Q Awards 2011: Nominations in full

Adele, Jessie J and the Arctic Monkeys lead this year’s Q Awards nominations. The winners will be announced at an award ceremony at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel on October 24.

The awards will coincide with the 25th anniversary of Q magazine. The publication’s editor-in-chief Paul Rees stated: “I’m delighted that Q’s audience has once again demonstrated – by voting in their thousands – both their enthusiasm to discover and embrace new music, and the sheer breadth of their musical tastes.

“The Q Awards 2011 will celebrate their ongoing passion for new and influential music.”

The full list of nominations are as follows:

Breakthrough Artist
Jessie J
Ed Sheeran
Katy B
James Blake
Miles Kane

Best New Act presented by Orange Amplification
The Vaccines
WU LYF
Foster The People
Everything Everything
Nero

Q Best Female Artist
Adele
Laura Marling
Beyoncé
Jessie J
PJ Harvey

Q Best Male Artist presented by Merc
Cee Lo Green
Tinie Tempah
Wretch 32
Ed Sheeran
Example

Best Track
Adele ­ ‘Rolling In The Deep’
Aloe Blacc ‘I Need A Dollar’
Arctic Monkeys ‘Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair’
Adele ‘Someone Like You’
Foster The People ‘Pumped Up Kicks’

Best Album
Bon Iver Bon Iver
Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See
Elbow Build A Rocket Boys!
The Horrors Skying
PJ Harvey Let England Shake

Best Live Act
Coldplay
Biffy Clyro
Elbow
Beyoncé
Chase And Status

Best Video
Jessie J ‘Do It Like A Dude’
Lady Gaga ‘Judas’
Foo Fighters ‘Walk’
Ed Sheeran ‘You Need Me, I Don’t Need You’
Katy Perry ‘Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)’
Hurts ‘Wonderful Life’

Best Act In The World Today
Muse
Coldplay
Arctic Monkeys
Kasabian
Arcade Fire
U2

Next Big Thing
Shortlist to be announced early October

Greatest Act Of The Last 25 Years presented by BlackBerry
U2
Damon Albarn
Radiohead
Oasis
Nirvana
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Muse
Jack White
Paul Weller
Jay Z
Eminem
Madonna
The Strokes
R.E.M.
The Stone Roses
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Coldplay
Manic Street Preachers
Björk
Beastie Boys
Metallica
Prodigy
The Cure
Green Day