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Billie Eilish

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Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell (born December 18, 2001) is an American singer and songwriter. She gained her first popularity in 2016, after releasing her debut single “Ocean Eyes” on music distribution platform SoundCloud. She caught the attention of record labels Darkroom and Interscope Records, subsequently re-releasing “Ocean Eyes”.

Her debut mini-album Don’t Smile At Me was released on August 11, 2017. The mini-album reached the top 15 in the US, UK, Canada and Australia and spawned the single “Bellyache”. Ailish also collaborated with American singer Khalid for the single “Lovely,” which was released in April 2018 and added to the soundtrack for the second season of 13 Reasons Why. Her debut studio album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? was released on March 29, 2019. The album went to number one in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. Singles from the album “When the Party’s Over”, “Bury A Friend” and “Bad Guy” reached the top 15 in the US, the latter reaching number one in Canada and Australia.

Eilish was born in Highland Park, Los Angeles to Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell. Her parents work in the entertainment industry. Ailish has Irish and Scottish roots. She was home-schooled and joined the Los Angeles Children’s Choir at the age of 8. At the age of 11, Ailish began writing songs, following in the footsteps of her older brother Finneas (born 1997), who at the time had his own band.

For a long time she took up dancing, but in January 2016 she suffered an injury that permanently interrupted her dancing career.

In October 2015, Ailish recorded the song “Ocean Eyes”, originally written by her brother for his band. Her choreography teacher helped her make the dance for this song.

Her debut single “Ocean Eyes” has racked up over 35 million listens on Spotify as of February 2018 and 110 million views on YouTube as of May 2019.

Her debut mini-album, Don’t Smile at Me, was released in August 2017.
In September 2017, Apple named Ailish an “UpNext artist” from Apple Music.
As of March 2019, Billy is the only artist to hold more than one spot in the top 10 of Apple Music’s global album chart.

Ailish’s debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? broke pre-order records on Apple Music’s music platform, officially premiering on March 29th