Here are the nominees:

• Barry Can't Swim
• Becky Hill
• Calvin Harris
• Fred Again..
• Romy

SZA causes Brits upset by beating Taylor Swiftpublished at 21:27 Greenwich Mean Time 2 March

21:27 GMT 2 March

Mark Savage
BBC Music correspondent

SZA beating Taylor Swift to the international prize could definitely be considered an upset. Swift was was the biggest-selling artist of last year, quite apart from her record-shattering Eras tour and the huge cultural conversation around her love life and musical output.

She even triggered an earthquake at one of her concerts.

But SZA’s second album SOS clearly resonated more with the 1,300 Brits voters (Taylor Swift’s output last year was two re-recordings, of her albums Speak Now and 1989).

A hugely articulate and emotional account of the ups and downs of post-millennial relationships, it scooped several Grammys earlier this year - and SZA herself gave a stunning, Grand Guignol performance of the standout single Kill Bill.

As important as Swift is to pop, SZA is to R&B. And for that alone, she’s a deserving winner.

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"What is actually happening right now...? I just don't understand," says Raye, picking up her third award of the night.

She says she released her first mixtape when she was 16. "But I do feel like a new artist - I got to start again. The artist I was three years ago would not believe the sight she's seeing today."

She thanks her mum, dad and grandma. We think she might need to find more people to thank...

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Up for this award are…

• Mahalia
• Olivia Dean
• PinkPantheress
• Yussef Dayes
• Raye

Aoife Walsh
Live reporter at the Brits

Bring Me The Horizon are celebrating their 20th anniversary, but this - the prize for Best Alternative/Rock act - is their first Brit award.

“Yeah, good. Better than losing,” they say. “It was a strong category but there’s only one winner at the end of the day.

“I think it would make a very good door stop for the summer months,” they say about the award.

It’s clearly a very prized possession for them already!

Canadian star Tate McRae is performing her single Greedy, which climbed the charts due to its popularity on TikTok.

She is wearing a sequinned bralette, leather waist-piece and blue cargo trousers, and shows off her moves surrounded by a group of dancers.

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Leisha Chi-Santorelli
BBC News Culture reporter

Maya Jama is now playing a game next to Jamie Winstone in a crystal headpiece and Drag Race star Bimini. She has shot glasses. Some of them are filled with tequila and some with water. What's with these table games?

SZA could not attend the awards ceremony but she thanked the Brits in a video message, saying "sorry I can't be there" and that she is "so grateful".

This year’s hopefuls are…

• Asake
• Burna Boy
• Caroline Polachek
• CMAT
• Kylie Minogue
• Lana Del Rey
• Miley Cyrus
• Olivia Rodrigo
• SZA
• Taylor Swift

Aoife Walsh
Live reporter

The atmosphere inside the O2 Arena is electric. During the ad break, the DJ got the crowd going with some dance music.

Leisha Chi-Santorelli
BBC News Culture reporter

There's just been a moment in the show where host Roman Kemp sat by Kylie and pointed out that on her table is magnum-sized bottle of her own brand of rosé wine.

He then makes her take her high heels off. Pours beer in it. And makes her drink from one, and him the other.

She seemed apprehensive but chugged it down anyway. Then the camera cut back to host Maya Jama who joked that Kemp had athletes foot.

The best R&B award - a new addition this yearpublished at 21:08 Greenwich Mean Time 2 March

21:08 GMT 2 March

Mark Savage
BBC Music correspondent

The Best R&B Award, just won by Raye, is one of five new additions this year. Previously, R&B artists were forced to compete in a combined best pop/R&B category - which was predictably dominated by mainstream stars like Harry Styles and Dua Lipa.

Singer Mahalia voiced her dissatisfaction at the 2023 Brits ceremony, turning up in a Burberry jacket with the words "Long Live R&B" painted on the back. Speaking to BBC News last year, she welcomed the change.

"This is huge,” she said. For me, when the [combined] category got announced a couple of years ago, I was disappointed for the younger generation of R&B kids, who were going to think a Brit nomination was impossible.

"I was kind of feeling that, too. If I'm in a longlist with all of these huge art pop artists, I don't know how I'm going to shine through... So my initial reaction to the change was just pure happiness and pride."

"Don't drop it", Bring Me The Horizon band members joke as they take the prize. "We didn't think we'd be winning this at all."

"Cheers to the Brits for making a voting system so complicated only our fans could be bothered to vote I guess..."

Here’s the full list of nominees:

• Blur
• Bring Me The Horizon
• The Rolling Stones
• Young Fathers
• Yussef Dayes

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Raye may be the Brit Award’s Songwriter of the Year and Best R&B Artist but her story has been far from easy.

Born Rachel Agatha Keen and raised in Croydon, it could be argued that music is a part of her DNA with a dad working as a musical director of a local church, while her sister is a successful songwriter, having penned songs for stars like Ariana Grande and Rihanna.

Her first single featuring British DJ Jax Jones catapulted Raye into mainstream notoriety, but by 2021, the artist began to feel stagnant.

Writing on X (formerly Twitter), she detailed a battle she was having with record label Polydor to release her own album, saying the time that "I am giving away [songs] to A list artists because I am still waiting for confirmation that I am good enough to release an album”.

Despite these struggles, she endured. And that leap of faith appears to have paid off as 18 months after her departure from Polydor, Raye claimed her first number one single with her song Escapism.

The London-born star is proving to be one of the most sought after acts at the Brits this year, breaking the record for the highest number of nominations by a single artist.

Picking up her second Brit of the night Raye reminisces on being a teenager and wanting to be an R&B artist. She says: "I was told a lie that R&B doesn't sell in the UK so I needed to learn how to make different kinds of music."

It's the second award of the night for the London-born singer.