Harry Styles

Fresh from Grammys triumph, the star towered over the British music industry's annual bash, where 60% of winners were male.

[featured no R&B artists](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/feb/10/hardest-music-to-sell-in-uk-why-is-british-r-and-b-being-ignored); nor were any R&B acts recognised in any of the major categories. Musicians including producer MNEK and R&B singer Mahalia criticised the Brits for the oversight, the latter tweeting: “Forget putting us in this category. She did not appear at the ceremony, instead sending videoed acceptance speeches in which she thanked her fans and primed them for the start of the long-anticipated tour around her latest album, The Isle of Wight duo of Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers won two of their four nominations: best new artist and best British group. Of this year’s voting cohort, 52% identified as women and 31% of members are black, Asian or minority ethnic. “Not many people where I’m from, especially my side of Manchester, get the opportunity to stand up here and receive such an amazing gift of an award. Harpoon, previously a solo musician, is also known for his collaborations with Lizzo, Florence + the Machine, Jessie Ware, Mabel, Maggie Rogers and Miley Cyrus on her current UK No 1 single Flowers. In keeping with their cottagecore style, their Brits performance included a morris dancing troupe. [The 1975](https://www.theguardian.com/music/the-1975) were named best alternative/rock act and Becky Hill won best dance act for the second consecutive year. The awards were also dominated by white artists: Harry Styles has swept the board at this year’s Brit awards, winning all four of his categories. Collecting the latter, Teasdale riffed on their Domino label-mates Arctic Monkeys, parroting Alex Turner’s 2014 acceptance speech for best album: “That rock’n’roll, hey?

Harry Styles won four prizes, including album of the year, at the U.K.'s leading music awards Saturday, while female-led indie rock band Wet Leg took trophies ...

In 2017, the academy of more than 1,000 music industry professionals that chooses Brits winners was expanded in an attempt to make it more gender-balanced and diverse. The Brits include four awards for different genres that are chosen by public vote. He also won for pop/R&B act, song of the year for "As It Was," and artist of the year. talent that has boosted the careers of future megastars including Adele. Two years ago the Brits replaced separate male and female performer categories with gender-neutral awards in a bid to become more inclusive. Some saw the comment as deaf to the struggles faced by artists from diverse backgrounds.

International group went to Irish post-punks Fontaines DC – their first win at the Brits.

Laughing, she then added: “But in seriousness thank you so much. She said: “That rock and roll, hey. That rock and roll, it just won’t go away. Styles claimed best pop/R&B act while alternative rock act went to The 1975 and Manchester rapper Aitch claimed the prize for hip hop/rap/grime act. Aitch thanked the fans for voting, his team and his record label and added “not many” people from where he is from in the city win awards. Styles claimed the gongs for album of the year, song of the year for the chart-topping As It Was, artist of the year and best pop/R&B act.

The UK's biggest popular music prizes, the Brit Awards, will be handed out Saturday evening, with singer and actor Harry Styles and US star Beyoncé tipped ...

His album This Is what I Mean has also been shortlisted for Best Album. Ryder came second at Eurovision with his song Space Man, losing to Ukraine. Styles is also the favourite to win the other top prize, British album of the year, for Harry's House after earlier this month winning the coveted Grammy for album of the year.

Beyonce, Wet Leg, Harry Styles - see which stars won what at the Brit Awards 2023.

Wet Leg - Wet Leg Group Of The Year - Wet Leg Artist Of The Year - Harry Styles

Harry Styles has won all four Brits he was nominated for, including best album, artist and pop/R&B act. The show opened with his huge hit As It Was, which won song of the year. "I'm aware of my privilege up here tonight," he said, naming women who ...

