{"id":364280,"date":"2026-03-25T11:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/364280\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:53:10","slug":"lily-allen-olivia-dean-and-wolf-alice-among-stars-nominated-for-ivor-novello-awards-2026-ents-arts-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/364280\/","title":{"rendered":"Lily Allen, Olivia Dean and Wolf Alice among stars nominated for Ivor Novello Awards 2026 | Ents & Arts News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lily Allen, Olivia Dean and Wolf Alice are among some of the musicians nominated for this year’s Ivor Novello Awards.<\/p>\n

Other acts in the running include Lola Young<\/a>, Florence + The Machine, CMAT, Little Simz<\/a>, Coldplay<\/a>, Damon Albarn, Jacob Alon, Self Esteem, Jim Legxacy and Kae Tempest – who is nominated twice for best contemporary song.<\/p>\n

The Ivors<\/a> recognise British and Irish musical achievement in songwriting and composition, and also celebrate a number of singer-songwriters and groups for their wider contribution to UK music.<\/p>\n

\"Olivia<\/p>\n

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\n Olivia Dean, pictured on stage during this year’s Brit Awards, is nominated for an Ivor for the first time. Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n

In the best album category, Allen<\/a> is nominated for her “punchy and forthright” West End Girl, Jim Legxacy for the “bold and genre-traversing” black british music, and Dean<\/a> for her “divine sophomore” The Art Of Loving. They are up against Wolf Alice<\/a>‘s fourth album The Clearing and Irish-star CMAT’s EURO-COUNTRY.<\/p>\n

Shortlisted composers also include writers for Oscar-nominated scores including this year’s Bugonia and last year’s The Brutalist, as well as soundtracks for hit TV shows including Adolescence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While most of the gongs recognise the best songwriting of the past 12 months, the PRS For Music prize celebrates songs that received the most broadcast, online and general performances.<\/p>\n

\"Lola<\/p>\n

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\n Lola Young at The Ivors in 2025. Pic: Ian Gavan\/Hogan Media\/Shutterstock\/Ivors<\/p>\n

So as well as 2025 hits including Man I Need, by Dean, there are also older songs in the running – Messy by Lola Young, Stargazing by Myles Smith, and The Days by Chrystal, which were released in 2024 – and even further back, Coldplay’s 2008 track Viva La Vida, following the band’s global tour.<\/p>\n

Some 61 individual British and Irish songwriters and composers, and their international collaborators, have been nominated in total – with 34, more than half, in the running for the first time, including Dean and Alon.<\/p>\n

\"Self<\/p>\n

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\n Self Esteem was honoured with the visionary award in 2025. Pic: Reuters\/Toby Melvi<\/p>\n

Tom Gray, chair of The Ivors Academy, congratulated the nominees and said in a statement: “To be recognised by your peers for exceptional craft and originality at The Ivors is one of the greatest honours in music writing.”<\/p>\n

The awards ceremony takes place in London on 21 May. Here is the full list of nominees.<\/p>\n

BEST ALBUM
black british music – written by Jim Legxacy and Joe Stanley, performed by Jim Legxacy
EURO-COUNTRY – written and performed by CMAT
The Art Of Loving – written by Olivia Dean, Bastian Langebaek and Max Wolfgang, performed by Olivia Dean
The Clearing – written by Joff Oddie and Ellie Rowsell, performed by Wolf Alice
West End Girl – written by Lily Allen, Chloe Angelides, Kito and Blue May, performed by Lily Allen<\/p>\n

\"CMAT,<\/p>\n

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\n CMAT, aka Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, at the 2024 ceremony. Pic: Reuters\/Maja Smiejkowska<\/p>\n

BEST CONTEMPORARY SONG
Damascus – written by Damon Albarn, Yasiin Bey and Omar Souleyman, performed by Gorillaz featuring Omar Souleyman and Yasiin Bey
Free – written by Alex Bonfanti, Miles Clinton James and Little Simz, performed by Little Simz
I Do And I Don’t Care – written by Johan Hugo and Self Esteem, performed by Self Esteem
I Stand On The Line – written by Fraser T Smith and Kae Tempest, performed by Kae Tempest
Know Yourself – written by Tom Rowlands, Fraser T Smith and Kae Tempest, performed by Kae Tempest<\/p>\n

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BEST SONG MUSICALLY AND LYRICALLY
Don’t Fall Asleep – written and performed by Jacob Alon
Everybody Scream – written by Mark Bowen, Mitski and Florence Welch, performed by Florence + The Machine
Focus Is Power – written by Johan Hugo, Self Esteem and Jacob Vetter, performed by Self Esteem
The Sofa – written by Ellie Rowsell, performed by Wolf Alice
Weeds – written by Tove Burman, Anya Jones and Jon Shave, performed by Sugababes<\/p>\n

\"Chris<\/p>\n

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\n Chris Martin on stage during Coldplay’s Music Of The Spheres world tour in January 2025. Pic: AP\/Rajanish Kakade<\/p>\n

PRS FOR MUSIC MOST PERFORMED WORK
Man I Need – written by Olivia Dean, Tobias Jesso Jr. and Zach Nahome, performed by Olivia Dean
Messy – written and performed by Lola Young
Stargazing – written by Peter Fenn, Jesse Fink and Myles Smith, performed by Myles Smith
The Days – written and performed by Chrystal
Viva La Vida – written by Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion and Chris Martin, performed by Coldplay<\/p>\n

RISING STAR AWARD
Chloe Qisha
Divorce
Jacob Alon
Kwn
Skye Newman<\/p>\n

\"Emma<\/p>\n

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\n Emma Stone as Michelle in Bugonia – the film’s score is among this year’s Ivor nominees. Pic: Atsushi Nishijima\/Focus Features<\/p>\n

BEST ORIGINAL FILM SCORE
Bugonia – composed by Jerskin Fendrix
Dragonfly – composed by Raffertie
Nosferatu – composed by Robin Carolan
Testimony – composed by Tom Hodge
The Brutalist – composed by Daniel Blumberg<\/p>\n

BEST TELEVISION SOUNDTRACK
Adolescence – composed by Aaron May and David Ridley
Lazarus – composed by Sarah Warne
Summerwater – composed by Gazelle Twin
This City Is Ours – composed by Rael Jones
Trespasses – composed by David Holmes and Brian Irvine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lily Allen, Olivia Dean and Wolf Alice are among some of the musicians nominated for this year’s Ivor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-364280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}