2019: Billie Eilish Is Top New Artist

It’s been a massive year for breakout star Billie Eilish, who not only scored her first No. 1 album on the weekly Billboard 200 chart with When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, but also earned her first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart with “Bad Guy.”

It’s thus fitting that the 17-year-old singer-songwriter -- also Billboard's 2019 Woman of the Year -- closes out the year in grand fashion on the year-end charts, as she finishes as 2019’s top new artist, and takes home the No. 1 year-end Billboard 200 album with When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

Further, Eilish (who was born on Dec. 18, 2001) becomes the youngest artist to have the year-end No. 1 Billboard 200 album. When We All Fall Asleep launched at No. 1 the weekly Billboard 200 chart dated April 13, 2019, logged three weeks atop the list, and spent the rest of the chart year in the top 10. Previously, just two acts under the age of 21 claimed the chart’s biggest album. Taylor Swift turned 20 on Dec. 13, 2009, the same year her Fearless set was tops. And, two decades earlier, Bobby Brown was 20 when Don’t Be Cruel reigned in 1989.