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When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

2019 studio album by Billie Eilish

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? is the debut studio album by the American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish. It was released on March 29, 2019, by Darkroom and Interscope Records in the US and Polydor Records in the UK. Eilish, aged 17 at the time of release, largely wrote the album with her brother Finneas O'Connell, who produced it at his small bedroom studio in Highland Park, Los Angeles.

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“When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” enters the record as 2019 studio album by Billie Eilish. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what When, Fall and Asleep can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around When, Fall and Asleep.
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This entry incorporates text from “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.