Halsey - real name Ashley Nicolette Frangipane - first came to public attention with her 2015 debut album Badlands. She broke through the UK Number 1 single Closer with the Chainsmokers, and hit the top-spot again in 2018 with the single Eastside with Benny Blanco and Khalid, A shift-shaping chameleonic pop presence, Halsey's album have touched on radio-indebted R&B-influenced pop (Hopeless Fountain Kingdom), confessional alt-pop (Manic) and 2021's industrial rock opus If I Can't Love, I Want Power, produced by Nine Inch Nails, which became her highest-charting UK album to date, peaking at Number 5.