Emeli Sande leads the pack as the BRIT Award 2013 nominations are announced: see the full list!

Emeli Sande leads the pack as the BRIT Award 2013 nominations are announced: see the full list!

10 Jan 2013 19:39

The singer's year gets off to a cracking start with news that she's up for FOUR gongs

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Happy New Year, Emeli! Here, have four BRIT Award noms.

PA

It's been a busy old day on the nomination announcement front.

Hot on the heels of this afternoon's Oscar nominations, the list of BRIT Awards noms (as Rylan would say on CBB) has just been released - with the lovely Emeli Sande leading the race.

The Read All About It singer is up for Best British Female Solo Artist and Best Album for Our Version Of Events.

She also has not one, but TWO nominations in the Best Single category, for Next To Me and Beneath Your Beautiful, the Labrinth song to which she lent her rather lovely vocal chords.

It's fair to say that 2012 was pretty good for Emeli, what with the best selling album of the year under her belt and the little matter of performing at both the Opening AND Closing Olympic Ceremonies.

And today's news means that 2013 looks to be continuing down the same happy path.

The news was celebrated by the singer herself with an enthusiastic tweet.

She posted: "To everyone that's been there si nce the critics choice and years before that THANK YOU!!!"

That's three exclamation marks, so we figure she's pretty chuffed.

Folk rock band Mumford and Sons came second in the 'who can get the most nominations' tussle, with four nominations.

Lovely Rita, see how she shines

The beautiful Rita Ora and Mercury Music prize-winning band Alt-J tied for third place, with three nominations a-piece.

Everyone's favourite boy band One Direction received two nominations, for Best British Group and Best Performers.

Muse, Paloma Faith, Plan B and Jessie Ware also got two nominations each.

And there's another nomination for Adele's Bond theme song, Skyfall - the tune, which is also nominated for an Oscar, is listed in the Best British Single category.

She's got competition, mind - the other names in the category read like a 'who's who' of British music, including Coldplay, Florence and the Machine, Jessie J, Rizzle Kicks, Robbie Williams, Olly Murs and even The X Factor's James Arthur.

Touchingly, Amy Winehouse - whose album Lioness: Hidden Treasures was released posthumously last year - received a nomination in the Best British Female category.

The winners of the awards will be announced at the evening of music and celebrity madness that is the BRIT Awards ceremony on 20 February.

Performers on the night will include One Direction, Robbie Williams, Muse, Mumford and Sons, Ben Howard and Emeli Sande - she'd best bring a big old holdall in case she cleans up.

Read the full list of BRIT Award 2013 nominations below, with a few video playlists thrown in for good measure...

Best British Female Solo Artist

British Female Solo Artist on MUZU.TV.  

Amy Winehouse

Bat For Lashes

Emeli Sande

Jessie Ware

Paloma Faith

Best British Male Solo Artist 

Best Male Solo Artist on MUZU.TV.

Ben Howard

Calvin Harris

Olly Murs

Plan B

Richard Hawley

 

Best British Group

British Group on MUZU.TV.  

Alt J

Mumford and Sons

Muse

One Direction

The XX

 

Best British Live Act

Coldplay

Mumford and Sons

Muse

The Rolling Stones

The Vaccines

 

Best British Breakthrough Act

Alt J

Ben Howard

Jake Bugg

Jessie Ware

Rita Ora

 

Best International Group

Alabama Shakes

The Black Keys

Fun

The Killers

The Script

 

Best International Male Solo Artist

Bruce Springsteen

Frank Ocean

Gotye

Michael Buble< /p>

Jack White

 

International Female Solo Artist

Alicia Keys

Cat Power

Lana Del Rey

Rihanna

Taylor Swift

 

Best British Single

Adele, Skyfall

Alex Clare, Too Close

Coldplay ft. Rihanna, Princess of China

DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora, Hot Right Now

Emeli Sande, Next To Me

Florence and the Machine, Spectrum

James Arthur, Impossible

Jessie J, Domino

Rizzle Kicks, Mama Do The Hump

Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande, Beneath Your Beautiful

Robbie Williams, Candy

Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida, Troublemaker

Rita Ora ft. Tinie Tempah, RIP

Stooshe, Black Heart

Rudimental ft. John Newman, Feel The Love

 

British Album of the Year

Alt J, An Awesome Wave

Emeli Sande, Our Version Of Events

Mumford and Sons, Babel

Paloma Faith, F all To Grace

Plan B, Ill Manors