Billie Eilish has change into the most recent artist to obtain a BRIT Billion Award by the BPI.
The BRIT Billion award celebrates Eilish surpassing the landmark of 1 billion profession UK streams – as calculated by the Official Charts Firm. Her Grammy Award-winning hit ‘Dangerous Man’ has over 300million UK streams, whereas six of her different tracks prime 100million U.Ok. streams.
At 17, Eilish grew to become the youngest feminine artist in UK chart historical past to attain a Quantity One album together with her debut ‘When We All Fall Asleep, The place Do We Go?’. This week, the pop singer lands her second Quantity One hit on the Official UK Singles Chart this week with ‘What Was I Made For?’ from ‘Barbie: The Album’. Her first UK Quantity One was ‘No Time To Die’ from the James Bond movie of the identical title.
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Picks up her BRIT Billion Award ✅Not a nasty UK journey for @billieeilish, as she collects her BRIT Billion Award for over one billion streams within the UK, with ‘Dangerous Man’ having over 300m streams, and 6 different tracks crossing the 100m mark. pic.twitter.com/sTqOTvMLwb
— BRIT Awards (@BRITs) August 30, 2023
The singer additionally gained three BRIT Awards in three consecutive years for ‘Worldwide Feminine Solo Artist’ (2020, 2021) and ‘Worldwide Artist of the 12 months’ (2022). Eilish just lately grew to become the youngest artist to prime the payments at Studying & Leeds pageant simply final week (August 25-27).
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.
Latest recipients embody Lana Del Rey, who was introduced with the award backstage at her BST Hyde Park headline present and Olivia Rodrigo, who grew to become the youngest individual ever to obtain the BRIT Billion Award at simply 20-years-old.
In different information, Eilish just lately performed an intimate reside present in London and paused the set a number of instances to assist followers who have been struggling within the crowd.
The primary occasion got here in the course of the third observe of her 20-song setlist, ‘Subsequently I Am’, when Eilish paused twice mid-performance to test on members of the group and urge members of safety to move out water.
“Can we get some water for these people?” she requested, trying round for members of workers to assist the keen viewers. “Like the place is safety? Am I safety now?”
The artist notably invited each Boygenius and Labrinth onto the stage for a collaboration.
On the Sunday set at Studying 2023, NME gave Eilish 4 stars for her closing efficiency on the three-day occasion, describing the efficiency as one which “cements [her] place as a pageant legend”.
