Brit Award for Song of the Year


The Brit Award for Song of the Year is an award given by the British Phonographic Industry, an organisation which represents record companies and artists in the United Kingdom. The accolade is presented at the Brit Awards, an annual celebration of British and international music. The winners and nominees are determined by the Brit Awards voting academy with over one-thousand members, which comprise record labels, publishers, managers, agents, media, and previous winners and nominees. The award was first presented in 1977 as British Single of the Year. 1983 and 1984 awarded as highest-selling single.

Achievements

holds the record for most wins in this category at five. Robbie Williams has won three times, more than any other solo artist.
Take That was the first artist to win Song of the Year in two consecutive years for the 1993 and 1994 ; and they achieve this feat twice, for the years 2007 and 2008. That record was overtaken by Robbie Williams when he has three wins in a row; for the years 1999 , 2000, and 2001.
Only other artists to receive two Brits for Song of the Year are Queen ; and Adele.
Calvin Harris has the most nominations for Song of the Year for an artist and a male artist with eight nominations, "I Need Your Love", "Summer", "How Deep Is Your Love", "This Is What You Came For", "Feels", "One Kiss", and "Giant" ); he won the award once. Take That has the most nominations for a group with seven noms ; they claim five awards. Adele have the most Song of the Year nominations amongst female artists with four nods ; she's winning two times.
The first women act to win this award was Spice Girls in 1997, for "Wannabe". Dido became the first female solo perfomer to win this accolade in 2004, for "White Flag". Adele is the first female artist to win the award twice, winning for "Skyfall" and "Hello".
Only foreign artist to ever win the award is Bruno Mars. He won as featured artist on Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk".

