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Did Billie Eilish get discovered on SoundCloud? ›

Throughout her career, Billie has remained vocal about SoundCloud's impact on her trajectory as an artist. SoundCloud is where she first found her voice, experimented with her sound and garnered her earliest fans. After experiencing viral success with “Ocean Eyes,” Billie continued building momentum on the platform.

Billie Eilish (real name Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell) was born in Los Angeles on Dec. 18, 2001, and stands at a height of 5'4".

I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am. In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you're a girl with an opinion, people just hate you.

Best Ways to Contact Billie Eilish

Contact Billie Eilish's team at interscope Records at 1 (310) 865-1000. Or, email her talent agents at Wasserman at info@teamwass.com. Send fan mail and autograph requests to: Billie Eilish, Interscope Records, 2220 Colorado Avenue 5th Floor, Santa Monica, CA 90404-3506, USA.

In 2015 Eilish's elder brother, Finneas Baird O'Connell, who performs under the moniker FINNEAS, enlisted her to sing “Ocean Eyes,” a song he had written and produced for his band at the time and later put online. The song quickly gained success, and Eilish signed with the boutique label Darkroom in the summer of 2016.

Eilish's fans now call themselves "Eyelashes"

Beyoncé's fandom is called BeyHive, while Taylor Swift's fan following addresses itself as Swifties, which makes it understandable that Billie Eilish's fans long for a name to belong to her fandom.

Eilish first conquered the Alternative Streaming Songs tally in 2020, with “My Future.” She's also ruled with all of the following not-yet-mentioned No. 1s: “Happier Than Ever,” “Therefore I Am,” “Your Power,” “Lost Cause,” and “NDA.” “Lunch” marks Eilish's fourth No. 1 on two other tallies.

May 2023: Billie Eilish and Jesse Rutherford break up

"All cheating rumors are false. Both are currently single."

"I don't, not believe and I don't do believe. I'm in a very neutral position. I'm open to every belief pretty much," she said, adding that she loves "he idea that there's a God." "So why not?

After she first displayed that in her debut single, 2015's "ocean eyes," Eilish won two GRAMMYs and an Oscar for her delicate Barbie soundtrack standout, "What Was I Made For?" — and the magic of her melancholic balladry returned on the new album.

Has Billie Eilish donated? ›

Eilish, and her mother, Maggie Baird, donated surplus vegan meals left over from the crew's meals. Baird founded Support + Feed in 2020, described as “a nonprofit which aims to combat food insecurity and climate change by advocating for a global shift to an equitable, plant-based food system.”

Early Life and Family. Billie Eilish was born on December 18, 2001, in Los Angeles. Her full name is Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell.

According to RIAA, Billie has made $41.5 million in digital singles—even more than your college boyfriend's favorite artist, The Chainsmokers. Not to mention, she's made songs for massive movies like No Time To Die and Barbie, which probably earned her a couple of coins, too.

Billie Eilish has gone back to her roots with SoundCloud for the release of new album Hit Me Hard And Soft. With the arrival of Eilish's hugely-anticipated third LP (May 17), the global superstar has reconnected with the streaming platform for a special takeover.

2015: Soundcloud rappers rapidly ascend the rank Rappers like Uzi, 21 Savage, Denzel, Yachty, Kodak were halfway into the mainstream and if you were following rap you prob knew these names by know. Other rappers like XXX, Carti, Peep significantly grow their audience and are staples of the underground.

Artists such as Lil Pump, XXXTentacion, Juice Wrld, Nav, Lil Uzi Vert, Playboi Carti, Trippie Redd, Ski Mask the Slump God, Suicideboys and Lil Peep originated from SoundCloud and have since risen to the Billboard top charts.

Billie Eilish's success is very much predicated on how streaming has influenced music tastes. It's the reason she's able to notch over a billon streams before even releasing her first album. From her first single to her 2017 EP Don't Smile at Me, Eilish continues to defy convention and genre.