Ten times a day, per category, with votes refreshing every evening, until the 2nd of February 2023. This year’s BRIT Awards are rapidly rolling ever closer as January comes to a close. Members of the British public are being encouraged to divulge opinions in some participatory voting antics.
With the BRIT Awards’ official Instagram apprehensively teasing our excitement these last few months by slowly releasing nominees and performances; we can only be buzzed that we can now toss our opinions into the pot. We sure know who we’ll be using our votes on, who will you be voting for this year?
The 2023 BRIT Awards aim to celebrate the best British musical achievements of the previous year in categories including Song of the Year, Artist of the Year and Best New Artist. Additionally, this year, control has been handed over to the music fanatics of our generation with four public determined award-winning genre-specific categories:
- Best Rock/Alternative Act
- Best Pop/R&B Act
- Best Dance Act
- Best Hip Hop/Grime/Rap Act
The nominees have been public knowledge since January 12th, but just in case you
managed to miss the online debuts, here are all of the artists up for nomination this February.
Best Rock/ Alternative Act
The nominees for Best Rock/Alternative Act promoted by Absolute Radio include none other than The 1975, whose UK leg of their At Their Very Best tour is a meta visionary of performative prodigy and is well underway this January – taking TikTok and the nations’ beanie-wearing-menthol-smoking-indie-aficiandos by storm.
Five-time BRIT Award-winning band, Arctic Monkeys, who are set to embark on their UK and Ireland 2023 tour this May with new album, The Car, due to release on the 21st of October.
Illustrious rock duo to introduce Rock/Alternative category to the MOBO Awards in 2020, The Nova Twins. Consisting of innovative, progressive and creative minded Amy Love and Georgia South and the real audacious charmingly easy-going Tom Grennan with tunes to sedate the indie-pop craving we know we have.
And Wet Leg who have recently catapulted into fame with an insurgence of musical familiarity on TikTok.
Best Pop/ R&B Act
As promoted by Capital radio, the nominees for Best Pop/R&B Act are gospel/pop artist Cat Burns who rose to prominence with her 2020 single ‘Go’, which gained popularity last year due to its involvement with a social media video trend.
Prolific pop personality Charli XCX who recently guest performed for The 1975 at their Manchester show earlier this January, cultivating laudatory fan-uproar and is set to perform in this Aprils’ Coachella festival.
One of 2022’s female artists of note, Dua Lipa, is nominated for the category as a repeat generator of dance-worthy tunes.
Love on Tour took audiences by storm last year with none other than the positively ostentatious, Harry Styles, taking to the stage on his vivaciously ornate world-tour, deeming him nomination worthy.
Finally, Sam Smith takes the stage as an emotive conveyor of lyrical expression in this year’s category.
Best Dance Act
The nominees for Best Dance Act promoted by KISS FM are the unrivalled Voice UK semi-finalist, Becky Hill, with her wicked lyrical talents.
DJ Simon Green, better known as Bonobo – entering an upbeat exploration of jazz and world music.
The unparalleled, Calvin Harris, is without a doubt a contender for this year’s Best Dance Act with his paramount talents within the field.
Confirmed festival English DJ, Eliza Rose, is a standout for this category with her social media pertinence on TikTok as a curator of trend-worthy beats.
Finally for this category, with his recent rise to congruity within the scene, Fred again.. – taught by germane ambient music contributor Brain Eno – has certainly learnt his place within the folds.
Best Hip Hop/ Grime/ Rap Act
As promoted by Capital Xtra the nominees for Best Hip Hop/Grime/Rap Act 2023 are as follows with his solo breakthrough tune ‘Straight Rhymez’, harbouring over 26 million views, 24-year-old rapper, Aitch, has caught our eye.
Carrying on with an alphabetical motif we also bring Central Cee to the table as a contender because of his rise in interest this recent year following his single ‘Doja’.
Another nominee of note would be social-conscious rapper and lyrical genius, Dave, who took the UK by storm when he headlined Reading and Leeds Festival as the youngest-ever solo headliner, at just 24-years old.
2018 BRIT nominee, Loyle Carter, has been reinstated this year as an option for the public vote, with his 2022 album hugo proving to elicit a vibe unmatched.
We end our nominees on none other than Kingstons’ own, Stormzy, with controversial lyrics of British pertinence (shout out to Boris) and a November album release, it only makes sense that we see him on our screens this February for the BRITs.
This illustrative display of musical contesting will air on Saturday 11th February. So make sure to tune in to see if your votes made a difference.
Words By: Hannah Doherty
Header Image: @charlixcx
