The BRIT Awards 2024: RAYE makes history with a record-breaking SEVEN nods as she leads the female dominated nominations with Dua Lipa and Taylor Swift after controversial shake-up sparked gender row
Solo female artist RAYE is the most nominated British female in BRIT Awards history after receiving seven nominations on Wednesday.
Indeed, any residual upset regrading last year’s male dominated ceremony was swept aside as nominations for this year’s event were announced in London.
The controversial decision to replace Male and Female categories with a non-gendered Artist Of The Year Award sparked outrage in 2023 over its failure to include any female or non-binary artists among its five nominations.
But a lot can happen in a year, and subsequent tweak to the category – which has doubled in size – has resulted in a balanced mix, with six of its ten nominees established female artists, among them RAYE.
The London-born singer broke records on Wednesday with seven nominations, the most received by any female artist, following the release of her long-awaited debut album, My 21st Century Blues, in 2023.
