This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Artist News Awards Business News
Ivor Novello Awards nominations announced
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 20 April 2016
The nominations for this year’s Ivor Novello Awards have been announced. And before we go anywhere, I think you should know that Adele’s name does not feature. It was decided that some other people wrote better songs. I know, what a snub. It’s like she doesn’t automatically have a right to be on the list just because she’s commercially successful.
On the plus side, after the controversy about diversity at the BRITs this year, the Ivors’ Best Contemporary Song category is dominated by rappers, including Skepta and Roots Manuva.
BASCA Chairman Stephen McNeff said of this year’s nominees: “The Ivors were created to celebrate the best in British and Irish songwriting and composing. As we move into our 61st year BASCA is delighted that these nominations reflect the health and diversity of UK music and include a raft of first-time nominees alongside past winners. Congratulations to everyone represented here today”.
And those nominees are:
Best Song Musically And Lyrically
Ed Sheeran and Rudimental – Bloodstream (Written by Piers Aggett, Kesi Dryden, Amir Izadkhah, Gary Lightbody, Johnny McDaid, Leon Rolle and Ed Sheeran)
Wolf Alice – Bros (Written by Ellen Rowsell)
Jamie Lawson – Wasn’t Expecting That (Written by Jamie Lawson)
Best Contemporary Song
Snakehips feat Tinashe & Chance The Rapper – All My Friends (Written by James Carter, Oliver Lee, Cass Lowe and Chance The Rapper)
Roots Manuva – Cargo (Written by Fred and Roots Manuva)
Skepta – Shutdown (Written by Ragz Originale and Skepta)
Most Performed Work
James Bay – Hold Back The River (Written by Iain Archer and James Bay)
Jess Glynne – Hold My Hand (Written by Janée ‘Jin Jin’ Bennett, Jess Glynne and Jack Patterson)
Years & Years – King (Written by Michael Goldsworthy, Mark Ralph, Oliver Thornton and Emre Turkmen)
Album Award
Villagers – Darling Arithmetic (Written by Conor O’Brien)
Jamie XX – In Colour (Written by Jamie XX)
Gaz Coombes – Matador (Written by Gaz Coombes)
Best Original Film Score
Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury – Ex_Machina
John Powell – Pan
Cat’s Eyes – The Duke of Burgundy
Best Television Soundtrack
Stuart Earl – And Then There Were None
Edmund Butt – From Darkness
Keefus Ciancia and David Holmes – London Spy
Some other awards will also be handed out on the day to pad the ceremony out. And that ceremony will take place at Grosvenor House in London on 19 May.
