Billie Eilish’s ‘Birds of a Feather’ Flocks to No. 1 on Pop Airplay Chart
Written by djfrosty on September 20, 2024
Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” takes flight to No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart dated Sept. 28.
The track, released on Darkroom/Interscope/ICLG, gained by 8% in plays Sept. 13-19. (The Pop Airplay chart ranks songs by weekly plays on over 150 mainstream top 40 radio stations monitored by Mediabase, with data provided to Billboard by Luminate.)
The singer-songwriter earns her third Pop Airplay No. 1. “Therefore I Am” led for two weeks in April 2021 and “Bad Guy” reigned for two weeks in August 2019.
“Birds of a Feather” is Eilish’s second Pop Airplay top 10 from her latest album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, after “Lunch” reached No. 10 in August. The set, released May 17, has earned 1.5 million equivalent album units in the United States through Sept. 12.
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“I’ve always been such an album lover,” Eilish said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Sept. 3. “I really love when something feels like one piece and is cohesive and thought-through.”
“Birds of a Feather” has additionally ascended to No. 5 on the all-genre, multimetric Billboard Hot 100. It has drawn 396 million official on-demand U.S. streams and 395 million in radio audience and sold 58,000 downloads.
The track also crowned the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts for three weeks each in August. Plus, it wrapped at No. 9 on the 2024 Songs of the Summer survey, marking Eilish’s second top 10 seasonal finish, after “Bad Guy” placed at No. 2 for 2019.
Eilish kicks off her Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour Sept. 29 in Quebec City.
All charts dated Sept. 28 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Sept. 24.