Overview
- Dean won four major prizes — Artist of the Year, Album of the Year for The Art of Loving, Pop Act, and Song of the Year for Rein Me In with Sam Fender.
- The BRITs took place on 28 February at Manchester’s Co-op Live, the awards’ first staging outside London in nearly five decades.
- Rosalía earned International Solo Artist and was cited for recognition of non-English-language music, performing Berghain with a surprise appearance by Björk.
- BLACKPINK’s Rosé became the first K-pop act to win a BRIT, taking International Song of the Year for APT with Bruno Mars.
- The broadcast drew complaints over Jack Whitehall’s jokes about Manchester and repeated censorship, including muting Geese frontman Cameron Winter as he said “Free Palestine,” while other winners included Wolf Alice, Lola Young, Sam Fender, Jacob Alon, Noel Gallagher, Mark Ronson and Ozzy Osbourne.