BRIT Awards 2021: The winners in full
Dua Lipa, Harry Styles, Billie Eilish and Little Mix were the big winners at 2021 BRIT Awards.
Dua Lipa was the biggest winner of the night, taking home two trophies, for British Female and the most prestigious award of the night Mastercard British Album of the Year for her Number 1 album Future Nostalgia.
Harry Styles was awarded British Single for Watermelon Sugar, his second win in the category including his 2012 win as part of One Direction, while Billie Eilish became only the second artist in history to win International Female Solo Artist in consecutive years - the first was Rihanna who won back-to-back in 2011 and 2012.
Little Mix made history as the first female group to win Best British Group, thanking departed member Jesy Nelson when accepting the award. They also dedicated the gong to the Spice Girls, Sugababes, All Saints, Girls Aloud and other British girl bands who came before them. Little Mix's sixth studio album Confetti peaked at Number 2 on the Official Albums Chart last November and was the fastest-selling album of 2020 from a British act.
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A powerful message from @DUALIPA tonight 🙌💙 #BRITs pic.twitter.com/KwP7tOr5dE
— BRIT Awards (@BRITs) May 11, 2021
Coldplay opened the show with a colourful performance of their new single Higher Power from a barge on the Thames, complete with hologram dancers. Dua Lipa was the first to take to the stage inside The O2, delivering a melody of hits including Physical and Don't Start Now.
Olivia Rodrigo was third to perform, giving a rendition of her nine-week Number 1 single Drivers License, with Arlo Parks next entertaining the 4,000 key workers in attendance with Hope. Then, Years & Years united with Sir Elton John for a new version of Pet Shop Boys' It's A Sin, based on the hit TV series the aired on Channel 4 earlier this year.
The Weeknd performed his latest single Save Your Tears remotely and was followed by the BRITs debut of Griff, this year's Rising Star recipient. Headie One was flanked by AJ Tracey and Young T & Bugsey for performances of Ain't It Different and Princess Cuts. The final performance of the night was from Rag'n'Bone Man & Pink with the Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir for their new charity version of Anywhere Away From Here.
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"We want to start by thanking our incredible fans, of course Jesy, and our amazing team." @LittleMix pick up the British Group Award and there isn't a dry eye left on the planet #BRITs
— BRIT Awards (@BRITs) May 11, 2021
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The 2021 BRIT Awards winners in full
British Album of the Year
Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
Celeste - Not Your Muse
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia [WINNER]
J Hus - Big Conspiracy
Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
British Single
220 Kid & Gracey - Don't Need Love
Aitch & AJ Tracey ft. Tay Keith - Rain
Dua Lipa - Physical
Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar [WINNER]
Headie One ft. Aj Tracey & Stormzy - Ain't It Different
Joel Corry ft. Mnek - Head & Heart
Nathan Dawe ft. KSI - Lighter
Regard & Raye - Secrets
S1mba ft. DTG - Rover
Young T & Bugsey ft. Headie One - Don't Rush
British Male Solo Artist
AJ Tracey
Headie One
J Hus [WINNER]
Joel Corry
Yungblud
British Female Solo Artist
Arlo Parks
Celeste
Dua Lipa [WINNER]
Jessie Ware
Lianne La Havas
British Group
Bicep
Biffy Clyro
Little Mix [WINNER]
The 1975
Young T & Bugsey
Breakthrough Artist
Arlo Parks [WINNER]
Bicep
Celeste
Joel Corry
Young T & Bugsey
International Male Solo Artist
Bruce Springsteen
Burna Boy
Childish Gambino
Tame Impala
The Weeknd [WINNER]
International Female Solo Artist
Ariana Grande
Billie Eilish [WINNER]
Cardi B
Miley Cyrus
Taylor Swift
International Group
BTS
Fontaines D.C.
Foo Fighters
HAIM [WINNER]
Run The Jewels
Rising Star Award
Griff [WINNER]
Pa Salieu
Rina Sawayama
Global Icon Award
Taylor Swift [WINNER]
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Marko
Stopped watching this show years ago.
Overrated Dua Lipa probably won, don't care.
