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Nominations Revealed For 2012 BRIT Awards
Thursday, 12 January 2012 Written by Jon Stickler
Nominations Revealed For 2012 BRIT Awards

With less than six weeks to go until The BRIT Awards 2012 take place at The O2 in London, the nominations were announced this evening at a special launch event at The Savoy. It was revealed that 2012 was the year of the solo singer-songwriter, with Ed Sheeran, Jessie J and Adele leading the nominations.

The winners will be announced at the The BRIT Awards 2012, which will be held on Tuesday 21st February at London's O2 Arena and will be exclusively broadcast live on ITV1. It can also now be revealed that performances on the night will come from Adele, Bruno Mars, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, Florence + The Machine and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds. This year’s winner of the prestigious Outstanding Contribution to Music award, Blur, will give their first UK live performance since 2009 when the original line up reformed to play a number of concerts including one of the Glastonbury festival’s most memorable headline performances.

Topping the list of nominations this year is Yorkshire-born singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, who appears in four different categories including 'British Breakthrough Act' and the prestigious 'MasterCard British Album of the Year'. This reflects an incredible year for the young artist, who only released his debut album ‘+’ in September. Solo artists Jessie J and Adele both follow with three nominations each, while Florence + The Machine, Emeli Sandé and Coldplay are all nominated in two categories, along with international male solo artists Bon Iver and Aloe Blacc. Coldplay are the only group with more than one nomination. 

Adele, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, Florence + The Machine and PJ Harvey are all up for the 'MasterCard British Album of the Year', the biggest award of the evening. Though Ed Sheeran gets the nod for his debut album, Coldplay have won this award three times in the past. Meanwhile, revered solo artist PJ Harvey has been nominated eight times for a BRIT but has yet to win. 

The nominations for 'British Female Solo Artist' see Jessie J, Florence and The Machine and Adele go head to head, all of whom are previous winners of the BRITs Critics’ Choice award, won this year by Emeli  Sandé. They will be up against last year’s 'British Female Solo Artist' winner Laura Marling and Kate Bush, who has been nominated in this category an incredible seven times but has not won it since 1987. 

The nominations were officially revealed by Greg James at a special event at The Savoy in London tonight, featuring performances by Ed Sheeran and Emeli Sandé, winner of the Critics’ Choice Award. Voting for British Single also opens today and will be voted for by listeners of Capital FM and users of iTunes along with British Group supported by BBC Radio 2 and British Breakthrough Act with BBC Radio 1. 

Check out a gallery of the stars in attendance at the 2012 BRIT Awards Nominations party HERE.

For more information on the BRIT Awards, please visit www.brits.co.uk or the BRITS up-to-date Twitter page at @BRIT_Awards
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