# Billie Eilish Source: https://www.popfiltr.com/artist-profile/billie-eilish Published: 2026-08-24T23:06:44.243Z Language: en > Los Angeles-raised singer who leapt from a SoundCloud upload at thirteen to a Grammy sweep, two Oscars, and a 2020s catalog that keeps bending pop's emotional register. --- Artist profile ## Billie Eilish Los Angeles-raised singer who leapt from a SoundCloud upload at thirteen to a Grammy sweep, two Oscars, and a 2020s catalog that keeps bending pop's emotional register. ## Quick facts - **Origin:** United States - **Genres:** indie pop, pop, alternative, alternative pop - **Award-winning work:** When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, bad guy, No Time To Die - **Awards:** 10 GRAMMY wins · 34 GRAMMY nominations - **Audience:** 84.2M Spotify monthly listeners, as of April 30, 2026 ![Billie Eilish official artist profile image](https://www.popfiltr.com/artist-profile-assets/v1/5596/a442461ddc5551c9cdf2544fd2335f37ad07a30f4635f3582334e33e8aa6f5f4.jpg) *[Artist image via Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/6qqNVTkY8uBg9cP3Jd7DAH)* - **Spotify monthly listeners:** 84.2M (No. 11 by Spotify monthly listeners) - **TikTok tracked video views:** 108.7B (No. 12 by TikTok top-video views) - **YouTube total views:** 22.4B - **Pandora lifetime streams:** 2.9B - **Total platform audience:** 393.5M - **Spotify followers:** 125.8M (No. 4 by Spotify followers) - **YouTube subscribers:** 58M (No. 16 by YouTube subscribers) - **TikTok followers:** 74.8M (No. 7 by TikTok followers) Figures as of April 30, 2026. Data ## Audience, reach and discovery Figures as of April 30, 2026. ### Platform audience - **Spotify monthly listeners:** 84.2M (No. 11 by Spotify monthly listeners) - **Spotify followers:** 125.8M (No. 4 by Spotify followers) - **YouTube subscribers:** 58M (No. 16 by YouTube subscribers) - **Instagram followers:** 125.8M (No. 22 by Instagram followers) - **TikTok followers:** 74.8M (No. 7 by TikTok followers) - **Deezer fans:** 9.1M (No. 30 for Deezer fans) - **Pandora 28-day listeners:** 2.6M ### Consumption and discovery - **YouTube total views:** 22.4B - **YouTube daily views:** 10M - **YouTube monthly views:** 265.4M - **TikTok likes:** 543.1M (No. 183 for TikTok likes) - **TikTok tracked video views:** 108.7B (No. 12 by TikTok top-video views) - **TikTok track posts:** 58.3M (No. 45 for TikTok track posts) - **Pandora lifetime streams:** 2.9B - **Shazams:** 166.9M - **Genius pageviews:** 84.6M ### Playlist footprint - **Spotify playlist reach:** 742M - **Spotify editorial playlist reach:** 220M - **Spotify playlists:** 2.1M - **Spotify editorial playlists:** 1.1K - **Apple Music playlists:** 2.3K - **Apple Music editorial playlists:** 857 - **Deezer playlists:** 990 - **Deezer editorial playlists:** 317 - **YouTube playlists:** 676 - **YouTube editorial playlists:** 80 ### Top listener markets Leading cities by Spotify monthly listeners. | Rank | City | Listeners | | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Mexico City MX | 1.1M | | 2 | London GB | 1.1M | | 3 | Jakarta ID | 999.3K | | 4 | São Paulo BR | 960.4K | | 5 | Sydney AU | 795.2K | Biography ## Billie Eilish: Bedroom Recordings, Global Dominance ### A Musical Household in Highland Park Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell was born on December 18, 2001, in Los Angeles and raised in Highland Park by actor-musician parents Maggie Baird and Patrick O'Connell, who homeschooled both children and steered them toward creativity over formal schooling. Her older brother Finneas O'Connell wrote and produced music in the family home, and the siblings' closeness became the engine of her entire catalog. Ocean Eyes, a track Finneas had written and produced, was uploaded to SoundCloud in November 2015 with Eilish, then thirteen, on vocals; its virality led to a deal with Darkroom and Interscope. The Don't Smile at Me EP (2017) and relentless touring converted online attention into a devoted audience before she had finished high school. ### When We All Fall Asleep and the 2020 Sweep When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? arrived in March 2019, recorded largely in Finneas's small bedroom studio, and its whispery menace, from bury a friend to the chart-topping bad guy, made Eilish the anti-glamour face of late-2010s pop. At the January 2020 ceremony she took Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year in the same night, becoming the