yes i’m doing a roblox concert …. what about it?!! https://t.co/Vewb62tleW
Friday 11th @ 5pm GMT
for tha brits after party.
character lookin a lil thick stilllllll pic.twitter.com/5oFifvLs0v

— pinkpantheress (@pinkpantheress2) February 8, 2022

Speaking concerning her upcoming concert, PinkPantheress expresses excitement to partner her music with the gaming world, “I’m so glad I got to do a performance for the Roblox and BRITs families, As someone that loves video games and escaping into my own virtual world, I’m hoping I took everyone on an experience.”

The 2022 Brit awards have also partnered with metaverse developer Dubit to provide further digital elements for fans to interact with. The Brits new virtual world also includes scavenger hunts, Brit Award statuettes to be collected and a browsing platform for merch. For the first time in the award’s history, a digital VIP party will be made available through their partnership with Roblox and Dubit. From yesterday until 13th February 2022 nominees and honourees will be available for virtual meet and greets with fans. Within the metaverse stage, highlights will be shown today from the ceremony held last night at London’s O2 Arena.

Luke Ferrar, Innovation Director, Polydor Records and Co-Chair of the BRITs Digital committee has provided the following statement regarding the new partnership, “When planning the BRITs 2022 digital campaign we knew we wanted to enter the metaverse with Roblox. What Dubit has built within the Roblox platform is an immersive BRITs experience. It has far surpassed our expectations with wonderful detail and flourishes in the world. It’s fantastic to have PinkPantheress, who reaches a huge Gen Z audience, perform in it. Very proud to have the BRITs enter this space in this way for the first time.”

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The first broadcast of PinkPantheress’ virtual concert comes a week after the premiere of David Guetta’s performance within the platform. The superstar DJ’s avatar played a 45-minute set which premiered on 4th February 2022, Guetta has spoken on the unique shows, “Working on this concert has allowed me to bring an amazing new creation to life with design and production to suit the virtual world, We’ve built something that will play host to one of the most unique shows I’ve ever done and I can’t wait for everyone to experience it with me.”

PinkPantheress is set to appear at this year’s Reading and Leeds Festival. On Friday 26th August 2022, the 21-year-old singer will perform alongside headlining acts Dave and Megan Thee Stallion. The singer will perform at the Leeds site on Saturday 27th August 2022, featuring the same headlining acts as seen in Reading.

Click here to watch PinkPantheress’ virtual concert.

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— doja cat (@DojaCat) January 31, 2022

The 26-year-old artist is included within this year’s nominations. Doja Cat is shortlisted for International Artist Of The Year and Best International Song for her collaboration with SZA entitled “Kiss Me More”. The single was released on 9th April 2021 and sired the rapper great success along with three Grammy nominations for Record of the Year, Song the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. The multi-talented artist is no stranger to accolades, however this year marks her first nomination for a Brit award and this year’s ceremony would also have been her first performance at the awards event.

This recent cancellation is the hitmaker’s third termination of a live performance due to COVID. On 11th December 2021, the singer was forced to withdraw from several shows from the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour, the cancelled shows were scheduled for New York and Boston. Doja Cat confirmed the cancellation was due to members of her road crew receiving positive tests for COVID. At the time of the confirmation, the singer took to Twitter to post a full statement.

iHeart update…I love you guys so much and I’m so sad this is happening but I will see you all soon pic.twitter.com/kwcmdGJTe4 — doja cat (@DojaCat) December 10, 2021

On 12th December 2021, the singer confirmed that she could not finish the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour as she had tested positive for the virus herself. The “Woman” singer had six dates remaining and was forced to cancel shows in Philadelphia, Washington DC, Atlanta and Miami. To announce the cancellation, the singer also took to Twitter to share an emotive statement confirming the news.

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— doja cat (@DojaCat) December 12, 2021

This year’s BRIT Awards will be a historical event in music and cultural history, for the first time, the awards will feature genderless categories. The 2022 ceremony will also include four new genre-based awards, Alternative/Rock Act, Hip-Hop/Grime/Rap Act, Dance Act and Pop Act. Speaking on the British institution’s changes, co-president of Polydor Records has stated, “It is important that the Brits continue to evolve and aim to be as inclusive as possible.”

