Brit Award for International Group

The Brit Award for International Group is an award given by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), an organisation which represents record companies and artists in the United Kingdom.^[1] The accolade is presented at the Brit Awards, an annual celebration of British and international music.^[2] The winners and nominees are determined by the Brit Awards voting academy with over one-thousand members, which comprise record labels, publishers, managers, agents, media, and previous winners and nominees.^[3]

Brit Award for International Group
Current winner: Fontaines D.C.
Awarded for	Achievement in Excellent International Group
Country	United Kingdom (UK)
Presented by	British Phonographic Industry (BPI)
First award	1986
Currently held by	Fontaines D.C. (2025)
Most awards	U2 (5)
Most nominations	U2 (11)
Website	www.brits.co.uk

The inaugural recipients of the award were Huey Lewis and the News in 1986. U2 hold the record for most wins in the category, with five, while The Black Eyed Peas and First Aid Kit share the record for most nominations without a win, with three. To date, five female groups (The Bangles, TLC, Destiny's Child, Haim, and Boygenius) have won the award, though six additional groups (Fugees, The Corrs, The White Stripes, Scissor Sisters, Arcade Fire and The Carters) also include female members. The current holder of the award is Boygenius, who won in 2024.

History

Although the award was first presented in 1986 as International Group, the Brit Award for International Artist (featuring groups and solo artists as nominees) was presented prior to the creation of this category and was won by American groups Kid Creole and the Coconuts and The Revolution in 1983 and 1985 respectively. The award was not handed out in 2010 or the 2020 Brit Awards but returned in the following years.^[4]

Throughout the tenure of the category, artists from the United States have won twenty-five times, more than groups from any other country. Groups from Ireland have won seven times, and groups from Australia have won three times. Groups from Canada and France have won once. Dave Grohl, Jay-Z and Beyoncé are the only artists to be nominated for work in different groups (Grohl for Nirvana and Foo Fighters, Beyonce for Destiny's Child and The Carters, Jay-Z as part of a duo with Kanye West and the aforementioned The Carters).

Winners and nominees

Inaugural winner Huey Lewis and the News

1987 recipients The Bangles were the first female group to win the award

Five-time winner U2 have the most wins in this category

Three-time winner R.E.M.

1996 winner Bon Jovi

1999 winner The Corrs

2002 winner Destiny's Child

2005 winner Scissor Sisters

2006 winner Green Day

2007 winner The Killers

Four-time winner Foo Fighters

2014 winner Daft Punk

2017 winner A Tribe Called Quest

Haim received the award in 2021

Two-time winner Fontaines D.C.

Year	Recipient	Nominee
1986	Huey Lewis and the News	The Cars Kool & the Gang Talking Heads ZZ Top
1987	The Bangles	A-ha Bon Jovi Cameo Huey Lewis and the News
1988	U2	Bon Jovi Fleetwood Mac Heart Los Lobos
1989		Bon Jovi Fleetwood Mac INXS Womack & Womack
1990		Bon Jovi De La Soul Guns N' Roses Gipsy Kings Milli Vanilli
1991	INXS	The B-52's De La Soul Faith No More Roxette
1992	R.E.M.	Extreme Guns N' Roses INXS U2
1993		Crowded House En Vogue Nirvana U2
1994	Crowded House	Nirvana Pearl Jam Spin Doctors U2
1995	R.E.M.	Counting Crows The Cranberries Crash Test Dummies Neil Young & Crazy Horse
1996	Bon Jovi	Foo Fighters Garbage Green Day TLC
1997	Fugees	Boyzone The Presidents of the United States of America R.E.M. The Smashing Pumpkins
1998	U2	Daft Punk Eels Hanson No Doubt
1999	The Corrs	Air Beastie Boys Fun Lovin' Criminals R.E.M.
2000	TLC	Beastie Boys The Cardigans Mercury Rev Red Hot Chili Peppers
2001	U2	The Corrs Santana Savage Garden Westlife
2002	Destiny's Child	Daft Punk Limp Bizkit R.E.M. The Strokes
2003	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Foo Fighters Nickelback Röyksopp The White Stripes
2004	The White Stripes	The Black Eyed Peas Kings of Leon Outkast The Strokes
2005	Scissor Sisters	Green Day Maroon 5 Outkast U2
2006	Green Day	Arcade Fire The Black Eyed Peas U2 The White Stripes
2007	The Killers	The Flaming Lips Gnarls Barkley Red Hot Chili Peppers Scissor Sisters
2008	Foo Fighters	Arcade Fire Eagles Kings of Leon The White Stripes
2009	Kings of Leon	AC/DC Fleet Foxes The Killers MGMT
2010	Not Awarded
2011	Arcade Fire	The Black Eyed Peas Kings of Leon The Script Vampire Weekend
2012	Foo Fighters	Fleet Foxes Jay-Z & Kanye West Lady Antebellum Maroon 5
2013	The Black Keys	Alabama Shakes Fun The Killers The Script
2014	Daft Punk	Arcade Fire Haim Kings of Leon Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
2015	Foo Fighters	5 Seconds of Summer The Black Keys First Aid Kit The War on Drugs
2016	Tame Impala	Alabama Shakes Eagles of Death Metal Major Lazer U2
2017	A Tribe Called Quest	Drake & Future Kings of Leon Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Twenty One Pilots
2018	Foo Fighters	Arcade Fire Haim The Killers LCD Soundsystem
2019	The Carters	Brockhampton Chic First Aid Kit Twenty One Pilots
2020	Not Awarded
2021	Haim	BTS Fontaines D.C. Foo Fighters Run the Jewels
2022	Silk Sonic	ABBA BTS Måneskin The War on Drugs
2023	Fontaines D.C.	Blackpink Drake & 21 Savage First Aid Kit Gabriels
2024	Boygenius	Blink-182 Foo Fighters Gabriels Paramore
2025	Fontaines D.C.	Amyl and the Sniffers Confidence Man Future and Metro Boomin Linkin Park

Multiple nominations and awards

Artists that received multiple nominations Nominations Artist 11 U2 8 Foo Fighters 6 Kings of Leon R.E.M. 5 Arcade Fire Bon Jovi 4 The Killers The White Stripes 3 The Black Eyed Peas Daft Punk First Aid Kit Fontaines D.C. Green Day Haim INXS Red Hot Chili Peppers 2 Alabama Shakes Beastie Boys The Black Keys BTS The Corrs Crowded House De La Soul Drake Fleet Foxes Fleetwood Mac Future Gabriels Guns N' Roses Huey Lewis and the News Maroon 5 Nirvana Outkast Scissor Sisters The Script The Strokes TLC Twenty One Pilots

Artists that received multiple awards Awards Artist 5 U2 4 Foo Fighters 3 R.E.M. 2 Fontaines D.C.

Awards by country

Countries that received multiple wins

Country	Wins	Artist/s
United States	25	Huey Lewis and the News, The Bangles, R.E.M., Bon Jovi, Fugees, TLC, Destiny's Child, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The White Stripes, Scissor Sisters, Green Day, The Killers, Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, A Tribe Called Quest, The Carters, Haim, Silk Sonic, Boygenius
Ireland	7	U2, The Corrs, Fontaines D.C.
Australia	3	Crowded House, INXS, Tame Impala
Canada	1	Arcade Fire
France	1	Daft Punk

Notes

• Scissor Sisters (2005) also won Brit Award for International Breakthrough Act