Happier Than Ever

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Happier Than Ever
Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever.png
Studio album by
Billie Eilish
ReleasedJuly 30, 2021 (2021-07-30)
RecordedApril 1, 2020 – February 16, 2021
StudioFinneas' home studio
(Los Angeles)
Genre
Length56:07
Label
ProducerFinneas
Billie Eilish chronology
Live at Third Man Records
(2019) 		Happier Than Ever
(2021)
Singles from Happier Than Ever
  1. "My Future"
    Released: July 30, 2020
  2. "Therefore I Am"
    Released: November 12, 2020
  3. "Your Power"
    Released: April 29, 2021
  4. "Lost Cause"
    Released: June 2, 2021
  5. "NDA"
    Released: July 9, 2021
  6. "Happier Than Ever"
    Released: July 30, 2021[1]

Happier Than Ever is the second studio album by American singer Billie Eilish. It was released on July 30, 2021, by Darkroom and Interscope Records. Eilish wrote the album with her frequent collaborator, her brother Finneas O'Connell, who produced the album himself. Eilish cited self-reflection during the COVID-19 pandemic as the biggest inspiration for the record.

Primarily a downtempo pop record, Happier Than Ever is characterized by sparse, jazz-influenced, electropop arrangements set to meditative tempos. It consists of torch songs about the downsides of stardom, drawing from Eilish's rise to fame. Music critics praised the album, underscoring its stylistic production and insightful lyrics. Six singles were released in promotion of the album: "My Future", "Therefore I Am", "Your Power", "Lost Cause", "NDA", and the title track, all of which charted in the top 40 of the US Billboard Hot 100. Happier Than Ever debuted atop the US Billboard 200 and topped the charts in 20 other countries. To promote the album further, a Disney+ documentary concert film, Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles, will be released on September 3, 2021, and Eilish will embark on her fifth concert tour, titled Happier Than Ever The World Tour, covering Europe and North America in 2022.

Background[]

American singer and songwriter Billie Eilish released her debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, produced by her brother, American musician Finneas, on March 29, 2019.[2] It was met with critical acclaim and commercial success, and spawned the Billboard Hot 100-topping single "Bad Guy", her first number-one on the chart.[3] The album and the single helped Eilish win five awards at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, including the "big four" Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best New Artist.[2] Eilish released a number of singles since the album: the stand-alone "Everything I Wanted" (2019), the James Bond theme song "No Time to Die" (2020), and the Rosalía collaboration "Lo Vas a Olvidar" (2021), the first two of which won the Record of the Year and Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 63rd Grammy Awards, respectively.[4][3] In a January 2020 interview, Eilish stated she would begin working on her upcoming second studio album during the year.[5] In March, Eilish's brother Finneas O'Connell confirmed this, stating that it would be "pretty pure in its intention" like Eilish's debut, with the two continuing to make the type of music they like to "play live".[6]

The lead single from Happier Than Ever, "My Future", was released on July 30, 2020, one year before the album's scheduled release date. It debuted at number six on the Billboard Hot 100.[7][8] The second single, "Therefore I Am", was released on November 12, 2020.[9][10] The single debuted at number 94 on the Billboard Hot 100,[11] rising to number two the following week, making it the fourth-greatest leap in the Hot 100's history with a vault of 92 positions.[12] In January 2021, Eilish stated that the album "feels exactly how I want it to", with her not wanting to change a single thing about it. Her documentary film, Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry, was released the following month.[13] Later in February, Eilish announced the album would have 16 tracks.[14]

On April 26, 2021, Eilish began hinting at upcoming music, and revealed the title, Happier Than Ever, in an Instagram post on April 26, including a 15-second snippet of the title track, which had been previously teased in the documentary film.[15][16] The following day, Eilish announced Happier Than Ever as the album title, after billboards announcing its title and release date reportedly began appearing in various cities.[17][18][19][20] On April 28, 2021, Eilish announced that the third single, "Your Power", and its accompanying music video, would be released the next day, April 29.[21] On June 2, "Lost Cause" was released as the album's fourth single.[22] The fifth single, "NDA", was released on July 9, along with a music video.[23] The title track was released as the sixth single alongside the album on July 30.[1] A music video was released the same day.[24]

