Brat Summer has extended deep into awards season. Charli XCX’s Brat is competing for a Brit Award for British album of the year on Saturday (March 1), just weeks after it competed in the Grammy race for album of the year. Brat is the first album to be nominated for the top album honor on both sides of the Atlantic since Harry Styles’ Harry’s House two years ago.
Charli XCX is just the fifth woman artist who has been nominated for top album honors at both shows. The first four were Annie Lennox (Diva), the late Amy Winehouse (Back to Black), Adele (21, 25 and 30) and Dua Lipa (Future Nostalgia).
Radiohead and Adele have each been nominated for the top album honor in both countries three times, more than any other artists. (Adele is the only artist who has achieved the feat with three consecutive albums.)
Sam Smith is the only artist to achieve the feat with a debut album. Lennox scored with her solo debut album, but that followed seven albums with Eurythmics.
Two albums by British artists won the Grammy for album of the year but lost the equivalent Brit Award in their home country. That was the fate of George Michael’s Faith (which lost the Brit Award to Sting’s …Nothing Like the Sun) and Mumford & Sons’ Babel (which lost the Brit Award to Emeli Sandé’s Our Version of Events).
Two of these albums were nominated for British album of the year twice at the Brits. Dire Straits‘ Brothers in Arms won on its second try (in 1987). Radiohead’s Kid A lost both times (2001-02). No album has ever been nominated for album of the year twice at the Grammys.
Notes: In 1977, 10 years after its release, The Beatles’ landmark Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band received a special award at the Brits. The album had won the Grammy for album of the year in 1968, but its Brit Award was an after-the-fact honor, which is different. In 1984, Michael Jackson’s Thriller won the Grammy for album of the year and a Brit Award as the year’s best-selling album, but that too is different.
Here’s a complete list of albums that have been nominated for album of the year at the Grammys and British album of the year at the Brits. The years shown are the years of the Grammy ceremony in which they competed. Because of differing eligibility periods, the year the album competed at the Brits sometimes differed. In those cases, the year the album competed at the Brits is shown on the Brits line of each individual entry.
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Phil Collins, No Jacket Required (1986)
Producers: Phil Collins & Hugh Padgham
Grammys: won
Brits: won
Notes: Collins’ third solo studio album spawned four top 10 hits on the Hot 100 – “One More Night” and “Sussudio” (both of which reached No. 1), plus “Don’t Lose My Number” and “Take Me Home.”
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Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms (1986)
Producers: Neil Dorfsman & Mark Knopfler
Grammys: nominated (lost to Phil Collins’ No Jacket Required)
Brits: nominated (lost to Phil Collins’ No Jacket Required, 1986); won (1987)
Notes: The band’s fifth studio album spawned two top 10 singles on the Hot 100 – the No. 1 smash “Money for Nothing” and “Walk of Life.”
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Peter Gabriel, So (1987)
Producers: Peter Gabriel & Daniel Lanois
Grammys: nominated (lost to Paul Simon’s Graceland)
Brits: nominated (lost to Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms)
Notes: Gabriel’s fifth solo studio album spawned two top 10 hits on the Hot 100 – the No. 1 smash “Sledgehammer” and “Big Time.”
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Sting, …Nothing Like the Sun (1989)
Producers: Sting, Neil Dorfsman & Bryan Loren
Grammys: nominated (lost to George Michael’s Faith)
Brits: won
Notes: Sting’s second solo studio album spawned one top 10 hit on the Hot 100, “We’ll Be Together.”
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Steve Winwood, Roll With It (1989)
Producers: Steve Winwood & Tom Lord-Alge
Grammys: nominated (lost to George Michael’s Faith)
Brits: nominated (lost to Fairground Attraction’s The First of a Million Kisses)
Notes: Winwood’s fifth solo studio album spawned two top 10 hits on the Hot 100 hit – the No. 1 smash “Roll With It” and “Don’t You Know What the Night Can Do?”
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Fine Young Cannibals, The Raw & the Cooked (1990)
Producers: Fine Young Cannibals, Jerry Harrison, David Z
Grammys: nominated (lost to Bonnie Raitt’s Nick of Time)
Brits: won
Notes: The band’s studio second studio album spawned a pair of No. 1 hits on the Hot 100, “She Drives Me Crazy” and “Good Thing.” (This was also the band’s final studio album. That is what you call going out on top.)
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Annie Lennox, Diva (1993)
Producers: Stephen Lipson
Grammys: nominated (lost to Eric Clapton’s Unplugged)
Brits: won
Notes: This was Lennox’s first solo studio album, following seven studio albums as a member of Eurythmics. The album spawned the top 20 Hot 100 hit “Walking on Broken Glass.”
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Sting, Ten Summoner’s Tales (1994)
Producers: Sting & Hugh Padgham
Grammys: nominated (lost to Whitney Houston’s The Bodyguard soundtrack)
Brits: nominated (lost to Stereo MC’s’s Connected)
Notes: This was Sting’s fourth solo studio album. It spawned the top 20 Hot 100 hit “If I Ever Lose My Faith in You.” Sting was the first artist with two albums that were nominated for top album honors at both the Grammys and the Junos – and he remains the only male solo artist to do so.
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Radiohead, OK Computer (1998)
Producers: Nigel Godrich & Radiohead
Grammys: nominated (lost to Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind)
Brits: nominated (lost to The Verve’s Urban Hymns)
Notes: This was the band’s third studio album. It didn’t produce any Hot 100 hits, though “Karma Police” was a top 20 hit on the Alternative Airplay chart.
