Halsey, the singer-songwriter who rose to fame with her 2010 debut “Badlands,” revealed that she is currently unable to release new music, citing restrictions from her record label following the commercial performance of her most recent project, “The Great Impersonator.”

In an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe released Sept. 18, the 30-year-old artist said, “I can’t make an album right now—I’m not allowed to. That’s the reality, because ‘The Great Impersonator’ didn’t perform the way they thought it was going to.”

She emphasized that the album sold roughly 100,000 copies in its first week, and that her accompanying tour was the most successful of her career. Yet the label reportedly expected sales on the scale of her 2020 double-platinum album, “Manic.”

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