Deliver Me The Horizon are celebrating one billion streams, and are on target to prime the UK album charts.
The Sheffield rockers have been confirmed as having hit the primary milestone yesterday (October 1), once they revealed that they’d surpassed one billion streams within the UK. To mark the event, frontman Oli Sykes was introduced with a Billion Award by the BRITs.
Taking to X/Twitter to mark the landmark event, the BRITs posted a photograph of the frontman with the trophy together with the caption: “Following their first ever BRIT Awards win earlier within the yr for Greatest Rock/Different Act, @bmthofficial obtain their BRIT Billion Award for hitting one billion streams within the UK.”
It comes as no shock that the band managed to realize the award this yr, as their newest studio album ‘POST HUMAN: NeX GEn’ arrived in Might and went on to change into one among their largest releases up to now. As reported by Kerrang!, the document noticed Sykes and co. garner over 70million streams, in addition to making Deliver Me The Horizon “‘probably the most streamed rock band on the planet” through the week of launch.
following their first ever BRIT Awards win earlier within the yr for Greatest Rock/Different Act, @bmthofficial obtain their BRIT Billion Award for hitting one billion streams within the UK ⚡️ pic.twitter.com/1OCahkMVgv
— BRIT Awards (@BRITs) October 1, 2024
Whereas it arrived formally earlier this yr, BMTH reignited pleasure for the document as soon as once more final week, once they confirmed the discharge of some elaborate bodily editions of ‘POST HUMAN: NeX GEn’.
Due to the most recent launch, the band are presently locked in a decent battle for the Quantity One place on the UK albums charts.
On the midweek mark, Shed Seven are presently main the best way on the charts with their seventh album ‘Liquid Gold’. The album marks their second album of 2024, with ‘A Matter Of Time’ topping the charts in January. With the latter, the accomplishment set an Official Charts document for the longest time between the discharge of a band’s debut album and their first No 1 (29 years and three months).
On the time of writing, Sykes and co. are simply 600 chart models behind and sitting in second place. If the expansion continues due to the bodily codecs being shared, BMTH might safe the highest place and safe their third Quantity One album. Upon its first launch, the document marked the band’s fifth UK Prime 10 album, peaking at Quantity 5.
Elsewhere on the charts this week are Ed Sheeran with the ‘+-=÷× (Tour Assortment)’, Pale Waves’ fourth LP ‘Smitten’ and Maximo Park’s ‘Stream Of Life’.
Earlier this yr, Sykes spoke to NME as a part of our In Dialog collection, and described what’s on the core of ‘NEX GEN’. “The entire document is a battle between mild and darkish. It’s a relentless battle all through the document as a result of that facet is a lot less difficult to offer in to,” he mentioned.
“It’s tougher to say, ‘I’m going to go on the lengthy, exhausting, sluggish path to contentment’. The opposite facet is very easy, horny, and romantic. That first step is lots tougher, and you understand you’re going to fail. All through the document there are a number of instances the place I fail. You’ve obtained to take cost of your individual therapeutic; you’ve obtained to do the work your self’.”
In a four-star evaluate of the album, NME wrote: “Few trendy rock bands have made an album that’s such a bombardment of sound and color. Put up-Jordan Fish, they proceed to be what they’ve at all times been: a artistic power that transcends the personalities of its people. It solely justifies the four-year wait, which already seems like historic historical past. Buckle up – as a result of that is nonetheless BMTH’s world, and we’ll be residing in it for fairly a while but.”
In different information, Deliver Me The Horizon have been introduced as performers for Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park 2025. They’ll be part of the likes of Slipknot, Biffy Clyro, Sleep Token and extra on the twin German festivals that are set to happen between June 6-8.
