Brits Nominations / Music Forum // Drowned In Sound

British Single
Adele - 'Chasing Pavements'
Alexandra Burke - 'Hallelujah'
Coldplay - 'Viva La Vida'
Dizzee Rascal ft. Calvin Harris - 'Dance Wiv Me'
Duffy - 'Mercy'
Estelle ft. Kanye West: 'American Boy'
Girls Aloud - 'The Promise'
Leona Lewis - 'Better In Time'
Scouting For Girls - 'Heartbeat'
The X Factor Finalists - 'Hero'

British Album
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Duffy - Rockferry
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Ting Tings - We Started Nothing

British Breakthrough Act
Adele
Duffy
The Last Shadow Puppets
Scouting For Girls
Ting Tings

British Live Act
Coldplay
Elbow
Iron Maiden
Scouting For Girls
The Verve

International Male Solo Artist
Beck
Neil Diamond
Jay-Z
Kanye West
Seasick Steve

International Female Solo Artist
Beyoncé
Gabriella Cilmi
Katy Perry
Pink
Santogold

International Group
AC/DC
Fleet Foxes
The Killers
Kings of Leon
MGMT

International Album
AC/DC - Black Ice
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
The Killers - Day & Age
Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

British Producer of the Year
Bernard Butler
Brian Eno
Steve Mac

Critics' Choice Award
Florence and the Machine

Outstanding Contribution to Music
Pet Shop Boys

David_R | 20 Jan '09, 19:23 | X | ^ This | Reply

From the BBC

"Two acts that have received some of the biggest critical acclaim over the past 12 months have been made ineligible for nominations because of a change in award rules. Previously artists were eligible to be nominated if they have had a single or album in the UK top 75, but this year it has been changed to the top 40.

This means that Mercury Prize-nominated Laura Marling, who would have been in the running, will fail to get a mention as her album Alas I Cannot Swim only peaked at number 45. Similarly, US singer Bon Iver, who featured in HMV's top 10 end of year poll of polls, reached number 42 with For Emma, Forever Ago and will also miss out"

What a load of shit, why not just have the best selling records of the year as the nominees for all the characters.

MitchellStirling | 20 Jan '09, 19:28 | X | ^ This | Reply

That is pretty much how they decide the awards

Best selling artist in each category usually wins.

Pretty stupid rules though.

charliepanayi @MitchellStirling | 20 Jan '09, 19:34 | X | ^ This | Reply

It's not the first time Skinner's been nominated in the category

I think he writes almost everything on his own.

OkkervilRower @Sonicjules | 20 Jan '09, 19:38 | X | ^ This | Reply

Since ever?

charliepanayi @Sonicjules | 20 Jan '09, 19:40 | X | ^ This | Reply

worst awards ever basically

ego boosting necessary for all the people already doing well (especially with the top 40 rule), plus the bags of cash from the free publicity that will immediately increase purchases of the winners cds. all these cds will shoot back up to the top of the charts, which is where they've been most of the year anyway.

depressing stuff.

FutureKyoto | 20 Jan '09, 20:10 | X | ^ This | Reply

I don't know

the Grammys runs it close.

charliepanayi @FutureKyoto | 20 Jan '09, 20:15 | X | ^ This | Reply

fucking hell

scouting for girls best live british act, i think i might kill myself

jp88 @David_R | 20 Jan '09, 20:29 | X | ^ This | Reply

also the day

beck actually gets best international male i will buy everyone i know a copy of odelay

jp88 @David_R | 20 Jan '09, 20:31 | X | ^ This | Reply

Terrible

And how much fucking Scouting For Girls too, if that was the best single of last year then then...ooh I'm irritated. What's the point in awarding commercial success instead of actual musical ability?

jenesaispas @MitchellStirling | 20 Jan '09, 20:38 | X | ^ This | Reply

There are music awards that reward musical ability?

charliepanayi @jenesaispas | 20 Jan '09, 20:42 | X | ^ This | Reply

that's true

but there's always a nugget of comfort when something a little less popular gets a nomination.

MitchellStirling @charliepanayi | 20 Jan '09, 21:04 | X | ^ This | Reply

Jesus

I just saw them on the end of the Brits nomination show. Managed to avoid them before now. How on earth can anyone like them! They call that a song?

Trey @jenesaispas | 20 Jan '09, 21:04 | X | ^ This | Reply

I always love how PJ Harvey has been nominated 5 or 6 times

and has never won, and has been beaten by luminaries such as Shola Ama and Sonique. Pretty much because both were having their 15 minutes of chart success around that time.

charliepanayi @MitchellStirling | 20 Jan '09, 21:07 | X | ^ This | Reply

Nope

but there should be.

jenesaispas @charliepanayi | 20 Jan '09, 21:10 | X | ^ This | Reply

is it me

or are all the british categories (they're slightly more on it in the international categories) painfully out of touch EVEN for the Q audience?

also quite funny is that critics choice award, chosen by the record labels, awarded to all the big hyped, industry pushed bands for the year (florence, white lies, little boots). its like sainsburys awarding their own brand cereal the best in the whole store and then putting a sticker on the front calling it award winning cereal producer of the year

lazerlife | 20 Jan '09, 21:13 | X | ^ This | Reply

Shola Ama for Best British Female

TheSoundofBastards | 20 Jan '09, 21:14 | X | ^ This | Reply

Also...

