Troye Sivan’s ‘She’s the Best’ Voted Fans’ Favorite New Music of the Week

Troye Sivan’s new studio album, She’s the Best, leads this week’s new music poll.

Listeners voted in a poll published Friday (Oct. 9) on Billboard, selecting Sivan’s latest full-length LP as their favorite new release.

The album finished ahead of new releases from Cardi B, Slayyyter, Ez Mil with Eminem, Pitbull, Remi Wolf and others, capturing 56% of the vote when the poll closed Sunday.

“As long as there’s cultural conversation and people kind of listening to the songs and understanding what I’m trying to say, and watching the videos, that’s kind of my thing that I care about,” Sivan told Billboard during a recent interview concerning the release of his new album, which arrived Friday.

Regarding the set’s title track, “She’s the Best” — an advance single featuring Nicole Kidman in its music video — Sivan said, “It’s such an important song to me. It’s just something I hadn’t explored before in music. It’s something I’ve felt for my whole life and never really had a way to express it.”

“The album is such a journey,” he stated. “There’s sort of whiplash between these songs that I feel like I’m performing on stage — they’re super big, and bombastic — and then all of a sudden I’m like depressed and lonely in my hotel room, writing songs about this man I have not met yet, these manifestation love songs, there’s almost like this pathetic element to the album as well. I think I spent so much time in both of those places and neither felt like they were really totally fulfilling me.”

He added, “When I arrived at ‘She’s the Best,’ I think that’s also why I made it the album title — I realized that was the one thing that is constant in my life, and that has always been constant, and the stability of it and the support I’ve had from the women and feminine people in my life has been the thing that’s got me through all areas.”

Trailing She’s the Best on the poll were Cardi B’s “Don’t Chart” with 9% of the vote and Slayyyter’s “I Think He’s Got a Girl” with 7%.

Final results for this week’s poll appear below.