Royal Blood, Alt-J land 2015 Brit Award nominations

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The nominations for this year’s Brit Awards have been revealed to the surprise of nobody.

Predictably, it’ll be a straight fight between Radio 1 darlings Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran for the night’s main prizes, but it’s good to see Royal Blood and Alt-J at least get mentions in the British Album category for their excellent 2014 efforts.

Elsewhere, someone called ‘Featuring’ dominates the British Single and Video categories and should therefore be confident of leaving with at least one gong, so congratulations to them.

This year’s ceremony takes place at the O2 Arena in London on February 25th.

2015 Brit Awards nominations:

British Male Solo Artist
Ed Sheeran
George Ezra
Sam Smith
Damon Albarn
Paolo Nutini

British Female Solo Artist
Ella Henderson
FKA twigs
Jessie Ware
Lily Allen
Paloma Faith

British Group
Coldplay
alt-J
One Direction
Clean Bandit
Royal Blood

British Breakthrough Act
George Ezra
Royal Blood
Sam Smith
CHVRCHES
FKA Twigs

British Single
Calvin Harris – ‘Summer’
Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne – ‘Rather Be’
Duke Dumont featuring Jax Jones – ‘I Got U’
Ed Sheeran – ‘Thinking Out Loud’
Ella Henderson – ‘Ghost’
George Ezra – ‘Budapest’
Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars – ‘Uptown Funk’
Route 94 featuring Jess Glynne – ‘My Love’
Sam Smith – ‘Stay With Me’
Sigma – ‘Nobody To Love’

British Album Of The Year
Sam Smith – ‘In The Lonely Hour’
Royal Blood – ‘Royal Blood’
George Ezra – ‘Wanted On Voyage’
alt-J – ‘This Is All Yours’
Ed Sheeran – ‘x’

British Video
Calvin Harris – ‘Summer‘
Charli XCX – ‘Boom Clap‘
Duke Dumont featuring Jax Jones – ‘I Got U‘
Ed Sheeran – ‘Thinking Out Loud‘
Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars – ‘Uptown Funk’
One Direction – ‘You and I‘
Rita Ora – ‘I Will Never Let You Down‘
Route 94 featuring Jess Glynne – ‘My Love‘
Sam Smith – ‘Stay With Me‘
Sigma – ‘Nobody To Love’