Billie Eilish-When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go (2019)

Billie Eilish-When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go (2019)

When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Eilish sits on the edge of a white bed, in front of a dark background. She wears white clothing, with white eyes while smiling demonically at the camera.
Studio album by Billie Eilish
Released March 29, 2019
Recorded January – April, August – December 2018
Studio Finneas' home studio (Highland Park, Los Angeles)
Genre

Pop electropop avant-pop art pop

Length 42:56
Label

Darkroom Interscope

Producer Finneas O'Connell
Billie Eilish chronology
Don't Smile at Me
(2017) When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
(2019) Live at Third Man Records
(2019)
Singles from When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

"You Should See Me in a Crown"
Released: July 18, 2018
"When the Party's Over"
Released: October 17, 2018
"Bury a Friend"
Released: January 30, 2019
"Wish You Were Gay"
Released: March 4, 2019
"Bad Guy"
Released: March 29, 2019
"All the Good Girls Go to Hell"
Released: September 6, 2019
"Ilomilo"
Released: April 10, 2020

When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (stylized in all caps) is the debut studio album by American singer and songwriter Billie Eilish. It was released on March 29, 2019, by Darkroom and Interscope Records in the US and Polydor Records in the UK. Eilish largely co-wrote the album with her brother Finneas O'Connell, who produced its music at his small bedroom studio in Highland Park, Los Angeles.

Musically, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? is a pop, electropop, avant-pop, and art pop record, though it also features influences from hip hop and industrial music. Its songs explore themes such as modern youth, drug addiction, heartbreak, suicide, and mental health, with lyrical sensibilities of humor and horror. Eilish said the album was inspired in part by lucid dreaming and night terrors, which are reflected on the cover photo.

The album was marketed with the release of seven singles, four of which were multi-platinum-certified in the US – "You Should See Me in a Crown", "When the Party's Over", "Bury a Friend" (whose lyric is the source of the album's title), and the worldwide hit "Bad Guy". Eilish also embarked on several tours in support of the album, including the When We All Fall Asleep Tour and the Where Do We Go? World Tour. An immediate commercial success, the album topped record charts in many countries during its first week of release. By June 2019, it had sold more than 1.3 million copies in the US and become the year's best-selling album in Canada, while in the UK it had made Eilish the youngest female solo act to chart at number one.

When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? was also a widespread critical success and one of the year's most acclaimed records, with many reviewers praising its subject matter, songwriting, cohesiveness, and Eilish's vocal styling. At the 2020 Grammy Awards, it won Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, while "Bad Guy" won Record of the Year and Song of the Year; Finneas also won the award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical. In 2020, the album was ranked at 397 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.[1]