in a long time.”
She noted that my last trick tour was “best selling of her ‘all career’.”
Halsey’s Manic peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, six times the certified platinum after surpassing 6 million units.
Compared to the great impersonator, Halsey said, “In an age where we don’t sell physical music, we’ll be considered the success of most artists, 100,000 albums.
The “Colors” singer is currently signed to Columbia Records following a 2023 split with Capitol Records, the label that released her first four albums, including Manic and her 2015 debut album Badlands.
Halsey’s latest tour sold out almost instantly. Featuring the date of the 32nd, it was wrapped in Concord, California in May 2025 and in Highland, California in July.
She also begins her Back to Badlands tour in Los Angeles, marking the 10th anniversary of her first album.
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Speaking to Lowe, Halsey expressed his gratitude for her “devoted fanbase.”
“I love them, God bless them because they are the only reason I can even make anything. “They support me.”
