Billie Eilish is the primary LGBTQ+ artist to hit a serious Spotify milestone. (Getty/Unsplash)
“Birds of a Feather” singer Billie Eilish has proved that she actually is The Biggest, changing into the primary queer singer to hit an enormous Spotify milestone.
On the age of simply 22, Eilish is the primary LGBTQ+ music celebrity to surpass 100 million month-to-month listeners on Spotify.
She’s additionally simply the third artist total to hit the landmark, and the youngest.
Eilish, who launched her chart-topping third studio album Hit Me Laborious and Comfortable final month, follows simply behind Taylor Swift, who has 102 million listeners.
In at primary is “Blinding Lights” singer The Weeknd, who boasts a powerful 107 million listeners each month.
Although Eilish trails simply behind the 2 artists, it’s way more spectacular for the “Chihiro” singer to have reached the streaming milestone, contemplating her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, The place Do We Go? was launched simply 5 years in the past.
She additionally has half the variety of songs on Spotify in comparison with each Swift and The Weeknd; each are additionally 12 years older than Eilish.
Eilish at present has eight songs on the streaming platform with multiple billion listens, together with her big breakthrough hit “Unhealthy Man”, and 2019’s “Every thing I Wished”.
The 2-time Oscar winner, who got here out as LGBTQ+ final 12 months, is the one queer artist to surpass 100 million listeners on Spotify.
Since popping out, the musician has launched her hit single “Lunch” which is actually about sapphic oral intercourse.
Curiously, Billie Eilish has beforehand defined that she wrote “Lunch” earlier than even experiencing intercourse with a girl, however the track helped her to grasp that she “needed her face in a vagina”.
“That track was truly a part of what helped me develop into who I’m, to be actual,” Eilish advised Rolling Stone earlier this 12 months.
“I wrote a few of it earlier than even doing something with a woman, after which wrote the remaining after. I’ve been in love with women for my entire life, however I simply didn’t perceive — till, final 12 months, I realised I needed my face in a vagina.”