Recording[]

Happier Than Ever was recorded at Finneas' home recording studio, located in the basement of his Los Angeles residence.[25] According to Eilish, recording took place between April 1, 2020, and February 16, 2021, in weekly schedules, starting with "My Future" and ending with "Oxytocin".[26][25] The title track was the first song she wrote from the record, dating back to the European leg of her When We All Fall Asleep Tour.[25] Eilish revealed that all of 16 songs on the final track listing were the only songs the duo worked on during the album's creation,[25] yet there were two songs, namely "What I Wanna Hear" and "Born Blue", that were omitted from the record since she "just couldn't figure the[m] out".[26]

Eilish has revealed that the creative process of Happier Than Ever felt "very natural", unlike her previous projects where she constantly felt anxious and under pressure.[27] With earlier works, Eilish also felt that she was not good enough and simply was not talented, but has since gained much more confidence in her craft.[28] According to Eilish, her record label did not have any input on the album,[29] unlike her debut album where she felt pressure from deadlines, constant meetings and "an expectation that a star was about to be born", all of which she "literally hated".[25]

In an interview with Vevo, Eilish said that she wanted to create "a very timeless record", mostly being inspired by jazz singers that she listened to growing up such as Julie London, Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra.[27] She also said that the songs on the album are "all over the place and very, I think, versatile, different to one another, but also very cohesive," which she cited as one of her biggest goals.[27] Another one of her goals she had during studio sessions was to surprise her fans as well as herself.[30] She aimed to be uncomfortable during the creative process, using "NDA" as an example of a song that was not made in her "comfort zone".[30] Eilish cited self-reflection as the biggest muse behind the record,[27] and revealed before its release that "almost none of the songs on this album are joyful".[25] She noted "Male Fantasy" as a song that "pretty much wrote itself" and helped her realize feelings she had not processed before.[30]

Music and lyrics[]

Musically, Happier Than Ever is a subdued,[31] pop,[32] electropop,[33] downtempo,[34][35][36] and jazz-pop record,[36] incorporating elements of R&B, techno,[37] country, bossa nova,[33] bedroom pop,[38] trip hop,[39] folk,[40] electro, trap,[41] and 1990s sophisti-pop.[42] It consists of torch songs set to slow tempos, with restrained,[42] minimalistic[38] arrangements of acoustic guitars, delicate synthesizers, and burbling beats.[42] The lyrics deal with struggles faced by young women in the entertainment industry,[43] fame, stardom, emotional abuse, power struggles, mistrust,[25] and misogyny,[44] imbued by Eilish's self-consciousness.[17]

Songs[]

The opening track, "Getting Older", is a song about abuse and was "particularly harrowing" to write.[25] The song deals with sexual coercion.[31] The second track, "I Didn't Change My Number", features a heavy beat.[45] "Billie Bossa Nova", the third track, presents "a more mature side of Eilish".[46] The fourth track, "My Future", starts as a slow synth ballad that "transitions into a laidback funk groove".[45] Lyrically, the song is about self-discovery.[45] "Oxytocin", the fifth track, has a techno pulse.[31] The song references the titular hormone.[46] The sixth track, "Goldwing", loops its a capella introduction throughout the song.[31] The eighth track, "Halley's Comet", is a ballad featuring stripped-back vocals, light synths, and a backbeat.[45] The ninth track, "Not My Responsibility", is a spoken word interlude with an ambient instrumental that debuted on Eilish's Where Do We Go? World Tour (2020).[31][46]

The interlude then transitions into the tenth track, "Overheated", which samples the production of its predecessor and explores stardom in the era of social media.[31] The eleventh track "Everybody Dies", is an alt-pop ballad, driven by dark synths and light guitar strumming, with "Eilish's voice again standing out".[45] The twelfth track, "Your Power", is a soft acoustic ballad about sexual abuse and being taken advantage of by your partner.[47] The thirteenth track, "NDA" discusses the lack of privacy in her life due to her rise in fame over a dark electropop beat which transitions into the fourteenth track "Therefore I Am", which is lyrically about dismissing the haters and critics.[48] The fifteenth track, "Happier Than Ever", is a rock opera song.[49] It has been described as "a mopey breakup song", before breaking into "an electric-guitar-driven rager", while the rest of the tracks "bare different kinds of catharsis, teetering between sexy, electronic beats and warm folkiness, reminiscent of her earliest music."[25] It has been dubbed an album highlight.[44][50]

