100 Fun Facts About Halsey

What is Halsey's birth name?

Her stage name is an anagram of Ashley.

In which state was Halsey born and raised?

She was born in Edison and grew up across Central Jersey.

Halsey's stage name references a subway station in which New York borough?

She spent a lot of time near Halsey Street station as a teenager.

Which label did Halsey sign with in 2014?

She felt it offered more creative freedom than the other labels that called.

What was the title of Halsey's debut EP?

It reached number three on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.

In which year was Halsey's debut album Badlands released?

She wrote every song on it at 19.

Which song became Halsey's first entry on the Billboard Hot 100?

It peaked at number 60.

Halsey's 2016 chart-topper Closer was a collaboration with which duo?

It spent 12 consecutive weeks at number one in the US.

How many consecutive weeks did Closer spend atop the Billboard Hot 100?

It is one of the most-streamed songs on Spotify.

In which year was Hopeless Fountain Kingdom released?

It debuted atop the Billboard 200.

Which Hopeless Fountain Kingdom single peaked in the US top five?

It was her highest peak as a lead artist at the time.

Halsey's 2018 top-ten hit Eastside paired her with Khalid and which producer?

It was Blanco's debut single as an artist.

Which Halsey single topped the Billboard Hot 100 and went diamond?

It was her first solo number one, in late 2018.

Which Halsey album became her best-selling worldwide?

It was released on January 17, 2020.

Which label did Halsey sign with after leaving Capitol in 2023?

The Great Impersonator followed in 2024.

What does Halsey's mother do for a living?

Her father manages a car dealership.

Which instrument did Halsey take up at 14 after violin, viola and cello?

She had played three string instruments before that.

Under what username did Halsey post on Tumblr in 2012?

She became known there for a Taylor Swift parody.

Halsey's early online fame came from parodying which Taylor Swift song?

The parody was inspired by Swift's relationship with Harry Styles.

Which self-posted SoundCloud song got Halsey signed in 2014?

It was about an ex-boyfriend and gained popularity within hours.

Which art college did Halsey briefly attend before withdrawing?

She left due to financial hardship and went to community college.

Which British band did Halsey tour with in August 2014?

She performed original songs as their support act.

Halsey opened for which band on the North American Smoke + Mirrors Tour in 2015?

She had been the most-tweeted performer at SXSW that spring.

Badlands is a concept album about what?

Halsey called it a metaphor for her mental state at the time.

Which Norwegian producer, then her boyfriend, worked on Badlands?

Their breakup later inspired Hopeless Fountain Kingdom.

Badlands debuted at which position on the Billboard 200?

It sold 115,000 units in its first week.

Castle was re-recorded for the soundtrack of which 2016 film?

Castle was the fourth single from Badlands.

In 2016 Halsey released a namesake lipstick with which cosmetics brand?

She was one of four performers in the Future Forward line.

Closer earned Halsey a Grammy nomination in which category?

Billboard singled out her solo verse.

Not Afraid Anymore appeared on the soundtrack of which 2017 film?

It was released in January 2017 ahead of her second album.

Hopeless Fountain Kingdom retells which Shakespeare story?

The concept album was inspired by her breakup with Lido.

The Hopeless Fountain Kingdom World Tour began on which day in 2017?

That was September 29, 2017.

Him & I was Halsey's 2017 duet with which rapper and then-boyfriend?

The Without Me video later featured a G-Eazy lookalike.

Which rappers joined Halsey on the 2018 remix of Alone?

Alone topped Billboard's Dance Club chart.

Which DC hero did Halsey voice in Teen Titans Go! To the Movies?

The same year she cameoed as herself in A Star Is Born.

On which singing competition was Halsey a key advisor in its fifteenth season?

She later performed Without Me on the show.

Which rapper featured on the January 2019 remix of her first solo number one?

The song had topped the Hot 100 for two non-consecutive weeks.

Halsey's 2019 song 11 Minutes with Yungblud featured which drummer?

She dated Yungblud from November 2018 to September 2019.

Which BTS song featuring Halsey set a 24-hour YouTube record in 2019?

