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Lewis Capaldi is expected to top award at the Brit Awards on Tuesday with victories predicted in key categories, including Best male and Best single.

The Scottish star will also perform at The Ceremony , after a Year in which he scored The Best -selling single and album in the UK.

Its main competition comes from the London-born rapper Dave , its frank and confessional debut album Psychodrama won last Year 's Mercury Prize .

Both artists are up for four awards.

But most experts agree Capaldi will be rewarded for the success of his breakout song, Someone Like you, and the multi-platinum sales of his debut album, Divinely Uninspired in A Infernal extent.

"look, I'll just turn it on, Lewis Capaldi win everything And Then Go Home ," joked Sam Fender , who is nominated against Capaldi in The Best male category.

Speaking on BBC Radio 1 news beat, Fender admitted he beat Capaldi in the Critics' Choice category last Year , but said that he did not expect a repetition of the performance.

"I think they gave me the award in the last Year , because you could see coming by 2020," he said. "They were like," Oh, Lewis Capaldi goes all out to win next Year . '

"I, Too, voted for Lewis. "

Capaldi has strong competition in almost every category, though.

Two Brit Award winner Stormzy, the British, after a triumphant 2019, the him headline Glastonbury and enter The Charts at Number Two with his second album, Heavy Is The Head .

above All, his record was published in the same week as the British " Academy for their votes, it means his music is a prominent critic in The Head , as they selected this Year 's winners.

Harry Styles ' second album, a Fine line was also published, the same time as the voting window and makes it The Best album shortlist - what will get him The First representative of A direction with distinction.

But Capaldi is the biggest Challenger is Dave , whose thought-provoking record Psychodrama has been hailed as "" by The Guardian .

Dave 's album Psychodrama has already the Mercury Music Prize

won, If he wins album of the Year , the 21-Year -old, from Brixton, will win only the second artist to Brit and the Mercury Prize , for the same data set. Arctic Monkeys previously, The Double with What the people Say I Am , That is Not What I Am .

In The International categories, Billie Eilish could just repeat, you take home The Best female prize.

The Star is also accompanied on The First appearance of her ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and a 22-piece orchestra.

Other performances on The Night will come, the Stewart, Harry Styles , Lizzo, Stormzy, Mabel and Rod - who is ' close s of a reunion with the surviving members of The faces to The Show .

soul newcomer, Celeste, who is appearance won the Brits the " Rising Star award, her first live TV, plays the heart-wrenching Strange at the end of a ballad - a moment that could rival Adele's career-changing performance, with the help of Someone Like you in 2011

The Ceremony takes place in London's O2 Arena, with comedian Jack Whitehall hosting for the third Year in a row. It will be live on ITV from 20:00 GMT.

The awards were, with only four women nominated in four categories for both male and female artist, Best group, Best new artist, Best song and album of the Year .

Two of these nominations will go to the same person, pop singer Mabel, while The Remaining two, for Miley Cyrus , and Normani, are a guest-vocalist on songs by Mark Ronson and Sam Smith .

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Source of news: bbc.com