"Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)", stylised in lowercase as "death bed (coffee for your head)",
is a song by Canadian recording artist
Powfu, featuring Filipino-British singer-songwriter
Beabadoobee. The song was initially uploaded to
SoundCloud and
YouTube in 2019; following Powfu signing to
Columbia Records
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and Robots + Humans, the song was released on streaming services on February 8, 2020. The song samples the 2017 song "Coffee" by
Beabadoobee, who is credited as a featured artist.
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.
The radio edit of the song altered any lyric relating to death in the song and radio hosts would refer to the song as "Coffee for Your Head".
Background
Originally released on the ''some boring, love stories, pt. 2'' EP in February 2019, the song's commercial release was delayed by a year due to the clearance of the
sample
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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
e'dget in trouble from the sample
euse
in it", but said he "would upload it anyway" and told his followers to give him "a week and a half". It was finally released to streaming and download services in February 2020.
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
Columbia's British subsidiary ''
Sony Music UK
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'' described it as a
lo-fi hip hop
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single, while Aliya Chaudhry from ''
Consequence'' deemed it as an
emo rap song.
Music video
The video performance was officially uploaded to Powfu's YouTube channel on April 1, 2020. As of August 25, 2022, it has accumulated more than 524 million views.
Accolades
Charts
Weekly charts
Monthly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
References
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2020 songs
2020 singles
Powfu songs
Beabadoobee songs
Number-one singles in Malaysia
Number-one singles in Singapore
Songs written by Beabadoobee
Songs written by Powfu