The Brits need to sort out their chronological eligibility. Surely In Rainbows should have been up last year, it came out over a year ago now!

charliepanayi | 20 Jan '09, 21:15 | X | ^ This | Reply

Happens all the time

Look at the historical winners, it's often about the flash in the pans, the ones that had the media hype behind them and nothing else.

Trey @charliepanayi | 20 Jan '09, 21:49 | X | ^ This | Reply

Haha

White Lies for 3rd place in Critics Choice

drcoffeebean | 20 Jan '09, 22:03 | X | ^ This | Reply

Scouting for Girls- Best Live Act!!

HOW THE FUCK CAN THEY EVEN GET NOMINATED? HAVE THEY EVEN FUCKING SEEN THAT LITTLE TWAT PRANCE AROUND THE STAGE LIKE HE'S RAPED EVERY GIRL IN THE AUDIENCE (and some of the men)? THEY PLAYED AT OUR SUMMER BALL AND IT WAS SO GODAWFULLY BAD I HAD TO PAY A DRUNK MAN TO SPIT IN MY MOUTH TO FORGET ABOUT IT, AND THEY STILL LEFT A SOUR TASTE IN MY MOUTH.

seriously, I can't get over this, I mean, I know the nominations are mostly disgusting, but this...ughghghg

Fred-West | 20 Jan '09, 22:28 | X | ^ This | Reply

iron maiden are fucking incredible live

Jamie_Summers @hamstir | 20 Jan '09, 22:36 | X | ^ This | Reply

The annual shit awards

I shall be avoiding this like a dose of the clap and listening to 'songs about fucking' on a loop until its gone away again! Didnt these twats invent an award especially for fucking Steps as they missed out the year before to Belle & Sebastian.

chadders | 20 Jan '09, 22:40 | X | ^ This | Reply

The best female award is Duffy's

she sold loads of records - QED

charliepanayi @David_R | 20 Jan '09, 22:41 | X | ^ This | Reply

it's not just you

Glassmachine @lazerlife | 21 Jan '09, 00:28 | X | ^ This | Reply

so fucking uninspiring

fucktherave | 21 Jan '09, 01:10 | X | ^ This | Reply

Is this whole website BRITISH???

huntervessel | 21 Jan '09, 05:21 | X | ^ This | Reply

Hmm

Breakthrough? Last Shadow Puppets? Aren't they some kind of supergroup? Adele? What did she win last year?

Mr_JDTraynor | 21 Jan '09, 11:45 | X | ^ This | Reply

How can MIA be nominated

when she did fuckall last year?

roastthemonaspit @David_R | 21 Jan '09, 11:50 | X | ^ This | Reply

International Male Solo Artist category makes me smile

Seasick Steve takes on Jay-Z and Kanye West.

ChewPot | 21 Jan '09, 11:55 | X | ^ This | Reply

ACTUALLY

shittest Brits ever

ehwhat | 21 Jan '09, 11:55 | X | ^ This | Reply

^^^^totally.

Lo-Pan @fucktherave | 21 Jan '09, 11:56 | X | ^ This | Reply

because she had a top 40 single or album

them's the criteria

joe_totale @roastthemonaspit | 21 Jan '09, 12:00 | X | ^ This | Reply

wasnt a green day nominated

two years after it had been released?

Jamie_Summers @charliepanayi | 21 Jan '09, 12:02 | X | ^ This | Reply

And Craig David's

first album got nominated 2 years in a row.

roastthemonaspit @Jamie_Summers | 21 Jan '09, 12:08 | X | ^ This | Reply

so

out of touch

Chunky_Lover | 21 Jan '09, 12:10 | X | ^ This | Reply

And Neil Diamond

or is that just a joke that he has been nominated?

black_rooster @ChewPot | 21 Jan '09, 12:14 | X | ^ This | Reply

Because the merits of the music is entirely subjective.

Whereas sales are easily quantifiable.

I don't know why people get wound up by the Brits - it's a commercial awards ceremony with a corporate sponsor awarding commercial artists and commercial products. It's the way it is. Nobody would watch the awards if Bon Iver was winning best album, Laura Marling best female and of Montreal best international group. That also would not be representative of the music industry in this country, which defeats the whole point of the ceremony.

hectorious @jenesaispas | 21 Jan '09, 12:17 | X | ^ This | Reply

yeah

it was excruciating. i don't think it's anti-pop snobbery that makes me think they're a terrible, terrible band.

oenso @Trey | 21 Jan '09, 12:26 | X | ^ This | Reply

No-one is saying they should win, or expecting them to

But Laura Marling at least did something last year (unlike MIA, whose last album was 18 months ago!) and both her and Bon Iver made a little impact, you can argue Marling at least deserves a nomination - also the rules have changed, so now you have to be top 40 rather than top 75 it seems, which is pretty unfair and is the reason why those two have missed out.

charliepanayi @hectorious | 21 Jan '09, 12:27 | X | ^ This | Reply