Posted on 07/10/2026 1:07:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The star's latest album did not chart, though she says she is already hard at work on new music and focused on the future
Lizzo is opening up about falling short of expectations for her new album Bitch — and why she's keeping her chin up.
The Grammy winner, 38, put out Bitch, her first record in four years, on June 5. The record did not chart on the Billboard 200 albums chart, marking a surprising result for an album that followed a No. 2 record in 2022 for the star.
In a conversation with Zachary Hourihane (also known as the Swiftologist) on YouTube on Sunday, June 28, Lizzo admitted that her disappointing numbers were "soul-crushing."
"I was so excited ‘cause I met my pre-save goal, and then it dropped and I was like, ‘Oh okay, this isn't what I thought it would kind of be,'" she said. "I think that there was like, 24 hours of my life where I based my success and my worth on a number. And I think that was soul-crushing."
The album sold approximately 3,000 total units in its first week of release, and the number dropped to 650 in the second week, music data company Luminate told Rolling Stone.
The "Truth Hurts" singer said she'd been writing the album since September 2023, and was confident that the songs she was sharing would resonate and connect with her audience. When Bitch failed to find immediate footing, Lizzo said she "hurt my own feelings."
"I was really stressed and I was really sad for a few days because I just was like, ‘Wait a minute. This is like, some of my best stuff,'" she said. "And I had to come to terms with the fact that not only
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I have noticed that when a “musician” dies it tends to increase album sales. There’s always that option…
The country is split politically 50-50.
Shouting and ranting about half of them calling them racist morons does NOT help sales.
Plus, you’re fat and ugly.
Should have called it Bomb.
Should have called it Bomb.
Right? Lizzo’s fans moved on. Fame is fleeting. One of the keys to the success of Taylor Swift is how prolific she is. She never rested.
She eats when she is sad if you did not know.
There is a Lizzo?
“Album did not shart,” ??? How is that a drawback?
,,, sometimes, like that’s the way things go.
I think it's somebody Godzilla fought.
No. That was Mothballs.
Right you are.
Fat chance she will sell much.
She’s half the woman she used to be.
Competition has eaten into her sales.
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