Nominee category: Songwriter of the Year with Amazon Music
The global success of Wet Leg – led by singer-guitarists and songwriters Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers – has evoked memories of when the UK’s sparky indie-rock bands ruled the world. Chaise Longue and Wet Dream became slowburn, but irrepressible hits, while their eponymous debut album hit Number One, becoming the most significant guitar band […]
The stats behind Harry Styles’ third album, Harry’s House, speak for themselves. The lead single, As It Was, written with Kid Harpoon, co-writer of all but one of the album’s tracks, debuted at Number One on both sides of the Atlantic, staying there for 10 weeks in the UK and a scarcely believable 15 weeks […]
Appropriately enough for a band named after a year, The 1975 had an exceptional 2022. Driven by principal songwriters, drummer George Daniel and frontman Matty Healy, their fifth album, Being Funny In A Foreign Language, peaked at Number One in the UK – maintaining their 100% record of topping the chart with studio albums – […]
Few artists are still hitting new heights when they get to their fifth album, but Florence + The Machine – the brainchild of singer and songwriter Florence Welch – continue to astound and amaze, 14 years after the release of their debut album. Indeed, Dance Fever became perhaps the most critically acclaimed of Welch’s albums, […]
Having started the year with the Top 40 hit, Daily Duppy, Central Cee went on to chart no fewer than 11 songs on the UK Top 75 during 2022, a remarkable achievement usually beyond even the most established artists and writers. His collaboration with fellow nominee Young Chencs has proved to be one of the […]
