BRITS 2016 - Adele reigns with 4 awards

Adele came , saw and conquered the BRIT Awards 2016 , in Londons  O2 Arena. The star took home a haul of 4 gongs , the most in a single awards ceremony by a solo singer. She also equalled Blurs 20 year long record for most wins in a single night.

She comfortably picked up Best British Female , Best British Single for Hello and the prestigious British Album of the Year for the record breaking 25. Its the second time shes won all three of those awards.
Her fouth gong was for Global Success. During her first acceptance speech , the singer publicly offered her support to Kesha in her ongoing dispute with Sony Music and producer Doctor Luke.

Adele rounded off the evening closing the show with a note perfect rendition of When We Were Young.

Coldplay opened the show with latest single Hymn For The Weekend before scooping Best British Band for a record fouth time.

Catfish and the Bottlemen sprung a surprise by beating out James Bay and Years and Years to win Best British Breakthrough,
James Bay though would enjoy a successful night winning Best British Male and accompanying Justin Beber on guitar during his performance of Love Yourself.


Bieber won his second Brit last night for Best International Male , beating out fellow Canadians The Weeknd and Drake,
All three performed on the night , with Bieber performing a well received mash up of Love Yourself and Sorry.


The Weeknd took to the stage to perform The Hills whilst Drake joined Rihanna for a performance of her 14th US Number 1 , Work.

Elsewhere , other winners on the night included Bjork for best International Female. Whilst Australian band Tame Impala won Best International Band.

One Direction predictably wo the fan voted Britsh Artist Video , beating out Little Mix.

Little Mix , though would wow with a high octane perfromanc eof Number 1 smash Black Magic , that proved one of the highlights of the night.

There was a sombre pause in proceedings though as Annie Lennox and actor Gary Oldman would pay tribute to the late David Bowie. The legendary star was honoured with a posthumous BRITS Icon Award.

His backing band played  medley of the stars hits before being joined by New Zealand singer Lorde who performed  a haunting take on Life OnMars, Bowie had endorsed the young "Royals " singer as the future of rock music


BRIT AWARDS 2016 - THE WINNERS

MASTERCARD BRITISH ALBUM OF THE YEAR - Adele "25 "
BEST BRITISH SINGLE - Adele "Hello "
BEST BRITISH GROUP  - Coldplay

BEST BRITISH BREAKTHROUGH - Catfish And The Bottlemen
BEST BRITISH FEMALE - Adele
BEST BRITISH MALE -   James Bay
BRITISH ARTIST VIDEO -  One Direction "Drag Me Down "

GLOBAL SUCCESS - Adele
BRITS ICON - David Bowie


BEST INTERNATIONAL GROUP - Tame Impala
BEST INTERNATIONAL MALE - Justin Bieber
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEMALE - Bjork


Watch Little Mix's performance of Black Magic below