"To have longevity in what we do is a miracle," he said. 0161 in the building," a reference to Manchester's dialling code. It might hibernate from time to time and sink back into the swamp." Best international group went to Irish rockers Fontaines DC, whose singer Carlos O'Connell said: "My heart is full ... "Obviously he's super-talented - he has everything you want as a fan to follow and appreciate and respect." "I think Beyonce said it best in her Grammy speech. Unusually for a big pop album, Styles' voice is mellow and restrained instead of belting out the hooks, Adele-style. With numbers like that, the commercially-minded Brit Awards were never going to turn their back on Styles. He started to find his way on his second album, Fine Line, delving into the 70s rock sounds of his childhood: Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Paul McCartney. His third album updates that sound, adding 80s synths, and an easy-going intimacy. The 1975 won best alternative rock act - their fourth Brit Award - and lead singer Matty Healy said: "This is one that has been voted for by the fans so that means a lot." Becky Hill won best dance act for the second year in a row, after performing her first US tour last year, and said it was "such an honour" to be nominated alongside stars including "amazing Eliza Rose and the incredible Raye".

It's hard to argue with the uber-successful star carrying all before him. But attempts to lure younger viewers are doomed.

Given the nature of the Brits, it’s certainly a little surprising that Fontaines beat K-pop titans [Blackpink](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/sep/14/blackpink-k-pop-girl-group-born-pink-rule-music-world), but they’re hardly left-field unknowns: their last album entered the charts at No 1. How moving the Brits to a Saturday was supposed to lure its target market away from social media and on-demand streaming – or indeed just going out with their mates – is an intriguing question. We live in an age when pop’s primary audience of teens and young twentysomethings simply aren’t going to sit down and watch a two-and-a-bit-hour award ceremony on live TV: viewing doesn’t work like that any more. Save some shonky hosting from Mo Gilligan – introducing Lewis Capaldi as Sam Capaldi, and invariably relying on “gags” about alcohol consumption in between awards and performances – and a technical hitch that required showing a 2022 performance from Adele, pretty much everything went to plan. [Grammys](https://www.theguardian.com/music/grammys). Which can’t possibly be the Brits’ desired effect. There were further headlines that the Brits would rather have avoided when Tom Grennan made off-colour remarks to Ellie Goulding about her breasts. Declining interest in the Brits is something you suspect even its organisers are aware of: you can detect an urge to drum up more attention in this year’s decision to shift the ceremony from midweek to a Saturday for the first time. For good measure, his chief collaborator Kid Harpoon got best songwriter: there was always the chance the British Phonographic Industry gave it to him for his work on acclaimed US singer-songwriter [Wet Leg](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/24/wet-leg-review-2022s-breakout-indie-stars-on-comically-good-form) and [Fontaines DC](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/21/fontaines-dc-skinty-fia-review-boldly-embracing-a-state-of-confusion) triumphing (respectively: best new artist and best group; best international group) constituted an upset, but that feels like clutching at straws. [Beyoncé](https://www.theguardian.com/music/beyonce) winning the categories she was nominated in, [Becky Hill](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/aug/27/becky-hill-only-honest-on-the-weekend-review) held up as the best dance music has to offer, the pop-facing [Aitch](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/18/im-not-trying-to-be-anything-im-not-rapper-aitch-on-his-rise-to-the-top) beating [Stormzy](https://www.theguardian.com/music/stormzy) – whose [most recent album](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/04/stormzy-this-is-what-i-mean-review-intimate-downbeat-soul-baring) got a distinctly muted commercial reception – in hip-hop/grime/rap act. [Maggie Rogers’ second album](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jul/31/maggie-rogers-surrender-review-giving-in-to-intensity) rather than the multimillion-selling, No 1-in-27-countries [Harry’s House](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/16/harry-styles-harrys-house-review), but you wouldn’t bank on it.

In 2022, the Brit Awards merged its top artist prizes to include male, female and nonbinary acts. This year, the event faced backlash for not nominating any ...

