The Verve won the 1998 Brit Award for Best British Group after releasing the album Urban Hymns.
The English rock band’s third studio album, Urban Hymns, was released in September 1997. It became one of the decade’s biggest British albums, driven by singles including “Bitter Sweet Symphony,” “The Drugs Don’t Work,” and “Lucky Man.”
At the 1998 Brit Awards, The Verve won Best British Group. The award recognized the band’s major commercial breakthrough during the album’s international success.
The Verve is sometimes included in broad pop discussions alongside boy bands because of the batch’s wider British-band context, but it was not a boy band: its members played instruments and developed from an alternative-rock scene. The other options were major Britpop-era groups, but they did not win this specific award in 1998.