Harry Styles and Matty Healy set to battle it out for best songwriter at this year's Ivor Novello Awards

18 April 2023, 19:08 | Written by Tyler Damara Kelly

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(Harry Styles) (The 1975) (Ed Sheeran) (Florence + the Machine) (Inflo) (Cleo Sol)

Harry Styles, Kid Harpoon, Cleopatra Nikolic (aka Cleo Sol) and Dean ‘Inflo’ Josiah Cover lead nominations at this year's Ivor Novello Awards, with three a-piece.

Harry Styles and Matty Healy are set to battle for Songwriter of the Year alongside Wet Leg and Florence + The Machine. The frontman of The 1975 previously won the award in 2019, as well as the Best Contemporary Song Award for "Love It If We Made It".

Styles is also competing for PRS For Music Most Performed Work and Best Song Musically and Lyrically, for his 2022 hit "As It Was".

Nominees for Best Album include The Car by Arctic Monkeys and Fontaines D.C.'s Skinty Fia. Cleopatra Nikolic (aka Cleo Sol) and Dean “Inflo” Josiah Cover are both nominated twice in this category, for their work on Little Simz’s No Thank You and SAULT’s 11 alongside co-writers Jamar McNaughton and Jack Peñate.

Meanwhile, Ed Sheeran makes history as "Bad Habits" is once again nominated for PRS For Most Music Performed Work after winning the award last year. He is the first ever artist to achieve the feat in this category, with his track "Shivers" also nominated. After a major surge of popularity following TV series Stranger Things, Kate Bush’s "Running Up That Hill" is nominated 37 years after the track was originally among the nominees for Best Contemporary Song.

Visit ivorsacademy.com for the full list of nominees. The winners will be announced at the 68th presentation of the Ivor Novello Awards at London's Grosvenor House on 18 May.