Here’s the singles chart for August:
Moving into June now, here’s an update from the singles chart:
This is one of those all-too-common posts where you probably know more about the subject than I do, but I still feel as though we should pay some lip service to the fortieth anniversary BRIT Awards!
This year’s ceremony was the 37th altogether, and celebrated many late geniuses, with statuette designed by Zaha Hadid, a tribute to George Michael, and several wins for David Bowie. It took place at The O2 in London on 22nd February, and was hosted by Dermot O’Leary and Emma Willis, who stepped in for Michael Bublé at the last minute.
Performances at the show came from Little Mix, Bruno Mars, Emeli Sandé, The 1975, Chris Martin, Katy Perry and Skip Marley, The Chainsmokers and Coldplay, Ed Sheeran feat. Stormzy, and Robbie Williams.
Presented by Simon Cowell and Nicole Scherzinger. The nominees:
Winner: One Direction
Presented by Nick Grimshaw and Rita Ora. The nominees:
The winner: Rag ‘n’ Bone Man
Presented by Emeli Sandé. The nominees:
The winner: Rag ‘n’ Bone Man, which surely must be cheating?
Presented by Noel Gallagher. The nominees:
The winner: David Bowie
Presented by David Tennant. The nominees:
The winner: Emeli Sandé
Presented by Zane Lowe. The nominees:
The winner: David Bowie
Presented by Maisie Williams and Romesh Ranganathan. The nominees:
The winner: The 1975
Presented by Fearne Cotton and Holly Willoughby. The nominees:
Winner: Little Mix
Presented by Alice Levine, Clara Amfo, and Laura Jackson. The nominees:
The winner: Beyoncé
Also, presented by Alice Levine, Clara Amfo, and Laura Jackson. The nominees:
The winner: Drake
Since they were still around, this was also presented by Alice Levine, Clara Amfo, and Laura Jackson. The nominees:
The winner: A Tribe Called Quest
Presented by Naomi Campbell and Jonathan Ross
The winner: Adele
Because this is getting like the Q Awards with its multitude of identically-named awards. Presented by Take That.
Winner: Robbie Williams. Which I can’t help but feel reflects his success at the BRITs more than it does his performance generally, but well done to him anyway!
Closing Awards Week for this year (apart from a brief chart tomorrow) is our round-up of this year’s BRIT Award ceremony. The event took place on Wednesday night (the 25th) at the O2 Arena in London, and the hosts were Ant & Dec, for the first time since 2001.
Of course, the most exciting thing that happened was when Madonna fell down three stairs, but she bravely soldiered on, through a pretty lacklustre song. And Kanye West was the victim of a bit of censorship, while some of his naughty words escaped the censors, but I’m not entirely clear why we should care about either of these facts.
Anyway, here are the winners of the 2015 BRIT Awards. The first two awards were announced before the actual ceremony…
Always an influential award, handed out a couple of months before the big night. Nominees:
Winner: James Bay
In association with The MPG Awards. Nominees:
Winner: Paul Epworth
Presented by Rita Ora and Orlando Bloom. The nominees:
Winner: Ed Sheeran.
Presented by Jimmy Page. The nominees:
Winner: Royal Blood
Presented by Lewis Hamilton and Ellie Goulding. Nominees:
Winner: Taylor Swift
Presented by Mark Ronson. Nominees:
Winner: Paloma Faith, who went on forever about floors for some reason
The British artist whose global releases sold the most outside the UK. Presented by Kim Kardashian-West. What’s up, London?
Winner: Sam Smith
Presented by Cara Delevigne. Nominees:
Winner: Pharrell Williams
Presented by Lisa Snowden and Lionel Richie. Nominees:
Winner: Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars
Presented by John Bishop. Nominees:
Winner: Foo Fighters
Presented by Fearne Cotton and Charli XCX. Nominees:
Winner: Sam Smith
Yes, that’s the confusing name for the Best Video award now. Voted for using tweets, which is novel. They started with the ten most viewed videos on YouTube, apparently:
The final shortlist of five, presented by the tiny Jimmy Carr and the enormous
Winner: One Direction, accepted by Simon Cowell
The award that, in the absence of an Outstanding Contribution award, is considered the biggie. Supported by The Sun’s Bizarre column. Presented by Russell Crowe from off of Neighbours.
Winner: Ed Sheeran
Finally, the nominees have been announced for the 2015 BRIT Awards.
This is the one that’s already been announced. The nominees were:
And the winner: James Bay
Yes, the one award that’s really worth caring about includes a nomination for Goldfrapp this year! Could be interesting…
No Outstanding Contribution again unfortunately – we’ll have to just pick an aging rock act for ourselves. Anyway, the ceremony takes place on February 25th, and we’ll walk through the results here on this very blog shortly afterwards.
We looked at the nominations in detail a few weeks ago, and now the winners are in!
Presented by Ed Sheeran. Nominees:
Winner: Ben Howard. Whoever he is.
Presented by Nick Grimshaw.
Winner: Ben Howard. Whoever he is.
Presented by Taylor Swift. Nominees:
Winner: Emeli Sandé
Presented by Simon Pegg and someone called Bérénice Mariohe. Nominees:
Winner: Mumford and Sons
It’s back! Presented by Louis Smith and Jack Whitehall. Nominees:
Winner: Coldplay
Presented by Dermot O’Leary and Sharon Osbourne. Nominees:
Winner: Lana del Rey
Presented by Dave Grohl. Nominees:
Winner: The Black Keys
A secret award, because producers shouldn’t be allowed out in front of the general public. Nominees:
Winner: Paul Epworth
Presented by Robbie Williams. Nominees:
Winner: One Direction
Presented by Bryan Ferry. Nominees:
Winner: Emeli Sandé
Presented by Jourdan Dunn and Rafe Spall. Nominees:
Winner: Frank Ocean
Presented by Tom Daley and Jonathan Ross. Nominees:
Winner: Adele
Nominees:
Winner: Tom Odell
Winner: War Child
Being out of the country I haven’t had a chance to actually watch it yet, but I hope you enjoyed it!
The nominations are finally in for this year’s BRIT awards! Here they are…
Always a rather odd list, and this year is no exception.
Whatever…
An award for which the judges seem to have always struggled to find nominees. No Alison Moyet or Annie Lennox this year though.
An unusually creative list of groups. Should be an interesting category.
Pick between dull and outdated…
Some foreign ladies.
A typically boring selection…
Good to see this award solidly back as a regular fixture…
A new award with a typically meaningless name. I wonder if One Direction will win?
Erm…
A well deserved nomination for Gotye.
A huge list of nominations for this once forgotten award, including an inexplicable return for BRITs luvvie Robbie Williams.
The winner, Tom Odell was already announced in December.
Replacing the Outstanding Contribution award for this year only.
Robbie who?
On the run-up to the award ceremony on February 20th, starting tomorrow I’m going to run through a selection of ten of my favourite BRITs ceremonies from previous years. Prior to 1994, the internet doesn’t do a great job of documenting exactly what happened, so I’ve donned my researching shoes and we’ll have a fun wander through the history of the BRITs!
