Billie Eilish fans left STUNNED as singer adds all 111MILLION followers to her close friends list on Instagram

Billie Eilish made an estimated $111 million from her fans’ day when she added them to her Close Friends group on Instagram on Thursday.

Users of the social media platform can share content on their Instagram Stories and share it with everyone or a select group of people chosen on their Close Friends list.

Millions of fans were delighted when Billie, who criticized artists for “wasteful releases”, shared a story and they discovered they were on her close friends list.

The What Was I Made For singer shared a low-resolution photo of a hand in front of the night sky.

Billie soon began trending on Twitter, where fans shared their joy at being one of the Ocean Eyes singer’s best friends, at least on Instagram.

One fan shared a screenshot of Billie’s IG story and wrote: ‘mom: why is Billie Eilish at your wedding?’ Me: that’s my best friend.

Another fan wrote: ‘How I feel after seeing myself on Billie Eilish’s close friends Instagram’ and shared a photo of Cillian Murphy holding his Oscar.

Another close friend of Billie’s shared a photo of a woman having dinner with a cardboard cutout of a person and wrote, “Me and Billie Eilish after she added me to her close friends.”

On Wednesday, the Bad Guy singer was one of more than 200 artists calling for a stop to the “predatory” use of AI in the music industry.

In an open letter, several of the world’s biggest stars warned that technology will “ignite a race to the bottom” if left unchecked.

Using AI to steal artists’ voices, image and sound is an “assault on human creativity,” they said, and would “destroy the music ecosystem.”

Issued by the Artists Rights Alliance (ARA), the letter calls for a ban on artificial intelligence tools that undermine or replace human songwriters or their work.

The move is part of an industry-wide push for better regulation of generative AI, the technology behind chatbots like ChatGPT and image generators like Midjourney.

Katy Perry, Jon Batiste, Jon Bon Jovi, Nicki Minaj, Stevie Wonder, REM, Zayn Malik and Miranda Lambert are among the artists who signed the letter.

Fears over the use of AI have increased in recent months after a song that uses AI to imitate the voices of Drake and The Weeknd went viral online.

The letter warns that AI “will infringe on our rights and devalue the rights of human artists” if used irresponsibly.

‘This attack on human creativity needs to be stopped. “We must guard against the predatory use of AI to steal voices and likenesses from professional artists, violate creators’ rights, and destroy the music ecosystem,” the letter says.