‘Birds of a Feather’ Becomes Billie Eilish’s First Song to Top Both the Pop & Adult Pop Airplay Charts

Billie Eilish ’s “Birds of a Feather” hits No. 1 on Billboard ’s Adult Pop Airplay chart dated Oct. 26.

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The song becomes Eilish’s second leader at the radio format, after “What Was I Made For?” reigned for two weeks this March.

Meanwhile, “Birds of a Feather,” released on Darkroom/Interscope/ICLG, perches atop the Pop Airplay chart for a fifth week. It becomes Eilish’s first song to crown both pop surveys.

(The Adult Pop Airplay chart ranks songs by weekly plays on 80 adult top 40 stations and Pop Airplay ranks songs by plays on over 150 mainstream top 40 radio stations. All stations are monitored by Mediabase, with data for airplay charts provided to Billboard by Luminate.)

The singer-songwriter boasts three Pop Airplay No. 1s, as “Therefore I Am” led for two weeks in April 2021 and “Bad Guy,” for two weeks in August 2019.

Plus, Eilish has notched four No. 1s on Alternative Airplay — the most among soloists in the chart’s 36-year history.

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In ruling Pop Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay, “Birds of a Feather” joins two other of Eilish’s hits that have led multiple radio rankings — “Bad Guy” and “Therefore I Am” each topped both Pop Airplay and Alternative Airplay.

“Birds of a Feather” is from Eilish’s latest album, Hit Me Hard and Soft , released May 17. The song has additionally ascended to No. 2 on the all-genre, multimetric Billboard Hot 100 . It has drawn 637 million in radio audience and 479 million official on-demand U.S. streams and sold 74,000 downloads (through Oct. 10).

The track also crowned the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts for three weeks each in August.

All charts dated Oct. 26 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Oct. 22.

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