The BRIT Awards 2023 nominations have been revealed with Harry Styles, Dua Lipa and Sam Smith leading the hopefuls ahead of the ceremony on February 11.
Stars will battle it out for the coveted awards in the live ceremony next month at London’s O2 Arena, with Harry and Wet Leg leading the pack with four nods.
But in a surprise snub, female artists were shut out of the Artist Of The Year, which last year introduced a gender-neutral overhaul by scrapping its male and female-centric categories.
Big names! The BRIT Awards 2023 nominations have been revealed with Harry Styles (left), Dua Lipa and Sam Smith leading the hopefuls ahead of the ceremony on February 11
Nominated for Artist Of The Year are Central Cee, Fred Again, George Ezra, Harry Styles and Stormzy.
The category saw snubs for artists including Dua Lipa, Charli XCX and Florence & The Machine, despite Adele scooping the top prize last year, the first time it introduced its gender-neutral overhaul.
In 2021, the BRIT Awards announced that they would be abolishing its male and female categories, in bid to celebrate artists ‘solely for their music.’
Bosses claimed the move was in a bid ‘to be as inclusive and as relevant as possible’ and allowed people to enter who do not identify as a man or woman.
But fans blasted the change as ‘woke drivel’, with many calling for a boycott of next year’s show.
Meanwhile, set to compete for the coveted Mastercard Album Of The Year are The 1975 with Being Funny In A Foreign Language, Wet Leg with their self-titled album and Harry Styles with his hit compilation Harry’s House.
Also nominated is Stormzy with his album This Is What I Mean, and Fred Again, with Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022).
Meanwhile the coveted category Song Of The Year With Mastercard, are Aitch with Baby Ft Ashanti, Cat Burns with Go, Dave with Starlight, and Ed Sheeran And Elton John with their festive hit Merry Christmas.
Also nominated are Eliza Rose And Interplanetary Criminal with Baddest Of Them All, George Ezra with Green Green Grass and Harry Styles with As It Was.
Concluding the Song Of The Year nominations are Lewis Capaldi with Forget Me, Lf System with Afraid To Feel, and Sam Smith And Kim Petras with Unholy.
Following his meteoric rise to success in 2022 after helping the UK to a second-place finish in the Eurovision Song Contest, Sam Ryder has been nominated for Best New Artist.
He will compete against Kojey Radical, Mimi Webb, Rina Sawayama and Wet Leg.
Up for Group Of The Year are The 1975, Arctic Monkeys, Bad Boy Chiller Crew, Nova Twins and Wet Leg, while International Group Of The Year saw nods for Black Pink, Drake And 21 Savage, First Aid Kit, Fontaines Dc and Gabriels.
Nominated for Alt Rock are The 1975, Arctic Monkeys, Nova Twins, Tom Grennan and Wet Leg.
Stormy has landed another node in the Hip Hop/Grime/Rap category, competing against Aitch, Central Cee, Dave and Loyle Carner.
Becky Hill has once again landed a nomination in the Dance Act category, having previously scooped the prize last year.
She is nominated against Bonobo, Calvin Harris, Eliza Rose and Fred Again.
And, following the reissue of her Future Nostalgia album, Dua has been nominated in the Pop/R&B category, opposite Harry, Sam, Charlie XCX and Cat Burns.
Elsewhere, in the International Categories, Beyonce once again reigns supreme with two nods, alongside Taylor Swift and Lizzo.
Up for International Artist Of The Year are Beyonce, Burna Boy, Kendrick Lamar, Lizzo and Taylor Swift.
Many of these nominees are also recognised in the International Song Of The Year category, with Beyonce up for her viral hit Break My Soul.
Joining her are David Guetta And Bebe Rexa with Aim Good, Fireboy Dml & Ed Sheeran with Peru.
Also landing a surprise nod are the team behind the hit We Don’t Talk About Bruno from the Disney animated hit Encanto.
Up for Internationl Song Of The Year are Gayle with Abcdefu, Jack Harlow for First Class, Lizzo with About Damn Time, and Calum Scott And Lost Frequencies with Where Are You Now.
Rounding out the nods are One Republic with I Ain’t Worried and Taylor Swift with Antihero.
Finally set to receive the coveted Rising Star Award are the group FLO.
Vick Hope and Jack Saunders revealed the nods in a live show presented across YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
Vick and Jack enlisted the help of a team of celebrities to help announce this year’s key categories.
Olympian Tom Daley, YouTube’s Yung Filly, Euro 2022 winner Jill Scott and Gogglebox’s Joe and George Baggs were among the names revealing this year’s nominations across their own social channels.
The celebrities were handed locked BRITs boxes to keep safe before revealing their categories on the day of the live stream.
The BRIT Awards 2023 with Mastercard will take place on Saturday February 11 – the first time the show will be held on a Saturday in its history – and will broadcast live on ITV1 and ITVX – from The O2 arena.
Mo Gilligan will return as host for the second time.
The Masked Dancer judge Mo said: ‘Hosting the BRITs last year was one of the most phenomenal moments of my life.
‘I’ve been so honoured to get to know the incredible team behind the biggest night in music and so proud to bring our amazing audiences even closer to their favourite artists. I promise you, we’re going to go even bigger this year… Let’s go.’
This year the BRIT award has been designed by Slawn, the Nigerian-born, London-based artist who follows in the footsteps of an illustrious list of creatives including Dame Vivienne Westwood, Sir Peter Blake and Tracey Emin.
Taking the helm: Mo Gilligan will return as host of this year’s BRIT Awards
The BRITs have already announced their first winner – R&B girl group FLO are the recipients of the 2023 Rising Star award.
Adele swept last year’s BRIT Awards as she took home three gongs at the first ever gender neutral ceremony.
The singer won the first ever genderless Artist Of The Year gong after the male and female categories were scrapped.
However, she hit back at the ‘woke’ ceremony as she insisted in her acceptance speech that she ‘loves being a female artist’, after bosses bowed to calls to rid the awards of gendered categories.
Delighted: R&B girl group FLO have already been announced as the winners of the 2023 Rising Star award, celebrating another future star of British music
The BRIT Awards sparked controversy after ditching the traditional male and female categories and switching to gender-neutral gongs for the first time in its history, causing naysayers to brand the event ‘woke’.
Organisers divided opinion and some were left outraged by the decision to switch to gender-neutral gongs for the first time in its history, in calls led by non-binary singer Sam Smith.
Bosses claimed the move was in a bid ‘to be as inclusive and as relevant as possible’ and allowed people to enter who do not identify as a man or woman.
But fans at the time blasted the change as ‘woke drivel’ at the time, with many calling for a boycott.
The winner takes it all: Adele swept last year’s BRIT Awards as she took home three gongs at the first ever gender neutral ceremony
