Her manager Nick Bobetsky spoke with Music Business Worldwide about the singer’s release strategy and rapid rise to fame.
With seven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and her debut album occupying the No. 2 slot on the Billboard 200, Chappell Roan‘s music has never been more relevant. Now, fans are finding out when they might expect to hear new music from the singer.
In an interview with Music Business Worldwide, Roan’s manager Nick Bobetsky revealed that the singer is currently “busy writing” new songs, and talked about when fans might be able to hear some of the star’s new work. “I do think that we’re likely going to embrace a very similar plan that we did for this album, which is that when she finishes a song she loves, we put our heads together and quickly work to get that music out,” he said. “That’s what we did with ‘Good Luck, Babe!’”
Describing Roan as an “album artist,” Bobetsky said that high demand from fans doesn’t necessarily mean a full album is coming soon. “It’s partly a question of when the fans are asking for an album, and we have a lot of insight into that sort of thing,” he said. “I think right now Chappell wants to feel free to put music out when it’s ready and when she’s excited about letting people hear it. And I think that’s what the fans want as well.”
Fans got their first tease of a new Chappell Roan song during the star’s head-turning set at Governors Ball 2024. Performing an unreleased track titled “Subway,” Roan changed into a taxi cab-inspired outfit and delivered the heartbroken ballad to an audience of screaming fans.
Recently, Roan has spoken out about inappropriate, “predatory” interactions she’s had with people in public, asking her fans not to harass her when she’s not performing. “When I’m on stage, when I’m performing, when I’m in drag, when I’m at a work event, when I’m doing press … I am at work. Any other circumstance, I am not in work mode,” she wrote in a note posted to her Instagram. “I don’t agree with the notion that I owe a mutual exchange of energy, time, or attention to people I do not know, do not trust, or who creep me out — just because they’re expressing admiration.”
In his MBW interview, Bobetsky also reflected on Roan’s rapid rise to fame, explaining that the singer’s success, in part, comes from the way she works with her fans. “The success hasn’t taken her away from her core fans, she’s taken them with her; they are part of it,” he said. “And it’s part of our core strategy. It’s not ‘Let’s do everything, let’s maximize every ounce of the success that’s currently happening’; that’s not the point.”
