Billie Eilish ‘honoured and humbled’ by becoming Apple Music Artist Of The Year

Singer Billie Eilish has said she is “honoured and humbled” aft being named arsenic Apple Music Artist Of The Year for 2024.

The 22-year-old received the gong for her “extraordinary impact” this year, which has seen her merchandise 3rd medium Hit Me Hard And Soft and person galore awards for the 2023 opus What Was I Made For? from Greta Gerwig’s Barbie film.

The way helped her go the youngest idiosyncratic to triumph 2 Oscars, having antecedently taken location an Academy Award for James Bond taxable No Time To Die successful 2022, and prime up 2 Grammy awards successful 2024.

Eilish was besides nominated for 7 much Grammys this year, and paired up with Charli XCX for a fig 1 remix of Brat deluxe variation chopped Guess, which featured connected the remix medium Brat And It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat.

The song’s video, which shows Eilish smashing a bulldozer into a enactment and 10,000 bras and pairs of knickers falling from the sky, went viral and saw the brace donate the underwear to home unit foundation I Support The Girls.

In August, the vocalist appeared successful the closing ceremonial of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games performing Birds Of A Feather arsenic portion of the handover for the 2028 lawsuit successful her location metropolis of Los Angeles, via a broadcast from Long Beach, California.

In receiving the award, the Happier Than Ever vocalist has go the archetypal creator to triumph it twice, having antecedently received the accolade successful 2019 aft releasing debut LP When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?.

Speaking astir the award, Eilish said: “Since time one, Apple Music has supported my euphony and artistry, and I americium some honoured and humbled to person this designation arsenic Artist Of The Year this galore years into my career.”

Upon its release, her latest album, which features Birds Of A Feather and Lunch, soared to fig 1 connected Apple Music’s all-genre albums illustration successful 138 countries worldwide.

Rachel Newman, Apple Music’s elder manager of contented and editorial said: “From the infinitesimal we archetypal heard Ocean Eyes astir a decennary ago, we’ve been fans and champions of Billie’s work.

“It’s ever peculiar erstwhile a young creator tin link with truthful galore radical truthful quickly.

“But what’s been genuinely singular astir watching her germinate implicit the people of this past twelvemonth isn’t conscionable that her dependable and artistry person continued to resonate truthful widely, it’s that she’s blossomed arsenic bravely and honestly arsenic she has — connected her ain terms, successful her ain way.”

This year, the vocalist has besides appeared connected an occurrence of Amelia Dimoldenberg’s YouTube amusement Chicken Shop Date and work a CBeebies Bedtime Story.

Eilish, who released her debut azygous Six Feet Under successful 2016 astatine conscionable 14 and her archetypal medium astatine 17, has gone connected to person 3 UK fig 1 singles and 3 UK fig 1 albums.