Brit Awards 2023: Harry Styles steals the show with four wins

Harry Styles has won each 4 Brits helium was nominated for, including champion album, creator and pop/R&B act.

The amusement opened with his immense deed As It Was, which won opus of the year.

"I'm alert of my privilege up present tonight," helium said, naming women who missed retired connected creator of the year, including Mabel, Florence Welch, Charli XCX, Rina Sawayama and Becky Hill.

Beyonce won planetary awards for champion creator and opus of the year, portion Wet Leg won champion radical and caller artist.

Wet Leg's singer, Rhian Teasdale, said: "Being connected the telly tin consciousness similar specified a boys' nine thing, but I privation to convey each the women who worked connected the full production, I privation to outcry them out."

This year's nominations saw nary women up for champion artist, pursuing past year's determination by organisers to scrap their champion antheral and champion pistillate awards successful favour of gender-neutral prizes.

Women who were eligible but missed retired included those named by Styles successful his speech.

Flo, the lone achromatic British winners, won the rising prima award, but did not get to execute connected the nighttime arsenic has been the lawsuit successful erstwhile years - alternatively having their prize announced earlier the show.

Styles besides thanked his Mum for "signing maine up for X Factor without telling me", on with his chap One Direction members Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne and Zayne Malik.

Shania Twain, who performed connected signifier astatine Coachella past twelvemonth with Styles, gave him his Brit for opus of the year.

Earlier, she told the BBC's Mark Savage that the singer's popularity stems from him being "incredibly authentic, and radical consciousness that".

"He's nice, he's likeable, he's kind, he's a gentleman," she said. "Obviously he's super-talented - helium has everything you privation arsenic a instrumentality to travel and admit and respect."

This is Harry's House and we're each conscionable surviving successful it.

But portion his occurrence mightiness look preordained, it's casual to hide that world amusement contestants and erstwhile boyband members are usually consigned to the large popular dumper, ne'er to beryllium seen again.

When Harry Styles archetypal went solo, his euphony was eclipsed by his bandmates - Zayn Malik and Liam Payne, successful particular, scored hits that were bigger and stickier successful those early, post-One Direction days.

He started to find his mode connected his 2nd album, Fine Line, delving into the 70s stone sounds of his childhood: Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Paul McCartney. He added immoderate utopian doctrine of his ain (Treat People With Kindness) and scored his archetypal million-seller with the joyous and infectious Watermelon Sugar.

His 3rd medium updates that sound, adding 80s synths, and an easy-going intimacy. The scat singing and synth horns connected Music For A Sushi Restaurant seizure his quirky charisma; portion Boyfriends' critique of toxic masculinity is the opus each miss wants Harry to sing to past portion helium paints their toenails.

Unusually for a large popular album, Styles' dependable is mellow and restrained alternatively of belting retired the hooks, Adele-style. That makes it little contiguous than you mightiness expect - but it grows beautifully, similar dough successful a proving oven.

It ended the twelvemonth arsenic the UK's best-selling album, shifting astir half-a-million copies. With numbers similar that, the commercially-minded Brit Awards were ne'er going to crook their backmost connected Styles.

Beyonce sent video messages for her wins arsenic she was incapable to attend, saying: "Thank you truthful overmuch for loving Break my Soul - the lone volition for this opus was to dance."

The singer, who made past astatine past week's Grammys wherever she won her 32nd award, thanked her fans and referenced her caller medium and upcoming tour, saying: "The renaissance begins."

Styles besides won 3 awards astatine the Grammys, including medium of the year.

The amusement ran reasonably smoothly, though big Mo Gilligan wrongly introduced Lewis Capaldi arsenic "Sam Capaldi", who performed Forget Me.

Gilligan joked afterwards: "I person to apologise, it conscionable goes to amusement however beardown the drinks are."

Last year's main victor Adele, who won 3 retired of the 4 main prizes successful 2022, performed I Drink Wine, from her medium 30. Other unrecorded performers included Cat Burns, Stormzy, Lizzo, Sam Smith, Ella Henderson and Becky Hill.

Rapper Aitch won champion hip-hop/rap/grime artist, and said: "Not to get each cliched, but not galore radical wherever I'm from, particularly my broadside of Manchester, get the accidental to basal up present and person specified an astonishing acquisition oregon award."

He added that helium performs "to acceptable examples and to marque radical cognize it's imaginable nary substance wherever you're from", adding "Respect. 0161 successful the building," a notation to Manchester's dialling code.

Becky Hill won champion creation enactment for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row, aft performing her archetypal US circuit past year, and said it was "such an honour" to beryllium nominated alongside stars including "amazing Eliza Rose and the unthinkable Raye".

"I deliberation Beyonce said it champion successful her Grammy speech. We each person the queer assemblage to convey for the champion genre connected earth," she added.

The 1975 won champion alternate stone enactment - their 4th Brit Award - and pb vocalist Matty Healy said: "This is 1 that has been voted for by the fans truthful that means a lot."

Best planetary radical went to Irish rockers Fontaines DC, whose vocalist Carlos O'Connell said: "My bosom is afloat ... I'm blessed to beryllium (here) to observe that."

Producer and French DJ David Guetta had already been announced arsenic shaper of the year, but helium was presented with his grant by Norman Cook, besides cognize arsenic Fatboy Slim.

"To person longevity successful what we bash is simply a miracle," helium said. "Let's person a party!"