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Charli XCX, Dua Lipa, Raye and Ghetts are among the artists nominated for this year's Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting, along with a nod for Wham!'s Last Christmas. Lola Young, whose single Messy was a huge hit in 2024, leads with three nominations, for best album, best song musically and lyrically, and the rising star award. Other acts in the running for Ivors include Fontaines DC, BERWYN, Myles Smith, Laura Marling, JADE, Bashy, Conor Dickinson and Jordan Rakei.
Nominated composers also include writers for Oscar nominees including The Substance and The Zone Of Interest, hit shows such as Black Doves and Rivals, and games including Senua's Saga: Hellblade II and Farewell North. Image: Wham! pictured in September 1984, three months before Last Christmas was released And Wham! receive their nomination for Last Christmas as one of PRS for Music's top five most performed songs of 2024 - a posthumous nod for George Michael, almost 30 years after his last win in 1997, for the single Fastlove. Despite never making it to number one when it was released in 1984, Last Christmas has topped the charts at Christmas for the last two years.
The festive track is up against Harry Styles' 2022 hit As It Was, which is in contention for the third year running, Dua Lipa's Houdini, Stargazing by Myles Smith, and Prada by Casso, RAYE and D-Block Europe. Speaking to Sky News after the announcement, Bashy said it felt "special" to receive a nomination, especially "as someone who writes all of their own music and really speaks from their sort of heart and experience, and from my community's experience". Image: Bashy at the MOBO Awards earlier this year.
Pic: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire The actor and rapper is nominated for the best contemporary song award for his single How Black Men Lose Their Smile. He highighted a line from the track, "still I rise", inspired by the Maya Angelou poem, as one he is proud of. "For me, that really speaks to.
.. Gemma Peplow.