Hosting responsibilities for this year’s event have been bestowed to Mo Gilligan. the comedian will be replacing veteran host Jack Whitehall who stepped down after four years at the helm. Gilligan is best known for his chat show The Lateish Show, a Channel 4 production which debuted in 2019. The remaining performers for the event are still scheduled to take the stage, Brit icon Liam Gallagher, Ed Sheeran, Dace, Sam Fender, Little Simz and 2022’s Brits rising star award winner Holly Humberston are all billed to perform at the ceremony.

Along with the annual announcements, presenters Clara Amfro and Maya Jama also confirmed the upcoming race between multiple acts. The list includes two of the nation’s most popular artists, Adele and Ed Sheeran will both be competing for Artist of The Year in association with YouTube shorts, Song of The Year with Mastercard, Mastercard Album of The Year and Pop/RnB Act. Adele’s quadruple nomination was announced via Twitter.

Adele is nominated for four #Brits Awards! pic.twitter.com/y7fi7keAes

— Adele Access (@AdeleAccess) December 18, 2021

Little Simz and Dave also join the pair in the running for Artist of the Year and Mastercard Album of the year, and both are also shortlisted for Hip Hop/Grime/Rap Act. Dave is no stranger to accolades; the British rapper won Album of the year at last year’s ceremony and also won the Mercury prize in 2019. The award-winning artist is also shortlisted for Song of the Year, Dave was also nominated for the award in 2020 for the single “Location”.  Little Simz is also in the running for multiple awards, the 27-year-old rapper has secured her fourth nomination for Best New Artist.

Tom March 2022 BRITs chair and co-president of Polydor records have given the following statement concerning the recently announced nominations. “I am delighted to see such a brilliant spread of artists across the categories this year. It is great to see so many of the artists that have defined this past year have been recognised, all exemplifying enormous talent and creativity. It is a true testament to the power and vibrancy of British and international music right now. We look forward to what the public vote for as winners in the four new genre award categories, introduced to create even more opportunities for artists to be recognised when the voting opens in January. I thank our Voting Academy for providing such inspirational nominees for the 2022 BRITs.”

The upcoming BRITs promise to return with a bang, as the 2022 ceremony includes four new genre-based awards. The British institution will now recognise and award acts for their work within pop, rock, dance and hip-hop. The winners of the new categories will be determined via a public vote on the popular app TikTok. The 2022 awards will also welcome some changes within its organisation and ceremony. A new ruling will be enacted which means that featured artists are now eligible to be nominated in their own right for the Song of the year and international song of the year categories. The nomination list for this year has also seen some changes, the docket includes more female artists than previously seen in over a decade.

The winners will be announced during the BRIT Awards ceremony held on Tuesday 8th February 2022 at London’s O2 Arena. The event will be presented by Mo Gilligan and will be broadcast via ITV and ITV Hub.

Click here to watch the Official BRIT YouTube channel.

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The award is presented and supported by BBC Radio 1 and aims to showcase British artists who have not placed an album within the top 20 nor have had more than one single place within the top 20. This year, the winner for the award was presented by Clara Amfo via her show on BBC Radio 1. The BBC spoke with Humberstone concerning her recent win, the singer was interviewed after she first discovered the good news. When asked how it felt to join the ranks of the celebrated artists who have won the award in previous years, the singer replied, “I remember watching the Brits as a child and being in complete awe of all of the artists, so this is kind of mad.”

The singer was also questioned to describe life as an artist during lockdown, “It was really hard for me to grasp just what was going on. [During the pandemic] I felt like I was living two parallel lives. One of them was my career – I seemed to be doing OK on the internet and my statistics looked good or whatever – and the other one was me sitting at home, completely uninspired. So it was really strange coming out of lockdown and going straight into playing festivals, and seeing that there are actual, physical people who have listened to my music. That was something I’d never had before.”

