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The A&R Awards 2022: The finalists revealed!

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We’re lower than two months away from the UK music trade’s most gratifying night time: The A&R Awards, introduced by MBW in affiliation with Abbey Highway Studios.

Happening on the night of Tuesday, November 8, the A&R Awards 2022 will likely be held in Central London. Platinum tables for the present have already bought out, with simply 5 Gold tables (sure, three) remaining. (To guide yours, please contact [email protected].)

At the moment (September 22), we announce the finalists for this yr’s occasion, which covers trade exercise from October 2021 by to September 2022.

Earlier than we do, let’s remind ourselves of the classes on the large occasion… together with one new addition.

2022’s UK-focused A&R Awards will as soon as once more see awards that recognise these working in each impartial and main sectors throughout document labels, publishing and administration.

Classes as soon as once more embrace Songwriter Of The 12 months and Producer Of The 12 months, along with Tune Of The 12 months, which celebrates among the greatest hits majority-written by British (or UK-based) writers in the course of the interval.

As well as, our particular person A&R awards – additionally counting A&R duos – are as soon as once more segmented by style: Grownup Up to date; Various/Rock; Up to date Black Music; Digital/Dance; and Pop/R&B, plus the ever-popular A&R Administrator Award, which from this yr can even be often called ‘The Forbsie’.

There’ll even be staff awards, together with two Writer Of The 12 months gongs (for UK pubs above and under a sure dimension threshold), plus Main Label Of The 12 months, Impartial Label Of The 12 months and Administration Firm (aka The David Enthoven Award).

And there’s one new class for 2022: Supervisor of the 12 months, supported by YouTube Shorts, recognising the efforts and success of a person expertise supervisor (or duo) who has gone the additional mile for his or her consumer/s – and reaped the rewards.

Most significantly, there are two particular awards: Our A&R Icon award, plus the Sir George Martin Award.

Winners will likely be decided by way of the confidential votes of a choose solid of worldwide music enterprise specialists within the coming weeks.

Along with our returning headline accomplice, Abbey Highway Studios, supporters of this yr’s A&R Awards embrace Centtrip, Concord Music Publishing, Hipgnosis, Milk & Honey, PPL, Session, Spotify, Vevo, Voly Music, YouTube Shorts and YouTube Music.

Listed below are this yr’s finalists…

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PRODUCER OF THE YEAR – SUPPORTED BY ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS

Camille Purcell
Dan Carey
Fred Gibson (FRED AGAIN)
Inflo
LostBoy
Mark Ralph
P2J
Stuart Worth
Thomas Hull (Child Harpoon)
Tre Jean Marie

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR – SUPPORTED BY HIPGNOSIS

Amy Wadge
Camille Purcell
Fred Gibson (FRED AGAIN)
Inflo
Lauren Aquilina
Pablo Bowman
Phil Plested
Thomas Hull (Child Harpoon)
Tre Jean Marie
Uzoechi Emenike (MNEK)

SONG OF THE YEAR – SUPPORTED BY HIPGNOSis

Afraid To Really feel – carried out by LF System (Simmons/Jefferson/Roebuck)
As It Was – carried out by Harry Types (Types/Hull/Johnson)
Overlook Me – carried out by Lewis Capaldi (Capaldi/Pollack/Plested/TMS)
Go – carried out by Cat Burns (Burns/Morgan)
Inexperienced Inexperienced Grass – carried out by George Ezra (Ezra/Pott/Worth)
Peru – carried out by Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran (Fireboy DML/Scott IV/Sheeran/Perine)
Remind Me – carried out by Tom Grennan (Rycroft/Bell/Grennan)
Seventeen Going Beneath – carried out by Sam Fender (Fender)
Area Man – carried out by Sam Ryder (Wadge/Ryder/Wolfgang)
Starlight – carried out by Dave (Omoregie)