The BRIT Awards 2026 have introduced that legendary artist Noel Gallagher is the recipient of this 12 months’s Songwriter of the Yr award.
This award recognises distinctive songwriting expertise, and is set by a choose panel of skilled judges, with earlier recipients together with Ed Sheeran, Child Harpoon, RAYE and Charli xcx.
Noel’s songwriting has permeated the material of British tradition for over 30 years, from his work with Oasis to his solo albums with Noel Gallagher’s Excessive Flying Birds. His songs span generations and proceed to resonate with audiences around the globe.
2025 was an enormous 12 months for Noel and his brother Liam as they lastly ended 16 years of hypothesis by returning to the stage as Oasis. Their tour was a world success with 41 electrifying performances full of songs from their large again catalogue together with ‘Reside Without end’, ‘Wonderwall’, ‘Don’t Look Again in Anger’, and ‘Champagne Supernova’.
Alongside Liam, Noel has a number of BRITs to his identify thus far, with Oasis taking house awards together with Greatest British Group, Album of the Yr and Excellent Contribution to Music. Noel’s songwriting has additionally been recognised by the Ivor Novello Awards, taking house the distinguished Excellent Music Assortment award in 2013.
Stacey Tang, Chair of the 2026 BRIT Awards Committee and Co-President of RCA Information at Sony Music UK mentioned: ?”For greater than three a long time, Noel has crafted songs which have grow to be a part of our collective story – daring, sensible, and all the time recognisable. His songs have soundtracked recollections for a number of generations and outlined the spirit of British music globally. Honouring Noel as Songwriter of the Yr celebrates a outstanding physique of labor and a inventive pressure that continues to attach and encourage artists and followers worldwide.”
The BRIT Awards will probably be broadcast reside on Saturday twenty eighth February, completely on ITV and ITVX. Offered by Jack Whitehall, the ceremony will embody performances by Olivia Dean, Harry Kinds, Wolf Alice, and Excellent Contribution to Music recipient Mark Ronson.
This 12 months’s ceremony will probably be going down outdoors of London for the primary time in its historical past, making a brand new house for itself at The Co-op Reside in Manchester.
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