Bain said the lack of diversity at the Brits requires action across Britain’s music industry, not just from the awards themselves. On Saturday night, some acts suggested the Brits needed to up its game. Women are similarly underrepresented in the British and American movie industries, Bain said, so the Academy Awards could expect similar problems if the academy were to do away with gendered acting categories. Before Saturday’s awards, few British musicians commented directly on the backlash. [in a recent interview with The Sunday Times](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sam-smith-its-a-shame-about-the-brit-awards-theres-so-much-female-talent-dwqplx69v), a British newspaper. Yet at this year’s awards, just one female director was among the final six nominees. Caroline Nokes, the committee’s chair, said afterward that she thought that the Brit Awards had acted “too soon” to remove gendered categories, given the significant barriers women face to building careers in music. The awards’ voting body, made up of some 1,200 music industry insiders, then chooses nominees from the longlist. The BPI has not announced any steps to avoid another all-male shortlist at next year’s awards. “I understand why the name of this award has changed,” she Onstage, Styles made it clear he was conscious of the conversation. But three years ago, the organization faced a dilemma after the singer Sam Smith

British singer Harry Styles won the top awards on Saturday at the UK's biggest popular music prizes, the Brit Awards, while acknowledging his "privilege" ...

The Brit Awards were first held in 1977. Styles' clutch of awards came as little surprise after the former One Direction bandmember earlier this month won the coveted Grammy award for album of the year for "Harry's House", which was the UK's biggest-selling album last year. Styles made multiple appearances on stage, winning awards for artist of the year, album of the year, song of the year for "As It Was" and best pop/R&B act.

Harry Styles and Wet Leg lead the way with four nominations - and are among the acts performing live from the 02 Arena.

"To have longevity in what we do is a miracle," said the 55-year-old. Elton John gives Eminem the award for International Male Solo Artist in 2001. "I want to thank Rob Stringer for lending me his house to record this in. So Harry Styles is tonight's big winner, picking up four trophies including Album and Artist of the Year. Thank you so much for the welcome home. Take That winning their first Brit Awards as a four-piece in 1996. We are bringing our coverage of a great night for Harry Styles to an end. Producer of the year goes to David Guetta There's no place like home. BreakingAlbum of the year goes to Harry Styles - Harry's House But not everything went quite to plan. It's the final performance of the night

He would go on to win all four awards for which he was nominated, including Song, Album, and Artist of the Year.

By the end of the evening, he went home happy after [winning the Grammy for Album of the Year](https://pitchfork.com/news/harry-styles-wins-album-of-the-year-for-harrys-house-at-2023-grammys/). The set’s central rotating platform reportedly began spinning in the [wrong direction](https://pitchfork.com/news/harry-styles-dancers-describe-chaotic-rotating-stage-mix-up-at-2023-grammys/) at the start of the number, disorienting Styles and the other performers. In his acceptance speech for the final award—which featured zero women nominees just one year after merging Best Female Artist of the Year and Best Male Artist of the Year into a single award—he dedicated his win to five British artists who were not nominated.

"I'm aware of my privilege tonight," Styles said, naming women who missed out on Artist of the Year.

"To have longevity in what we do is a miracle," he said. 0161 in the building," a reference to Manchester's dialling code. It might hibernate from time to time and sink back into the swamp." Best international group went to Irish rockers Fontaines DC, whose singer Carlos O'Connell said: "My heart is full ... "Obviously he's super-talented - he has everything you want as a fan to follow and appreciate and respect." "I think Beyonce said it best in her Grammy speech. Unusually for a big pop album, Styles' voice is mellow and restrained instead of belting out the hooks, Adele-style. With numbers like that, the commercially-minded Brit Awards were never going to turn their back on Styles. He started to find his way on his second album, Fine Line, delving into the 70s rock sounds of his childhood: Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Paul McCartney. His third album updates that sound, adding 80s synths, and an easy-going intimacy. The 1975 won best alternative rock act - their fourth Brit Award - and lead singer Matty Healy said: "This is one that has been voted for by the fans so that means a lot." Becky Hill won best dance act for the second year in a row, after performing her first US tour last year, and said it was "such an honour" to be nominated alongside stars including "amazing Eliza Rose and the incredible Raye".

The biggest names from the world of music, from Stormzy to Sam Smith, have descended on London's O2 Arena for the annual ceremony. Styles, who was nominated in ...

Laughing, she then added: “But in seriousness thank you so much. She said: “That rock and roll, hey. Thank you so much.” It is so good to be home.” That rock and roll, it just won’t go away. After punching the air and taking to the stage, he thanked his fans before adding: “I have so many wonderful memories at the Brits so thank you for another one.