Billie Eilish's Official Top 20 biggest songs in the UK

Billie Eilish has proved to be one of the most popular and influential pop artists of the modern era, mostly by being aggressively herself. 

Emerging with bedroom pop inspired by the likes of Lana Del Rey, Billie's meteoric rise to fame was secured with the release of her darkly inventive debut album Where We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

Peaking at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart the LP contained a raft of hit singles, including the Bury A Friend and Bad Guy, the single which re-defined Billie's career and turned her into a superstar.

Her aesthetic and sonic sound moved into a more demure place with the release of her highly-anticipated second album Happier Than Ever, which became her second UK Number 1 album. In between we've had Bond themes, Barbie anthems and now, Billie has announced the release of her third studio album Hit Me Hard and Slow, due to drop May 17, without any single drops beforehand, fans will be able to listen to the entire album in full for the first time.

To celebrate, we thought it was high time to reveal Billie's Official Top 20 biggest singles ever in the UK. But before that, let's take a closer look at the Top 10...

10. What Was I Made For?

Released: 2023
Official Singles Chart peak: Number 1
Total UK chart units: 796,00

I used to float, now I just fall down...there couldn't be a better beginning to Billie's homage existential dread by way of Barbie. A scintillating and at times morose listen, What Was I Made For? cut straight to the quick as the most emotive and emotional part of Greta Gerwig's billion-dollar blockbuster. Billie's second UK Number 1 single, What Was I Made For? also triumphed at this year's Oscars, winning Billie and her brother Finneas their second Oscar for Best Original Song.

9. Bellyache

Released: 2017
Official Singles Chart peak: Number 79
Total UK chart units: 839,000

Easily the most obviously up-tempo and pop-influenced track Billie has released, there's a rollicking folk-pop-inspired beat to Bellyache that carries a distinctly Latin influence. A highlight from EP Don't Smile At Me, despite only peaking at Number 79 in the UK, Bellyache has amassed over 108 million streams to date.

8. No Time To Die

Released: 2020
Official Singles Chart peak: Number 1
Total UK chart units: 984,00

Billie became the youngest artist to sing the coveted James Bond theme song, taken from the upcoming film No Time To Die. Initially released last year before the film's cancellation due to the pandemic, the sweeping orchestral sounds of No Time To Die earned Billie her first UK Number 1 single and her first (but not last!) Oscar for Best Original Song, the third Bond theme in a row to achieve the honour, following Adele for Skyfall and Sam Smith for Writing's On The Wall.

7. Bury A Friend

Released: 2019
Official Singles Chart peak: Number 6
Total UK chart units: 1.1 million

In many ways Billie's first big break on the UK charts, the sinister Bury A Friend unfolds like a nightmare; with lyrics about stapling tongues and burying the hatchet set to the percussive beats of glass being broken. A dark delight, it became her first-ever Top 10 single on the Official Singles Chart, peaking at Number 6 and has received 137 million streams.

6. Happier Than Ever

Released: 2021
Official Singles Chart peak: Number 4
Total UK chart units: 1.3 million

The metamorphosis in Happier Than Ever turning from a languid lament into a rock-tingled howl of primordial anger is truly stunning, and a testament to Billie's ever-evolving sense of self.

5. Everything I Wanted

Released: 2019
Official Singles Chart peak: Number 3
Total UK chart units: 1.5 million

A surprise release following the success of her debut, Everything I Wanted finds Billie in a decidedly contemplative mood about her career and her bond with brother Finneas, who co-writes and produces all her songs. Set to a downtempo electronica beat, Everything I Wanted reached a peak of Number 3 in the UK at the time - her third Top 10 entry.

4. When The Party's Over

Released: 2018
Official Singles Chart Peak: Number 21
Total UK chart units: 1.6 million

Billie, there's something in your eye. Carried by its eye-catching (sorry) music video, When The Party's Over is a bare-bones piano ballad, stripped of all the hip-hop beats and sinister sonic flourishes that would go on to define Billie's first album, it's achieved 197 million streams in the UK alone.

3. Ocean Eyes

Released: 2015
Official Singles Chart peak: Number 72
Total UK chart units: 1.7 million

A lo-fi and understated debut single for a future pop superstar, reminiscent in many ways to the strategy Lana Del Rey deployed to such great effect with Video Games, Ocean Eyes remains a glittering and intriguing entry into Billie's world. The lowest-charting song in the Top 3, only reaching Number 72 on the Official Singles Chart, its streams (193 million) and total UK chart units (1.7 million) speak for themselves; this is a timeless classic.

2. Lovely (with Khalid)

Released: 2018
Official Singles Chart peak: Number 47
Total UK chart units: 1.9 million

A collaboration with the equally ascendant Khalid, Lovely formed the lead single for the soundtrack of Netflix's 13 Reasons Why's second season, this was one of the first big hints that Billie was about to transform into an all-time artist. Not only Billie's second-biggest song ever in the UK, it's also her second most-streamed (246 million streams).

1. Bad Guy

Released: 2019
Official Singles Chart peak: Number 2
Total UK chart units: 2.9 million

DUH! The biggest hit from Billie's first album Where We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, Bad Guy already seems like a defining career moment for a pop star not yet into her mid-twenties. Confident, cool and laced with a heavy dose of sarcasm, nothing about Bad Guy should be taken seriously...unless you count its chart data, of course. 

By far Billie's biggest hit in the UK, Bad Guy has chart sales totalling nearly 3 million and is also her most-streamed song here, racking up a mammoth 349 million streams to date.