18 Feb 2020 BRIT Awards 2020 winners: Dave wins Best Album, Stormzy wins Best Male Solo Artist + full list
BRIT Awards 2020 Winners – Dave then picked up one of the biggest awards of the night after winning Best Album for the masterpiece that was Psychodrama.
Stormzy also won Best Male Solo Artist for the second time following his first in 2018 after yet another #1 album with Heavy is the Head. Mabel won Best Female Solo Artist, 30 years to the day her mum, Neneh Cherry, won two BRIT Awards for Best International Breakthrough and Best International Solo Artist back in 1990. Mabel’s hit single ‘Don’t Call Me Up’ was the highest-selling single by any female in the UK in 2019, selling over one million units.
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Michael Ward then introduced Dave to the stage for an emphatic, remixed performance of hit single ‘Black’ alongside Fraser T Smith. The ‘Streatham’ rapper first performed the usual track with the addition of a new section, drawing attention to racism in the UK, calling the prime minister, the inadequate response to the Grenfell tragedy, the Windrush scandal, the need for unity and less hatred and more.
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Tyler, The Creator took home the award for Best International Solo Artist. In his acceptance speech, he shouted said: “I wanna give a special shout out to someone who I hold dear to my heart, who made it where I couldn’t come to this country five years ago. I know she’s at home pissed off. Thank you, Teresa May”.
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The Foals won Best Group, a category which D Block Europe was also nominated in. Then came the first-ever live performance of the new James Bond theme song by Billie Eilish, her brother Finneas O’Connell, John Marr and Hans Zimmer. Billie Eilish then won the award for Best International Female Solo Artist.
Stormzy then delivered a live performance of a few tracks from Heavy is the Head. The set began with ‘Do Better’ before transitioning into ‘Wiley Flow’, with a bar at the end about ‘if you can’t sell out three O2’s, I don’t wanna hear no chats about numbers’. Next came ‘Own It’ alongside Burna Boy, who the performed ‘Anybody’. Stormzy then took over again to perform ‘Rainfall’ alongside Tiana Major 9.
Lewis Capaldi won Best New Artist but didn’t really give much of an acceptance speech. He walked on stage, sipped his drink, said something which saw the audio muted and then bopped off.
The Scottish singer scooped up the award for Best Song with ‘Someone You Loved’. The song was the biggest selling single of 2019 and spent seven weeks at the #1 spot in the UK charts. During his speech, he clarified that the song was not in fact about Paige Turley, a 2020 Love Island contestant, but actually his grandma, who he randomly thanked for dying.
Here is the full list of BRIT Awards 2020 winners:
Best New Artist
WINNER – Lewis Capaldi
Aitch
Dave
Mabel
Sam Fender
Best Female Solo Artist
WINNER – Mabel
Freya Ridings
FKA Twigs
Charli XCX
Mahalia
Best Male Solo Artist
WINNER – Stormzy
Harry Styles
Lewis Capaldi
Dave
Michael Kiwanuka
Best International Male Artist
WINNER – Tyler, The Creator
Bruce Springsteen
Burna Boy
Dermot Kennedy
Post Malone
Best British Group
WINNER – Foals
Coldplay
Bring Me the Horizon
D Block Europe
Bastille
Best International Female Artist
WINNER – Billie Eilish
Ariana Grande
Camila Cabello
Lana Del Rey
Lizzo
Rising Star Award
WINNER – Celeste
Joy Crookes
Beabadoobee
Best Song
WINNER – Lewis Capaldi
Ed Sheeran feat. Justin Bieber — I Don’t Care
Mabel — Don’t Call Me Up
Calvin Harris ft Rag ‘N’ Bone Man — Giant
Dave feat. Burna Boy — Location
Mark Ronson feat. Miley Cyrus — Nothing Breaks Like A Heart
AJ Tracey — Ladbrooke Grove
Tom Walker — Just You And I
Sam Smith feat. Normani — Dancing With A Stranger
Stormzy — Vossi Bop
Best Album
WINNER – Dave – Psychodrama
Stormzy — Heavy Is The Head
Michael Kiwanuka — Kiwanuka
Lewis Capaldi — Divenly Unispired To A Hellish Extent
Harry Styles — Fine Line