Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)

"Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)"
Single by Powfu featuring Beabadoobee
from the EP Poems of the Past
ReleasedFebruary 8, 2020 (2020-02-08)
Genre
Length2:53
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Otterpop
Powfu singles chronology
"Don't Fall Asleep Yet"
(2020) 		"Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)"
(2020) 		"I'm Used to It"
(2020)
Beabadoobee singles chronology
"I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus"
(2019) 		"Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)"
(2020) 		"Care"
(2020)
Music video
"Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)" on YouTube

"Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)" (stylized in all lowercase)[1] is a song by Canadian rapper and singer Powfu featuring Filipino-English singer-songwriter Beabadoobee. The song was initially uploaded to SoundCloud and YouTube[1] in 2019; after Powfu signed with Columbia Records and Robots + Humans, the song was released on streaming services on February 8, 2020.[2] The song samples Beabadoobee's 2017 song "Coffee" (hence the credit).[3]

The song went viral on the video sharing app TikTok and through radio airplay in early 2020. On TikTok, the song had over 4.1 billion plays for the month of March 2020 alone.[4][5][unreliable source?][6] The American radio edit of the song altered any lyric relating to death in the song[citation needed] and radio hosts referred to the song as "Coffee for Your Head".

Background

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Originally released on the Some Boring, Love Stories, Pt. 2 EP in February 2019,[7] the song's commercial release was delayed by a year due to the clearance of the sample of Beabadoobee's 2017 song "Coffee". Powfu said on Twitter in April 2019 that he had not put it on Spotify because he was "scared [he'd] get in trouble from the sample [he] use[s] in it", but said he "would upload it anyway" and told his followers to give him "a week and a half".[8] It was finally released to streaming and download services in February 2020.[4] On May 28, 2020, a later version featured on his EP Poems of the Past, which included the original version, was released featuring American pop punk band Blink-182.

Composition

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"Death Bed"
A 17-second sample of "Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)" by Powfu.
Problems playing this file? See media help.

Columbia's British subsidiary Sony Music UK described it as a lo-fi hip hop single,[9] while Aliya Chaudhry from Consequence deemed it as an emo rap song.[10]

Music video

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The video performance was officially uploaded to Powfu's YouTube channel on April 1, 2020. As of October 5, 2024, it has accumulated more than 717 million views.

Accolades

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Year Award Category Result Ref
2021 SOCAN Awards Viral Song Award Won [11]
BMI Pop Awards Most Performed Songs of the Year Won [12]

Charts

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Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[85] 3× Platinum 210,000‡
Belgium (BEA)[86] Gold 20,000‡
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[87] Platinum 40,000‡
Canada (Music Canada)[88] 5× Platinum 400,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[89] Platinum 90,000‡
France (SNEP)[90] Diamond 333,333‡
Germany (BVMI)[91] Gold 200,000‡
Italy (FIMI)[92] 2× Platinum 140,000‡
Mexico (AMPROFON)[93] 4× Platinum 240,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[94] Platinum 30,000‡
Poland (ZPAV)[95] 2× Platinum 40,000‡
Portugal (AFP)[96] 2× Platinum 20,000‡
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[97] Platinum 60,000‡
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[98] Platinum 20,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[99] 2× Platinum 1,200,000‡
United States (RIAA)[100] 5× Platinum 5,000,000‡
Streaming
Sweden (GLF)[101] 2× Platinum 16,000,000†

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
† Streaming-only figures based on certification alone.

Release history

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Country Date Format Label Ref.
Various February 8, 2020
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United States April 7, 2020 Contemporary hit radio Columbia [103]

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