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Brit Awards remove gendered categories and add genre gongs

The Brit Awards, like all major music industry awards, have sparked lots of debate in recent years about the diversity of nominees and winners, and the structure of the awards themselves.

Now a change has been made to the Brits’ main solo categories: from 2022 they will not be split into male and female awards, but will simply be Artist of the Year and International Artist of the Year (with separate awards for groups).