Its video drew 74.6 million views in its first day.

What was Halsey's February 2019 role on Saturday Night Live?

Ratings rose and a younger audience tuned in.

Halsey's Experiment on Me appeared on the soundtrack of which 2020 film?

Oli Sykes and Jordan Fish of Bring Me the Horizon produced it.

What is the title of Halsey's 2020 poetry book?

Her first live album, Badlands (Live from Webster Hall), came the same year.

Which Nine Inch Nails duo produced If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power?

A companion film screened in IMAX before landing on HBO Max.

Which single sparked Halsey's 2022 TikTok dispute with Capitol Records?

Capitol wanted a viral campaign first; it relented and released it on June 9.

Lucky, the lead single from The Great Impersonator, samples a 2000 hit by whom?

Both songs share the title Lucky.

Halsey played Tabby Martin in which 2024 horror film?

It is the third film in Ti West's X trilogy.

The Back to Badlands Tour celebrated which anniversary of her debut album?

It ran 22 shows from October 2025 to February 2026.

Which Cranberries singer does Halsey credit as her major vocal influence?

She said O'Riordan taught her to use an unconventional voice emotively.

Halsey says the biggest influence on her live shows is the frontman of which band?

She copied Adam Lazzara's use of the microphone as a prop.

To which actor did Halsey announce her engagement in September 2024?

Jogia also stars in Our Hero, Balthazar, which she produced.

Halsey has two brothers, Sevian and who?

Sevian later danced alongside her in the Clementine music video.

Halsey sang on The Feeling, a track from which Justin Bieber album?

Never an official single, it still cracked the top 40 of the Hot 100 and went Gold in the US.

The 2016 charity single Hands, featuring Halsey, honored victims of which tragedy?

Twenty-seven artists took part in the tribute single.

Love Is Madness paired Halsey with Thirty Seconds to Mars on which 2018 album?

It arrived in 2018, the same year she reached the top ten with Eastside.

Halsey was one of 30 acts on Earth, a 2019 climate-change charity single by which rapper?

It arrived on April 19, 2019, a week after her record-setting collaboration with BTS.

After the 2017 Women's March, Halsey pledged $1 per retweet to which organization?

The tweet ended up costing her $100,000.

Which initiative did Halsey launch in June 2020 amid the George Floyd protests?

It followed her joining racial-justice protests in Los Angeles the previous month.

In March 2021, Halsey announced using which pronouns?

She is openly bisexual and dated a woman before her music career began.

What is the first name of Halsey's son, born in July 2021?

He was born a week after she unveiled the cover of her fourth album.

At 17, Halsey was diagnosed with which condition her mother also has?

She has said she embraces it because it makes her "really empathetic".

Which condition did Halsey go public with on Twitter in 2016?

She underwent surgery in January 2017 to try to lessen the pain it causes.

In June 2024, Halsey disclosed a T-cell disorder alongside which disease?

She had also been diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Sjögren's disease and POTS.

In which year did Time name Halsey among the world's 100 most influential people?

The same year, her third album became her best seller worldwide.

Halsey opened select 2015 dates of The Madness Fall Tour for which artist?

Later that year she launched her own first headlining tour at San Diego's House of Blues.

Halsey's 2023 single Die 4 Me reworks her verse from whose album Hollywood's Bleeding?

Her updated verse raises a boast of 15 million copies sold to 40 million.

Which Halsey tour opened in West Palm Beach in May 2022?

Beabadoobee and PinkPantheress opened its first half.

Which Kate Bush song did Halsey add as a cover to her 2022 tour setlist?

It joined the set from the New York show, alongside the single she had fought her label to release.

Halsey's 2020 world tour, cut short by the pandemic, opened in which city?

Only 17 shows were played before the rest were postponed and then cancelled.

Which BTS member has an interlude on Halsey's 2020 album?

Dominic Fike and Alanis Morissette got interludes of their own on the record.

Which singer leaves an uncredited voicemail on Halsey's track 3AM?

A stripped version of the song appeared on the album's expanded edition in September 2020.