Winners now are all trash.
st lincoln
She deserves it
Piran
What kind of music do you like then? :P
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
my thoughts on last night's brit awards...
performances - coldplay's (on the thames) and dua's were filled with so much life, olivia rodrigo had the best performance of the night in my opinion, arlo parks impressed me (might check out this album of hers), olly's and elton's reminded me of the 80s, the weeknd's was surprisingly disappointing, griff's was decent, headie one's freestyle in the middle of his performance with aj tracey was fantastic (although itv had to be spoilsports and mute a bit of it), and rag'n'bone man's was enjoyable.
winners - i had no clue who i wanted to win best new artist, arlo is a good winner tho.
it disappointed me that j hus and billie eilish couldn't be there to accept their awards, but i'm happy for both of them, even if i wanted aj to win best male.
the weeknd's win was expected, not complaining tho.
surprised to see little mix win best group, i can see why many would be disappointed with this result though they have grown on me (sweet melody and not a pop song were good).
it was so nice to see haim win too.
surprised head & heart didn't pick up best single, watermelon sugar is a good song however.
but the biggest winner of the night was of course the lovely dua lipa, her winning album of the year and best female was much deserved.
also, i'm so happy for taylor winning the global icon award! :)))
EB
Edward Bray
Outstanded that Joel Corry and Celeste didn't pick up a single award despite them having 3 nominations
Piran
My only wish is that there was more EDM in last night’s show!
There were no performances nor wins for that genre at all. :/
Piran
Nice to see Griff & Arlo Parks get their first wins last night too. :)
thierry henon
Really thought CELESTE and JOEL CORRY would have won something!! But very happy for HARRY STYLES...
thierry henon
GRIFF gave the best performance of the night! Congrats to her for winning as well the Rising star award and extremely pleased to see ARLO Parks Winning an award as well..
Tosyma
Album of the year???
Piran
Incredible show tonight! :D
Most of the performances were either good or amazing! ‘Drivers License’ was the highlight for me there, while ‘Save Your Tears’ was surprisingly my least favourite.
As for the awards, outside of Taylor getting the Global Icon Award, I’m really happy that Dua got two wins this year!
racefireo
How the "Drivers license" was your favorite? She sang it so bad.
Swift stans are still so ridiculous.
Piran
Meanwhile, Taylor haters are still pressed, jealous trolls who’ll attack anyone for not having the same opinion as them! 🤡
EB
Edward Bray
I agree Piran as Dua is my favourite artist I was really happy to see her win two awards and her first speech was so inspiring. However Boris wouldn't have been too happy about it. Taylor's speech when recieving the global icon was inspiring aswell I mean she really deserved that award.
I do want to have a slight go at ITV because they managed to bleep out the swearing for Headie one's performance but then Jack Whitehall started swearing and do did Lewis Capaldi. Also Lewis one thing you said was wrong, England will win the Euros. But back to the point if there were some children who are younger than me they might go around repeating them
Also aswell as Dua saying the NHS need a pay rise I think when AJ Tracey and Headie one started not singing the lyrics of ain't it different they went on about something like the NHS need a pay rise.
racefireo
It's not even an opinion. She sang it bad, it is not even debatable. This is not an appreciation if you like her voice or not (I like her voice) but for this performance, she sang it bad, maybe she was very nervous but you can't tell me this was the best performance. Biased AF.
Piran
Again, music is subjective! What you consider to be good or bad is not the same as what other people would & that's not necessarily a bad thing, because everyone is equally entitled to their musical perspective.
My original post definitely isn't biased! There are some songs which you form a connection with before they're performed live, so of course you're more likely to enjoy a performance of a hit if you like the song itself, it's a natural reaction. Even then, that's not always the case, because there were some exceptions on Tuesday night, like 'Save Your Tears' (amazing song, meh performance) & 'Anywhere Away From Here' (meh song, amazing performance!).
If anything, given that other people in this community voiced their praise for 'Drivers License' & yet, I'm the only person who you lashed out purely on the basis that I like Taylor, you're the one who's biased here. :/
Piran
Yeah, the BRITs always get political at some point & Dua made an amazing point there. :)
I really took Taylor's words on board when she did her speech & I hope a lot of younger artists who were at the show did too!