Promotion and release[]

Happier Than Ever was preceded by five singles, all of which charted inside the top 40 of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart: "My Future", "Therefore I Am", "Your Power", "Lost Cause", and "NDA", the first of which was released exactly a year ahead of the album's release.[51]

The album was released on July 30, 2021.[52] It was available in a variety of physical album formats, such as eight differently colored vinyl LPs, including retail-exclusives for Amazon, independent record stores, Target, Urban Outfitters and Walmart, ten CD variants, including autographed CDs at indepedent stores, a version with alternate packaging hand-painted by Eilish, three premium box sets, a Target-exclusive edition packaged with a poster, and multiple cassette tape variants, including a deluxe box set.[51] On July 22, Eilish revealed the September 3 release of a concert film on Disney+ titled Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter To Los Angeles, directed by Robert Rodriguez and Patrick Osborne.[53] To support the album in the United Kingdom, a television special titled Billie Eilish: Up Close was broadcast on BBC One on July 31, in tandem with Eilish's debut on the BBC Live Lounge.[54][55] On August 9, Eilish performed the title track on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.[56]

Touring[]

Happier Than Ever: The World Tour
World tour by Billie Eilish
Location
  • Europe
  • North America
Associated albumHappier Than Ever
Start dateFebruary 3, 2022 (2022-02-03)
End dateJuly 2, 2022 (2022-07-02)
Legs2
No. of shows54
Billie Eilish concert chronology

On May 21, 2021, Eilish announced that she will embark on her fifth concert tour, Happier Than Ever The World Tour, to promote the album. The tour covers Europe and North America, starting in New Orleans on February 3, 2022. The tickets went for sale on May 28, 2021.[52]

List of concerts showing, city, county, and venue
Date City Country Venue
North America
February 3, 2022 New Orleans United States Smoothie King Center
February 5, 2022 Atlanta State Farm Arena
February 6, 2022 Charlotte Spectrum Center
February 8, 2022 Pittsburgh PPG Paints Arena
February 9, 2022 Washington, D.C. Capital One Arena
February 10, 2022 University Park Bryce Jordan Center
February 12, 2022 Buffalo KeyBank Center
February 13, 2022 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center
February 15, 2022 Montreal Canada Bell Center
February 16, 2022 Toronto Scotiabank Arena
February 18, 2022 New York City United States Madison Square Garden
February 19, 2022
February 20, 2022 Boston TD Garden
February 22, 2022 Newark Prudential Center
March 8, 2022 Birmingham Legacy Arena
March 9, 2022 Nashville Bridgestone Arena
March 11, 2022 Louisville KFC Yum! Center
March 12, 2022 Detroit Little Caesars Arena
March 14, 2022 Chicago United Center
March 15, 2022 Saint Paul Xcel Energy Center
March 16, 2022 Omaha CHI Health Center Omaha
March 19, 2022 Denver Ball Arena
March 21, 2022 Salt Lake City Vivint Arena
March 24, 2022 Vancouver Canada Rogers Arena
March 25, 2022 Seattle United States Climate Pledge Arena
March 26, 2022
March 29, 2022 San Francisco Chase Center
March 30, 2022 Sacramento Golden 1 Center
April 1, 2022 Las Vegas T-Mobile Arena
April 2, 2022 Glendale Gila River Arena
April 3, 2022
April 6, 2022 Inglewood The Forum
April 8, 2022
April 9, 2022
Europe
June 3, 2022 Belfast Northern Ireland The SSE Arena
June 4, 2022 Dublin Ireland 3Arena
June 5, 2022
June 7, 2022 Manchester England AO Arena
June 8, 2022
June 10, 2022 London The O2 Arena
June 11, 2022
June 12, 2022
June 14, 2022 Glasgow Scotland The SSE Hydro
June 15, 2022 Birmingham England Utilita Arena
June 16, 2022 London The O2 Arena
June 18, 2022 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome
June 19, 2022 Frankfurt Germany Festhalle
June 21, 2022 Cologne Lanxess Arena
June 22, 2022 Paris France Accor Arena
June 25, 2022 London England The O2 Arena
June 26, 2022
June 28, 2022 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis
June 30, 2022 Berlin Germany Mercedes-Benz Arena
July 2, 2022 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion

