17-Year-Old with a Top-Selling Album

What if I ask you about the top listened songs or albums in the last months? Every single music platform where you search for this answer will have something in common: Billie Eilish. However, this is not the point, but how this 17-year-old girl has become so popular, has got a best-selling album, has performed in the biggest music festivals or has even sold out all the tickets for her world tour in less than 24 hours! Let’s start from the beginning, where does this girl come from?

Well, 2 years ago, when she was only 15 years old, her dance teacher proposed her to take some original music to class. She and her brother Finneas O’Connell composed “Ocean Eyes”, which they uploaded on Soundcloud reaching millions of visits in a few days.

Since that moment she continued producing music, specially composing new singles which would eventually end up in her first album “Don’t Smile at Me” and in the soundtracks of some very famous series. In such little time, Billie signed very important agreements with very important record companies.

We could think this would only last for a short time, but it hasn’t been like that. One year later, after advertising some new songs like “You Should See me in a Crown” “when the Party’s Over” or “Bury a Friend”, she released her second album: “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”. As we could expect, it has been one of the best-selling world albums this year.

The question is: Why her? What does her music have that others don’t?  I think we could answer this question with several points.

For starting with, nowadays, most of the singers are given their songs and they only have to put their voice and their image; however, this entire album has been written and produced by Billie and his brother on their room, and this gives the album, especially the lyrics, something personal and different.

The second point also has to do with that. As we can see, and as she has said on some interviews, all her songs talk about her feelings, mental problems and anxiety… In summary, teen problems.  And knowing that teens are one of the groups of people which listen to new music more frequently, the success is obvious.

The last point is about the production of the album. Billie and her brother included new sounds no one had ever heard in a song, like the sound of a dentist drill, a fan or even themselves lighting a match. The entire album has a new kind of music, which has attracted people.

With this, I want to say that you don’t have to own the best equipment, the best voice or the best image, just be yourself and try new things, and maybe one day you will succeed. To finish with this, I totally recommend you to listen to the entire new album, because it’s amazing.