The BRIT Billion award celebrates Becky’s achievement in surpassing the landmark of 1 billion profession UK streams – as calculated by the Official Charts Firm. She was introduced with the distinguished award backstage at Parklife Competition in Manchester’s Heaton Park on Sunday forward of her efficiency.
Becky Hill mentioned:
“1,000,000,000 streams of my music within the UK. wild. This yr marks my eleventh yr within the music business and for eight of them I dreamed of ‘breaking the united kingdom’… I feel this award signifies that aim being achieved! Because of the songwriters and producers that created this music with me through the years and due to YOU music lovers for listening & dancing! Now for the remainder of the world! ??”
Winner of Finest Dance Act two years working on the BRIT Awards 2022 and 2023, Becky Hill already has a Gold-certified prime 10 album to her title within the form of Solely Trustworthy At The Weekend. Her critically acclaimed run of hits embrace a primary spot on the Official Singles Chart with Gecko (Overdrive) (with Oliver Heldens) and an extra 4 prime 10 singles with the anthems Want You Properly (with Sigala), Afterglow (with Wilkinson), Loopy What Love Can Do (with David Guetta and Ella Henderson) and Bear in mind (with David Guetta) – the latter having already amassed over 160 million streams within the UK.
Formally launched on 4th Might 2023, the primary wave of 13 artists to obtain the BRIT Billion award included world icons ABBA, Coldplay, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, pioneering rap and hip-hop artists AJ Tracey and Headie One, and chart-dominating pop artists and singer-songwriters Anne-Marie, Ellie Goulding, George Ezra, Lewis Capaldi, RAYE, Rita Ora and Sam Smith. Current recipients embrace Years & Years’ Olly Alexander, who acquired the BRIT Billion award from Ladies Aloud’s Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh at Mighty Hoopla competition, and singer-songwriter James Arthur, who was introduced along with his award reside on BBC’s The One Present from presenters Alex Scott and Roman Kemp.
The BRIT Billion award displays the extent to which streaming has remodeled the music panorama for artists and followers alike over the previous decade – greater than 85% of the UK’s recorded music consumption now takes place by streaming, and in 2022 there have been a file 160 billion audio streams within the UK in complete.