Winners and nominees

YearRecipientNominees
1977Procol Harum – "A Whiter Shade of Pale"
Queen – "Bohemian Rhapsody"
1982Soft Cell – "Tainted Love"
  • Adam and the Ants – "Prince Charming"
  • Adam and the Ants – "Stand and Deliver"
    • 1983Dexys Midnight Runners – "Come On Eileen"
  • Irene Cara – "Fame"
  • Survivor – "Eye of the Tiger"
    • 1984Culture Club – "Karma Chameleon"Not Nominated
    1985Frankie Goes to Hollywood – "Relax"
  • Bronski Beat – "Smalltown Boy"
  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood – "Two Tribes"
  • Sade – "Smooth Operator"
  • Wham! – "Careless Whisper"
    • 1986Tears for Fears – "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
  • David Bowie and Mick Jagger – "Dancing in the Street"
  • Dire Straits – "Money for Nothing"
  • Kate Bush – "Running Up That Hill"
  • Paul Hardcastle – "19"
    • 1987Pet Shop Boys – "West End Girls"
  • Chris de Burgh – "The Lady in Red"
  • The Communards and Sarah Jane Morris – "Don't Leave Me This Way"
  • Peter Gabriel – "Sledgehammer"
  • Simply Red – "Holding Back the Years"
    • 1988Rick Astley – "Never Gonna Give You Up"
  • Bananarama – "Love in the First Degree"
  • MARRS – "Pump Up the Volume"
  • Pet Shop Boys – "It's a Sin"
  • T'Pau – "China in Your Hand"
    • 1989Fairground Attraction – "Perfect"
  • Art of Noise featuring Tom Jones – "Kiss"
  • Deacon Blue – "Real Gone Kid"
  • Robert Palmer – "She Makes My Day"
  • Tanita Tikaram – "Twist in My Sobriety"
    • 1990Phil Collins – "Another Day in Paradise"
  • Band Aid II – "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
  • The Christians, Holly Johnson, Paul McCartney, Gerry Marsden and Stock Aitken Waterman – "Ferry Cross the Mersey"
  • Jason Donovan – "Sealed with a Kiss"
  • Jason Donovan – "Too Many Broken Hearts"
  • Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers – "Let's Party"
  • Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers – "Swing the Mood"
  • Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers – "That's What I Like"
  • Lisa Stansfield – "All Around the World"
  • Marc Almond featuring Gene Pitney –
    "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart"
  • Simple Minds – "Belfast Child"
  • Sonia – "You'll Never Stop Me Loving You"
  • Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler –
    "Back to Life "
    • 1991Depeche Mode – "Enjoy the Silence"Not Nominated
    1992Queen – "These Are the Days of Our Lives"
  • Gareth Hale and Norman Pace – "The Stonk"
  • Jason Donovan – "Any Dream Will Do"
  • The KLF – "3 a.m. Eternal"
  • Iron Maiden – "Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter"
  • Vic Reeves and The Wonder Stuff – "Dizzy"
    • 1993Take That – "Could It Be Magic"
  • Shakespears Sister – "Stay"
  • Take That – "It Only Takes a Minute"
  • Take That – "A Million Love Songs"
  • Wet Wet Wet – "Goodnight Girl"
    • 1994Take That – "Pray"Nominated
    1994Take That – "Pray"
  • Dina Carroll – "Don't Be a Stranger"
  • Paul Weller – "Wild Wood"
  • Radiohead – "Creep"
  • Suede – "Animal Nitrate"
    • 1994Take That – "Pray"Eliminated
    1994Take That – "Pray"
  • Apache Indian – "Boom Shack-A-Lak"
  • Gabrielle – "Dreams"
  • M People – "Moving On Up"
  • New Order – "Regret"
  • Shaggy – "Oh Carolina"
    • 1995Blur featuring Phil Daniels – "Parklife"Nominated
    1995Blur featuring Phil Daniels – "Parklife"
  • Blur – "Girls & Boys"
  • East 17 – "Stay Another Day"
  • Oasis – "Live Forever"
  • Wet Wet Wet – "Love Is All Around"
    • 1995Blur featuring Phil Daniels – "Parklife"Eliminated
    1995Blur featuring Phil Daniels – "Parklife"
  • China Black – "Searching"
  • D:Ream – "Things Can Only Get Better |Things Can Only Get Better"
  • The Grid – "Texas Cowboys"
  • Michelle Gayle – "Sweetness"
  • Tom Jones – "If I Only Knew"
    • 1996Take That – "Back for Good"Nominated
    1996Take That – "Back for Good"
  • Blur – "Country House"
  • Everything but the Girl – "Missing"
  • Oasis – "Wonderwall"
  • Pulp – "Common People"
    • 1996Take That – "Back for Good"Eliminated
    1996Take That – "Back for Good"
  • Annie Lennox – "No More 'I Love You's"
  • Edwyn Collins – "A Girl Like You"
  • Oasis – "Roll with It"
  • Simply Red – "Fairground"
  • Supergrass – "Alright"
    • 1997Spice Girls – "Wannabe"
  • Babybird – "You're Gorgeous"
  • George Michael – "Fastlove"
  • Kula Shaker – "Tattva"
  • Lighthouse Family – "Lifted"
  • Manic Street Preachers – "A Design for Life"
  • Mark Morrison – "Return of the Mack"
  • Oasis – "Don't Look Back in Anger"
  • The Prodigy – "Firestarter"
  • Underworld – "Born Slippy"
    • 1998All Saints – "Never Ever"
  • Blur – "Song 2"
