Irish artist CMAT up for songwriting award

CMAT is nominated for best album at the Ivors. Picture: Ian West/PA

Irish artist CMAT, Olivia Dean, and Lily Allen, are among the artists nominated for the Ivor awards which celebrate songwriting.

Dean bagged her first Ivor nominations and is up for two categories including best album with her Brit-award winning record The Art of Loving.

It comes after the singer picked up her first Grammy for best new artist and triumphed at the Brit awards with four wins including the coveted artist of the year and album of the year.

The singer-songwriter will face Allen, who is also up for the best album category with her fifth studio album West End Girl along with CMAT’s Euro-Country, Wolf Alice’s The Clearing, and Jim Legxacy’s Black British Music.

CMAT won the Choice Prize for Irish album of the year earlier this month and is due to play Dublin's St Anne's Park on May 30 and Cork's Virgin Media Park on June 20.

She recently released a video for the single The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station which starred the celebrity chef. 

Dean’s single Man I Need has also been nominated for the PRS for Music most performed work category (the PRS is the UK’s performing right society) which celebrates songs that received the most broadcast, online, and general performances based on PRS data.

Competing with Dean is Lola Young, who received her fourth nomination with her hit Messy, along with Myles Smith’s Stargazing, Chrystal’s The Days, and Coldplay song Viva La Vida.

Scottish singer and recent Brit-winner Jacob Alon received their first Ivors nominations including for the rising star award and is joined by fellow nominees Chloe Qisha, Divorce, Kwn, and Skye Newman.

Alon is also up for the best song musically and lyrically category with Don’t Fall Asleep.

Others in the category include Florence and The Machine’s Everybody Scream, marking singer Florence Welch’s fourth Ivors nomination, Self Esteem’s Focus Is Power, and the Sugababes’ Weeds.

Ellie Rowsell of Wolf Alice is also nominated in the category for The Sofa.

Little Simz received her fifth Ivors nomination for best contemporary song with Free and will face Self Esteem’s I Do And I Don’t Care and Damascus by Gorillaz.

Meanwhile, Kae Tempest secured a double nomination with the songs I Stand On The Line and Know Yourself.

The award ceremony will also recognise best original film score, with the nominees including The Brutalist, Bugonia, and Nosferatu.

Winners of the Ivors will be announced on Thursday, May 21.