Emeli leads the nominations overall with three individual nods for Best Female, Best Album and Best Single for ‘Next To Me’. Emeli’s collaboration with Labrinth, ‘Beneath Your Beautiful’, is also up for the Best Single award.

Coldplay have two nominations – British Single for ‘Princess of China’ with Rihanna, and British Live Act, Richard Hawley is up for British Male and Bat For Lashes for British Female. Damon Albarn is nominated in the British Producer category.

This year’s Brit Awards will be held at the O2 Arena in London on February 20.

‘Dr Dee’ is 18 tracks of songs and music inspired by the life of John Dee, mathematician, polymath and advisor to Queen Elizabeth I. Described by Albarn as ‘strange pastoral folk’, Dr Dee combines Damon’s voice with early English choral and instrumentation alongside modern, West African and Rensaissance sounds.

The album was recorded last year in London and Salford with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and mixed by Valgeir Sigursson in Rejkjavik.

Damon Albarn will perform songs from the ‘Dr Dee’ album at OneFest in the UK on April 14. More details are on the OneFest website.