Over 3 million people watched this year’s Brit awards, bucking a trend that has seen the music award ceremony slip in viewership every year for the past six years. ITV says an average of 3.3 million people watched Saturday night’s two-and-a-half hour show, with viewership peaking at 3.9 million. Last year, an average of 2.7 million people watched, a drop of 200,000 from the 2021 broadcast. This year’s viewership is roughly in line with the most recent pre-pandemic broadcast – 2020’s ceremony, which pulled in 3.8 million viewers – but is still a far cry from the ceremony’s late-90s and early-2000s peak.
This year’s ceremony was held on a weekend for the first time in the show’s 45-year history; broadcast live from London’s O2 Arena, the show was hosted by comedian Mo Gilligan and featured performances from Harry Styles, Sam Smith and Kim Petras, Stormzy, Wet Leg and Lizzo, among others.