Critical reception[]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.3/10[57]
Metacritic86/100[58]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4.5/5 stars[59]
The A.V. ClubB+[41]
DIY5/5 stars[60]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[49]
The Guardian4/5 stars[31]
The Independent4/5 stars[33]
The Line of Best Fit6/10[50]
NME5/5 stars[44]
Pitchfork7.6/10[61]
Rolling Stone4/5 stars[62]

Upon release, Happier Than Ever received acclaim from music critics, who admired its resolute portrayal of teenage stardom contrasting its muted sound.[43] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from publications, the album has a weighted mean score of 86 based on 26 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[58]

NME critic El Hunt lauded the album for proving Eilish "one of her generation's most significant pop artists", and wrote that its music is "softer" and "far more low-key" than her debut record.[44] Alexis Petridis of The Guardian noted the "uniformly great" melodies and vocals, the "less flashy" production in Happier Than Ever, observing a "more somber" tone.[31] Sal Cinquemani of Slant felt the album is more "sonically diverse" than Eilish's debut record, expanding beyond its predecessor's trip-hop and trap elements.[46] The Daily Telegraph's Neil McCormick dubbed Happier Than Ever "the sound of a tortured teen alone in her bedroom late at night", its lyrics "pithy", and Eilish's vocals "delicate".[63]

Louis Bruton of The Irish Times stated the album describes "the confinements and exploitations of being a celebrity and a teenager."[37] Rob Sheffield, writing for Rolling Stone, called it a "downright heroic", "dark, painful, confessional album where [Eilish is] choosing not to settle into the role of America's beloved kooky kid sister."[62] David Smyth of Evening Standard complimented the style and non-mainstream appeal of the album's production.[64] Clash's Robin Murray called Happier Than Ever "a work of subtle evolution" and "a record of quite complexity".[65]

Variety's Chris Willman highlighted the album's "trenchant observation", "self-aware humor", and "post-celebrity self-consciousness".[66] Sarah Carson of i labeled the album a "great, understated, philosophical" project inclining towards sparse and acoustic pop music trends.[67] Jesse Atkinson of Gigwise called the album's production extraordinary, admiring its interpretation of music genres.[68] Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen of The Sydney Morning Herald deemed the album a cohesive, "revealing and rewarding, listening experience" enhanced by Eilish's "acidic" delivery.[69] In his Slate review, Carl Wilson liked the musical and lyrical maturity Eilish displays in Happier Than Ever.[70] The New York Times' Lindsay Zoladz felt the album is "fixated on the tension between private and public knowledge, a social-media-era pop star's meditation on how much candor—if any—she owes her audience."[71]

A few reviews were critical of Happier Than Ever. Alexandra Pollard of The Independent remarked that the album is "full of things most of us don't have to deal with", but Eilish turns them into relatable stories via "insightful" songs. She dismissed the tracks "Oxytocin" and "Goldwing" as insubstantial.[33] In a mixed review, Matthew Kent of The Line of Best Fit commended Eilish's lyrics and Finneas' production, but regarded the album a less unique work, with its tracks "often blurring into each other."[50] Consequence critic Mary Siroky, despite her overall warm review, also agreed that the album could be too cohesive with sonically indistinct songs.[72] The A.V. Club's Alex McLevy felt "there are just a few too many tracks on Happier Than Ever, which starts off unstoppably strong, but starts to falter in the back half."[41] Stereogum's Tom Breihan wrote negatively, calling the album boring, a "shell-shocked" product of Eilish's attempts at making a second album as triumphant as her first.[42]

Commercial performance[]

With over 1.028 million pre-adds on Happier Than Ever, Eilish reclaimed the Apple Music record for the most pre-saved album ever in the platform's history. Canadian singer the Weeknd had previously seized the record from Eilish's own When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019) with his album After Hours (2020).[73][74]

United States[]

