Brit Award for International Male Solo Artist

Brit Award for International Male Artist
Country United Kingdom
Presented by British Phonographic Industry (BPI)
First awarded 1989
Last awarded 2018
Currently held by Kendrick Lamar
Website www.brits.co.uk

The Brit Award for International Male Solo Artist is an award given by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), an organisation which represents record companies and artists in the United Kingdom.[1] The accolade is presented at the Brit Awards, an annual celebration of British and international music.[2] 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.[3]

The award was first presented in 1989 as International Male Solo Artist. The accolade was not handed out at the 1990, 1992 and 1993 ceremonies, with the award for International Solo Artist (given to a male or female artist) being awarded instead.[4][5] The award for International Male Solo Artist was reinstated in 1994, and has been given ever since.[6]

International Male Solo Artist has been won by Beck, Kanye West and Eminem the most times, with three wins. Artists from the United States have almost exclusively won the award, aside from one Australian win (Michael Hutchence), one Jamaican win (Shaggy) and two Canadian wins (Justin Bieber and Drake).

Winners and nominees

Inaugural winner Michael Jackson
Prince won the award consecutively in 1995 and 96
Three-time recipient Beck
Two-time recipient Justin Timberlake
Three-time winner Kanye West
2013 recipient Frank Ocean
2016 winner Justin Bieber previously won the only Breakthrough award wining international male solo artist
Year Recipient Nominee
1989 Michael Jackson
1990 Not Awarded
1991 Michael Hutchence
1992 Not Awarded
1993
1994 Lenny Kravitz
1995 Prince
1996 Prince
1997 Beck
1998 Jon Bon Jovi
1999 Beck
2000 Beck
2001 Eminem
2002 Shaggy
2003 Eminem
2004 Justin Timberlake
2005 Eminem
2006 Kanye West
2007 Justin Timberlake
2008 Kanye West
2009 Kanye West
2010 Jay-Z
2011 CeeLo Green
2012 Bruno Mars
2013 Frank Ocean
2014 Bruno Mars
2015 Pharrell Williams
2016 Justin Bieber
2017 Drake
2018 Kendrick Lamar

Artists with multiple wins

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