Billie Eilish wants things to be short and concise.
On May 17, Eilish released her third studio album, Hit me hard and soft, with 10 energetic tracks. Then, over the holiday weekend, some statements he made via the Stationhead app went viral about increasing the length of some high-profile gigs.
“I'm not going to do a three-hour show,” Eilish says in the recordings of fan comments. “That's literally psychotic. Nobody wants that. You don't want that. I do not want that. I don't even want that as a fan. My favorite artist in the world, I don't try to listen to them for three hours. “That's too long.”
On the new Billboard Pop Shop podcast, Katie and Keith talk about Eilish's perspective: weighing what's possible and healthy for an artist versus what a fan wants from a concert. Listen to the full conversation below:
Also on the show, we have Taylor Swift chart news. The Department of Tortured Poets and Eilish's Hit me hard and soft come together for a big week, as the two albums surpassed 300,000 equivalent album units each in the same week, the first time this has happened in eight years. While Swift remains stable at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Eilish debuts at No. 2 with the best mark of her career in terms of units earned. Additionally, all 10 songs from the new album debut on the Billboard Hot 100, including the top five with “Lunch.”
The Billboard Pop Shop podcast is your one-stop shop for all things pop on Billboard's weekly charts. You can always count on a lively discussion of the latest pop news, fun chart statistics and stories, new music, and interviews with music stars and people from the pop world. Casual pop fans and chart junkies can listen to Billboard's Chief Digital Officer, West Coast, Katie Atkinson, and Billboard's Managing Director of Data and Chart Operations, Keith Caulfield, every week on the podcast, which can be streamed on Billboard.com or downloaded on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast provider. (Click here to listen to the previous edition of the show on Billboard.com.)
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