Billlie Eilish & FINNEAS Join Jason Owen At Sandbox For Management

Billie Eilish and her brother FINNEAS have joined Jason Owen’s Sandbox Entertainment for management, according to two sources with knowledge of the deal (The Hollywood Reporter first broke the story). Eilish, a nine-time Grammy winner, is one of the most successful artists in a generation both in terms of her recorded output and touring. Owen launched Sandbox, based out of Nashville, in 2010 after holding executive roles at Universal Music Nashville. Sandbox also represents Kacey Musgraves and Kelsea Ballerini.

Eilish has been on her “Hit Me Hard And Soft Tour” since late-September, which followed the release of her critically acclaimed third studio album of the same name which dropped last May. Her tour was ranked No. 34 on Pollstar’s Q1 Top 100 Grosses chart. From Oct. 16 to 18, Eilish performed at Madison Square Garden and sold 54,866 tickets and grossed $9.4 million. The Australian leg of the tour kicked-off in February and included a four-night run at Quodos Bank Arena in Sydney from Feb. 24 to 28 selling 79,314 tickets and grossing $9.6 million. Estimated grosses for her North American run, which went from Sept. 29 – Dec. 21 and included 36 shows is in the $100 million range. In 2022 she ranked No. 28 on Pollstar’s Year End Top Touring Artists Worldwide chart for her “Happier Than Ever Tour,” with a gross of $74,649,349.10 and 689,029 tickets sold.

This latest move by Eilish and FINNEAS marks something of a year of change as both artists this past August switched agencies from Wasserman Music to WME, which already had represented both acts in film and television. A spokesperson from their team at the time stated, “While grateful to their former live booking agents at Wasserman, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell have opted to have film, TV and music handled by the same agency, WME, moving forward.”

Eilish and FINNEAS were formerly represented by Danny Rukasin and Brandon Goodman of Best Friends Music Management for the last decade, the pair deftly oversaw Eilish’s career and steady rise to fame. The duo first began working with Eilish when she was only 13 years old with her first hit single “Ocean Eyes” dropping in 2015. Her first studio album, 2019’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? helped take her career to the stratosphere.

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“The key was that every tour we ever did sold out immediately and there were tons of fans who still wanted to come but couldn’t get a ticket,” Goodman told Pollstar in a 2020 interview on Eilish’s steady rise. “It was a really special thing to be able to go to one of Billie’s shows early on. As we started playing larger venues on each subsequent tour, we never skipped steps. It’s something we live by and it’s been a big part of the story, especially in touring. For example, in Los Angeles, after we played the Echo on the first tour, we played the El Rey where we did two shows, and then we did the Fonda on the next run – we did three of them. On the next tour, we did two nights at the Shrine and one night at the Greek. Now, we’re doing three nights at the Forum.”