To be eligible for nomination, an artist must have at least one top 40 album or two top 20 singles released between December 10, 2021 and December 9, 2022. A total of 70 stars were eligible, only twelve of which were female. That longlist is created by record labels that put forward artists. Then about 1,200 people choose their top five. From that vote comes the shortlist. And it looks like this:
A list full of male artists, that is not well received on Twitter. “Wouldn’t it be great if just one of all the male ‘Artist of the Year’ nominees at the Brit Awards stood up and said, ‘No, this isn’t fair, this isn’t inclusivity.’ But men don’t really have a good track record when it comes to standing up for women’s rights, do they?
(Read more below the tweets.)
However, the following female artists were also eligible: Florence + the Machine, Charli XCX, Mabel, Rina Sawayama and Ella Henderson. Yet none of them have a chance to win a Brit Award. “While it is disappointing that there are no nominations in the artist of the year category, we must also recognize that there were fewer high-profile female artists with major releases in 2022, as was the case in 2021,” said the spokesperson for the Briton. Awards.
