Billie Eilish speaks out on Roe v. Wade during Glastonbury set

Many artists who took to the stage at last weekend’s Glastonbury Festival have seen a huge uplift on the UK’s Official Albums Chart this week and a boost to their catalogue’s sales and streams, according to new data.

Naman Ramachandran A star-studded Glastonbury 2022 edition has yielded record breaking audiences for the BBC across its digital platforms.Popular sets from the festival included Pyramid stage headliners Paul McCartney, who revealed surprise guests Bruce Springsteen and Dave Grohl, and Billie Eilish, as well as performances from Crowded House, Diana Ross, Little Simz, Megan Thee Stallion, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Sam Fender.Content was streamed a record 34.1 million times on streamer BBC iPlayer. This included 23 million live streams, the highest on record for a BBC program brand.

Several acts who hit the stage at the weekend’s Glastonbury Festival are on course for huge uplifts on the Official Albums Chart this week.

On Sunday, Hollywood Wax Museum unveiled a new wax figure of Billie Eilish, which has been received less than warmly. Social media users quickly trolled the new figure after photos surfaced online.

Sir Paul McCartney played a clip of Johnny Depp in an old music video as part of his headliner set at Glastonbury Festival on Saturday.

Billie Eilish smiles on stage during her performance on day three of the 2022 Glastonbury Festival on Friday (June 24) in Glastonbury, England.

Billie Eilish called Friday - the day she headlined Glastonbury Festival - a "really dark day for women in the US" after the Supreme Court ended the country’s constitutional right to abortion.The 20-year-old singer’s comments come after it was announced that the US court decided to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade case that legalised abortion nationwide. During her set on the Pyramid Stage on Friday night, she spoke out against the ruling as she introduced her song Your Power, which explores people abusing their power.

Billie Eilish has commented on the expectations put on female performers to have “the biggest show”, sharing that she remembers thinking “I would never be able to headline anything”Speaking to NME for this week’s Big Read cover story ahead of her headlining performance at Glastonbury Festival, Eilish shared that she felt it “was so cool to be a young woman and headline festivals, because it’s so male-dominated,” adding that she had felt “hopeless” for the future of women in music in 2017 and 2018.“I would see these line-ups for festivals and it was all dudes. And it was all artists I liked, but it was just like, ‘When will women be involved?'”, Eilish continued. “Women have to have a million back-up dancers and a million costume changes and their hair done, and crazy costumes and stage set-up.

Glastonbury Festival is already well underway, with thousands of festival-goers having headed down to Worthy Farm in Somerset on 22 and 23 June. The iconic festival has finally returned after three years with a line-up jam-packed with incredible musicians, including the likes of Kendrick Lamar and Diana Ross.

Billie Eilish will make history as she takes to the Pyramid Stage to headline the first major night of Glastonbury festival. No pressure, eh?The 20-year-old Grammy and Brit-Award winner will become the youngest ever solo headliner when she performs alongside her brother and co-writer Finneas O’Connell. The US pop star made her Worthy Farm debut in 2019 when she performed on the Other Stage and treated crowds to a string of tracks such as Bad Guy and You Should See Me In A Crown.

Billie Eilish.Tonight (June 24), Billie Eilish will make history and become the youngest ever solo headliner of Glastonbury Festival, joining Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar at the top of the bill.To celebrate the historic set, 1000 copies of a special limited edition magazine with Billie’s cover feature will be available. Stay tuned to NME.com and socials to find out how to get your hands on a copy very soon.Speaking to NME for her third Big Read cover story, Billie said: “I owe it to everyone to put on a good Glastonbury headline set.

Billie Eilish will make history when she takes to the Pyramid Stage tonight as Glastonbury Festival’s youngest ever solo headliner.The Grammy-winning singer, 20, will perform alongside her brother and co-writer Finneas O’Connell.The US pop star made her Glastonbury debut in 2019 when she performed on the Other Stage and treated crowds to a string of tracks such as Bad Guy and You Should See Me In A Crown. In the weeks leading up to Glastonbury, Eilish has played a string of UK and European tour dates and also hosted a climate event, Overheated, at London’s O2 Arena.

Billie Eilish gives an insight into her rockstar life on the road, detailing some of the most interesting moments she has faced while being on tour, now that she is getting ready to make history as the youngest artist to headline Glastonbury music festival.The 20-year-old star, who recently opened up about her experience living with tourette’s syndrome, says that “being on tour is a crazy way to live,” revealing that at one point she didn’t go outside for three days.“It’s kind of a crazy thing that a human does, touring,” she explained, “It is so unnatural for us as people to have such high highs and such low lows. It feels like a blur. It’s like you’re living five different lives at once, bonkers but amazing.”Billie confessed that she loves being on stage and sharing her performance with her fans from all around the world, however she is now trying to get in one or two hours of natural daylight every day to make things a little better.The singer admitted that she “hates the summertime” and some of her dates are during the summer.

Billie Eilish stunned fans on Tuesday night at her sold out performance at the OVO Hydro, and even treated the hardworking crew members afterwards.

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