its getting to the point where I feel like im being forced to outgrow concerts because of how inaccessible they are. every artist no matter who, always has a presale queue of 100k+ and "prices" are a months rent. Tickets sell out in 2 seconds and resale is 3x fv. im so over this.
Halsey tells Zane Lowe she’s “not allowed” to make another album right now because of how her last one performed:
“I can’t make an album right now, I’m not allowed to. ‘The Great Impersonator’ didn’t perform the way they thought it was going to. And if I’m being honest with you, the album sold 100,000 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’ numbers from me. I can’t do that every single time. It should be good enough that I do it once in a while. But it’s not. And what would be considered a success story for most artists — 100,000 albums first week in an era where we don’t sell physical music, with no radio hit, nothing — it’s a failure in the context of the kind of success I’ve had previously.”