KSI receives BRIT Billion Award: "This is surreal!"
KSI - you're gonna need a bigger trophy cabinet, mate.
Following the Top 10 success of his latest Trippie Redd collab Thick Of It, the Sidemen star is the latest artist honoured with a fancy BRIT Billion Award; celebrating over a billion streams across his tracks in the UK.
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Celebrating his success, KSI says:
"Receiving the BRIT Billion Award is honestly surreal. To have over a billion streams in the UK is huge and I can’t thank my fans enough for being on this crazy journey with me.
"You’ve all been there, pushing the music, and it’s unreal to see it pay off. It’s crazy to see Thick Of It hitting like this. The remix with NLE Choppa goes hard - check it out. This is just the start!"
Officially launched in 2023, over 40 have artists have now been recognised with a BRIT Billion Award for achieving more than one billion UK career streams.
Previous acts to have achieved the honour include Green Day, The Rolling Stones, Queen, ABBA, Whitney Houston, AJ Tracey, Headie One, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Camila Cabello, Lewis Capaldi and RAYE. See the full list here.
This comes after KSI recently celebrated his ninth Top 10 single with an Official Top 10 Award from Official Charts.
Receiving his award as Thick Of It made its Top 10 debut, KSI said:
"Ladies and gentleman, Thick Of It is now my ninth Top 10 single. To all the haters – haha! Stay mad!
"To all my fans, thank you so much. You guys have been amazing, having nine Top 10 singles is crazy.
"Big up Official Charts for giving me this lovely Official Top 10 Award!"
KSI, born Olajide Olayinka Williams "JJ" Olatunji, boasts nine Official Top 10 singles in the UK, with Thick Of It joining 2019 Rick Ross, Lil Baby and S-X collab Down Like That (10), 2020 Swarmz and Tion Wayne team-up Houdini (6), Nathan Dawe tune Lighter (3) and Craig David and Digital Farm Animals collaboration Really Love (3), 2021 projects Don't Play with Anne-Marie and Digital Farm Animals (2), Patience with YUNGBLUD and Polo G (3) and Holiday (2), plus 2022 Tom Grennan duet Not Over Yet (4).
On the Official Albums Chart, KSI's earned five Official Top 40s to date, including 2021 chart-topper All Over The Place.
KSI's Thick Of It ft. Trippie Redd is out now via Atlantic.
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