The Prodigy is a British music group formed in 1990 and focused on electronic music. Along with Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers and The Crystal Method, The Prodigy are pioneers of the big beat genre, which gained popularity in the 1990s and 2000s. The band emerged on the underground rave scene in the early 1990s and has since enjoyed great popularity and fame worldwide. In total, more than 25 million copies of the collective's albums have been sold worldwide. As of November 2018, The Prodigy's total album sales in the UK are 4,707,982 copies