  • Chumbawamba – "Tubthumping"
  • Elton John – "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" /
    • "Candle in the Wind 1997"
    • Eternal featuring BeBe Winans – "I Wanna Be the Only One"
    • Olive – "You're Not Alone"
    • Radiohead – "Paranoid Android"
    • Robbie Williams – "Old Before I Die"
    • Texas – "Say What You Want"
    • The Verve – "Bitter Sweet Symphony"
    1999Robbie Williams – "Angels"
  • The Beautiful South – "Perfect 10"
  • Catatonia – "Road Rage"
  • Cornershop – "Brimful of Asha"
  • Des'ree – "Life"
  • Fatboy Slim – "The Rockafeller Skank"
  • George Michael – "Outside"
  • Manic Street Preachers –
    "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next"
  • Massive Attack – "Teardrop"
  • Robbie Williams – "Millennium"
    • 2000Robbie Williams – "She's the One"
  • Basement Jaxx featuring Blu James – "Red Alert"
  • Blur – "Tender"
  • The Chemical Brothers – "Hey Boy Hey Girl"
  • Fatboy Slim – "Praise You"
  • Manic Street Preachers – "You Stole the Sun from My Heart"
  • Moloko – "Sing It Back"
  • Shanks & Bigfoot – "Sweet like Chocolate"
  • Supergrass – "Moving"
  • Travis – "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?"
    • 2001Robbie Williams – "Rock DJ"
  • All Saints – "Pure Shores"
  • Coldplay – "Yellow"
  • Craig David – "7 Days"
  • David Gray – "Babylon"
  • Moloko – "The Time Is Now"
  • Sonique – "It Feels So Good"
  • Spiller featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor – "Groovejet "
  • Sugababes – "Overload"
  • Toploader – "Dancing in the Moonlight"
    • 2002S Club 7 – "Don't Stop Movin'"
  • Atomic Kitten – "Whole Again"
  • Bob the Builder – "Mambo No. 5"
  • Daniel Bedingfield – "Gotta Get Thru This"
  • DJ Pied Piper and the Masters of Ceremonies – Do You Really Like It?"
  • Geri Halliwell – "It's Raining Men"
  • Gorillaz featuring Del the Funky Homosapien – "Clint Eastwood"
  • Hear'Say – "Pure and Simple"
  • Robbie Williams – "Eternity/The Road to Mandalay"
  • So Solid Crew – "21 Seconds"
    • 2003Liberty X – "Just a Little"
  • Atomic Kitten – "The Tide Is High"
  • Gareth Gates – "Anyone of Us "
  • Gareth Gates – "Unchained Melody"
  • Will Young – "Anything Is Possible"
    • 2004Dido – "White Flag"
  • Gareth Gates – "Spirit in the Sky"
  • Jamelia – "Superstar"
  • Mis-Teeq – "Scandalous"
  • Rachel Stevens – "Sweet Dreams My LA Ex"
    • 2005Will Young – "Your Game"
  • Band Aid 20 – "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
  • George Michael – "Amazing"
  • Jamelia – "Thank You"
  • Keane – "Everybody's Changing"
  • LMC vs U2 – "Take Me to the Clouds Above"
  • Natasha Bedingfield – "These Words"
  • The Shapeshifters – "Lola's Theme"
  • The Streets – "Dry Your Eyes"
  • Sugababes – "In the Middle"
    • 2006Coldplay – "Speed of Sound"
  • James Blunt – "You're Beautiful"
  • Shayne Ward – "That's My Goal"
  • Sugababes – "Push the Button"
  • Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay – "Is This the Way to Amarillo"
    • 2007Take That – "Patience"Nominated
    2007Take That – "Patience"
  • The Feeling – "Fill My Little World"
  • Razorlight – "America"
  • Snow Patrol – "Chasing Cars"
  • Will Young – "All Time Love"
    • 2007Take That – "Patience"Eliminated
    2007Take That – "Patience"
  • James Morrison – "You Give Me Something"
  • Leona Lewis – "A Moment Like This"
  • Lily Allen – "Smile"
  • Corinne Bailey Rae – "Put Your Records On"
  • The Kooks – "She Moves in Her Own Way"
  • Sandi Thom – "I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker
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    • 2008Take That – "Shine"Nominated
    2008Take That – "Shine"
  • The Hoosiers – "Worried About Ray"
  • Leona Lewis – "Bleeding Love"
  • Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse – "Valerie"
  • Mika – "Grace Kelly"
    • 2008Take That – "Shine"Eliminated
    2008Take That – "Shine"
  • Kaiser Chiefs – "Ruby"
  • Sugababes – "About You Now"
  • Kate Nash – "Foundations"
  • James Blunt – "1973"
  • Mutya Buena – "Real Girl"
    • 2009Girls Aloud – "The Promise"Nominated
    2009Girls Aloud – "The Promise"
  • Coldplay – "Viva la Vida"
  • Duffy – "Mercy"
  • Leona Lewis – "Better in Time"
  • Scouting for Girls – "Heartbeat"
    • 2009Girls Aloud – "The Promise"Eliminated
    2009Girls Aloud – "The Promise"
  • Alexandra Burke – "Hallelujah"
  • Dizzee Rascal featuring Calvin Harris and Chrome –
    "Dance wiv Me"
  • Adele – "Chasing Pavements"
  • The X Factor 2008 – "Hero"
  • Estelle featuring Kanye West – "American Boy"
    • 2010JLS – "Beat Again"
  • Alesha Dixon – "Breathe Slow"
  • Alexandra Burke featuring Flo Rida – "Bad Boys"
