Brit Award for British Album of the Year

Brit Award for British Album of the Year
2022 Winner: Adele
Awarded for	Achievement in excellent British album
Country	United Kingdom (UK)
Presented by	British Phonographic Industry (BPI)
First awarded	1977
Currently held by	Adele – 30 (2022)
Most awards	Adele Arctic Monkeys Coldplay (3 each)
Most nominations	Coldplay (6)
Website	www.brits.co.uk

The Brit Award for British Album of the Year is an award given by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), an organisation which represents record companies and artists in the United Kingdom.^[1] The accolade is presented at the Brit Awards, an annual celebration of British and international music.^[2] The winners and nominees are determined by the Brit Awards voting academy with over one-thousand members, which comprise record labels, publishers, managers, agents, media, and previous winners and nominees.^[3] The award was first presented in 1977 as British Album of the Year. In 1983 and 1984 awarded as non-competitive highest-selling album.

Achievements[]

Adele, Arctic Monkeys and Coldplay are the biggest winners in this category with three wins each. They are followed by Manic Street Preachers with two victories. Coldplay lead all performers with six nominations. Elton John and Ed Sheeran lead solo performers with four nods each. Adele has the most nominations amongst female artists with three noms. Florence and the Machine are the only act in history being nominated for British Album, with all four studio albums they are released.

Arctic Monkeys is the only artist to win Album of the Year in two consecutive years: in 2007 (Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not) and 2008 (Favourite Worst Nightmare).

The first woman to receive the award was Barbra Streisand in 1983, for Memories; although she wins in non-competitive category as Best Selling Album. Annie Lennox became the first female solo artist to win the competitive award in 1993, for Diva. Adele is the first female artist and solo act to win the award twice and thrice, winning for 21, 25 and 30.

Dave is the youngest artist to win in the category, winning for his debut album Psychodrama in 2020 at the age of 21.

Only two foreign artists ever have take this award, both as non-competitive Best Selling Album, Barbra Streisand and Michael Jackson, winning for Memories and Thriller, respectively. Streisand's wictory in 1983 remarkable as the first and only time when compilation and not studio album to receive an award. Jackson's win in 1984 marks the first and only occasion with no other album nominated to compete against the actual winner.

In the history of the award, only four artists have won British Album twice: Manic Street Preachers (1997, 1999), with another three artists winning it three times: Coldplay (2001, 2003, 2006), Arctic Monkeys (2007, 2008, 2014), and Adele (2012, 2016, 2022).

At the 2022 Brit Awards, Adele became the first solo artist to win this award three times.^[4]

Recipients[]

Inaugural winner The Beatles

Coldplay was the first three-time winner.

Three-time winner Arctic Monkeys

Adele is the only solo artist to have won this award three times.

Manic Street Preachers was the first two-time winner.

1970s[]

1980s[]

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2010s[]

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Artists with multiple wins[]

Artists with multiple nominations[]

6 nominations

• Coldplay

5 nominations

• Radiohead

4 nominations

3 nominations

2 nominations

Notes[]

• Brothers in Arms (1986–1987), Born to Do It (2001–2002), Kid A (2001–2002) Double Nominated
• (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (2010) also won Brit Award for British Album of Thirty Year

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