QUEEN BEY! BEYONCÉ LEADS SHORTLIST FOR THE VO5 NME AWARDS 2017, WITH FIVE NOMINATIONS FOLLOWING LEMONADE SUCCESS – INCLUDING BEST ALBUM, HERO OF THE YEAR, MUSIC MOMENT OF THE YEAR, BEST INTERNATIONAL FEMALE AND BEST VIDEO FOR FORMATION
THE 1975, SKEPTA, BASTILLE AND CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS AMASS FOUR NOMINATIONS EACH, GOING HEAD-TO-HEAD IN KEY CATEGORIES SUCH AS BEST BRITISH BAND, BEST ALBUM, BEST TRACK AND MANY MORE
POLITICAL UPHEAVAL IN 2016 DOMINATES VILLAIN OF THE YEAR CATEGORY, WITH DONALD TRUMP, DAVID CAMERON, BORIS JOHNSON AND NIGEL FARAGE ALL NOMINATED, ALONGSIDE MARTIN SHKRELI AND KATIE HOPKINS
REIGNING ‘WORST BAND’ CHAMPIONS, 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER, LOOK SET TO MAKE IT A HAT-TRICK, AS THEY ARE SHORTLISTED AGAIN FOR THE LESS THAN COVETED TITLE
THE AWARDS, SHORTLISTED AND DECIDED BY NME READERS, SEES FANS VOTE IN THEIR THOUSANDS TO CROWN HEROES ACROSS MUSIC, FESTIVALS, FILM, TV, BOOKS AND MORE. THE SHORTLIST WILL BE OFFICIALLY REVEALED THIS EVENING AT AN EXCLUSIVE NME NOMINATIONS PARTY FT BIFFY CLYRO AT LONDON’S OMEARA
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Today, 12th January 2017, NME reveals the hotly anticipated shortlist for the VO5 NME Awards 2017. US megastar Beyoncé leads the shortlist with a huge five nominations following the unexpected release of visual album, Lemonade, in April 2016. Nominated for a host of Awards (Best Album, Hero of the Year, Music Moment of the Year, Best International Female supported by VO5 and Best Video for Formation), Queen Bey will battle it out with other favourites set to win big on the night, including The 1975, Bastille, Skepta and Christine and The Queens, who follow closely behind with four nominations apiece.
The VO5 NME Awards shortlist will be officially unveiled this evening at the exclusive, invitation only ‘Nikon Presents the VO5 NME Awards Nominations Party’ which will see an acoustic gig from Best British Band nominees, Biffy Clyro. Nikon will be capturing fully immersive 360-degree footage of the Nominations Party for all the fans who couldn’t be there on the night, details on how to access this footage will be announced on NME.COM in due course.
The past 12 months have been witness to some truly epic music moments, with phenomenal new releases and the return of some of music’s biggest heavyweights. Far from an easy task, NME readers have voted in their thousands to reduce the longlist to a competitive shortlist – voting for the winners is now open at www.nme.com/awardsvote. Winners will be announced at a star-studded ceremony on 15th February 2017 at London’s O2 Academy Brixton.
Today Paddy Power reveal their odds for the VO5 NME Awards 2017, with The 1975 looking likely to win big on the night. In what would top off an incredible year for the Manchester four-piece, the band are favourites to pick up the infamous NME middle finger award for ‘Best British Band’ supported by Zig–Zag with odds on 4/6; ‘Best Album’ for their sophomore release ‘I Love it When You Sleep…’ while their chances of winning ‘Best Track’ for ‘Somebody Else’ comes in at 4/7. For a complete breakdown of odds, please visit – http://www.paddypower.com/bet/music/nme-awards.
The NME Villain of the Year award sees David Cameron once more prove unpopular with the NME audience, as he receives his seventh nomination on the trot for Villain of the Year. He is joined in the unfavourable category by fellow politicians US President-elect Donald Trump; Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson, alongside controversial US investor Martin Shkreli and outspoken broadcaster Katie Hopkins. Hero of the Year sees David Bowie posthumously nominated, alongside Adele, Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown, Gary Lineker and Beyoncé.
5 Seconds of Summer look set to score a hat-trick in NME’s ‘Worst Band’ category. The four-piece Australian pop group retained the title in 2016 for a second year, however face stiff competition with X Factor’s Honey G, Clean Bandit, The Chainsmokers, Twenty One Pilots and Nickelback also nominated for 2017.
Mike Williams, editor-in-chief, NME says: “Every year we’re bowled over by the enthusiasm of the NME readers, voting in their thousands for their favourite bands, artists, tracks, albums and more. Covering every genre under the sun, this year’s shortlists reflect what an incredible 12 months of music we’ve had, both from returning superstars and brand new artists. We can’t wait to get them together in the O2 Academy Brixton for the most rock ‘n’ roll night of the year, The VO5 NME Awards. Bring it on.”
