When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? cover art

  Studio Album · No. 1

When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Songwriting Credits by Billie Eilish

2019 Darkroom / Interscope Records 14 tracks 43 min

Produced by Finneas O'Connell  ·  Engineered by Rob Kinelski, John Greenham

Darkroom / Interscope Records ElectropopAvant-PopArt Pop
86%
Authorship
Artist

Holds writing credit on 12 of 14 tracks

Authorship Breakdown 12 / 14 documented

Who wrote the songs?

Scored across the 14 tracks with documented writers, by whether Billie Eilish carries a lyricist or composer credit.

86%
12 trackswritten by Billie Eilish 2 tracksoutside writers
Billie Eilish's roles on this album

Share of the 14 tracks where a band member is credited, by role.

Lyricist86%
Composer86%
Producer0%
Performer100%

By the Numbers

14
Tracks
2
Lyricists
1
Producers
1
No.1 Single
17.8 million
Worldwide Copies Sold
2019
Released

Awards & Recognition 3

Grammy Award for Album of the Year (2020)
Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album (2020)
Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical (2020)
Data Insight

Billie Eilish's debut was written and recorded with her brother Finneas O'Connell in his childhood bedroom, and the two are credited together on nearly every track. Finneas solely wrote When the Party's Over and My Strange Addiction, while Billie co-wrote the rest, making this an almost entirely in-house record with no outside writers.

When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? is the debut studio album by Billie Eilish, released in March 2019 on Darkroom/Interscope Records and produced entirely by her brother Finneas O'Connell. It was the fastest-accumulating debut album in terms of streaming records at the time of its release, sweeping all four major Grammy categories (Album, Record, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist) in 2020, making Eilish the youngest artist and first woman to win all four in the same year. Eilish co-wrote all material with Finneas, a songwriting partnership formed in their childhood bedroom in Los Angeles that produced the album's entirely self-sufficient creative process (no outside producers, no additional co-writers) and a sonic aesthetic built on ASMR vocals, trap-adjacent production, and deliberate intimacy that stood against the maximalist pop of the dominant 2019 landscape. 'Bad Guy,' the album's lead single, reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 after spending 11 weeks below 'Old Town Road' at number two, becoming the first number-one by a solo female artist in the Hot 100's all-genre streaming era, alongside 'When the Party's Over,' 'Bury a Friend,' and 'Wish You Were Gay' as the principal tracks. The album was recorded entirely in the O'Connell family home, with Finneas producing on Logic Pro in his bedroom; the production process being as central to the album's identity as its content, with the intentional roughness and spatial intimacy of bedroom recording inseparable from the emotional register of the songs. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? has been certified nine-times platinum in the United States and remains the most commercially and critically successful debut in pop music's streaming era.

Track Listing & Credits 14 tracks

Written by the artist Written by outside writers
#TitleLyricist(s)Composer(s)Producer(s)Performers
1
!!!!!!!
Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Finneas O'Connell Billie Eilish (Lead Vocals)
2
bad guy #1
Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Finneas O'Connell Billie Eilish (Lead Vocals)
3
xanny
Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Finneas O'Connell Billie Eilish (Lead Vocals)
4
you should see me in a crown #41
Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Finneas O'Connell Billie Eilish (Lead Vocals)
5
all the good girls go to hell #46
Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Finneas O'Connell Billie Eilish (Lead Vocals)
6
wish you were gay #31
Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Finneas O'Connell Billie Eilish (Lead Vocals)
7
when the party's over #29
Finneas O'Connell Finneas O'Connell Finneas O'Connell Billie Eilish (Lead Vocals)
8
8
Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Finneas O'Connell Billie Eilish (Lead Vocals)
9
my strange addiction
Finneas O'Connell Finneas O'Connell Finneas O'Connell Billie Eilish (Lead Vocals)
10
bury a friend #14
Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Finneas O'Connell Billie Eilish (Lead Vocals)
11
ilomilo
Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Finneas O'Connell Billie Eilish (Lead Vocals)
12
listen before i go
Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Finneas O'Connell Billie Eilish (Lead Vocals)
13
i love you
Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Finneas O'Connell Billie Eilish (Lead Vocals)
14
goodbye
Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Billie EilishFinneas O'Connell Finneas O'Connell Billie Eilish (Lead Vocals)

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Frequently Asked Questions When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

Who wrote When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Billie Eilish co-wrote it with her brother Finneas O'Connell, who also produced it. Finneas solely wrote When the Party's Over and My Strange Addiction, and the two share credit on the rest.
Where was When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go recorded?
Finneas O'Connell recorded and produced the album in his bedroom at the family home in Highland Park, Los Angeles.
How high did Bad Guy chart?
Bad Guy reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Eilish's first chart-topper and the album's signature hit.
What Grammys did When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go win?
At the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards it won Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best Engineered Album, while Bad Guy won Record and Song of the Year, sweeping the four General Field categories.
Was this Billie Eilish's first album?
Yes. It is her debut studio album, released in 2019 when she was seventeen.
What were the other singles besides Bad Guy?
Singles included Bury a Friend, When the Party's Over, Wish You Were Gay, You Should See Me in a Crown, and All the Good Girls Go to Hell.

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