Early in the morning, the BRIT Awards announced their roster for this years iteration of the awards show. This year, the lineup includes Little Simz, Doja Cat, Dave, Holly Humberstone, Liam Gallagher, and Ed Sheeran, with more to come. See the announcement below:
ready for some performers? here’s who will be taking to The BRITs stage:@Santandave1@DojaCat@edsheeran@HolHumberstone@liamgallagher@LittleSimz
+ more to be announced
don’t miss The #BRITs on Tuesday 8 Feb on ITV (UK) and https://t.co/QjEmDoNxZW (International) pic.twitter.com/8sUq91d90T
— BRIT Awards (@BRITs) January 21, 2022
This year’s BRIT Awards will be held on Tuesday the 8th of February on ITV and on their YouTube channel, which can be accessed here.
The awards ceremony is becoming increasingly digital and social-media oriented, with a new public voting system taking place on TikTok. Covered here on mxdwn by Izzy Eddies last month: “Voters will be free to access the ‘BRIT hub’ specialised voting platform via the organisations Tik Tok on January the 20th and will be free to cast their votes until the 3rd of February.”
On top of this, the 2022 iteration will be perhaps the most inclusive we have seen the BRIT awards, “with there being more female artists on the shortlist of nominees than we have encountered in more than a decade.” Additionally, Jack Whitehall stepped aside from the presenter role to allow newcomer Mo Gilligan to present, alongside Maya Jama and Clara Amfo (see featured image).
Nominations for the award ceremony were revealed in December last year, with Dave and Little Simz taking the biggest swoop of four nominations each. Both their albums, We’re All Alone in This Together and Sometimes I Might Be Introvert respectively were huge international successes deserving of the highest acclaim within the UK.
Of the nominations, Little Simz said: “It’s an honour to be nominated for 4 BRIT Awards and I can’t wait to be performing on the night too. I’m so happy and grateful the music has connected and resonated. Congratulations to everyone nominated.”
Other nominees for this years BRITs include Central Cee, who controversially won the inaugural Best Drill Artist award at the MOBOs, and Tion Wayne and Russ, whose hit ‘Body’ became the first drill track to reach No.1 in the charts. These three artists owe much of their success to TikTok, whose music went viral as sounds on the platform, so it is fitting for the BRIT Awards to be incorporating TikTok into their electoral system.
Voting for the BRIT Awards closes on the 3rd of February and can be found here.
