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Chappell Roan Explains Long Wait for New Single 'The Subway': "It Was Just Too Painful"

NEW YORK CITY, AUG 05 – Chappell Roan's break-up single 'The Subway' reflects NYC's transit challenges and heartbreak, debuting with 8.3 million global Spotify streams, the highest female debut of 2025.

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Chappell Roan has explained why it took her so long to share ‘The Subway’, saying that the track felt “just too painful”. READ MORE: Chappell Roan on The Cover: the pop supernova who feels like one of the ‘Drag Race’ girls The former NME Cover star officially shared the single on August 1 – over a year after first being debuted at Governor’s Ball in New York and making it a common feature at her live shows. The official single drop came after s…

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Chappell Roan fans will have to wait, as the singer has expressed that her second album “is not yet there”, and that it is probably not ready in a few “five years”. You may be interested: What do we know about Chappell Roan’s next album? From the set of the video clip of her new ballad ‘The Subway’, in which she enters into a surrealist fantasy in New York, Roan revealed to Vogue that the continuation of the successful debut, The Rise And Fall O…

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