  • Cheryl – "Fight for This Love"
  • Joe McElderry – "The Climb"
  • La Roux – "In for the Kill"
  • Lily Allen – "The Fear"
  • Pixie Lott – "Mama Do "
  • Taio Cruz – "Break Your Heart"
  • Tinchy Stryder featuring N-Dubz – "Number 1"
    • 2011Tinie Tempah featuring Labrinth – "Pass Out"
  • Alexandra Burke featuring Pitbull – "All Night Long"
  • Cheryl – "Parachute"
  • Florence and the Machine – "You Got the Love"
  • Matt Cardle – "Many of Horror"
  • Olly Murs – "Please Don't Let Me Go"
  • Plan B – "She Said"
  • Scouting for Girls – "This Ain't a Love Song"
  • Taio Cruz – "Dynamite"
  • The Wanted – "All Time Low"
    • 2012One Direction – "What Makes You Beautiful"
  • Adele – "Someone like You"
  • Ed Sheeran – "The A Team"
  • Example – "Changed the Way You Kiss Me"
  • Jessie J featuring B.o.B – "Price Tag"
  • JLS featuring Dev – "She Makes Me Wanna"
  • Military Wives featuring Gareth Malone – "Wherever You Are"
  • Olly Murs featuring Rizzle Kicks – "Heart Skips a Beat"
  • Pixie Lott – "All About Tonight"
  • The Wanted – "Glad You Came"
    • 2013Adele – "Skyfall"
  • Alex Clare – "Too Close"
  • Coldplay and Rihanna – "Princess of China"
  • DJ Fresh featuring Rita Ora – "Hot Right Now"
  • Emeli Sandé – "Next to Me"
  • Florence and the Machine – "Spectrum "
  • James Arthur – "Impossible"
  • Jessie J – "Domino"
  • Labrinth featuring Emeli Sandé – "Beneath Your Beautiful"
  • Olly Murs featuring Flo Rida – "Troublemaker"
  • Rita Ora featuring Tinie Tempah – "R.I.P."
  • Rizzle Kicks – "Mama Do the Hump"
  • Robbie Williams – "Candy"
  • Rudimental featuring John Newman – "Feel the Love"
  • Stooshe – "Black Heart"
    • 2014Rudimental featuring Ella Eyre – "Waiting All Night"
  • Bastille – "Pompeii"
  • Calvin Harris featuring Ellie Goulding – "I Need Your Love"
  • Disclosure featuring AlunaGeorge – "White Noise"
  • Ellie Goulding –"Burn"
  • John Newman – "Love Me Again"
  • Naughty Boy featuring Sam Smith – "La La La"
  • Olly Murs – "Dear Darlin'"
  • One Direction – "One Way or Another "
  • Passenger – "Let Her Go"
    • 2015Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars – "Uptown Funk"
  • Calvin Harris – "Summer"
  • Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne – "Rather Be"
  • Duke Dumont featuring Jax Jones – "I Got U"
  • Ed Sheeran – "Thinking Out Loud"
  • Ella Henderson – "Ghost"
  • George Ezra – "Budapest"
  • Route 94 featuring Jess Glynne – "My Love"
  • Sam Smith – "Stay with Me"
  • Sigma – "Nobody to Love"
    • 2016Adele – "Hello"
  • Calvin Harris and Disciples – "How Deep Is Your Love"
  • Ed Sheeran and Rudimental – "Bloodstream"
  • Ellie Goulding – "Love Me like You Do"
  • James Bay – "Hold Back the River"
  • Jess Glynne – "Hold My Hand"
  • Little Mix – "Black Magic"
  • Olly Murs featuring Demi Lovato – "Up"
  • Philip George – "Wish You Were Mine"
  • Years & Years – "King"
    • 2017Little Mix – "Shout Out to My Ex"
  • Alan Walker – "Faded"
  • Calum Scott – "Dancing on My Own"
  • Calvin Harris featuring Rihanna – "This Is What You Came For"
  • Clean Bandit featuring Sean Paul and Anne-Marie – "Rockabye"
  • Coldplay – "Hymn for the Weekend"
  • James Arthur – "Say You Won't Let Go"
  • Jonas Blue featuring Dakota – "Fast Car"
  • Tinie Tempah featuring Zara Larsson – "Girls Like"
  • Zayn – "Pillowtalk"
    • 2018Rag'n'Bone Man – "Human"
  • Calvin Harris featuring Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry and Big Sean – "Feels"
  • Clean Bandit featuring Zara Larsson – "Symphony"
  • Dua Lipa – "New Rules"
  • Ed Sheeran – "Shape of You"
  • J Hus – "Did You See"
  • Jax Jones featuring Raye – "You Don't Know Me"
  • Jonas Blue featuring William Singe – "Mama"
  • Liam Payne featuring Quavo – "Strip That Down"
  • Little Mix - "Touch"
    • 2019Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa – "One Kiss"
  • Anne-Marie – "2002"
  • Clean Bandit featuring Demi Lovato – "Solo"
  • Dua Lipa – "IDGAF"
  • George Ezra – "Shotgun"
  • Jess Glynne – "I'll Be There"
  • Ramz – "Barking"
  • Rudimental featuring Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen – "These Days"
  • Sigala and Paloma Faith – "Lullaby"
  • Tom Walker – "Leave a Light On"
    • 2020Lewis Capaldi – "Someone You Loved"
  • AJ Tracey – "Ladbroke Grove"
  • Calvin Harris and Rag'n'Bone Man – "Giant"
  • Dave featuring Burna Boy – "Location"
  • Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber – "I Don't Care"
  • Mabel – "Don't Call Me Up"
  • Mark Ronson featuring Miley Cyrus – "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart"
  • Sam Smith and Normani – "Dancing with a Stranger"
  • Stormzy – "Vossi Bop"
  • Tom Walker – "Just You and I"

