Albums That Have Been Nominated for the Top Album Award at Both Brits & Grammys: Full List

Brat Summer has extended deep into awards season. Charli XCX’s Brat is competing for a Brit Award for British album of the year on Saturday (March 1), just weeks after it competed in the Grammy race for album of the year. Brat is the first album to be nominated for the top album honor on both sides of the Atlantic since Harry Styles’ Harry’s House two years ago.

Charli XCX is just the fifth woman artist who has been nominated for top album honors at both shows. The first four were Annie Lennox (Diva), the late Amy Winehouse (Back to Black), Adele (21, 25 and 30) and Dua Lipa (Future Nostalgia).

Radiohead and Adele have each been nominated for the top album honor in both countries three times, more than any other artists. (Adele is the only artist who has achieved the feat with three consecutive albums.)

Sam Smith is the only artist to achieve the feat with a debut album. Lennox scored with her solo debut album, but that followed seven albums with Eurythmics.

Two albums by British artists won the Grammy for album of the year but lost the equivalent Brit Award in their home country. That was the fate of George Michael’s Faith (which lost the Brit Award to Sting’s …Nothing Like the Sun) and Mumford & Sons’ Babel (which lost the Brit Award to Emeli Sandé’s Our Version of Events).

Two of these albums were nominated for British album of the year twice at the Brits. Dire Straits‘ Brothers in Arms won on its second try (in 1987). Radiohead’s Kid A lost both times (2001-02). No album has ever been nominated for album of the year twice at the Grammys.

Notes: In 1977, 10 years after its release, The Beatles’ landmark Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band received a special award at the Brits. The album had won the Grammy for album of the year in 1968, but its Brit Award was an after-the-fact honor, which is different. In 1984, Michael Jackson’s Thriller won the Grammy for album of the year and a Brit Award as the year’s best-selling album, but that too is different.

Here’s a complete list of albums that have been nominated for album of the year at the Grammys and British album of the year at the Brits. The years shown are the years of the Grammy ceremony in which they competed. Because of differing eligibility periods, the year the album competed at the Brits sometimes differed. In those cases, the year the album competed at the Brits is shown on the Brits line of each individual entry.