Happier Than Ever marked Eilish's second number-one album in the United States. It debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 238,000 album-equivalent units, the fifth largest week for an album in 2021. Of the 238,000 units, sales constitutes 153,000 copies, which is the third largest album sales week in 2021, and 84,000 units calculated from the 113.87 million on-demand streams the album received in its first week. The tally also consists of 73,000 vinyl LPs shipped in the same week, marking the second-largest vinyl sales week in MRC Data data history, behind Taylor Swift's Evermore (2020).[51]

The album topped the Billboard 200 for its first three consecutive weeks, becoming the first album by a woman to do so since Swift's Folklore (2020), and the second album in 2021 to achieve the feat, after Dangerous: The Double Album by American singer Morgan Wallen.[75] Nine songs from the album charted on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously,[76] whereas all of its tracks charted on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, with the title track, "Happier Than Ever", debuting at number one.[77]

Other markets[]

In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with 39,000 units, scoring Eilish's second number-one album in the country. With over 9,500 vinyl record sales, Happier Than Ever became the third-fastest selling vinyl album of the millennium by a female artist in the UK.[78] The album debuted atop Germany's Offizielle Top 100 as Eilish's first number one album there. It eclipsed her debut album, which peaked at number three.[79]

In Australia, the album landed atop the ARIA Albums Chart, her second number one in the country, whilst five songs debuted on the ARIA Singles Chart;[80][81] all of the album's five singles charted on the chart previously.[82] Happier Than Ever entered at the number one spot of France's SNEP albums chart with 14,695 units, becoming her first French number-one album.[83]

Track listing[]

All tracks are written by Billie Eilish O'Connell and Finneas O'Connell. All tracks are produced by Finneas.

Happier Than Ever track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Getting Older"4:04
2."I Didn't Change My Number"2:38
3."Billie Bossa Nova"3:16
4."My Future"3:30
5."Oxytocin"3:30
6."Goldwing"2:31
7."Lost Cause"3:32
8."Halley's Comet"3:54
9."Not My Responsibility"3:47
10."Overheated"3:34
11."Everybody Dies"3:26
12."Your Power"4:05
13."NDA"3:15
14."Therefore I Am"2:53
15."Happier Than Ever"4:58
16."Male Fantasy"3:14
Total length:56:07

Notes[]

Personnel[]

  • Billie Eilish – vocals, vocal engineering
  • Finneas – production, engineering, vocal arranging (all tracks); bass (1–5, 8–11, 15), drum programming (1–15), piano (1, 3, 8), synthesizer (1–5, 7–13, 15, 16), background vocals (2, 7), electric guitar (3, 4, 8, 15), programming (4, 15), synth bass (4, 6, 7, 12, 13), Wurlitzer electric piano (4, 16), percussion (5, 6, 12, 13, 15), acoustic guitar (7, 12, 16), Mellotron, Rhodes (11); nylon-string guitar (15)
  • Dave Kutch – mastering (1–3, 5–16)
  • John Greenham – mastering (4)
  • Rob Kinelski – mixing

Charts[]

Chart performance for Happier Than Ever
Chart (2021) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[85] 1
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[86] 1
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[87] 1
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[88] 1
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[89] 1
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[90] 2
Croatian Albums (HDU)[91] 1
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[92] 1
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[93] 1
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[94] 1
French Albums (SNEP)[95] 1
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[96] 1
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[97] 28
Irish Albums (OCC)[98] 1
Italian Albums (FIMI)[99] 1
Japan Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)[100] 15
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[101] 17
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)[102] 1
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[103] 1
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[104] 1
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[105] 1
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[106] 1
Scottish Albums (OCC)[107] 1
Slovak Albums (ČNS IFPI)[108] 2
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[109] 1
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[110] 1
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[111] 1
UK Albums (OCC)[112] 1
US Billboard 200[113] 1
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)[114] 1

Certifications[]

Sales certifications for Happier Than Ever
Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[115] Silver 60,000double-dagger

double-dagger Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history[]

Release dates and formats for Happier Than Ever
Region Date Format Label Ref.
Various July 30, 2021
[116][117][118]
Brazil September 17, 2021 CD Universal Music Brasil [119]

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