This Song Surpassed Sabrina Carpenter's 'Espresso' as the Most-Streamed Song on Spotify at the Last Minute in 2024

Mar. 15, 2025

Sabrina Carpenter performs in New York City in September 2024.Photo:Christopher Polk/Rolling Stone via Getty

Christopher Polk/Rolling Stone via Getty

Fans might’ve not been thinking aboutSabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” every night after all.

“Espresso” was previously reported as the most-streamed song as part ofSpotify Wrapped, with “Birds of a Feather” in the No. 3 spot at the time behindBenson Boone’s “Beautiful Things.”

Billie Eilish performs in Chicago in August 2023.Michael Hickey/Getty

Michael Hickey/Getty

“Birds of a Feather,” which Eilish released on her third studio albumHit Me Hard and Softin May. She and her brotherFinneasworked on the song in the back of an SUV while in Brazil. “We’re always finding ourselves working in the most random places,” she said onJimmy Kimmel Livein September.

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“It’s fun because it’s so casual and normal and we were just in the back of this car and it’s Finneas' laptop,” she continued. Looking back on when she and Finneas, 27, wrote the “Birds of a Feather,” Eilish said it’s “really amazing to see how far the song has come.”

Eilish is up for sevenGrammysthis year, while Carpenter earned six nominations. Both are up for the record of the year and pop solo performance of the year with their respective top-streamed songs on Spotify, along with album of the year.

Billie Eilish and Sabrina Carpenter in Hollywood in December 2023.Rodin Eckenroth/Variety via Getty

Rodin Eckenroth/Variety via Getty

Carpenter toldThe Hollywood Reporterin December that shewasn’t sure if anyone would connect with “Espresso.““I remember deciding to put this song out in the beginning of summer and thinking espresso, coffee is kind of more of a fall beverage,” she said.

“I really didn’t know if it would connect, but the sentiment and the sound of the song and the confidence that it kind of just carries along with it was something that I really believed in.”

The “Please Please Please” singer continued: “So I had literally no idea that anyone would like it, but I liked it, and that was kind of all that mattered to me in that moment, and something I try to remember over and over again.”

source: people.com