    • Multiple nominations and awards

    NominationsArtist
    8Calvin Harris
    7Take That
    7Robbie Williams
    5Blur
    5Coldplay
    5Jess Glynne
    5Olly Murs
    5Ed Sheeran
    4Adele
    4Clean Bandit
    4Oasis
    4Rudimental
    4Sugababes
    3Alexandra Burke
    3Jason Donovan
    3Gareth Gates
    3Ellie Goulding
    3Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers
    3Leona Lewis
    3Dua Lipa
    3Little Mix
    3Manic Street Preachers
    3George Michael
    3Sam Smith
    3Tinie Tempah
    3Will Young
    2Adam and the Ants
    2All Saints
    2Lily Allen
    2Anne-Marie
    2James Arthur
    2Atomic Kitten
    2Jonas Blue
    2James Blunt
    2Cheryl
    2Taio Cruz
    2George Ezra
    2Fatboy Slim
    2Florence and the Machine
    2Frankie Goes to Hollywood
    2Jamelia
    2Jessie J
    2JLS
    2Jax Jones
    2Tom Jones
    2Labrinth
    2Zara Larsson
    2Pixie Lott
    2Demi Lovato
    2Moloko
    2John Newman
    2One Direction
    2Rita Ora
    2Pet Shop Boys
    2Queen
    2Radiohead
    2Rag'n'Bone Man
    2Rihanna
    2Rizzle Kicks
    2Mark Ronson
    2Emeli Sande
    2Tom Walker
    2-
    2-

    AwardsArtist
    5Take That
    3Robbie Williams
    2Adele
    2Queen

    YearSingle
    1986"Dancing in the Street"
    1986"Money for Nothing"
    1987"Sledgehammer"
    1990"All Around the World"
    1991"Enjoy the Silence"
    1993"Stay"
    1994"Dreams"
    1994"Pray"
    1995"Parklife"
    1996"Alright"
    1996"Back for Good"
    1996"Common People"
    1996"Country House"
    1996"Fairground"
    1996"Wonderwall"
    1997"A Design for Life"
    1997"Fastlove"
    1997"Firestarter"
    1997"Wannabe"
    1998"Bitter Sweet Symphony"
    1998"Never Ever"
    1998"Song 2"
    1999"Brimful of Asha"
    1999"Millennium"
    1999"Outside"
    1999"Teardrop"
    2000"Praise You"
    2000"She's the One"
    2001"7 Days"
    2001"Dancing in the Moonlight"
    2001"It Feels So Good"
    2001"Pure Shores"
    2001"Rock DJ"
    2001"The Time Is Now"
    2001"Yellow"
    2002"21 Seconds"
    2002"Clint Eastwood"
    2014"Burn"
    2014"I Need Your Love"
    2014"La La La"
    2014"Love Me Again"
    2015"I Got U"
    2015"My Love"
    2015"Nobody to Love"
    2015"Stay with Me"
    2015"Summer"
    2015"Thinking Out Loud"
    2015"Uptown Funk"
    2016"Black Magic"
    2016"Hello"
    2016"How Deep Is Your Love"
    2016"King"
    2016"Love Me like You Do"
    2017"Fast Car"
    2017"Girls Like"
    2017"Hymn for the Weekend"
    2017"Pillowtalk"
    2017"Rockabye"
    2017"Say You Won't Let Go"
    2017"This Is What You Came For"
    2018"Feels"
    2018"New Rules"
    2018"Shape of You"
    2018"Strip That Down"
    2018"Symphony"
    2018"Touch"
    2019"2002"
    2019"IDGAF"
    2019"One Kiss"
    2019"Solo"
    2019"These Days"

    YearSingle
    1994"Pray"
    1995"Parklife"
    1998"Never Ever"
    2000"She's the One"
    2001"Rock DJ"