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We can announce that The BRIT Awards with MasterCard will take place on Wednesday 24th February 2016, with Ant & Dec returning to host the show!

The award-winning pair took over hosting duties this year, bringing their unique humour and presenting prowess to the evening’s entertainment (not to mention leaving a lime on stage during Taylor Swift's performance...) The show will once again take place at The O2, London and broadcast live on ITV.

Ant and Dec said “We're really excited to be invited back to host The BRIT Awards 2016. In all honesty we only intended to do it for one year but had such a good time we are thrilled to be doing it again. Both of us are looking forward to what will be an incredible night, and we can't wait to celebrate the achievements of British music once again.”

BRIT Awards Chairman Max Lousada added: "We're delighted to welcome Ant and Dec back to host the BRITs next year. They played a huge role in the success of this year's event and we’re all looking forward to another great show in 2016."

Next year’s event will look to build on the huge accomplishments of the 2015 show, which saw over a million extra viewers year on year on ITV and celebrated its biggest digital show to date with a record-breaking 7.8million tweets globally on the night.

More than 24million people have watched BRITs content on our YouTube channel, and music sales were exponentially boosted from the show, with the following week’s Top 5 Albums all by BRITs performers and winners including Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran, Royal Blood and Paloma Faith.

A tremendous £500k was raised for the War Child charity from all of the activity around the 2015 BRITs, including the charitable donation from Google Play who were this year’s official download and audio streaming partner and BRITs Week, which hosted a series of incredible live shows in the week leading up to the main event through a partnership between the BPI and AEG. During this week War Child hosted “Passport Back to the Bars” and their annual War Child BRIT Awards concert, which saw chart toppers Take That perform at the London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire. This activity recently won the charity a National Fundraising Award.

With Max Lousada remaining Chairman and acclaimed stage designer Es Devlin returning to create yet another eye-catching stage set, The BRITs 2016 is set to once again be the biggest and best celebration of British music and and the most prestigious night in the UK music calendar.

Categories and Nominees

British Male
Aphex Twin
Calvin Harris
James Bay - WINNER
Jamie xx
Mark Ronson

British Female
Adele - WINNER
Amy Winehouse
Florence + The Machine
Jess Glynne
Laura Marling

British Group
Blur
Coldplay - WINNER
Foals
One Direction
Years & Years

British Breakthrough
Catfish And The Bottlemen - WINNER
James Bay
Jess Glynne
Wolf Alice
Years & Years

International Male
Drake
Father John Misty
Justin Bieber - WINNER
Kendrick Lamar
The Weeknd

International Female
Ariana Grande
Björk - WINNER
Courtney Barnett
Lana Del Rey
Meghan Trainor

International Group
Alabama Shakes
Eagles Of Death Metal
Major Lazer
Tame Impala - WINNER
U2

British Single
Adele - Hello - WINNER
Calvin Harris + Disciples - How Deep Is Your Love
Ed Sheeran & Rudimental - Bloodstream
Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do
James Bay - Hold Back The River
Jess Glynne - Hold My Hand
Little Mix - Black Magic
Olly Murs feat. Demi Lovato - Up
Philip George - Wish You Were Mine
Years & Years - King

British Video
Adele - Hello
Ed Sheeran - Photograph
Jessie J - Flashlight
Little Mix - Black Magic
One Direction - Drag Me Down - WINNER
Calvin Harris + Disciples - How Deep Is Your Love
Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do
Naughty Boy feat. Beyoncé & Arrow Benjamin - Runnin' (Lose It All)
Sam Smith - Writing's On The Wall
Years & Years - King

Mastercard Album of the Year
Adele - 25 - WINNER
Coldplay - A Head Full Of Dreams
Florence + The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
James Bay - Chaos And The Calm
Jamie xx - In Colour

British Producer
Charlie Andrew - WINNER
Mark Ronson
Mike Crossey
Tom Dalgety

Critics' Choice Award 2016
Jack Garratt - WINNER
Frances
Izzy Bizu

Performers
Adele
Coldplay
James Bay
Jess Glynne
Justin Bieber
Little Mix
Rihanna
The Weeknd

As much as I love them, I hope Ant & Dec don't do a James Cordon and return for a further two years afterwards. It's nice to get a bit of variety in!

Pam Hogg as been revealed as the designer for the awards statues that will be given out during the ceremony. Each category has its own design to make it unique for the winner.

 

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I really hope Years & Years and Little Mix get best group nominations, Lana for international female. And that Adele takes all the awards Jess Glynne would have potentially won (other than breakout).

The BRITs Critics' Choice Award 2016 nominees have been announced.

 

Up for the prize:

 

Jack Garratt

 

Frances

 

Izzy Bizu

 

On Wednesday 25/11/15, all three artists will be recording a Critics' Choice Award session at Abbey Road.

 

The winner will be announced on Friday 27/11/15.

Edited November 24, 20159 yr by lewistgreen

Other News:

 

- MasterCard will be teaming up with The BRIT Awards as its sponsorship partner for the 18th year running.

- There will be a BRIT Awards 2016 album which will be released through Warner Music.

- BBC Worldwide will distribute the programme internationally, whilst obviously ITV will be the awards ceremony's home here in the UK.

- Eventim will handle the awards ceremony's ticketing with those attending the show being given a 'collectable FanTicket'.

- The BRIT Awards are now on Snapchat. By adding 'brits', users can receive access to the latest news and behind the scenes action.

Edited November 24, 20159 yr by lewistgreen

Jack Garratt will easily be the Critic's Choice Award winner, never even heard of the other two!

BRIT Awards 2015 was their only compilation which failed to top the compilation chart

Would love Frances or Izzy Bizu to get it as Jack Garratt would be predictable

Frances or Izzy Bizu please for the win, really like both of them :heart:

 

Jack Garratt has been announced as the winner of the Critics' Choice Award. :cheer:

 

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Oh I really like Izzy, she was Foxes support act last month and really enjoyed her set!

 

Adele to sweep best album and all that pls.

Start getting excited because ‘The BRITs Are Coming’ on 14 January 2016! The exclusive BRITs nominations launch show will be filmed at ITV studios and broadcast on ITV later that evening.

 

We’ll be revealing the BRITs 2016 nominations shortlist and presenting 2016’s Critics’ Choice winner, Jack Garratt, with his trophy, so there’ll be lots to celebrate!

 

Performing at the launch alongside Jack will be Jess Glynne and Years & Years, who were nominated for last year’s Critics’ Choice award.

Adele has been confirmed as the first artist to perform at The BRITs. Here's hoping for another iconic spectacle.

Coldplay and Justin Bieber have also been added to the bill over night :)

Pretty good line-up so far!

Years and Years performing please :heart:

Hoping Little Mix could perform Secret Love Song

For those of you that can afford want to go, general tickets go on sale on Friday 15th Jan.

'The BRITS are Coming' launch party (along with the nominations) is this Thursday night on ITV2 at 10.30, hosted by Laura Whitmore. I should think Years & Years and Jess Glynne will be nominated for quite a bit, likewise Little Mix should be up for Best Single with 'Black Magic'.