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Radiohead, Kid A (2001)
Producers: Nigel Godrich & Radiohead
Grammys: nominated (lost to Steely Dan’s Two Against Nature)
Brits: nominated (lost to Coldplay’s Parachutes (2001) and to Dido’s No Angel (2002))
Notes: This was the band’s fourth studio album. No singles were released from the album. The band also turned down most interview and photo shoot requests. Their anti-promotion approach didn’t seem to hurt the album. (This strategy is not recommended if you’re not Radiohead.)
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Amy Winehouse, Back to Black (2008)
Image Credit: JMEnternational/Getty Images Producers: Salaam Remi & Mark Ronson
Grammys: nominated (lost to Herbie Hancock’s River: The Joni Letters)
Brits: nominated (2007, lost to Arctic Monkeys’ Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not)
Notes: This was Winehouse’s second and final studio album. She died in 2011. The album spawned the top 10 Hot 100 smash “Rehab.”
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Coldplay, Viva La Vida or Death and All Its Friends (2009)
Producers: Markus Dravs, Brian Eno, Rik Simpson & Jon Hopkins
Grammys: nominated (lost to Robert Plant & Alison Krauss’s Raising Sand)
Brits: nominated (lost to Duffy’s Rockferry)
Notes: This was the band’s fourth studio album. “Viva La Vida” was their first No. 1 Hot 100 hit. It also won a Grammy for song of the year.
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Radiohead, In Rainbows (2009)
Producers: Nigel Godrich
Grammys: nominated (lost to Robert Plant & Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand)
Brits: nominated (lost to Duffy’s Rockferry)
Notes: This was the band’s seventh studioalbum. That’s the deepest into a career that anyone has received nominations for the top album award at both shows. The album spawned “Nude,” a top 40 hit on the Hot 100.
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Adele, 21 (2012)
Image Credit: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Producers: Jim Abbiss, Adele, Paul Epworth, Rick Rubin, Fraser T. Smith, Ryan Tedder & Dan Wilson
Grammys: won
Brits: won
Notes: This was Adele’s second studio album. It spawned three No. 1 Hot 100 hits, “Rolling in the Deep,” “Someone Like You” and “Set Fire to the Rain.”
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Mumford & Sons, Babel (2013)
Producers: Markus Dravs
Grammys: won
Brits: nominated (lost to Emeli Sandé’s Our Version of Events)
Notes: This was the band’s sophomore album. It spawned “I Will Wait,” a top 20 Hot 100 hit.
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Ed Sheeran, × (2015)
Producers: Jeff Bhasker, Benny Blanco, Kake Gosling, Johnny McDaid, Rick Rubin & Pharrell Williams
Grammys: nominated (lost to Beck’s Morning Phase)
Brits: won
Notes: This was Sheeran’s second studio album. It three top 10 hits on the Hot 100 – “Don’t,” “Thinking Out Loud” and “Photograph.” “Thinking Out Loud” logged eight weeks at No. 2 and won a Grammy for song of the year.
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Sam Smith, In the Lonely Hour (2015)
Producers: Jimmy Napes, Steve Fitzmaurice, Mojam, Komi, Naughty Boy, Two Inch Punch, Eg White, Fraser T Smith
Grammys: nominated (lost to Beck’s Morning Phase)
Brits: nominated (lost to Ed Sheeran’s x)
Notes: This was Smith’s debut studio album. It spawned three top 10 hits on the Hot 100 – “Stay With Me,” “I’m Not the Only One” and “Lay With Me.” “Stay With Me” reached No. 2 and won Grammys for record and song of the year.
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Adele, 25 (2017)
Producers: Danger Mouse, Samuel Dixon, Paul Epworth, Greg Kurstin, Max Martin, Ariel Rechtshaid, Shellback, The Smeezingtons & Ryan Tedder
Grammys: won (2016)
Brits: won
Notes: This was Adele’s third studio album. It spawned two top 10 hits on the Hot 100 – “Hello” and “Send My Love (to Your New Lover).” “Hello” logged 10 weeks at No. 1 and won Grammys for record and song of the year.
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Dua Lipa, Future Nostalgia (2021)
Producers: Jeff Bhasker, Jason Evigan, Koz, Ian Kirkpatrick, SG Lewis, the Monsters & Strangerz, Stuart Price, Take a Daytrip, TMS, Andrew Watt
Grammys: nominated (lost to Taylor Swift’s Folklore)
Brits: won
Notes: This was Lipa’s second studio album. It spawned two No. 2 hits on the Hot 100 – “Don’t Start Now” and “Levitating.”
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Adele, 30 (2023)
Producers: Adele Adkins, Greg Kurstin, Inflo, Tobias Jesso Jr., Ludwig Göransson, Max Martin, Shawn Everett, Shellback
Grammys: nominated (lost to Harry Styles’ Harry’s House)
Brits: won (2022)
Notes: This was Adele’s fourth studio album. The album spawned two top 10 hits on the Hot 100 – “Easy on Me,” which logged 10 weeks at No. 1, and “Oh My God.”
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Harry Styles, Harry’s House (2023)
Image Credit: JMEnternational/Getty Images Producers: Kid Harpoon, Tyler Johnson, Samuel Witte
Grammys: won
Brits: won
Notes: This was Styles’ third solo studio album. It spawned four top 10 hits on the Hot 100 – “As It Was,” “Late Night Talking,” “Music for a Sushi Restaurant” and “Matilda.” “As It Was” topped the Hot 100 for 15 weeks, setting a new record (since eclipsed) for a solo-billed recording.
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Charli XCX: Brat (2025)
Producers: A. G. Cook, Cirkut, George Daniel, Charli XCX, Gesaffelstein, Finn Keane, Hudson Mohawke, El Guincho, Jon Shave, Linus Wiklund, Omer Fedi
Grammys: nominated (lost to Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter)
Brits: TBD
Notes: This was Charli XCX’s sixth studio album. The biggest Hot 100 hit from the standard edition was “360,” which peaked just outside of the top 40.