youngest artist ever to sweep the four general-field Grammys in a single night, a feat achieved only once before, by Christopher Cross in 1981. Her No Time to Die theme for the James Bond franchise won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2022, and Happier Than Ever (2021) broadened her palette toward confessional rock. What Was I Made For?, written with Finneas for Barbie, brought a second Oscar in March 2024 and Song of the Year at that season's Grammys, making her, at twenty-two, the youngest artist to win two Academy Awards. ### Hit Me Hard and Soft Released May 17, 2024, with no advance singles and no guest features, Hit Me Hard and Soft opened at number two on the Billboard 200, held from the top only by Taylor Swift's Tortured Poets Department, and placed all ten of its songs in the Hot 100's top forty. Lunch, Chihiro, and Wildflower rolled out across the following year, while Birds of a Feather became the album's colossus: it peaked at number two on the Hot 100, has been certified multi-platinum by the RIAA, and stood among 2024's most-streamed songs globally. The album earned seven nominations at the February 2025 Grammys, including Album of the Year, where it went winless, and her featured turn on Charli XCX's Guess picked up a Best Pop Duo/Group Performance nomination the same night. ### Tour, Sustainability, and a Cameron Collaboration Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour launched September 29, 2024, in Quebec City and closed November 23, 2025, at San Francisco's Chase Center after 106 arena dates spanning North America, Europe, Oceania, and Asia, her largest production yet. Box-office aggregators credited the run with more than 210 million dollars across publicly reported shows - roughly 85 to 90 of its 106 dates - making it the highest-grossing tour ever by an artist born in the twenty-first century, ahead of Olivia Rodrigo's Guts World Tour, though a complete tour-wide total was never formally published. Pollstar recognized its concession-sustainability program, developed with the touring-sustainability firm Reverb, among its 2025 touring excellence awards, extending environmental commitments she has carried since the Happier Than Ever cycle. Footage captured with director James Cameron at her Manchester dates in July 2025 became Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), which Paramount Pictures opened theatrically on May 8, 2026, grossing roughly 26.7 million dollars worldwide according to Box Office Mojo. A companion live album, Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live), accompanied the film's rollout. ### WILDFLOWER, Ten Grammys, and What Persists At the February 1, 2026, Grammy Awards, WILDFLOWER won Song of the Year, Eilish's tenth career Grammy from thirty-four nominations, with a Record of the Year nomination accompanying it. The prize validated the slow-burn route the song took from album cut to radio staple and positioned the siblings' partnership as one of modern pop's most consistently awarded writer-producer pairings. Offstage, Eilish has directed her platform toward climate advocacy, voter mobilization, and animal welfare, threading causes through tour operations rather than treating them as side projects. Her catalog has likewise grown through deliberate one-offs, from the two-song Guitar Songs release of 2022 to the Barbie ballad, each treated as a complete statement rather than promotional filler. Two Oscars, ten Grammys, and a career built without a traditional star apparatus have made her a case study in how much leverage a distinctive voice and a trusted collaborator can generate. Selected moments ## Career highlights 1. 2015 **Ocean Eyes uploaded** A SoundCloud upload recorded with her brother Finneas at age thirteen became the seed of a global career. 2. 2020 **Grammy general-field sweep** Won Best New Artist, Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year across her debut album cycle. 3. 2022 **First Academy Award** No Time to Die won Best Original Song at the 94th Academy Awards. 4. 2024 **Youngest two-time Oscar winner** What Was I Made For? from Barbie delivered a second Best Original Song Oscar at twenty-two. 5. 2024 **Hit Me Hard and Soft** The no-singles rollout debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and placed all ten tracks in the Hot 100's top forty. 6. 