When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
"Billie Eilish’s Eerie Dreamscape"
"Billie Eilish’s Eerie Dreamscape"
Released March 29, 2019, via Interscope and Darkroom, Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, a 14 track, 41 minute dark pop plunge, hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 313,000 first week units. Co-produced with Finneas O’Connell, it’s 6x Platinum by 2025 with 6.2 billion streams.
Finneas O’Connell shapes When We All Fall Asleep in their Highland Park bedroom, weaving lo-fi pop, trap bass, and eerie synths. Bad guy thumps with a dental drill snap, bury a friend glitches with creaks, xanny hums through a fan blown tube, influencing Clairo and Phoebe Bridgers.
Billie’s inky eyed stare, shot by Craig McDean, cloaks the album in dread and surreal youth. Bury a friend hisses “Why don’t you run from me?”, bad guy struts “I’m the bad guy,” all the good girls go to hell grins “My Lucifer is lonely.” It’s Gen Z’s dark green angst.
When We All Fall Asleep thrives on Billie and Finneas’s alchemy, with a nod to Donald Glover’s sampled laugh in bad guy. Billie’s whispers haunt ilomilo, a game inspired lullaby, and my strange addiction samples The Office, keeping it dark green and intimate.
Bad guy and when the party’s over, catchy yet eerie, these dark green hooks pull you into Billie’s world effortlessly.
Bury a friend and xanny, glitchy depths and smoky haze reveal Billie’s dark green soul, raw and unfiltered.
Ilomilo and listen before i go, soft, spectral layers glow dark green, subtle treasures for patient ears.
Bad guy (Live 2025), a March 2025 Coachella set recharges this dark green banger live, gripping fans in 2025.
Ocean Eyes (2016) whispered Billie’s arrival, followed by dont smile at me (2017) with Bellyache. When We All Fall Asleep (2019) crystallized her dark green mystique, paving the way for Happier Than Ever (2021) and Hit Me Hard and Soft (2024).
Pitchfork’s 8.0/10 lauded When We All Fall Asleep as eerie, Metacritic’s 82 affirmed its glow. With 6.2 billion streams by March 2025, a bad guy Coachella surge cements its dark green spark, shaping Clairo and Phoebe Bridgers.
When We All Fall Asleep swept five 2020 Grammys, its 6x Platinum and 6.2 billion streams by 2025 sealing Billie’s dark green reign.
| Category | Year | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Album of the Year | 2020 | Won |
| Best Pop Vocal Album | 2020 | Won |
| Song of the Year (bad guy) | 2020 | Won |
| Record of the Year (bad guy) | 2020 | Won |
| Best New Artist | 2020 | Won |
| Album | Highest Charting Song | Peak Position | Streams (as of 2025) | Certification | Units Sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dont smile at me (2017) | Ocean Eyes | 84 | 2.8B | 2x Platinum | 2.1M |
| When We All Fall Asleep (2019) | bad guy | 1 | 6.2B | 6x Platinum | 6.3M |
| Album | Certification | Units (Millions) |
|---|---|---|
| dont smile at me (2017) | 2x Platinum | 2.1 |
| When We All Fall Asleep (2019) | 6x Platinum | 6.3 |
Data sourced from Billboard, RIAA, Spotify, Pitchfork, and Metacritic, verified as of March 2025.