Ed Sheeran, Adele and Inflo up for IvorNovello awards
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Adele, Ed Sheeran, Coldplay, Dave and Raye have all been nominated for songwriter of the year at the prestigious Ivor Novello awards.
Producer and writer Inflo, once called "the most influential and mysterious producer on the planet", external, leads the award nominations, with four in total.
He is recognised for his work with Brit Award-winner Little Simz, singer Cleo Sol and funk-soul collective Sault.
Ed Sheeran, who just won a plagiarism battle, is up for three prizes.
As well as songwriter of the year, the star has two tracks - Bad Habits and Shivers - up for the PRS for music most performed work category, which recognises the song heard most often on UK radio and television in the last year.
Also nominated in that category are Elton John and Dua Lipa's Cold Heart; Tom Grennan's Little Bit Of Love; and David Guetta, Joel Corry and Raye's dance anthem Bed.
Adele's comeback single Easy On Me is in the running for best song musically and lyrically, where she faces competition from Sam Fender's autobiographical Seventeen Going Under and Rag 'N' Bone Man's All You Ever Wanted - a protest song about the state of the UK's live music industry.
"I'm kind of romanticising the crappy little spit and sawdust venues I went to when I grew up," he told the BBC last year. "A lot of them don't exist any more and that makes me frustrated and angry.
"Like, is all you ever wanted another block of flats or a coffee shop? If those venues don't exist then where do the bands cut their teeth?"
Inflo, whose real name is Dean Josiah Cover, has credits on three of the records nominated for album of the year: Little Simz's Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, Sault's Nine and Cleo Sol's Mother.
The publicity-shy musician, who won the 2022 Brit Award for producer of the year, also worked on Adele's 30, but her album missed out on a nomination. The field is instead completed by Sleaford Mods' Spare Ribs and Laura Mvula's 80s funk odyssey Pink Noise.
The singer said she was delighted to be recognised for an album she worked on alone during lockdown, after being dropped by her record label.
"Sometimes it was hard to imagine getting to the finish line, so to know that it has made some impact in such strange times is really exciting for me," she told The Guardian., external
The Ivors also recognise songwriting and composition for television, film and computer games, with Jonny Greenwod's score for the Princess Diana biopic Spencer among the nominees.
BBC Sound Of 2022 winner Pink Pantheress is up for the rising star award. Last year's recipient, Holly Humberstone, graduates to the main field, with a best song nomination for her track Haunted House.
Former Ivors winner and judge Shaznay Lewis, of the pop group All Saints, said it had been "a stand-out year" for music.
"I am full of admiration for the 77 talented songwriters and composers we are celebrating this year," she said. "Their work and words touch on a dizzying range of emotions, and I count myself lucky to have heard their stories."
This awards will be handed out in London on 19 May.
The nominations in full
Songwriter of the year
Adele
Coldplay
Dave
Ed Sheeran
Raye
Best album
Mother - Cleo Sol
Nine - Sault
Pink Noise - Laura Mvula
Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz
Spare Ribs - Sleaford Mods
Best song musically and lyrically
All You Ever Wanted - Rag'n'Bone Man
Easy On Me - Adele
Haunted House - Holly Humberstone
Let's Go Home Together - Ella Henderson & Tom Grennan
Seventeen Going Under - Sam Fender
Best contemporary song
Body - Russ Millions & Tion Wayne
Coming Back - James Blake ft SZA
Don't Judge Me - FKA twigs, Headie One, Fred again..
I Love You, I Hate You - Little Simz
Just For Me - PinkPantheress
Most performed work
Bad Habits - Ed Sheeran
Bed - Joel Corry, Raye and David Guetta
Cold Heart (Pnau Remix) - Elton John & Dua Lipa
Little Bit Of Love - Tom Grennan
Shivers - Ed Sheeran
Rising star award
Ashaine White
Luz
Matilda Mann
Naomi Kimpenu
PinkPantheress
Best film score
After Love - composed by Chris Roe
Censor - composed by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch
Last Night in Soho - composed by Steven Price
Spencer - composed by Jonny Greenwood
The World To Come - composed by Daniel Blumberg
Best video game score
Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy - composed by Richard Jacques
Omno - composed by Benedict Nichols
Returnal - composed by Bobby Krlic
Best TV Soundtrack
Blitz Spirit With Lucy Worsley - composed by Jessica Dannheisser
Landscapers - composed by Arthur Sharpe
Robin Robin - composed by Ben Please and Beth Porter
The Outlaws - composed by Stew Jackson and Dan Jones
The Serpent - composed by Dominic Scherrer
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