Humberstone has risen as a standout artist from the recent pandemic and has carved out an avid audience since her first release. The singer released her first EP Falling Asleep At The Wheel on 14th August 2020 via the record label Platoon. In 2021 the singer signed with major labels Interscope and Polydor Records, soon after her second EP The Walls Are Way Too Thin was released on 12th November 2021.

Since the formation of her musical career, the singer has released a total of twelve singles, including a cover of the Radiohead track “Fake Plastic Trees”. The acoustic cover was released as a non-album track on 30^th July 2020 and was accompanied by an intimate music video. As well as her recent BRIT win, the singer has also achieved success with other awards. The singer came in second place for BBC’s Sound of 2021 and was included in the running for YouTube artist on the rise.

Previous winners of the Rising Star award have included such artists as Jessie J, Sam Smith, Jorja Smith, James Bay and Adele. The accolade has been a staple of the popular music institution since the 28th Brit Awards held in 2008. The award was previously known as the Critic’s Choice Award, the winner is decided by a panel of professionals from all avenues of the music industry. The first-ever winner of the award was Grammy-Award winning artist Adele, the singer was nominated alongside Duffy and Foals.

Humberstone will be hitting the road in March 2022, the singer will embark on tour in support of Girl In Red. The tour will see Humberstone perform across the United States and Canada in over twenty-five cities. The “Scarlett” singer will then start her solo performances in the United Kingdom, Humberstone will begin her UK dates with a set in Manchester on 5th June 2022.

Holly Humberstone UK tour dates

05/06/2022 – Academy 2 – Manchester
06/06 – O2 Forum Kentish Town – London
17/07 – Finsbury Park – London

Click here to purchase tickets.

the shortlist for the 2022 #BRITs Rising Star as supported by @BBCR1 is…

Bree Runway (@breerunway)
Holly Humberstone (@HolHumberstone)
Lola Young (@lolayounggg) pic.twitter.com/XKXIYe2u11

— BRIT Awards (@BRITs) November 30, 2021

British musician, Holly Humberstone, made waves with her first EP Falling Asleep At The Wheel. The 21-year-old singer released the EP on 14th August 2020 after signing with Interscope and Polydor Records. The singer caught the attention of industry professionals whilst performing at a local BBC Introducing show. The singer recently released her second EP The Walls Are Way Too Thin, the EP was released on on 12th November 2021 and sired five singles including “Scarlett” and “Friendly Fire“.

Speaking on her inclusion, Humberstone has provided the following statement, “Music has always been my entire life, and being nominated for such a prestigious award really means everything to me. Recognition from the BRITs is something I am struggling to comprehend at the moment! it’s truly an honour to be nominated for the BRITs Rising Star Award alongside two other incredibly inspiring female artists.”

Bree Runway is no stranger to accolades, earlier this year the British rapper and singer won a BET Award for Best International Act and was shortlisted for the BBC Sound of 2021 poll. The 29-year-old singer signed with EMI Records in 2018 and has released one mixtape and three Eps. The talented artist has been making music since a child and performed for Michelle Obama at age 14. Runway has gone on to work with many influential artists including Rhianna and Missy Elliott, the singer recently released the single “Space Ghost Coast to Coast” with British rockers Glass Animals.

Runway provides the following statement concerning her nomination, “I feel so honoured to be recognised by the BRITs in this way, it’s all so exciting especially as previous nominees have gone on to do such amazing things, I hope I’m struck by that same luck. Attending the BRITs alone has been something I’ve wanted to do for years, but attending as a Rising Star nominee is a DREAM.”

Lola Young has released a collection of Eps and has garnered critical success for her work. The 21-year-old singer got her start at open mics and won a national competition at the age of 13. Young recently rose to fan for her beautiful rendition of the 1984 Philip Oakley and Giorgio Moroder hit, “Together In Electric Dreams”. The cover was used in this year’s John Lewis Christmas advert and promptly captured the nation’s hearts.

The BRIT School alumni has provided a statement expressing her excitement to be nominated, “I can’t believe I’ve been nominated for this award. It feels surreal and completely unexpected. I actually have to pinch myself looking at the other artists that have been nominated previously. It is such a big step for me and I feel very excited to have been nominated!”.

