Brit Awards 2020

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Brit Awards 2020
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Date18 February 2020
Venue The O2 Arena
Hosted by Jack Whitehall
Alice Levine
(Nominations show & red carpet)
Clara Amfo
(Red carpet)
Most awards Lewis Capaldi (2)
Most nominations
  • Lewis Capaldi
  • Dave (4 each)
Television/radio coverage
Network ITV
ITV2 (Red Carpet)
YouTube
Runtime125 minutes
Viewership3.8 million [1]
  2019  · Brit Awards ·  2021  

Brit Awards 2020 was the 40th edition of the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music show, the Brit Awards, and was marketed as "The 40th Show". [2] It was held on 18 February 2020 at the O2 Arena in London, with Jack Whitehall as the host for the third year running. [3] [4]

Contents

BBC Radio 1 host Alice Levine hosted the BRITs Are Coming Nominations Launch Show on 11 January 2020. The show was broadcast on ITV. [2]

Category changes

Several changes were made to the award categories compared to the previous year with the overall number of awards based on nominations reduced from thirteen to nine. [5] [6] None of the categories included fan voting. [7]

Categories not included

Compared to 2019, the following awards were not awarded: [7]

Renamed categories

The following awards were renamed: [5]

Controversy

Following the launch show, the Brits were castigated for having male-dominated nominations on the main and gender-neutral categories. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] The nominations for Album of the Year, Best Group and Best New Artist were almost entirely dominated by male solo artists, except for Mabel who was nominated for the latter, and international singers Normani and Miley Cyrus, who both were up for Song of the Year for their collaborations with Sam Smith and Mark Ronson.

Performers

Pre-ceremony

Performer(s)SongUK Singles Chart reaction
(week ending 23 January 2020)
UK Albums Chart reaction
(week ending 23 January 2020)
Liam Payne
Cheat Codes
"Live Forever"N/A LP1 – 100 (–31)
Freya Ridings "Lost Without You"N/A Freya Ridings – 72 (+18)
Aitch "Taste (Make It Shake)"N/AN/A
Dermot Kennedy "Power Over Me"60 (+26) Without Fear – 23 (+17)
Mabel "Don't Call Me Up"52 (+4) High Expectations – 22 (+7)

Main show

Performer(s)SongUK Singles Chart reaction
(week ending 27 February 2020)
UK Albums Chart reaction
(week ending 27 February 2020)
Mabel "Don't Call Me Up"34 (+14) High Expectations – 24 (+5)
Lewis Capaldi "Someone You Loved"6 (+1) Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent – 2 (+/–)
Harry Styles "Falling"41 (+53) Fine Line – 8 (+1)
Lizzo "Cuz I Love You"
"Truth Hurts"
"Good as Hell"
"Juice"
N/A
N/A
66 (+9)
N/A
Cuz I Love You – 35 (re-entry)
Dave "Black"
Freestyle [13]
100 (re-entry) Psychodrama – 14 (+43)
Billie Eilish
Finneas
Johnny Marr
Hans Zimmer
"No Time to Die"1 (debut) When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? – 4 (+2)
Don't Smile at Me – 13 (+4)
Celeste "Strange"N/AN/A
Stormzy
Burna Boy
Tiana Major9
"Don't Forget to Breathe"
"Do Better"
"Wiley Flow"
"Own It" (with elements of "Fortune Teller" by J Hus)
"Anybody" (Burna Boy)
"Rainfall"
N/A
N/A
N/A
23 (+/–)
N/A
N/A
Heavy Is the Head – 7 (+/–)
Rod Stewart
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Ronnie Wood
Kenney Jones
"I Don't Want to Talk About It"
"Stay with Me"
N/A
N/A
You're in My Heart: Rod Stewart with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – 34 (–8)

Winners and nominees

The winners are in bold. [14] [15]

British Album of the Year
(presented by Billie Eilish and Finneas)
Song of the Year
(presented by Tom Jones)
British Male Solo Artist
(presented by Ronnie Wood)
British Female Solo Artist
(presented by Ellie Goulding and Jorja Smith)
British Group
(presented by Anne-Marie, Courtney Love, and Hailee Steinfeld)
Best New Artist
(presented by Clara Amfo and Niall Horan)
International Male Solo Artist
(presented by Kiefer Sutherland and Paloma Faith)
International Female Solo Artist
(presented by Melanie C)
Rising Star Award
(presented by Sam Fender)
British Producer of the Year

Multiple nominations and awards

Artists who received multiple nominations
NominationsArtist
4 Dave
Lewis Capaldi
3 Mabel
Stormzy
2 Burna Boy
Harry Styles
Michael Kiwanuka
Fred Again
Artists who won multiple awards
AwardsArtist
2 Lewis Capaldi

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