This evening (December 10th) at the BBC Music Awards, come-back star Adele has taken home both British Artist of the Year and BBC Live Performance of the Year, winning two of the five titles up for grabs at the popular ceremony hosted at the Genting Arena in Birmingham (via BBC). Recently, her new album ’25’ became the first album to sell a million copies in two different weeks, selling 3.38 million copies in its first week in the US only. Now she is reportedly playing at the X Factor finals this weekend too. The ‘Hello’ singer could not attend the ceremony however she sent a message stating:

“That’s amazing. I’ve only just put out new music. I’m so chuffed.”

Other winners include Taylor Swift who won International Artist of the Year and Hozier’s 2013 single ‘Take Me To Church funnily enough won Song of the Year two years after it was released. Jack Garratt who was previously confirmed as the winner of the fifth award (The BBC Introducing Award) also got his award on the night.

Performances were featured by Ellie Goulding, Little Mix, Stereophonics, Jess Glynne and One Direction at the second-year award show. However Mumford and Sons pulled out of their planned appearance a couple days back. The show was on delay when broadcasted on BBC one, with winners being announced ahead of the showing on BBC One and were broadcast on Radio 1 and 2.Other nominees include the Food Fighters, Jamie xx, Ed Sheeran, Foals, Florence and the Machine, Prince and Lionel Richie. The show was hosted by Chris Evans who announced the show as being “at the centre of the music universe”. Out of the 5 winners, only Hozier and Jack Garratt attended the ceremony.