Brit Awards scraps male and female categories for 2022 ceremony

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The Brit Awards has announced it will scrap male and female categories at the awards ceremony next year. Instead, gender-neutral gongs will be put in their place.

The best male and female solo artist prizes will be replaced with the artist of the year and the international artist of the year. Read more: In the past, the Brit Awards has faced pressure to remove its male and female-specific awards and now says the artists should be celebrated "solely for their music and work, rather than how they choose to identify or as others may see them, as part of The Brits/ commitment to evolving the show to be as inclusive and as relevant as possible." The Brit voting academy is made up of around 1,200 music industry experts across media, artists,