BRIT Awards 2023

No female acts appear on the Brit Awards 2023 shortlist for Best Artist, a year after the award went gender neutral.

“Last year’s introduction of new categories aimed at making the awards even more inclusive, recognising exceptional work rather than how artists identify,” the statement said. Over in the best album category, things aren’t much better. How about Florence & The Machine or Charli XCX, to name just a few? [banner event for female artists](https://www.stylist.co.uk/news/brit-awards-2022-winners-adele-little-simz/621081). [Lizzo](https://www.stylist.co.uk/tag/lizzo), [Taylor Swift](https://www.stylist.co.uk/tag/taylor-swift) and [Beyoncé](https://www.stylist.co.uk/tag/beyonce-2) have been recognised in the best international artist category, not a single female artist appears in the shortlist for best artist. [Brit Awards](https://www.stylist.co.uk/tag/brit-awards) categories for best artist and best international artist are gender neutral, a move that was introduced in order to make the awards “as inclusive and as relevant as possible”.

This year's coveted Artist of The Year category is dominated by male artists, and fans have a lot to say about it.

[2023 BRITs](https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/best-moments-from-the-brit-awards-2022) nominations have officially been announced. Meanwhile, chart-topping acts including Wet Leg, The 1975, [Taylor Swift](https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/best-moments-from-brit-awards-2021-little-mix-dua-lipa-harry-styles), and Beyoncé dominate the show’s most prestigious categories. Hosted by comedian [Mo Gilligan](https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/who-is-mo-gilligan-dating-his-girlfriend-sophie-wise-is-an-actor), the star-studded ceremony will take place at London’s O2 on Feb. “It is important that The BRITs continue to evolve and aim to be as inclusive as possible,” said March. “It feels completely the right time to celebrate the achievements of artists for the music that they create, and the work that they do, irrespective of gender.” [another user commented](https://twitter.com/AMG_Review/status/1613580417793425408).

The top award, Artist of the Year, features an all-male selection.

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This year's BRIT Awards have faced a backlash after the UK Artist Of The Year nomination category was filled with all male entrants.

I have since I was a kid. Mahalia also lent her voice to the outcry at the time. But, at this point, it’s nothing short of disrespectful.” Give us our own!!!!! Another more frustrated tweet saw her tag the BRITs directly: “Forget putting us in this category. [Mahalia](https://www.nme.com/artists/mahalia) criticised the BRIT Awards for their lack of recognition of R&B artists, calling upon the awards to give R&B its own category instead of grouping it with pop. Brit Awards 2023: Harry Styles leads all-male Artist of the Year nominations as female stars shut out – Who would have guessed this would happen? Who could have expected this outcome from the deeply misogynist music industry embracing deeply misogynist gender identity theory? No No women? [January 12, 2023] [This is the second year that the awards have abandoned gender categories in favour of gender neutral ones](https://www.nme.com/news/music/mo-gilligan-to-host-2022-brit-awards-as-gendered-awards-scrapped-3101713), but when it was revealed that the UK Artist Of The Year category was all-male, the awards were criticised by fans and figures from across the entertainment industry.

Wet Leg have received nominations in four categories. Wet Leg, The 1975, Harry Styles, Stormzy and Fred Again will all compete for the Mastercard Album Of The ...

International Song Of The Year; International Group Of The Year; International Artist Of The Year;

The 2023 Brit Awards nominations have sparked widespread backlash from fans over the exclusion of female musicians in the artist of the year category.

“Florence and the Machine being snubbed at the Brits when she could have fit in so well to the Artist of the Year category... Reacting to the major women snub, fans also took to social media platforms and shared their concerns. “One step forward, three steps back.”

BAD Boy Chiller Crew (BBCC) - Kane Welsh, Clive (Sam Robinson) and Gareth Kelly (GK), who are all from Bradford - have been nominated in the…

[music](/leisure/tamusic/) industry have bagged a BRIT Award in the Group of the Year category over the years. A host of top-class and well-known names in the The nominees for a variety of different categories in the BRIT Awards 2023 were announced yesterday.

Controversy as men saturate Best British Artist in gender-neutral shortlists.

The BRIT Awards has announced its 2023 nominees this week via the Bring on the BRITS livestream. Wet Leg and Harry Styles are this year's frontrunners, ...

They were written by Dave and Eliza Rose respectively. The ceremony will broadcast live on ITV1 and ITVX. Eliza Rose/Interplanetary Criminal – B.O.T.A (Baddest Of Them All) (Written by Eliza Rose) Dave – Starlight (written by Dave) Only two nominees in this category, Dave’s Starlight and B.O.T.A (Baddest of them All) by Eliza Rose and Interplanetary Criminal were composed by a single person. The shortlist for Best New Artist displays a more even gender split, with Kojey Radical, Mimi Webb, Rina Sawayama, Sam Ryder and Wet Leg up for the accolade.

It has been almost two years since the BRITs announced that they would be getting rid of the gender split in the 'Best Artist' and 'Best International ...

or [Rina Sawayama](/tag/rina-sawayama/)? [Raye](/tag/raye/)? [Charli XCX](/tag/charli-xcx/)?