Brian May and Roger Taylor announce ‘unimaginable’ Queen achievement

For greater than half a century Queen have grow to be one of the vital fashionable and profitable rock band in historical past with gross sales starting from 250-300 million.

It’s even believed that 1 in 4 British households have a duplicate of the UK’s best-selling album, Queen’s Greatest Hits.

Today Sir Brian May and Roger Taylor maintain the band on the street following Freddie Mercury’s premature demise over 30 years in the past and John Deacon’s retirement within the mid-Nineteen Nineties.

And this morning the duo introduced that they’ve been offered 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 press release learn: “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 whereas holding up their awards.

Sir Brian mentioned: “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.”