Six of its 16 singles cracked the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, the highest-charting being “Therefore I Am,” which reached No. The second album, released in July, was Happier Than Ever. 1 song and the youngest female artist to do so since Lorde with “Royals.” Just a year after its release, the album was ranked among Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
The album’s fifth single, “Bad Guy,” became her first song to top the Hot 100, dethroning Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” after it spent a record-breaking 19 weeks in the top spot, and making Eilish the first artist born in this millennium to have a No. At one point, 12 of its 14 songs were simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, along with two others by Eilish, for a total of 14, besting (by one) Cardi B’s record for most songs from a female artist’s debut album on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The first was 2019’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?. Then came the 2017 EP Don’t Smile at Me and subsequently two albums, both of which debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart. The article continues below.Įilish and O’Connell’s unlikely rise to mega-stardom started with “Ocean Eyes,” a song they uploaded to SoundCloud in 2015, which went viral and led to a deal with Interscope. You can listen to the convo via this audio player. 'West Side Story,' 'Belfast' Lead 2022 Critics Choice Film Nominations Now, for the first time, they are in Oscar contention, having co-written a hit Bond song, “ No Time to Die,” which Eilish also performs in No Time to Die. This week’s guests on The Hollywood Reporter’s awards podcast, siblings Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, have only been on the scene for the last six years and are just 19 and 24, respectively, but they are already, in the words of NPR, “ two of the most influential artists on earth right now.” Their songs - most of which were recorded in O’Connell’s childhood bedroom, were co-written by the two, feature vocals by Eilish and were produced by O’Connell - have been streamed literally billions of times and broken pop chart and Grammys records.
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