Episode 1001
Billie Eilish
Wed, 2020-Jan-29 01:26 UTC
Length - 2:41
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With 434,848 views on Tuesday, 28 January 2020 our article of the day is Billie Eilish.
Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell (born December 18, 2001) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She first gained media attention in 2016 when she uploaded the song "Ocean Eyes" to SoundCloud, and it was subsequently released by Interscope Records subsidiary Darkroom. The song was written and produced by her brother Finneas, with whom she collaborates on music and live shows. Her debut EP, Don't Smile at Me (2017), reached the top 15 in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.
Eilish's debut studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019), debuted atop the Billboard 200 and became the best-performing album of 2019 in the U. S. It also reached number one in the UK. The album contains six Billboard Hot 100 top 40 singles: "When the Party's Over", "Bury a Friend", "Wish You Were Gay", "Xanny", "Everything I Wanted", and "Bad Guy", the last of which became her first number one single in the U. S.
Eilish has 13 platinum and four gold singles in the U. S. as of January 2020. Her accolades include five Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, two Guinness World Records, and three MTV Video Music Awards. She is the youngest person and first woman to win the four main Grammy categories, Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist in the same year.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:26 UTC on Wednesday, 29 January 2020.
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