NME has named Billie Eilish’s debut record When We Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? their album of 2019. She is their first artist born after the year 2000 to receive the honor.
The seventeen-year-old singer-songwriter has had quite a year. Her critically-acclaimed debut album took home multiple awards and then she toured the world and became 2019’s favorite rising star. She is now the year’s most-talked-about musician and as the new decade comes rolling in, she is pretty much set for a bright future of number-one singles and sell-out tours.
Speaking about Eilish rocketing to worldwide fame, NME said: “though she’d been considered a tantalizing prospect since her viral-hit ‘Ocean Eyes’ in 2016, this was the year in which she went supernova. For example: in March 2019, she was booked to play three shows at London’s tiny Shepherd’s Bush Empire, but by Glastonbury and Reading and Leeds Festival just months later, she’d become so popular that she could have plausibly headlined both with ease.”
Billie Eilish recorded her debut with her brother Finneas in her bedroom. In August, she landed a Billboard number one and has been paving the way for an innovative new era of whispery-horror-trap-pop music. She defies genre and we’re excited to see what she will be bringing to the table in 2020.
NME, good call for your album of the year. Read the full scoop here.
