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Billie Eilish criticises musicians for releasing multiple vinyl variants: ‘I can’t even express how wasteful it is’


The singer, who is known for her attempts to run her career sustainably, likened the practice to The Hunger Games – playing a game to get fans to keep buying more

Taylor Swift’s forthcoming album The Tortured Poets Department will be released on four different-coloured vinyl editions, each of them containing a different bonus track to incentivise fans to buy all four. Eilish was interviewed alongside her mother, Maggie Baird, who suggested that Billboard – the organisation that runs the US charts, in addition to the publication of the same name – impose limits on how many variants an artist can produce of any single release, “like no more than four colours. Eilish is known for her attempts to run her career sustainably, including powering her festival sets from temporary solar farms installed nearby, and releasing fewer merchandising items that are of lasting quality.

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