Brit Awards 2025 nominations revealed as Charli XCX and Dua Lipa lead the nods

CHARLI XCX and Dua Lipa are starring the nods astatine this year’s Brit Awards, with nominations revealed contiguous up of its March 1 ceremony.

The Sympathy is simply a Knife singer, who was nominated for her archetypal Brit a decennary agone but has ne'er won immoderate of the 4 gongs she has been up for, is successful the moving for 5 successful 1 spell this clip around.

They see Artist of the Year, Dance Act, Pop Act and Song of the Year for her Billie Eilish collaboration Guess and Album of the Year for Brat.

Close down Charli with 4 nominations each are her person Dua, indie set The Last Dinner Party, and Mercury Prize-winning jazz quintet Ezra Collective.

Speaking connected their red-carpet plans, drummer Femi Koleoso said: “When we haven’t prepared properly, we conscionable say: ‘All black.’ So far, it’s each black. If you spot thing different than black, past that’s truly deliberate.”

Another apical contender is Myles Smith, who has 3 nominations successful summation to the Rising Star grant helium was announced arsenic winning past month.

The Stargazing singer, attending his archetypal Brit Awards, said: “Last year, I was watching it connected TV, and to beryllium determination this twelvemonth is thing I’m truthful looking guardant to.

"It’s specified a large occasion, and it’s slap bang successful the mediate of my tour, truthful my caput is everyplace close now, but I’ll fig it out.”

Jade Thirlwall besides makes her people arsenic the archetypal Little Mix subordinate to beryllium nominated for her solo work, with nods for Song of the Year and Pop Act, contempt releasing lone a fistful of tracks.

She said: “As a band, we were nominated a fewer times and won 3 Brit Awards. But erstwhile it’s for your ain music—my idiosyncratic experiences—it does deed different. It feels other special.”

Sam Fender joins the contention with nominations for Artist of the Year and Alternative/Rock Act, contempt releasing lone 1 opus successful 2024, People Watching.

Meanwhile, British histrion Cynthia Erivo and US popular prima Ariana Grande some scored Oscar nods for acting but were snubbed astatine the Brits.

Ariana’s chart-topping medium Eternal Sunshine and Cynthia’s contributions to the Wicked soundtrack failed to marque the shortlist.

The Cure person landed 3 nods for the ceremony, which are their archetypal nominations successful implicit 30 years.

They are up for Album of the Year for Songs of a Lost World, arsenic good arsenic Group of the Year and Alternative/Rock Act.

And The Beatles' Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr person landed a information — 55 years aft they divided up.

Their opus Now and Then, which was released astatine the extremity of 2023 erstwhile an unfinished demo was discovered and restored, is up for Song of the Year.

It is the archetypal clip they person been nominated since the very archetypal Brit Awards, way backmost successful 1977.

The Sun has already revealed that Charli, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan are being lined up to execute astatine the bash, which volition beryllium hosted by Jack Whitehall astatine The O2 Arena.

Fans volition person their accidental successful the genre categories, with voting opening via a WhatsApp transmission connected January 31 astatine brits.co.uk/whatsapp.

Votes tin beryllium formed erstwhile each 24 hours until February 14.