The VO5 NME Awards 2017 shortlist in full:
Best British Band supported by Zig-Zag
Wolf Alice
The 1975
Bastille
Years & Years
Biffy Clyro
The Last Shadow Puppets
Best International Band supported by Austin, Texas – Live Music Capital Of The World®
Tame Impala
Kings of Leon
Green Day
Metallica
A Tribe Called Quest
Tegan & Sara
Best British Male supported by The Pilot Pen Company
Skepta
Zayn Malik
Kano
Jamie T
Michael Kiwanuka
Richard Ashcroft
Best British Female
Dua Lipa
Adele
Charli XCX
M.I.A.
Kate Tempest
PJ Harvey
Best International Male supported by VO5
Kanye West
Drake
The Weeknd
Frank Ocean
Kendrick Lamar
Chance The Rapper
Best International Female supported by VO5
Sia
Lady Gaga
Beyoncé
Solange
Christine and The Queens
Tove Lo
Best New Artist supported by Topman
Blossoms
Zara Larsson
Sunflower Bean
Christine and The Queens
Dua Lipa
Anderson .Paak
Best Album
‘The Life Of Pablo’ Kanye West
‘Konnichiwa’ Skepta
‘I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It’ The 1975
‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ Radiohead
‘Wild World’ Bastille
‘Lemonade’ Beyoncé
Best Track
‘Cool Girl’ Tove Lo
‘After The Afterparty’ Charli XCX
‘Man’ Skepta
‘Good Grief’ Bastille
‘Somebody Else’ The 1975
‘Tilted’ Christine and The Queens
Best Live Band supported by Nikon
Bastille
Slaves
The 1975
Bring Me The Horizon
Christine and The Queens
Wolf Alice
Best Video
‘Famous’ Kanye West
‘Formation’ Beyoncé
‘Burn The Witch’ Radiohead
‘Consume Or Be Consumed’ Slaves
‘Get Over It’ Rat Boy
‘Lisbon’ Wolf Alice
Best Festival
supported by ID&C
Glastonbury
Reading & Leeds
Download
Isle Of Wight
Primavera
V Festival
Best Music Film
Oasis: Supersonic
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ‘One More Time With Feeling’
Sing Street
Gimme Danger
The Rolling Stones Havana Moon
The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years
Best TV Show
Stranger Things
Fleabag
Game Of Thrones
Black Mirror
Humans
People Just Do Nothing
Best Film
Deadpool
My Scientology Movie
Captain America: Civil War
Suicide Squad
Everybody Wants Some!!
Hunt For The Wilderpeople
Music Moment of the Year
Bring Me The Horizon invade Coldplay’s table at NME Awards 2016
Coldplay’s Viola Beach tribute at Glastonbury
Beyoncé drops Lemonade
Skepta wins the Mercury Prize
Pete Doherty plays The Bataclan
The Stone Roses’ first new music in 20 years
Best Festival Headliner
Coldplay
Radiohead
Biffy Clyro
Adele
Foals
The Stone Roses
Best Small Festival
Y Not
Green Man
End Of The Road
Festival No 6
Kendal Calling
Slam Dunk
Villain Of The Year
Donald Trump
David Cameron
Boris Johnson
Nigel Farage
Martin Shkreli
Katie Hopkins
Hero of the Year
David Bowie
Adele
Millie Bobby Brown
Gary Lineker
Beyoncé
Liam Gallagher
Worst Band
The Chainsmokers
Clean Bandit
Honey G
Nickelback
5 Seconds Of Summer
Twenty One Pilots
Best Reissue
‘Out Of Time’ REM
‘Meddle’ Pink Floyd
‘Be Here Now’ Oasis
‘Off The Wall’ Michael Jackson
‘Endtroducing’ DJ Shadow
‘Leisure’ Blur
Best Book
Alan Partridge, Nomad
Johnny Marr, Set The Boy Free
Bruce Springsteen, Born To Run
The Killers, Somewhere Outside That Finish Line
Zayn, Zayn: The Official Autobiography
Sylvia Patterson, I’m Not With The Band
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NME Presents The VO5 NME Awards 2017 @ O2 Academy Brixton
Date: Wednesday 15th February 2016
Tickets available from: www.nme.com/tickets
About The VO5 NME Awards 2017
Dating back to 1953 (a year after the launch of NME), the NME Awards has remained one of the most important and prestigious events for British music fans. Some of the biggest names in rock ‘n’ roll history have performed at the NME Awards, including: Ronnie Scott (’53), The Beatles (’63/’64), Rolling Stones (’66), The Who (’66), Noel Gallagher (’03), New Order (’05), Ian Brown (’06), The Cure (’09), Dave Grohl (’11), Johnny Marr (’13), Blondie (’14), Suede (’15) and Coldplay (’16).
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