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".

  1. ^ a b Promoting Sounds (February 9, 2019). "Powfu - death bed". YouTube. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  2. ^ Reneau, Steven (March 6, 2020). "Powfu Breaks Down The Meaning Of "Death Bed"". Genius. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  3. ^ Cantor, Brian (March 8, 2020). "Powfu & Beabadoobee's "Death Bed" Picks Up Pop Radio Airplay, Reaches 50 Million Spotify Streams". Headline Planet. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  4. ^ Fu, Eddie (February 13, 2020). "Powfu's Viral Hit "Death Bed" Arrives On Streaming Services After Lengthy Sample Clearance Delay". Genius. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  5. ^ "Tiktometer - Top TikTok Songs for March 2020". tiktometer.com. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  6. ^ "BENEE & Gus Dapperton's "Supalonely," Powfu & Beabadoobee's "Death Bed" Headed For Top 10 At Pop Radio". Headline Planet. 2020-07-31. Retrieved 2021-12-31.