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Timeline : Billie Eilish

December 18, 2001

Billie Eilish is born in Los Angeles. Working with her brother, Finneas, she composes her Grammy-gobbling debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, which is released in 2019 when she's 17.

March 29, 2019

Seventeen-year-old Billie Eilish releases her debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, which debuts at #1 in America.

April 13, 2019

Billie Eilish hits #1 in America with her debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, making the 17-year-old singer the first artist born in the '00s to top the chart.

August 24, 2019

Billie Eilish ends a 19-week run at #1 for "Old Town Road" when "Bad Guy" claims the top spot on the Hot 100. The song is about how certain people (herself included) like to think of themselves as subversive rule breakers.

January 26, 2020

Billie Eilish, 18, wins big at the Grammys as the death of Kobe Bryant and an internal scandal cast a cloud on the ceremony.More

March 29, 2020

With most of the world homebound as the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, Elton John hosts the "Living Room Concert For America" from his home, featuring virtual performances by Mariah Carey, H.E.R., Backstreet Boys, and Tim McGraw. The concert raises money to help local food banks and support first responders during the crisis.More

October 24, 2020

Billie Eilish pulls off Where Do We Go? The Livestream, the first large-scale virtual concert with extended reality (XR) effects, which immerse and interact with the performers (Eilish, her brother Finneas, and drummer Andrew Marshall), and shift scenes from song to song. Tickets cost $30.

July 30, 2021

Billie Eilish releases her second album, Happier Than Ever, again produced by her brother, Finneas. Much of it finds her taking stock of her sudden rise to fame. Explaining the title, she says, "When you're happier than ever, that doesn't mean you're the happiest that anyone's ever been. It means you're happier than you were before."

September 3, 2021

The Billie Eilish film Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles debuts on Disney+. It's comprised of footage of Eilish performing her album Happier Than Ever from start to finish at the Hollywood Bowl backed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, mixed with animated sequences where her avatar goes on various adventures in LA, her hometown.

February 4, 2024

Taylor Swift wins the Album Of The Year Grammy for Midnights, making her the first artist to win that award four times. Miley Cyrus gets Record Of The Year for "Flowers" and Billie Eilish takes Song Of The Year for "What Was I Made For?" from the movie Barbie.

May 8, 2026

Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft, a 3-D concert film directed by Eilish and James Cameron, opens in theaters. Shot at four of her Manchester concerts, it includes behind-the-scenes footage where we see Eilish stored away in a box to make her entrance, and footage of the "puppy room" where she and her crew can relax with some rescue dogs.

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