The BRIT Billion award celebrates Olivia’s achievement in surpassing the landmark of 1 billion profession UK streams – as calculated by the Official Charts Firm. Olivia was offered with the celebrated award whereas in London selling her newest single ‘dangerous concept proper?’, as followers await her second album ‘GUTS’, due for launch on 8 September 2023.
Winner of ‘Worldwide Tune of the Yr’ with good 4 u on the BRIT Awards 2022, the 2021 Awards noticed the primary reside TV efficiency of Olivia’s 2x Platinum-certified single drivers license. In Might 2021 at age 18, Olivia turned the youngest solo artist in historical past to say the Official UK Chart Double as her debut album SOUR and third single good 4 u reigned supreme. Persevering with to smash Official Chart information, the subsequent month noticed Olivia develop into the primary feminine solo artist to say three simultaneous UK Prime 5 singles with good 4 u, deja vu and traitor.
Formally launched on 4th Might 2023, the primary wave of 13 artists to obtain the BRIT Billion award included international 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 Lana Del Rey, who was offered with the award backstage at her BST Hyde Park headline present, Queen, Wizkid, Becky Hill, and James Arthur, who was offered together 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 means of streaming, and in 2022 there have been a report 160 billion audio streams within the UK in whole.
