Brit Billion Award

The BRIT Billion Award is a special award given by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) to artists who have achieved over one billion digital streams in the United Kingdom. An extension of the BPI's music certification system, the number of streams is verified using data calculated by the Official Charts Company and is the first time in the fifty-year history of the system that an artist's combined success over multiple projects has been recognized as a collective total. The one billion career streams include tracks where the artist is the primary performer, as well as tracks where they appear as a featured artist.^[1][2]

The award was established in 2023 and first presented on May 4, 2023, to thirteen artists. To date, forty-seven recipients, including nineteen non-British artists, have received the BRIT Billion Award. The most recent recipients are Bon Jovi, who were presented with the award in October 2025. At 20 years old, Olivia Rodrigo is the youngest recipient. Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse are the only solo artists to receive the award posthumously, while ABBA are the only group to receive the award while disbanded; Houston and ABBA were among the inaugural recipients. Ed Sheeran is the first (and only) artist to be awarded the gold version of the award for reaching ten billion streams.