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BRIT Awards 2025: Voting now open

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Voting has opened for who fans want to win at the BRIT Awards 2025.

The winners in five categories will be decided this year for the first time ever by fans in a BRITs WhatsApp chat, at the ceremony which will take place at The O2 in London on Saturday March 1, and broadcast exclusively on ITV1 and ITVX.

Beginning today (January 31), fans can start a chat and follow the prompts to cast votes in the categories for Alternative/Rock Act, Dance Act, Hip Hop/Grime/Rap Act, Pop Act and R&B Act here. Voting is open until 11:59pm on Friday, February 14 and votes can be cast in each category once per day.

A host of artists feature in Alternative/Rock Act including The Cure, who have received their first BRIT nominations in over three decades thanks to the critically-acclaimed album ‘Songs Of A Lost World’.

The Cure’s Robert Smith CREDIT: Barry Brecheisen/WireImage

They are up against Sam FenderBeabadoobee, Ezra Collective and The Last Dinner Party. In the Dance Act category, Charli XCX, who leads the way with the most nominations, receiving nods in five categories, goes up against Becky HillChase & Status, Fred Again.. and Nia Archives.

Elsewhere in the Pop Act, Charli once again is competing against Dua LipaMyles Smiththe winner of the 2025 Rising Star AwardJADE and Lola Young.

StormzyCentral CeeDAVEGhetts and Little Simz meanwhile lead the Hip Hop/Grime/Rap category while RAYECleo SolFLOJorja Smith and Michael Kiwanuka will compete for the R&B Act award.

Dua Lipa performs live at Glastonbury Festival 2024 CREDIT: Joe Maher/Getty

Sebastian Battista Simone, SVP Audience, Warner Records & Parlophone and Co-chair of the BRITs Digital Committee said: “With billions of music fans across Meta’s platforms, we’re thrilled to expand the BRIT Awards partnership, by introducing WhatsApp as a new voting platform for the first time. Fans can now support their favourite artists directly within the app for public-voted categories, celebrating the artists with the most passionate and engaged communities.

“Combined with the power of Instagram Reels to amplify nominated artists, this collaboration ensures The BRITs reaches a global audience like never before.”

Myles Smith winner of the 2025 BRIT Awards Rising Star CREDIT: John Marshall/JMEnternational/Getty Images

Earlier today, the first performers at the ceremony were also announced including JADE, ShaboozeyTeddy Swims, The Last Dinner Party and Myles Smith.

More acts are expected to be announced in the lead-up to the awards ceremony in March. Comedian and actor Jack Whitehall has been announced as the returning host, making it his fifth time presenting the ceremony after doing so in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.

Back in November, the new trophy design was revealed ahead of the 2025 ceremony. It was created by Gabriel Moses, an acclaimed British-Nigerian multi-disciplinary artist, who has collaborated with the likes of SkeptaLittle Simz, Burberry and more throughout the years.

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Drake Gets Roasted For His Corny & Suggestive T-Shirt While Out In Australia

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Drake is Down Under and apparently over his head, as a lot of people online raised their eyebrows when they saw a shirt that he wore while out during his Australia and New Zealand "Anita Max Win" tour. Moreover, the shirt reads "WAIT TILL U SEE MY" and shows an arrow pointing down... Classy, Drizzy, real classy. Of course, this led some people to bring up the allusions to his leaked videos in the Kendrick Lamar battle, whether that was the 6ix God boasting about his "video proof" or K.Dot claiming that he leaked the video himself.

A lot of folks clowned this move as a cringe-fueled display from someone pushing 40 or just found it funny, but either way, folks got a laugh out of it for better or worse. Of course, this is far from the first time that Drake caught flack for his outfits or for his maturity, but that's not a critique that Kanye West had in praise of his latest look. It was a hoodie with bullet holes in it with smoke emerging from them, a solid representation of how he's still standing after so many people dragged him through the mud.

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Elsewhere during this Australian trek, Drake also felt quite generous, as he gave two random fans at a Perth show $20K each. "I don’t know where you’ve been in your life... That’s what we do out here in Perth," he remarked. "You got to show love. You see, it’s nights like these that we can never take for granted. It’s 14,000 people inside one building, and we all got here safe." These moments of genuine appreciation and connection make outfits like these all the more bizarre and easy to pile on.

Regardless of whether or not more suggestive shirts are in the closet, Drake will continue his "Anita Max Win" trek all throughout February and wrap it up on March 16 in Auckland. Perhaps we will see more wild fits and virally clowned moments, but there's also a lot of interest in his next projects and whatever Kendrick has to say about the beef these days. So who knows what The Boy's next angle will be?

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