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For more than half a century Queen have become one of the most popular and successful rock band in history with sales ranging from 250-300 million.
It’s even believed that 1 in 4 British households have a copy of the UK’s best-selling album, Queen’s Greatest Hits.
Today Sir Brian May and Roger Taylor keep the band on the road following Freddie Mercury’s untimely death over 30 years ago and John Deacon’s retirement in the mid-1990s.
And this morning the duo announced that they have been presented with a BRIT Billion Award by the BPI, “the representative voice for the UK’s world-leading record labels and music companies, which is also home to The BRIT Awards.”
A statement read: “The BRIT Billion Award celebrates the band’s outstanding achievement as recording artists in surpassing the landmark of one billion career streams in the UK – as calculated by the Official Charts Company.”
The Queen statement continued: “Contributing to the huge total, Queen’s most-streamed hits include such classics as Another One Bites The Dust, Bohemian Rhapsody, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Killer Queen, Radio Ga Ga, Under Pressure, We Are The Champions, and We Will Rock You, among a great many others.
Receiving the award for Queen are Sir Brian May and Roger Taylor OBE, who have each been presented with the personalised trophy created for the BPI by Gaudio Awards in the shape of the BRITs ‘B’ and incorporating an encapsulated BRITs statuette.
“The award made to Queen coincides with the 50th anniversary of the band’s self-titled debut album, which was released in July 1973 – the same year the BPI itself came into being in its present role.”
Sir Brian and Roger took to their Instagram accounts this morning to share the “incredible” news while holding up their awards.
Sir Brian said: “Thank you for presenting Queen with a BRIT Billion Award. We’re grateful to all our fans that support us and continue to enjoy our music. Rock on BPI.”
Roger added: “I’m thrilled to accept the BRIT Billion Award on behalf of Queen, celebrating being streamed over a billion times in the UK, which is incredible. I would like to say thanks to everyone who has extracted a morsel of enjoyment from our music. We are still around and we hope to entertain you a little. Thank you.”
