OREANDA-NEWS. January 18, 2016. Queen and Adam Lambert have been crowned winners of the SSE Live Awards at The SSE Arena, Wembley.

The awards, which have been running since October, gave fans the chance to vote for their favourite act which performed at The SSE Arena, Wembley during 2015. There were 661,000 votes cast, but Queen and Adam Lambert emerged clear winners with 299,000 votes – 45% of the total.

Brian May of Queen said: “WOW. Nice. Well. BIG THANKS SSE Folks … for a wonderful compliment. We’re very proud to be your favourite act of last year - by a huge majority. Humbled, grateful and definitely up for a rematch!”

Queen drummer Roger Taylor added: “Fantastic that we have made so many people happy, 300,000 thanks!”

By logging on to www.ssereward.com fans could vote for their favourite act which had performed at The SSE Arena, Wembley in 2015.

The top five acts according to voters were:

1.            Queen and Adam Lambert

2.            Nightwish

3.            Zac Brown Band

4.            Gurdas Maan

5.            The Janoskians

The SSE Live Awards, brought to you by SSE, the proud title sponsor of The SSE Arena, Wembley, and their exclusive customer benefit SSE Reward, are an exciting new accolade in the entertainment industry.

The very first SSE Live Award, awarded to the best act at Glasgow’s The SSE Hydro, was won by Paolo Nutini, who accepted the accolade in person at The SSE Scottish Music Awards in November last year.

Colin Banks, Head of Sponsorship at SSE, said: “We have been completely blown away by the response to the SSE Live Awards. The fans have really spoken with over half a million votes cast. On behalf of SSE and the fans I would like to say a huge congratulations to Queen and Adam Lambert.”

Anyone could vote in the awards but SSE customers could, and still can, sign up to SSE Reward for free and have access to purchase tickets up to 48 hours in advance of general sale and entrance to a VIP lounges at SSE sponsored venues. 

SSE has been the title sponsor of The SSE Arena, Wembley since June 2014. It has been a successful 19 months with SSE’s partnership enabling AEG Europe to undertake the refurbishments needed to restore the famous venue. 

The naming-rights partnership with SSE allows everyone who attends events there, not just their customers, to benefit from their contribution to the restoration and upgrading of the venue.

SSE’s title sponsorship of The SSE Arena, Wembley is one of four major entertainment and sport venues sponsored by the company – one in each of the home nations: The SSE Hydro (Glasgow), The SSE SWALEC (Cardiff), The SSE Arena, Wembley and The SSE Arena, Belfast.