Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” has flown to the highest of Spotify’s checklist of greatest songs of 2024 with 1.775b streams.
The streaming service says that the breezy pop smash is its most streamed tune of the previous 12 months. It’s from Eilish’s third album, Hit Me Laborious and Mushy, and was written by the 23-year-old and her different brother and collaborator, Finneas.
“Birds of a Feather” has peaked at No. 2 on Billboard’s Sizzling 100 chart and is spending its twenty first week on prime of the Sizzling Rock & Different Songs chart. It’s nominated for 3 honors on the Feb. 2 Grammy Awards, together with tune of the 12 months, report of the 12 months and finest pop solo efficiency.
“There’s numerous songs about dying for someone and loving them till they die, and I believed it was actually enjoyable to lean in,” Finneas mentioned in a video on Eilish’s YouTube channel in regards to the making of the observe.
Hit Me Laborious and Mushy is nominated for album of the 12 months and finest pop vocal album on the Grammys, whereas lead single “Lunch” is up for finest music video and “L’Amour de Ma Vie [Over Now Extended Version]” is nominated for finest pop dance recording. From 32 nominations, Eilish has gained 9 Grammys together with two for each tune of the 12 months and report of the 12 months.
Finneas, 27, has gained 10 Grammys out of 17 nominations. He’s the youngest particular person to ever be named producer of the 12 months at 22 years previous. He not too long ago composed music for the Apple TV+ collection Disclaimer and mentioned working with Attacca Quartet on the music impressed him whereas making Eilish’s newest album.
“The true twin flame of that is that I used to be doing the TV present for the entire 12 months that I used to be making Billie’s album, and so I had this at the back of my thoughts, at all times engaged on the strings. I’d work on Disclaimer proper earlier than Billie would come over day by day, then she’d depart, and I’d work on it once more. And so I actually credit score Disclaimer for being the explanation that there’s a string overture in that album,” Finneas advised The Hollywood Reporter.
“It’s one thing we’ve got at all times cherished. The albums that we referenced whereas we had been making this album had been Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Street — they’ve these motifs that return, and so it was one thing we’d wished to do. However I credit score the present for giving me the discovered expertise of how you can do it.”