The Beatles have received their first BRIT Award nomination in over 40 years

The Beatles have received their first BRIT Award nomination in over 40 years.

The legendary band – who previously won the Outstanding Contribution to Music accolade in 1983 and British Group and British Album of the Year for ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ – have been shortlisted for the 2025 Song of the Year with Mastercard prize for ‘Now and Then’, a track written by the late John Lennon in the late 1970s and finished by surviving bandmates Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Ringo Starr.

But ‘Now and Then’ faces competition for the award from a string of other songs, including Charli XCX’s ‘Guess featuring Billie Eilish’, Coldplay’s ‘feelslikeimfallinginlove’, Dua Lipa’s ‘Training Season’, Jade’s ‘Angel of My Dreams’ and Sam Ryder’s ‘You’re Christmas To Me’.

Charli XCX leads the nominations with five, with her Song of the Year recognition joined by places on the shortlists for Artist of the Year, Pop promoted by Capital, Dance Act promoted by KISS, and the coveted Mastercard Album of the Year for ‘Brat’.

Elsewhere at the ceremony, Myles Smith – who was previously announced as this year’s Rising Star award recipient – is nominated for a further three prizes, with ‘Stargazing’ also on the Song of the Year shortlist, and nods in both the Best New Act and Pop categories.

Speaking to host Sian Welby on the ‘Bring on The BRITs with Mastercard: The 2025 Nominations’ livestream, he said: “It's still not quite real but hopefully on the night it feels even better, I can't wait to be in and around it…

“It's my first time going to the Brits, last year I was watching on TV so I'm looking forward to it, it's a big occasion.”

Dua Lipa, The Last Dinner Party, Ezra Collective each scored four nominations, including Mastercard Album of the Year.

The shortlist for the event’s biggest prize is completed by The Cure, whose comeback LP ‘Songs of a Lost World’ gave them their third nomination of the year, with their Group of the Year and Alternative/Rock promoted by Absolute Radio nods giving them their most successful year in the history of the ceremony, having previously been nominated once in 1990 and twice in bother 1191 and 1993, winning a total of two awards.

Charli is joined in the Artist of the Year category by Beabadoobee, Central Cee, Dua, Fred again.., Jamie xx, Michael Kiwanuka, Nia Archives, Rachel Chinouriri, and Sam Fender.

Rachel – who is also up for Best New Artist – was thrilled with her nominations.

She said: “I feel like younger me was dreaming of these moments, to be standing here is a little bit insane."

In the International categories, Benson Boone, Beyonce, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, and Taylor Swift each scored two nominations, for both International Artist and International Song of the Year.

The five genre categories – Pop, Dance, Alternative/ Rock, Hip-Hop and R+B – are all fan voted, with nominees open via the Brits What’sApp channel from 31 January. People can vote once in each category every 24 hours until it closes on 14 February.

The year’s BRIT Awards with Mastercard take place on 1 January at London’s O2 Arena, with Jack Whitehall returning as host.

BRIT Awards with Mastercard 2025 list of nominations:

Song of the Year with Mastercard:

Artemis – ‘I Like the Way you Kiss Me’

Beatles – ‘Now and Then’

Bl3ss and Camrin Watson - 'Kisses'

Central Cee Ft. Lil Baby – ‘Band4band’

Charli XCX - ‘Guess featuring Billie Eilish’

Chase + Status and Stormzy – ‘Backbone’

Coldplay - ‘feelslikeimfallinginlove’

Dua Lipa - ‘Training Season’

Ella Henderson ft. Rudimental – ‘Alibi’

Jade – ‘Angel of my Dreams’

Jordan Adetunji – ‘Kehlani’

KSI ft. Trippie Redd - 'Thick Of It'

Myles Smith – ‘Stargazing’

Sam Ryder – ‘You're Christmas To Me’

Sonny Fodera/Jazzy/D.O.D – ‘Some Days’

Best New Artist:

English Teacher

Ezra Collective

The Last Dinner Party

Myles Smith

Rachel Chinouriri

Artist of the Year:

Beabadoobee

Central Cee

Charli XCX

Dua Lipa

Fred again..

Jamie xx

Michael Kiwanuka

Nia Archives

Rachel Chinouriri

Sam Fender

Group of the Year:

Bring me the Horizon

Coldplay

The Cure

Ezra Collective

The Last Dinner Party

International Group of the Year:

Amyl and the Sniffers

Confidence Man

Fontaines D.C.

Future and Metro Boomin

Linkin Park

Dance Act promoted by Kiss:

Becky Hill

Charli XCX

Chase and Status

Fred again..

Nia Archives

Pop promoted by Capital:

Charli XCX

Dua Lipa

Jade

Lola Young

Myles Smith

Hip Hop promoted by Capital Xtra:

Central Cee

Dave

Ghetts

Little Simz

Stormzy

R+B promoted by Kiss:

Cleo Sol

Flo

Jorja Smith

Michael Kiwanuka

Raye

Alternative/ Rock promoted by Absolute Radio:

Beabadoobee

The Cure

Ezra Collective

The Last Dinner Party

Sam Fender

International Artist of the Year:

Adrianne Lenker

Asake

Benson Boone

Beyonce

Billie Eilish

Chapell Roan

Kendrick Lamar

Sabrina Carpenter

Taylor Swift

Tyler, The Creator

International Song of the Year:

Benson Boone – ‘Beautiful Things’

Beyonce – ‘Texas Hold Rm’

Billie Eilish – ‘Birds of a Feather’

Chapell Roan – ‘Good Luck, Babe!’

Djo – ‘End of Beginning’

Eminem – ‘Houdini’

Hozier – ‘Too Sweet’

Jack Harlow – ‘Lovin On Me’

Noah Kahan – ‘Stick Season’

Post Malone ft. Morgan Wallen – ‘I Had Some Help’

Sabrina Carpenter – ‘Espresso’

Shaboozey – ‘A Bar Song (Tipsy)’

Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone – Fortnight’

Teddy Swims - ‘Lose Control’

Tommy Richman – ‘Million Dollar Baby’

Mastercard Album of the Year:

Charli XCX – ‘Brat’

The Cure – ‘Songs of a Lost World’

Dua Lipa – ‘Radical Optimism’

Ezra Collective – ‘Dance, No One's Watching’

The Last Dinner Party – ‘Prelude to Ecstasy’