Chappell Roan Reportedly Parts Ways With Management

Chappell Roan has reportedly split with her management. The singer was previously signed to State Of the Art with Nick Bobetsky as her manager, the two having met in 2018.

Pollstar has reached out to Roan’s representatives for comment.

Roan is booked by Wasserman Music’s Kiely Mosiman and Jackie Nalpant in North and South America and Wasserman Music’s Anna Bewers and Adele Slater in the rest of the world. The singer exploded over the summer, drawing the biggest reported daytime crowd at Lollapalooza. She was also bumped up to perform the mainstage at Bonnaroo following the crowd size she drew at this year’s Governor’s Ball in New York City.

While the singer has steadily been touring throughout the summer and fall, in the midst of her rising fame she called off her All Things Go festival appearances in Forest Hills, New York, and Columbia, Maryland, in late September “to prioritize her health.” She explained that “Things have gotten overwhelming over the past few weeks and I am really feeling it.” She has previously been open about her mental health struggles, including being diagnosed with bipolar II disorder at age 22. Roan also canceled her Sept. 3 and 4th shows in Paris and Amsterdam because of “scheduling conflicts” – assumed to be rehearsals for her performance at this year’s MTV VMAs.

Reports submitted to Pollstar Boxofffice for Roan include an Oct. 1 show at FirstBank Amphitheater in Franklin, Tennessee that sold 7,777 tickets and grossed $362,739.

Roan was nominated for several Grammy nominations last week, including in all of the Big Four categories – album of the year, record of the year, song of the year and best new artist – for her 2023 debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.

Rumors about Roan’s split with her management reportedly began roughly a month ago.

Nathan Hubbard – who is the Co-Founder & CEO of Firebird Music Holdings, previously served as the CEO of Ticketmaster between 2007 and 2013 and is the co-host of the podcast Every Single Album – revealed in the Oct. 17 episode of the podcast that it was “an industry open secret” that Roan had parted ways with Bobetsky. Hubbard explained that “Roan just fired her manager and at Austin City Limits, the festival yesterday, all these managers flew in to try to see [her]. ” He added, “She didn’t see anybody … I think she was selective and reached out with purpose to the people that she wanted to do this.”

Roan is no longer listed as a management client on State of the Art’s website as of Nov. 11.

Billboard reported Nov. 9 that Roan had split with her management team, according to sources, and noted that her Grammy “nods were notably left off a congratulatory post shared from the Instagram account for State Of the Art.” Roan left a comment on Billboard’s Instagram post about the split and wrote Nov. 10, “Yall suck for this.”

Bobetsky spoke to Pollstar for Roan’s June 24 cover story, which was part of Pollstar‘s Pride Special, and commented that Roan’s career has seen very “steady and consistent growth” thanks to her passionate fanbase: “Even when we put up her first headline U.S. tour, the number of tickets we were selling versus her streams, the ratio was incredible — basically every listener was a real fan.”

Pollstar reached out to Bobetsky and Wasserman Music for comment, as well as Roan’s publicist.