Only one
British woman, Mabel, is nominated across the best album, song and new artist categories, which skew heavily in favour of solo menAlexis Petridis: ‘This year’s male-dominated Brit awards have an issue with women’The British
music industry’s focus on the male solo artist at the expense of female musicians has been thrown into sharp relief by the nominations for the 2020 Brit awards, in which only one British woman – and no groups featuring women – was nominated across 25 slots in mixed-gender categories.
Pop singer Mabel was nominated for best new artist and best song for Don’t Call Me Up – but the nine other song nominees and four other new artist nominees are solo British males. (US star
Miley Cyrus guests on Mark Ronson’s nominated song Nothing Breaks Like a Heart.)