The song Ashley samples Kate Winslet dialogue from which film?

The album it opens was released on January 17, 2020.

Halsey's Killing Boys samples Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried dialogue from which film?

Halsey named it among her favorite tracks on the album during an Instagram live.

Which actress appears in the music video for Halsey's Graveyard?

Director Anton Tammi set it in an amusement park that turns eerily white by the end.

Halsey debuted Graveyard live in September 2019 at whose Savage X Fenty show?

The song later became her first appearance in the US Now That's What I Call Music! series.

Halsey's 2020 single You Should Be Sad borrows from which genre?

Its video is set in an underground country-western nightclub full of line dancers.

Where do Halsey and her brother dance in the Clementine video?

She released the song and video on her 25th birthday in 2019.

Halsey's Nightmare interpolates which t.A.T.u. hit?

One of the duo's songwriters said the interpolation was trimmed by an uncredited collaborator.

Halsey recorded all the vocals for her fourth album at a studio where?

Her two producers worked remotely from Los Angeles.

Which Fleetwood Mac guitarist plays on Halsey's 2021 song Darling?

Dave Grohl drummed remotely on another track from the same album.

Halsey's 2021 album cover drew on the Melun Diptych by which painter?

The cover shows her enthroned as a Madonna holding a baby, echoing the Virgin and Child panel.

Which Kanye West album kept Halsey's fourth record from No. 1 on the Billboard 200?

It was her fourth consecutive album to debut inside the top two.

Halsey's 2021 record earned a Grammy nomination in which category?

The album was certified Gold in February 2023, eighteen months after release.

Halsey reimagined her song Lilith in 2023 to promote which video game?

She first performed it at The Game Awards 2022; the game's villain shares the song's name.

On The Great Impersonator countdown, Halsey dressed as whom for the song Hometown?

She posted a different icon and a song preview every day for 18 days before the album.

Halsey's 2024 ballad The End was inspired by the music of which songwriter?

She released it with donations to two medical research charities.

Which band's bassist joined Halsey's Ego performance at the 2024 MTV VMAs?

She rode a bicycle across the stage and opened a garage door to reveal her '90s band.

Who directed the music video for Halsey's 2024 single Lucky?

Simon Rex cameos as the love interest of her 2000s pop-star character.

What was the name of Halsey's 2025 North American headlining tour?

She played one surprise song from her catalog at each show.

For Lonely Is the Muse, Halsey impersonated the frontwoman of which band?

Amy Lee later joined her onstage in Los Angeles to sing Hand That Feeds.

What is the name of Halsey's beauty brand?

It supplied her makeup in the companion film to her 2021 album, styled by Law Roach.

Halsey cited which 1997 sci-fi film as an inspiration for Badlands?

A desert wasteland surrounds the album's fictional city and keeps its inhabitants captive.

In the Colors video, Halsey's secret photos turn out to be of whom?

Teen Wolf's Tyler Posey plays the classmate who assumes the crush is on him.

Trouble, from Halsey's debut EP, soundtracked a promo for which TV series?

A stripped version of the song was included on the 2025 anniversary reissue of her debut album.

Halsey's directorial debut, the Now or Never video, was shot where?

Its cinematographer earned an MTV VMA nomination for Best Cinematography.

Which Fifth Harmony member duets with Halsey on Strangers?

Halsey insisted the guest be queer so the same-sex love song would feel real.

Members of which band were added as co-writers of Closer after similarity claims?

The resemblance was to their 2005 hit Over My Head (Cable Car).

Halsey's first solo Hot 100 chart-topper interpolates which Justin Timberlake song?

The interpolation gave Timbaland his eighth Hot 100 No. 1 as a songwriter.

Which pop star does Halsey credit with giving her the strength to be herself?

She calls Panic! at the Disco the band that changed her life.

Which presidential candidate did Halsey campaign for in both 2016 and 2020?

In 2020 she made a promotional video with his campaign.

Which rapper guests on Lie, from Halsey's second album?

The collaboration drew backlash in June 2017 over his past homophobic remarks.