Song · Billie Eilish
“What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish
Released 2023
“What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish appears on 6 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2023 and 2025. It was first released in 2023. Its best result is #3 on The Current Top 89 Songs of 2023. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #101 alternative song of 2023.
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"What Was I Made For?" was Billie Eilish's contribution to the soundtrack of Barbie, released in July 2023, and it's a hushed, fragile piano ballad that stops the party cold. She wrote it with FINNEAS, who produced it and played the piano, bass, percussion and synths, while Eilish produced her own vocal and Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt added production. Rob Kinelski mixed.
It went to number one in the UK, Ireland, Australia, Switzerland and Malaysia, reached 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, and then cleaned up at awards season: the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Original Song, plus Grammys for Song of the Year and Best Song Written for Visual Media. It was the first movie song to take Song of the Year since Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2023 | 89 |
| 2023 | 7 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2023 | 90 |
| 2023 | 7 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2023 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 277 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 403 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
| 2025 | 117 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
Also listed as: What Was I Made For.
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