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Brit Award for International Album
2011 Winner Arcade Fire
Awarded forAchievement in Excellent International Album
Country United Kingdom (UK)
Presented by British Phonographic Industry (BPI)
First awarded1977
Last awarded2011
Currently held by Arcade Fire The Suburbs ( 2011)
Most awardsNone
Most nominations
Website www.brits.co.uk

The Brit Award for International Album 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 is presented at the Brit Awards, an annual celebration of British and international music. [2] The winners and nominees are determined by the Brit Awards voting academy with over one-thousand members, which comprise record labels, publishers, managers, agents, media, and previous winners and nominees. [3]

The award was first presented in 1977 as International Album. The accolade was not handed out between 1982 and 2001 and has been defunct as of 2011.

Recipients

1970s

Year Album Artist(s)
1977
( 1st)
Bridge over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel
Arrival ABBA
Songs in the Key of Life Stevie Wonder
Tapestry Carole King

2000s

Year Album Artist(s)
2002
( 22nd)
Fever Kylie Minogue
Discovery Daft Punk
Is This It The Strokes
Songs in A Minor Alicia Keys
Survivor Destiny's Child
2003
( 23rd)
The Eminem Show Eminem
By the Way Red Hot Chili Peppers
Come Away with Me Norah Jones
Missundaztood Pink
Songs in A Minor Alicia Keys
2004
( 24th)
Justified Justin Timberlake
Dangerously in Love Beyoncé
Elephant The White Stripes
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Outkast
Stripped Christina Aguilera
2005
( 25th)
Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters
Hot Fuss The Killers
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb U2
Songs About Jane Maroon 5
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Outkast
2006
( 26th)
American Idiot Green Day
Confessions on a Dance Floor Madonna
Funeral Arcade Fire
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb U2
Late Registration Kanye West
2007
( 27th)
Sam's Town The Killers
FutureSex/LoveSounds Justin Timberlake
Modern Times Bob Dylan
St. Elsewhere Gnarls Barkley
Ta-Dah Scissor Sisters
2008
( 28th)
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Foo Fighters
Because of the Times Kings of Leon
Long Road Out of Eden Eagles
Neon Bible Arcade Fire
X Kylie Minogue
2009
( 29th)
Only by the Night Kings of Leon
Black Ice AC/DC
Day & Age The Killers
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
Oracular Spectacular MGMT

2010s

Year Album Artist(s)
2010
( 30th)
The Fame Lady Gaga
The Blueprint 3 Jay-Z
The E.N.D. Black Eyed Peas
Merriweather Post Pavilion Animal Collective
Walking on a Dream Empire of the Sun
2011
( 31st)
The Suburbs Arcade Fire
Come Around Sundown Kings of Leon
The Lady Killer CeeLo Green
Recovery Eminem
Teenage Dream Katy Perry

Multiple nominations and awards

Artists that received multiple nominations
nominations Artist
3 Arcade Fire
The Killers
Kings of Leon
2 Eminem
Alicia Keys
Kylie Minogue
Outkast
Scissor Sisters
Justin Timberlake
U2

Notes

References

  1. ^ "About the BPI". British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Archived from the original on 6 December 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  2. ^ "BRIT Awards". British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Archived from the original on 9 March 2014. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  3. ^ "And the nominees are..." Brits.co.uk. British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Retrieved 22 February 2014.