The Brit Awards (stylised as the BRIT Awards; generally artlessly alleged the Brits) are the British Phonographic Industry’s anniversary pop music awards and the British agnate of the American Grammy Awards.
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The name was originally a beneath anatomy of “British”, “Britain” or “Britannia” (in the aboriginal canicule the awards were sponsored by Britannia Music Club), but after became a backronym for British Almanac Industry Trust.
In addition, an agnate awards celebration for classical music, alleged the Classic BRIT Awards, is captivated anniversary May. Robbie Williams holds the almanac for the a lot of Brit Awards, accepting won a absolute of 12 as a abandoned artisan and addition 5 awards as allotment of Take That.
The awards began in 1977 as allotment of the celebration of the Queen Silver Jubilee and as an anniversary accident in 1982 beneath the advocacy of the British almanac industry’s barter association, the BPI. The endure BPI Awards appearance was the aboriginal of the ceremonies to be advertisement on television, by the BBC, and in 1989 they were renamed the Brit Awards.MasterCard has been the adept sponsor of the event.
The Brit Awards were advertisement reside until 1989, if Samantha Fox and Mick Fleetwood hosted a broadly criticised appearance in which little went as rehearsed. Subsequently, the accident was recorded and advertisement the afterward night. This was allotment of a adapt by Jonathan King, who created the “BRITs” moniker, and organised a new attending show.
From 2007, the Brit Awards changed to a reside advertisement on British television, on 14 February on ITV.In that year, actor Russell Brand was presenter and three awards were alone from the ceremony: Best British Rock Act, Best British Urban Act and Best Pop Act.
On 18 February 2009, the area for the BRITs was already afresh the Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London. The 2011 Brit Awards were captivated at The O2 Arena in London for the aboriginal time in its history, affective from the aboriginal area of Earls Court.