BRIT Awards 2013 nominations revealed

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The nominations for this year’s BRIT Awards have been unveiled at a ceremony in London.

The biggest headline-grabber of the bunch is that Amy Winehouse becomes the first person to receive a nomination posthumously.

The late singer is up for ‘British Female Solo Artist’, alongside Bat For Lashes and Best Fit favourite Jessie Ware.

Frank Ocean also added to his Grammy nominations with a BRIT one for ‘Best International Male’.

Elsewhere, Alt-J and The xx go up against the likes of One Direction in the ‘British Group’ category.

The full list of nominations are as below:

Best British Album
Emeli Sande
Plan B
Alt-J
Paloma Faith
Mumford & Sons

British Male Solo Artist
Ben Howard
Calvin Harris
Olly Murs
Richard Hawley
Plan B

British Female Solo Artist
Bat For Lashes
Emeli Sande
Jessie Ware
Paloma Faith
Amy Winehouse

Best British Group
Alt-J
Mumford and Sons
Muse
One Direction
The XX

Best Live Act
Mumford and Sons
Coldplay
Muse
The Vaccines
The Rolling Stones

Best International Group
The Black Keys
The Script
Alabama Shakes
Fun.
The Killers

Best International Male
Jack White
Gotye
Michael Buble
Frank Ocean
Bruce Springsteen

Best International Female
Rihanna
Alicia Keys
Cat Power
Lana Del Rey
Taylor Swift

British Breakthrough Act
Jake Bugg
Jessie Ware
Alt-J
Ben Howard
Rita Ora