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Emeli Sande gets four Brit Award nominations Emeli Sande gets four Brit Award nominations
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Singer Emeli Sande has received four nominations for this year's Brit Awards. Singer Emeli Sande has capped a stellar rise over the past 12 months with four nominations for the 2013 Brit Awards.
The star, who had the best-selling album in the UK in 2012, is up for best female, best album and has two tracks in the best single category.The star, who had the best-selling album in the UK in 2012, is up for best female, best album and has two tracks in the best single category.
"It's a really good feeling," she told BBC News. "It feels great, a bit scary, because you never know, you might not win anything." She will face competition for best album from Mercury Prize winners Alt-J, who are also up for best British group and best breakthrough.
Singer Rita Ora has three nominations, while Jessie Ware is up for two prizes.
The full list of nominations will be released later.The full list of nominations will be released later.
Sande's appearance on the shortlist comes 12 months after she was tipped as a rising star with the Brit Awards' Critics' Choice prize. Sande's two hits in the running for best single are Next To Me, which reached number two last February, and Beneath Your Beautiful, her chart-topping collaboration with producer Labrinth.
"It feels great to have this acknowledgement and recognition," she added. "And to come back here after winning the Critics' Choice and to be nominated is really, really cool." The star's appearance on the shortlist comes 12 months after she was tipped as a rising star with the Brit Awards' Critics' Choice prize.
Her debut album Our Version of Events went on to sell 1.4 million copies in the UK last year and she performed at both the opening and closing ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
"It's a really good feeling," she said of the Brits nominations. "It feels great, a bit scary, because you never know, you might not win anything.
"It feels great to have this acknowledgement and recognition. And to come back here after winning the Critics' Choice and to be nominated is really, really cool."
Rita Ora, the Kosovo-born, London-based singer who was another of pop's biggest new stars in 2012, also has two songs in the best single category - RIP and Hot Right Now.
She is also up for best breakthrough, as is Jessie Ware.
Ware, a Mercury-nominated "glamorous futuro-soul singer", as she was described by The Guardian, is also on the shortlist for best female.
At the nominations launch in London on Thursday, Sande is due to hand over this year's Critics' Choice prize to Sussex-born pianist and songwriter Tom Odell.