| Brit Award for International Album | |
|---|---|
 2011 winner Arcade Fire | |
| Awarded for | Achievement in Excellent International Album |
| Country | United Kingdom (UK) |
| Presented by | British Phonographic Industry (BPI) |
| First award | 1977 |
| Final award | 2011 |
| Currently held by | Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (2011) |
| Most awards | None |
| Most nominations |
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| Website | www |
The Brit Award for International Album is an award given by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), an organisation which represents record companies and artists in the United Kingdom. [1] The accolade is presented at the Brit Awards, an annual celebration of British and international music. [2] The winners and nominees are determined by the Brit Awards voting academy with over one-thousand members, which comprise record labels, publishers, managers, agents, media, and previous winners and nominees. [3]
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The award was first presented in 1977 as International Album. The accolade was not handed out between 1982 and 2001 and has been defunct as of 2011.
Arcade Fire, The Killers and Kings of Leon received the most nominations, with three each. Three albums were nominated in two consecutive years; Songs in A Minor by Alicia Keys in 2002 and 2003, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below by Outkast in 2004 and 2005, and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb by U2 in 2005 and 2006.
Only seven non-American artists were nominated for the award; Swedish group ABBA for Arrival in 1977, Australian singer Kylie Minogue for Fever in 2002 and X in 2008, French duo Daft Punk for Discovery in 2002, Irish band U2 for How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb in 2005 and 2006, Canadian band Arcade Fire for Funeral in 2006, Neon Bible in 2008 and The Suburbs in 2011, and Australian bands AC/DC for Black Ice in 2009 and Empire of the Sun for Walking on a Dream in 2010. Minogue and Arcade Fire were also the only non-American recipients of the award, respectively winning for Fever and The Suburbs, and, along with U2, the only non-American artists with multiple nominations.
