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Brit Awards 2021: Female acts lead nominations after ceremony slammed for male dominance
This year’s Brit Awards is dominated by women. (Courtesy)
This year’s Brit Awards is dominated by women with Dua Lipa, Arlo Parks and Celeste receiving three nominations each.
All three artists receive nods in the coveted Mastercard Album of the year category - in stark contrast to last year’s ceremony, where the category was criticised for only featuring men.
For the first time in the history of the Brit Awards, 4/5 of the Album of the year nominees are female, with Jessie Ware’s What’s Your Pleasure also in the running.
International
K-pop supergroup BTS received their first Brit Award nomination for
International
Watermelon Sugar.
The winners of the 2021 awards will be announced at a ceremony on Tuesday, May 11 at London s The O2
Arena, though it is not clear what form the ceremony will take because of coronavirus restrictions.
Under a current government roadmap for easing coronavirus rules, live music venues will not be allowed to open their doors until Monday, May 17.
The annual ceremony, which normally takes place in February, was postponed by three months because of safety and logistical concerns because of the pandemic.
Full list of Brit Awards 2021 nominees:
Global Superstar Dua Lipa Up For Three BRIT Awards
Dua Lipa is up for three BRIT Awards, along with Arlo Parks, Joel Corry and Young T & Bugsey.
In 2018, Lipa made BRIT Award history as the first female artist to pick up five nominations, with two wins for British Breakthrough Act and British Female Solo Artist. At this year s ceremony, the 25 year-old superstar has been shortlisted in the Female Solo Artist category as well as British Single with Mastercard for her hit Physical and the Mastercard Album accolade for her second LP,
Future Nostalgia.
Parks, 20, is up for the Breakthrough Artist prize, and she will battle Lipa for the Female Solo Artist gong and the Mastercard Album award as her debut record