{"id":296503,"date":"2026-01-21T22:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/296503\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:03:07","slug":"brits-nominees-2026-olivia-dean-lola-young-jim-legaxcy-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/296503\/","title":{"rendered":"BRITs nominees 2026: Olivia Dean, Lola Young, Jim Legaxcy and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huge congratulations go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/29508\/pulp\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Pulp<\/a> who, off the back of 2025 Number 1 album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/albums\/pulp-more\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a>, are nominated for the first time in 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>And, with 2025 proving another banner year for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/women-in-music-2025\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">women in music<\/a>, almost 70% (69.2%) of this year&#8217;s nominees identify as female or non-binary, the most in BRITs history.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of this year&#8217;s ceremony at Manchester&#8217;s Co-op Live on Saturday February 28, check out the full list of nominations below.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BRIT Awards BRITs 2026 Manchester Co-Op Live_0.jpg\" alt=\"BRIT Awards 2026 Manchester Co-Op Live\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\"\/><br \/>\n      MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/brits-rising-star-award-every-winner\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Every BRITs Critics&#8217; Choice winner ever<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BRITs 2026 nominations in full: all the nominees<\/p>\n<p>BRITs Artist of the Year 2026 nominees<\/p>\n<p>BRITs International Artist of the Year 2026 nominees<\/p>\n<p>BRITs Group of the Year 2026 nominees<\/p>\n<p>BRITs International Group of the Year 2026 nominees<\/p>\n<p>BRITs Mastercard Album of the Year 2026 nominees<\/p>\n<p>BRITs Breakthrough Artist of the Year 2026 nominees<\/p>\n<p>BRITs Song of the Year 2026 nominees<\/p>\n<p>BRITs International Song of the Year 2026 nominees<\/p>\n<p>BRITs Alternative\/Rock Act 2026 nominees<\/p>\n<p>BRITs Hip-Hop\/Grime\/Rap Act 2026 nominees<\/p>\n<p>BRITs Dance Act 2026 nominees<\/p>\n<p>Calvin Harris &amp; Clementine Douglas<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/30710\/fka-twigs\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">FKA twigs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fred again.., Skepta &amp; Plaqueboymax<\/p>\n<p>PinkPantheress<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/57610\/sammy-virji\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sammy Virji<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BRITs Pop Act 2026 nominees<\/p>\n<p>JADE<\/p>\n<p>Lily Allen<\/p>\n<p>Lola Young<\/p>\n<p>Olivia Dean<\/p>\n<p>RAYE<\/p>\n<p>BRITs R&amp;B Act 2026 nominees<\/p>\n<p>Jim Legaxcy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/kwn\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">KWN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/52386\/mabel\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Mabel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/sasha-keable\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sasha Keable<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/56454\/sault\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">SAULT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BRITs Producer of the Year 2026<\/p>\n<p>TBA.<\/p>\n<p>BRITs Songwriter of the Year 2026<\/p>\n<p>TBA.<\/p>\n<p>BRITs Critics&#8217; Choice Award 2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/artist\/jacob-alon\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Alon<\/a> takes home the coveted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/jacob-alon-brits-critics-choice-2026-winner\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BRITs Critics&#8217; Choice Award 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/brits-week-26-line-up\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BRITs Week 26 with War Child delivered by DHL line-up revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When are the BRITs 2026?<\/p>\n<p>The BRIT Awards 2026 will be held on Saturday February 28.<\/p>\n<p>Where are the BRITs 2026?<\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, the 2026 BRIT Awards will be held at Manchester&#8217;s Co-op Live.<\/p>\n<p>How to watch the BRITs 2026:<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 BRITs will be broadcast live on ITV1 and ITVX on Saturday February 8 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Who is hosting the BRITs 2026?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/brit-awards-2025-jack-whitehall-confirmed-to-return-as-brit-awards-host-for-2025\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Whitehall<\/a>\u00a0will return to host the 2026 ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Who is performing at the BRITs 2026?<\/p>\n<p>Olivia Dean is the first confirmed performer for this year&#8217;s show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huge congratulations go to Pulp who, off the back of 2025 Number 1 album More, are nominated for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,46547,11,12,15,16,5,57331,26928,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-296503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-jade","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-olivia-dean","23":"tag-sam-fender","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115935353500005614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}