The Brit Award for British Dance Act is an award given by the
British Phonographic Industry (BPI), an organisation which represents record companies and artists in the
United Kingdom.[1] The accolade was presented at the
Brit Awards, an annual celebration of
British and international music.[2] The winners and nominees were determined by the Brit Awards voting academy with over one-thousand members comprising
record labels,
publishers,
managers,
agents, media, and previous winners and nominees.[3]
The inaugural recipients of the award are
M People, who won consecutively in 1994 and 1995.
Fatboy Slim was the first solo act to win the category in 2000 and is one of five acts to have won the award twice, alongside M People,
The Prodigy,
Basement Jaxx and
Becky Hill.
Jamiroquai hold the record for most nominations without a win, with six. The current holder of the award is
Calvin Harris, who won in 2024.
In 2021, it was announced that the category had been revived followng the removal of gendered awards and was first presented at the
42nd Brit Awards. This new iteration is voted for by the public on
TikTok alongside the three other genre categories (
Pop/R&B Act,
Rock/Alternative Act and
Hip Hop/Grime/Rap Act)[4]