10 Facts You Didn’t Know about Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish seems to have taken the music world by storm. She first made big waves with her viral Soundcloud recording in 2016 (later released as her first proper single) and then got propelled further into the stratosphere of pop-music fame with her 2019 debut album. With so much attention dedicated to her as an artist, there are still facts many fans don’t know about her. Here are the 10 things you probably don’t know about Billie Eilish.

Billie Eilish has a famous brother

Billie’s brother, Finneas O’Connell, is a musician of his own right. He also starred in the hit TV show Glee! Many of the songs Billie has recorded were a joint effort between herself and her brother. The phenomenon of Billie Eilish is actually a family project. The siblings work on most music together, it’s just that Billie Eilish is the performer.

She and her brothers are huge Beatles fans

Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas are both huge fans of The Beatles. During both interviews Billie had with Narduar, the Canadian interview mastermind gifted her and her brother Beatles records and Beatles memorabilia (including the original Yellow Submarine toy!). The Beatles were a huge inspiration to both of them, and the siblings studied them and their pop song-writing fundamentals deeply.

She viral on Soundcloud

Billie Eilishe’s big break came in 2016 when she uploaded her first song to Soundcloud. Many people know about this, but few know the interesting backstory to this upload.

First of all — the song originally belongs to her brother. She recorded her own version of this song so that her dance teacher could come up with some choreography for it that they could study during their dance classes. Long story short – the song went viral, Billie got signed to Darkroom and Interscope, and in November of that year she released the song as her first official single.

First album 3 years later

Although there have been many hit singles and mixtapes, Billie Eilish’s first album was released earlier this year. In 2019 she released “WHEN WE GO TO SLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO” and became the youngest female artist to top the US Billboard 100 since 2009 and the first artist born after 2000 to get a #1 album. The album’s lead single, Bad Guy, became a hit and also an amazing online meme!