He took the four prizes he was eligible for, including the best album, and was the most acclaimed artist by the public and critics.
They were tailor-made and there was no other possible winner. Harry Styleswith four awards, including best album, swept the Brits Awards of British music and stood out as the English icon of the moment.
Styles, who was up for four awards – best album (‘Harry’s House’), best artist, best song (‘As It Was’) and best pop/R&B artist-, se took them all being the most acclaimed artist of the London gala by critics and also by the public, who three years later was able to fill the O2 in the British capital again.
Styles set the pace of the gala because every time his name appeared in a nomination or was mentioned by Mo Gilligan, the O2 rumbled. No other artist came close to the decibels of the former One Direction. In fact, It was almost like a mistake by the organization to spend their best bullet on the performances right at the beginning.
The ceremony started with the interpretation of ‘As It Was’ live by Styles, a moment that no longer had a replybeyond the fact that Lizzo managed to dazzle the public with her voice, her character and the play of lights that dazzled the 13,000 spectators.
The performances of Lewis Capaldi, David Guetta, Sam Smith and Cat Burns were far behind of the acclaim that Styles received, especially since the O2 began to empty once the rapper Stormzy performed in the final stretch of the gala. The rush to avoid getting caught up in the long subway lines and the technical problems suffered by the ceremony -which forced a performance by Adele from last year to be put on while these were being resolved- facilitated the massive departure of the public before Styles received the award. for best album of the year, the culmination of the night.
It was not a good letter of introduction for an event that has happened for the first time in history to be held on a Saturday, for try to alleviate the bad audiences of recent years. In the 90s, the Brits attracted more than 9 million viewers per edition, when Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Oasis, Freddie Mercury or Blur were award-winning regulars; now that the tone has changed, the numbers have fallen to 2.7 million – their lowest point – in 2022.
After Styles, the person who left London the happiest was the Wet Leg groupwhich won the awards for best group and best new artist.
Beyoncé, who a few days ago became the most awarded artist at the Grammys Of these awards, he also took his share of the cake here: best international artist and best international song.
Best Alternative Album went to The 1975, Best International Group to Fontaines DC and Best Dance Performance to Becky Hill.
Without awards left Arctic Monkeys, which had two nominations, Stormzy, which has already fallen three times in the best album category, and the song from the Encanto soundtrack ‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno’, which had been the first Disney song to be nominated in Brit history.