Brit Award for Best New Artist

Brit Award for Best New Artist
Brit Award for Best New Artist
	2022 Winner Little Simz
Country	United Kingdom (UK)
Presented by	British Phonographic Industry (BPI)
First awarded	1977
Currently held by	Little Simz (2022)
Website	www.brits.co.uk

The Brit Award for Best New Artist (previously Brit Award for British Breakthrough Act)^[1] is an award given by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), an organisation which represents record companies and artists in the United Kingdom.^[2] The accolade is presented at the Brit Awards, an annual celebration of British and international music.^[3] The winners and nominees are determined by the Brit Awards voting academy with over 1,000 members, which comprise record labels, publishers, managers, agents, media, and previous winners and nominees.^[4]

History[]

The award was first presented in 1977 as two awards as "British Male Newcomer" and "British Female Newcomer" which were won by Graham Parker and Julie Covington.^[5] When the Brit Awards was held for the second time in 1982, the awards "British Male Newcomer" and "British Female Newcomer" became joint as one award for both male and female acts as well introducing groups acts to award. The first award for the joint "British Newcomer" was won by The Human League.^[6] In 2003 the award was renamed to "British Breakthrough Act".^[7] Mabel and Dave are the only persons who has been nominated for this award more than once. Dave was nominated 2018 and 2020 and Mabel was nominated in both 2019 and 2020.

This award has several name changes through a years:

Brit Award for British Female Newcomer, Brit Award for British Male Newcomer (1977)
Brit Award for British Newcomer (1982–2002)
Brit Award for British Breakthrough Act (2003–2019)
Brit Award for Best New Artist (2020–present)

Winners and nominees[]

Inaugural winner Graham Parker

1984 winner Paul Young also won British Male Solo Artist

1990 winner Lisa Stansfield also won British Female Solo Artist

1995 winner Oasis also won British Group

2006 winner Arctic Monkeys also won British Group

2009 winner Duffy also won British Female Solo Artist

2012 winner Ed Sheeran also won British Male Solo Artist

2018 winner Dua Lipa also won British Female Solo Artist

Year	Recipient	Nominees
1977	Graham Parker	Heatwave
1977	Julie Covington	Bonnie Tyler
1982	The Human League	Depeche Mode Linx Soft Cell Toyah Willcox
1983	Yazoo	ABC Culture Club Musical Youth
1984	Paul Young	Big Country Howard Jones Tracey Ullman Wham!
1985	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	Bronski Beat Nik Kershaw
1986	Go West	N/A
1987	The Housemartins	N/A
1988	Wet Wet Wet	Nominated
		Rick Astley The Christians Johnny Hates Jazz T'Pau
		Eliminated
		Black Curiosity Killed the Cat Living in a Box Mel and Kim Pepsi & Shirlie The Proclaimers Swing Out Sister
1989	Bros	N/A
1990	Lisa Stansfield	The Beautiful South Shakespears Sister Soul II Soul The Stone Roses
1991	Betty Boo	Beats International The Charlatans Happy Mondays The La's
1992	Beverley Craven	Cathy Dennis EMF Kenny Thomas Seal
1993	Tasmin Archer	Dina Carroll KWS Take That Undercover
1994	Gabrielle	Apache Indian Jamiroquai Shara Nelson Suede
1995	Oasis	Echobelly Eternal PJ & Duncan Portishead
1996	Supergrass	Black Grape Cast Elastica Tricky
1997	Kula Shaker	Alisha's Attic Ash Babybird The Bluetones Lighthouse Family Longpigs Mansun Mark Morrison Skunk Anansie Space Spice Girls
1998	Stereophonics	All Saints Beth Orton Conner Reeves Embrace Finley Quaye Olive Roni Size & Reprazent Shola Ama Talkin Loud Travis
1999	Belle and Sebastian	Another Level Billie Piper Cleopatra Cornershop Five Gomez Hinda Hicks Propellerheads Steps
2000	S Club 7	Groove Armada Honeyz Phats & Small The Wiseguys
2001	A1	Artful Dodger Coldplay Craig David Toploader
2002	Blue	Atomic Kitten Elbow Gorillaz Mis-Teeq So Solid Crew Starsailor Tom McRae Turin Brakes Zero 7
2003	Will Young	The Coral Liberty X Ms. Dynamite The Streets
2004	Busted	The Darkness Dizzee Rascal Jamie Cullum Lemar
2005	Keane	Franz Ferdinand Joss Stone Natasha Bedingfield The Zutons
2006	Arctic Monkeys	James Blunt Kaiser Chiefs KT Tunstall The Magic Numbers
2007	The Fratellis	Corinne Bailey Rae James Morrison The Kooks Lily Allen
2008	Mika	Bat for Lashes Kate Nash Klaxons Leona Lewis
2009	Duffy	Adele The Last Shadow Puppets Scouting for Girls The Ting Tings
2010	JLS	Florence and the Machine Friendly Fires La Roux Pixie Lott
2011	Tinie Tempah	Ellie Goulding Mumford & Sons Rumer The xx
2012	Ed Sheeran	Anna Calvi Emeli Sandé Jessie J The Vaccines
2013	Ben Howard	Alt-J Jake Bugg Jessie Ware Rita Ora
2014	Bastille	Disclosure Laura Mvula London Grammar Tom Odell
2015	Sam Smith	Chvrches FKA Twigs George Ezra Royal Blood
2016	Catfish and the Bottlemen	James Bay Jess Glynne Wolf Alice Years & Years
2017	Rag'n'Bone Man	Anne-Marie Blossoms Skepta Stormzy
2018	Dua Lipa	Dave J Hus Loyle Carner Sampha
2019	Tom Walker	Ella Mai IDLES Jorja Smith Mabel
2020	Lewis Capaldi	Aitch Dave Mabel Sam Fender
2021	Arlo Parks	Bicep Celeste Joel Corry Young T & Bugsey
2022	Little Simz	Central Cee Griff Joy Crookes Self Esteem

Notes[]

Sam Smith (2014), Rag'n'Bone Man (2017) also won Brit Award for Rising Star
Paul Young (1985), Ed Sheeran (2012, 2015), Ben Howard (2013) also won Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist
Lisa Stansfield (1991–1992), Duffy (2009), Dua Lipa (2018, 2021) also won Brit Award for British Female Solo Artist
Oasis (1996), Arctic Monkeys (2007–2008, 2014) also won Brit Award for British Group
Blue (2003), Busted (2004) also won Brit Award for British Pop Act

References[]

^ "We're back!". BRIT Awards. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
^ "About the BPI". British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Retrieved 20 July 2014.
^ "BRIT Awards". British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Retrieved 20 July 2014.
^ "And the nominees are..." Brits.co.uk. British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Retrieved 20 July 2014.
^ "The BRITs 1977". Brits.co.uk. British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Retrieved 20 July 2014.
^ "The BRITs 1982". Brits.co.uk. British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Retrieved 20 July 2014.
^ "The BRITs 2003". Brits.co.uk. British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Retrieved 20 July 2014.

[:1-1] "We're back!". BRIT Awards. Retrieved 16 December 2019.

[2] "About the BPI". British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Retrieved 20 July 2014.

[3] "BRIT Awards". British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Retrieved 20 July 2014.

[4] "And the nominees are..." Brits.co.uk. British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Retrieved 20 July 2014.

[5] "The BRITs 1977". Brits.co.uk. British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Retrieved 20 July 2014.

[6] "The BRITs 1982". Brits.co.uk. British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Retrieved 20 July 2014.

[7] "The BRITs 2003". Brits.co.uk. British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Retrieved 20 July 2014.

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