2025 **Tour closes at 106 shows** Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour ended November 23, 2025, in San Francisco; box-office aggregators, covering roughly 85 to 90 of its publicly reported dates, ranked it as the highest-grossing tour by a 21st-century-born artist, ahead of Olivia Rodrigo's Guts World Tour. 7. 2026 **Song of the Year for WILDFLOWER** Her tenth Grammy arrived at the 68th ceremony, alongside a Record of the Year nomination for the same song. 8. 2026 **3D concert film with James Cameron** Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) opened theatrically May 8, 2026, via Paramount Pictures. Recognition ## Major Awards and Honors Recording Academy records credit Eilish with ten Grammy wins from thirty-four nominations, most recently Song of the Year for WILDFLOWER at the 68th ceremony. Her two Academy Awards for Best Original Song, for No Time to Die and What Was I Made For?, make her the youngest artist to win twice. - **GRAMMY wins:** 10 - **GRAMMY nominations:** 34 - **Academy Awards for Best Original Song:** 2 | Year | Award | Category | Work | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2020 | GRAMMY Awards | Album of the Year Winner | When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? | | 2020 | GRAMMY Awards | Record of the Year Winner | bad guy | | 2020 | GRAMMY Awards | Song of the Year Winner | bad guy | | 2020 | GRAMMY Awards | Best New Artist Winner | | | 2022 | Academy Awards | Best Original Song Winner | No Time To Die | | 2024 | GRAMMY Awards | Song of the Year Winner | What Was I Made For? | | 2024 | Academy Awards | Best Original Song Winner | What Was I Made For? | | 2025 | GRAMMY Awards | Album of the Year Nominee | HIT ME HARD AND SOFT | | 2025 | GRAMMY Awards | Song of the Year Nominee | BIRDS OF A FEATHER | | 2026 | GRAMMY Awards | Song of the Year Winner | WILDFLOWER | | 2026 | GRAMMY Awards | Record of the Year Nominee | WILDFLOWER | Sources - [GRAMMY.com - Billie Eilish awards history ↗](https://www.grammy.com/artists/billie-eilish) - [Billboard - All 10 songs from Hit Me Hard and Soft debut in Hot 100's top 40 ↗](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft-all-songs-hot-100-top-40-1235694294/) - [Billboard - Hit Me Hard and Soft debuts at No. 2 behind Tortured Poets Department ↗](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-fifth-week-one-billboard-200-billie-eilish-two-1235693273/) - [Billboard - Birds of a Feather reaches new peak of No. 2 on the Hot 100 ↗](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/billie-eilish-birds-of-a-feather-become-her-second-hot-100-number-one-hit-1235795943/) - [RIAA Gold & Platinum - Billie Eilish, Birds of a Feather (Single) ↗](https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=Billie+Eilish&ti=Birds+of+a+Feather&format=Single&type=) - [Pollstar - Eilish donates 11.5 million dollars from Hit Me Hard and Soft tour ↗](https://news.pollstar.com/2025/11/03/billie-eilish-donates-11-5-million-from-hit-me-hard-and-soft-tour/) - [Pollstar - Eilish tops LIVE75 during final days of Hit Me Hard and Soft tour ↗](https://news.pollstar.com/2025/11/25/billie-eilish-tops-live75-during-final-days-of-hit-me-hard-and-soft-tour/) - [In Music Blog - Hit Me Hard and Soft tour box-office record coverage of reported shows ↗](https://inmusicblog.com/news/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft-tour-record/) - [Deadline - Paramount sets release for James Cameron 3D concert film ↗](https://deadline.com/2025/11/billie-eilish-james-cameron-concert-movie-paramont-1236626983/) - [Deadline - Concert film shifts to May 8, 2026 release ↗](https://deadline.com/2026/01/billie-eilish-concert-film-release-date-shift-1236697088/) - [Box Office Mojo - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) grosses ↗](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt39018643/) - [Film Music Reporter - Live album announced alongside the film ↗](https://filmmusicreporter.com/2026/04/24/billie-eilish-hit-me-hard-and-soft-the-tour-live-soundtrack-album-announced/) - [Pollstar - Sustainability initiative award for the tour ↗](https://news.pollstar.com/2025/08/20/best-sustainability-initiative-billie-eilishs-hit-me-hard-and-soft-the-tour-2025-excellence-in-concessions-awards/) - [TIME - Youngest two-time Oscar winner ↗](https://time.com/6899427/billie-eilish-oscar-best-original-song-youngest/) - [ABC News - Second Oscar win for What Was I Made For? ↗](https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/billie-eilish-youngest-person-win-2-oscars/story?id=108000986)