The Rising Star award was previously known as the Critics’ Choice Award and has been included in the ceremony since 2008, the award’s first winner was Grammy-Award winning artist Adele. The accolade is supported and sponsored by BBC Radio 1 and has previously been awarded to Celeste and Griff. The award aims to celebrate and endorse British artists who have yet to chart within the top 20 with an album or have not achieved more than one top 20 single. The award’s winner will be selected by a panel of industry professionals and experts. The winner for the Brits rising star award will be announced on 10th December, the winner will be handed the award at the ceremony next year.

@MoTheComedian is your #BRITs 2022 host // Dream duo @MayaJama and Clara Amfo will be taking on presenting duties for The BRITs Are Coming nominations show + The BRITs 2022 red carpet pic.twitter.com/EjTlJ9qB9v

— BRIT Awards (@BRITs) November 22, 2021

The Brit Awards was previously known as The British Record Industry Britannia Awards and was used to mark the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977. There has been an annual ceremony since 1982 and the Classical Music Brt Awards is held in May annually. The name change from The British Record Industry Britannia Awards to the Brit Awards occurred in 1989. The 2022 Brit Award Ceremony will be making Brit history with the nominated categories now being made, gender-neutral to recognise equality, diversity and inclusion.

Organisers of the Brit Awards said at the time of the announcement that, “The change was to reward artists “solely for their music and work, rather than how they choose to identify or as others may see them, as part of The Brits’ commitment to evolving the show to be as inclusive and as relevant as possible”

Maya Indea Jama is an English television, radio presenter and DJ, who began her presenting career at the age of 18 in 2012. Jama’s presenting debut was for the weekly music video countdown on JumpOff TV. Jama also presented shows such as Cannonball, Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer and was also the radio host for #DriveWithMaya between 2014 and 2017. Maya previously presented the 2017 Pre-Brit Awards Party and hosted the Livestream Brit Award Red Carpet event in the same year. Jama has also been announced as the host for the December show Walk The Line.

Clara Amfo is a British radio, voice-over artist and television presenter, who is known for being a BBC Radio presenter. Amfo previously hosted the Brit Awards Backstage event in 2017 and 2020 with Jama as her co-host. Clara also interviewed singer Billie Eilish for the BBC One TV special entitled Up Close in July. The presenter was also announced as the new radio presenter for Annie MacManus aka Annie Mac’s show Future Sounds on, July 30th. Clara also appeared on Celebrity Gogglebox with her brother Andy in June.

Both Jama and Amfo are now set to co-present the Brits Are Coming in December. Jama and Amfo are delighted to be co-hosting together again with Jama saying “I am so excited to be back on presenting duties for the BRITs 2022″ and Amfo stating “It is such an honour and pleasure to be part of The BRITs presenting team for 2022″ 

The Brits Are Coming event aires on ITV, on December 18th at 5 pm local time and will showcase performances from Joel Corry, Anne-Marie, Glass Animals, Mimi Webb and Mabel. The nominees will also be announced in preparation for the main event where the winners will be announced on the night. Adele, Coldplay and Ed Sheeran are also set to perform, on February 8th for what is to be a truly historical night at the Brit Awards 2022.

it’s almost time to find out the #BRITs 2022 nominees don’t miss The BRITs Are Coming on @ITV and @WeAreSTV on Saturday 18 December, featuring performances from:@AnneMarie@GlassAnimals@JoelCorry & @Mabel@MimiWebb pic.twitter.com/7PRLx6uEuW — BRIT Awards (@BRITs) November 29, 2021

See the details of the Brit Awards Main event below and purchase tickets for The Brit Awards here

08/02/22 Brit Awards Main Event-The 02-London

See the categories for the Brit Awards below

Artist of the Year with YouTube Music
Group of the Year
Brit’s Rising Star supported by BBC Radio 1
Best New Artist
Song of the Year with Mastercard
Mastercard Album of the Year
International Artist of the Year
International Group of the Year
Alternative/Rock Act
Pop/R&B Act
Dance Act
Hip-Hop/Rap/Grime Act