Brit awards 2023: Moist Leg and Harry Kinds lead male-dominated nominations | Brit awards

A 12 months after the Brit awards deserted the gendered classes, the nominations for the substitute artist of the 12 months prize are solely male, comprising Central Cee, Stormzy, Fred Once more, George Ezra and Harry Styles.

The awards ceremony, run by the British Phonographic Business (BPI) did away with one of the best British male and greatest feminine awards in 2022 following criticism that the non-binary pop star Sam Smith wouldn’t be eligible for both prize regardless of their large business success.

This 12 months, Smith obtained a nomination for track of the 12 months for Unholy – their collaboration with German pop star Kim Petras – and pop/R&B act, one of many style classes first launched in 2022, which can be determined by way of a public vote on TikTok from 19 January.

Kinds joins first-time nominees Moist Leg in main the nominations for this 12 months’s Brit awards with 4 nods apiece. The breakout Isle of Wight indie duo and the ever present pop icon and former One Course member will go face to face within the class for album of the 12 months, joined by fellow a number of nominees the 1975, Stormzy and producer Fred Once more.

Moist Leg had not but launched their debut album on the time of the 2022 Brit awards: their self-titled effort, launched on the unbiased label Domino, was hailed by the Guardian as “a set of 90s and 00s-era indie that’s by turns dreamy, lush, hooky and thunderous, and layered with lyrics saturated with millennial disaffection, nervousness and overwhelm”. They’ve been nominated for 5 awards at this 12 months’s Grammys, which takes place per week previous to the Brit awards.

Girls-led acts made up 33% of the general nominations. Following Wet Leg, the one different feminine artists to obtain a number of nods are producer Eliza Rose, whose collaboration with Interplanetary Legal, Baddest of Them All, was a smash hit in summer season 2022, and noticed her nominated for track of the 12 months and greatest dance act; and rock duo Nova Twins, nominated for group of the 12 months and greatest various/rock act.

Final 12 months, Little Simz gained one of the best new artist prize, regardless of having launched her debut album six years prior; nevertheless, she solely grew to become eligible for the award after her 2021 album Generally I Would possibly Be Introvert grew to become her first to position within the UK albums chart, reaching No 4. This 12 months, the rapper Kojey Radical seems in an analogous place: he has been lively since 2014, however his 2022 album Causes to Smile was his first chart putting, reaching No 11.

The most effective new artist class can be notable for the inclusion of British-Japanese pop star Rina Sawayama. In 2020, she highlighted that she can be ineligible for the Brit awards and the Mercury prize, each run by the British Phonographic Business (BPI): born in Japan and raised within the UK for the reason that age of 4, she doesn’t maintain a British passport however has indefinite go away to stay. In February 2021, the BPI modified the principles to stipulate that artists who’ve been completely resident within the UK for 5 years will qualify for British classes. Sawayama was beforehand nominated for the 2021 Rising Star award.

There are first-time nominations for Moist Leg, Nova Twins, Unhealthy Boy Chiller Crew, Eliza Rose, LF System, Kim Petras, Blackpink, Fireboy DML, Gayle, Jack Harlow, Misplaced Frequencies and Bonobo.

Within the worldwide classes, Beyoncé, Lizzo and Taylor Swift lead the pack with two nominations apiece.

Different noteworthy nominations embody Bradford bassline collective Unhealthy Boy Chiller Crew, up for group of the 12 months – and liable so as to add some welcome chaos to the reside broadcast – Eurovision star Sam Ryder for greatest new artist, and Ed Sheeran and Elton John’s 2021 festive hit, Merry Christmas, for greatest track.

British lady band Flo had been beforehand introduced as winners of the Rising Star award. The prizes for producer and songwriter of the 12 months can be introduced at a later date.

This 12 months’s Brit awards can be introduced by comic Mo Gilligan and happen reside on the London O2 Enviornment on 11 February. Moist Leg and Sam Smith, performing alongside Kim Petras, are the primary reside acts to be confirmed.

The 1975 – Being Humorous in a International Language
Moist Leg – Moist Leg
Harry Kinds – Harry’s Home
Stormzy – This Is What I Imply
Fred Once more – Precise Life 3

Central Cee
Fred Once more
George Ezra
Harry Kinds
Stormzy

The 1975
Arctic Monkeys
Unhealthy Boy Chiller Crew
Nova Twins
Moist Leg

Kojey Radical
Mimi Webb
Rina Sawayama
Sam Ryder
Moist Leg

Aitch/Ashanti – Child
Cat Burns – Go
Dave – Starlight
Ed Sheeran and Elton John – Merry Christmas
Eliza Rose/Interplanetary Legal – BOTA
George Ezra – Inexperienced Inexperienced Grass
Harry Kinds – As It Was
Lewis Capaldi – Overlook Me
LF System – Afraid to Really feel
Sam Smith and Kim Petras – Unholy

Beyoncé
Burna Boy
Kendrick Lamar
Lizzo
Taylor Swift

Blackpink
Drake and 21 Savage
First Support Equipment
Fontaines DC
Gabriels

Beyoncé – Break My Soul
David Guetta and Bebe Rexha – I’m Good
Fireboy DML and Ed Sheeran – Peru
Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero and Stephanie Beatriz – We Don’t Speak About Bruno
Gayle – ABCDEFU
Jack Harlow – First Class
Lizzo – About Rattling Time
Misplaced Frequencies/Calum Scott – The place Are You Now
OneRepublic – I Ain’t Apprehensive
Taylor Swift – Anti-Hero

The 1975
Arctic Monkeys
Nova Twins
Tom Grennan
Moist Leg

Aitch
Central Cee
Dave
Loyle Carner
Stormzy

Becky Hill
Bonobo
Calvin Harris
Eliza Rose
Fred Once more

Cat Burns
Charli XCX
Dua Lipa
Sam Smith
Harry Kinds