16Ed Sheeran's latest best-selling album is up against four debut offerings at this year's Brit Awards, including one by breakthrough pop star Dua Lipa, who also dominated the nominations.
Singer-songwriter Sheeran, whose Divide was the fastest-selling album ever for a male solo artiste in Britain, is nominated in the Best Solo Artiste and Best Album categories for the Feb 21 awards. Meanwhile Dua Lipa, 22, has five nominations including Best British Female Solo Artiste, where she will battle it out against 2015 winner Paloma Faith, rapper-poet Kate Tempest, Jessie Ware and Laura Marling.