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Wednesday, 22 February

The 2012 Brit Awards took place at London's O2 Arena last night, here's a little round up of what went om...

Adele and Ed Sheeran were the big winners of the night, each picking up two awards. The Tottenham singer won British Female Solo Artist and British Album Of The Year while Sheeran scored British Breakthrough Act and British Male Solo Artist. Also among the winners were Coldplay (Best British Group), One Direction (Best British Single) and Lana Del Rey (International Breakthrough Act).
For the full list of winners go to Brits.co.uk.

Adele flipped her middle finger at event organisers when James Cordon cut short her acceptance speech short after only 12 seconds. "She's the biggest star in the world. I don't understand what happened but I'm upset about it," Cordon told ITV2 shortly afterwards. Adele later clarified, in the video you can watch below, that the gesture was aimed at "the suits, not the fans".

Coldplay opened the show with a rendition of Charlie Brown. Rihanna, Florence + the Machine and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds were also among the performers on the night, with Chris Martin joining the former Oasis leader onstage to play piano on AKA... What A Life.

Blur collected the award for Outstanding Contribution To Music and performed a five song set to close the event. "The last time we were here was 17 years ago and what happened on that night had a very profound effect on our lives, so it's nice to come back and say thanks" said Damon Albarn during his acceptance speech.

Rihanna had on her rider for the event Oreo cookies, a "cupcake tower", a litre of vodka, crisps, some wine and tequila. That girl knows how to party.
Thesun.co.uk

And here's ten things we learned from last nights awards...
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Now here's the rest of the day's music news...

Jack White has announced the tracklisting and artwork to forthcoming solo album Blunderbuss. The 13-song effort is due for release on 23 April.
Thirdmanrecords.com

Listen to the new Madonna single, Girls Gone Wild, as part of a MDNA Megamix (via Billboard.com).
MDNA Megamix by monsterpoem

Rick Ross has made a video for his track High Definition, taken from his recent Rich Forever mixtape, released last month.
Stereogum.com

What records have soundtracked Robert Wyatt's life? The singer discusses the records that have made him
Pitchfork.com

Tinie Tempah has named his forthcoming album Demonstration after the spate of political protests across the world last year. "It sounds incredible so far," he declared. "Demonstration covers a lot of the things that have been going on around the world, especially in London recently."
bbc.co.uk/newsbeat

Simian Mobile Disco will release new album Unpatterns on 14 May. Listen to a new song from the record now, Forteenth Principles, at Beatsperminute.com.

Simple Minds' Jim Kerr has mused on his bands transformation from cool cats to sell outs around 1983. "I think we started to try to hard," he says of the change in the band's outlook from their earlier, critically acclaimed work to the more stadium friendly stuff. "Again, nothing I'd apologise for. But there was this thing like footballers scoring for fun, getting a big transfer and feeling they have to justify it."
Thequietus.com

Grimes may have only just released her new album, Visions, but she's has her career plan mapped out: "I'd like to be like the Phil Spector of the future, except less abusive."
Vulture.com

Watch a teaser for The Shins new video for Simple Song. For the whole thing you'll have to download it from iTunes.

Check out the five most chaotic awards acceptance speeches ever in Q Tube.
Qthemusic.com

Jay-Z and Kanye West will bring the Watch The Throne tour to the UK this summer. The pair play at London's O2 Arena on 20 May 20 before heading to Manchester's Evening News Arena (11 June) and They Birmingham's LG Arena (13 June).
Watchthethrone.com

Watch President Obama singing with B.B King last night at a celebration of Black History Month at the White House. Mick Jagger also performed at the event.

Codeine are set to reunite and embark on a world tour including a performance at All Tomorrow's Parties I'll Be Your Mirror event on 26 May.
Rollingstone.com

Watch a new video for Crystal Castles' song Suffocation at Vsmagazinelive.com.

Universal plan to keep EMI intact even if their proposed £1.2bn takeover is allowed to go through by EU regulators .
Guardian.co.uk

Mystery Jets will release fourth album Radlands on 30 April.
Mysteryjets.com

Today's Track Of The Day is Coldplay playing Charlie Brown live at last night's Brit Awards.

That's it for today. More Hot List tomorrow at noon.

12:00 PM | 22/02/2012