The 2026 BRIT Awards aired today, February 28, from its new venue, Manchester’s Co-op Live Arena. Performers at the ceremony, which was hosted by comedian Jack Whitehall for the sixth year running, included Harry Styles, Rosalía, Olivia Dean, and Raye. Below, watch footage of each performance.

Dean was the big winner at this year’s BRITs, taking home four trophies including Artist of the Year and Album of the Year. Prior to the ceremony, PinkPantheress was named the BRIT Awards’ 2026 Producer of the Year, making her the youngest artist and first woman to receive the honor. Check out the full list of winners here.

Alex Warren
Introducing the “extraordinary” Alex Warren, Whitehall made a point of contextualizing just how everywhere the singer’s hit “Ordinary” has been this year: 30 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, over 2 billion streams, the U.K.’s longest-running No. 1 hit in a decade, etc. “Ordinary” may be pretty well-worn to the average pop-radio listener, but Warren still did his part attempting to make the ballad a spectacle. Joining Rosalía in the camp of BRITS performers who brought their own full symphonies from home, he belted TikTok’s favorite love song into a standing mic at center stage, while James Blunt accompanied him on grand piano. Warren closed out his number by thanking his beautiful wife; chivalry prevails!

Ejae, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami
The trio of voices behind KPop Demon Hunters brought their inescapable song “Golden” to the BRITs, which every child in your life likely knows every word to. Plenty of kids screamed and threw up heart signs in the crowd as Ejae, Nuna, and Ami hit the chorus’ high note. They may have lost International Song of the Year to Bruno Mars and Rosé’s “APT” at the BRITs, but these three have more awards season ground to cover—“Golden” stands to win an Academy Award at next Sunday’s Oscars.

Harry Styles
Harry Styles opened the BRITS with his first-ever live performance of “Aperture,” the lead single off Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. Wearing high-waisted pinstripe pants, a dress shirt, and a tie, he performed the slow-burn electropop tune backed by a crew of dancers in jeans, black graphic t-shirts, and sunglasses. As the electro-pop tune built into a big hook, Styles was joined by a choir and live band. The performance closed with Styles and his dancers own version of a cool-down ritual: neck rolls, shoulder shakes, and jazz hands.

Although Styles wasn’t up for any BRITs this year, he popped up multiple times throughout the broadcast. Ahead of the show, host Jack Whitehall portrayed a Styles fan starved for new music who, upon encountering the star’s dressing room at the BRITS, shed a single tear of joy and relief. Later on, Whitehall also had to fend off a male pursuer modeled after the one in Styles’ “Aperture” music video.

Mark Ronson
After a precorded montage with testimonies from Christina Aguilera, Q-Tip, and more sung Mark Ronson’s praises, the Outstanding Contribution to Music winner offered up a montage of his biggest hits over the past few decades. He kicked off the show situated between vinyl decks and crates of his records, performing a section of “Ooh Wee” with Ghostface Killah before transferring to a piano to accompany a recording of Amy Winehouse’s “Back To Black. Earlier, during his acceptance speech, he had mused on writing the track with Winehouse, and expressed gratitude for the trajectory it sent his career on. “The music I made with Amy is the reason that any [other artists] know who I am anyway,” Ronson said. “I always treasure her voice, her talent and our bond, all of it.”

Later in his centerpiece set, Ronson brought out the Dap-Kings to perform “Valerie” and “Uptown Funk.” Dua Lipa also managed to fit an appearance into her ever-packed travel schedule. Clad in a fur coat and perched atop a massive disco ball, she performed a medley of Barbie: The Album’s “Dance the Night Away” and “Electricity” before coming to a resting place atop Ronson’s piano, martini in hand.

Olivia Dean
Recently Grammy-minted singer and BRIT School alum Olivia Dean’s performance had all the sparkle of a good hometown show. Strutting and belting in front of a large pink sequined wall that read “Loving,” The Art Of Loving singer ran through her hit “Man I Need,” backed by a band with a three-horn brass outfit. By the time Dean took the stage, she and Sam Fender had already clinched the 2026 Song of the Year award for their duet “Rein Me In;” she went on to secure Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best Pop Act in a true diva sweep.

Raye
With two backup singers, a full string section, and a characteristically coiffed bob, Raye laid down a slowed rendition of “Where Is My Husband!” that faded into the live debut of her new single “Nightingale Lane.” Even the swelling accompaniment couldn’t overshadow her powerful-as-usual vocals, which she put to the test on a closing elongated note. Both songs appear on her forthcoming album This Music May Contain Hope, which lands on March 27. Raye was up for Best Pop Act and Song of the Year this BRITs cycle—she won Song of the Year back in 2024 for her track “Escapism” with 070 Shake.

Rosalía
For the BRITS debut of her LUX lead single “Berghain,” Rosalía brought a bespoke version of the vaunted Berlin club to the stage, complete with an orchestra and operatic choir. Even Björk made a rare live appearance to deliver her verse, before the stage descended into full rave mode as heavy hard techno bass pulsated from all directions. All in all, it made for an extremely promising preview of Rosalía’s LUX world tour, which kicks off on June 4th. As host Jack Whitehall noted of the performance: “That was epic..that was like every genre of music in once song.”

Wolf Alice
Wolf Alice lead singer Ellie Rowsell performed the band’s song “The Sofa” from a fitting location: a couch at the center of a set designed to resemble a 1970s living room. As the song continued, dancres crawled out from between the couch cushions and followed Rowsell away from her bandmates, lifting her into their arms before. The band’s performance followed their win for Group of the Year; during her speech, Rowsell shouted out the grassroots music venues the band came up playing in.

Sombr
Sporting a pink metallic suit and a skinny scarf, Sombr helped bring the 2026 BRITs home with two slightly deeper cuts from his debut album I Barely Know Her— in other words, two songs that are not “12 To 12.” He opened with “Undressed,” which was up for International Song of the Year, nearly finishing the track before a man dressed in a “Sombr Is A Homewrecker” t-shirt strongarmed him offstage and into his next number. (A rep later confirmed the whole ordeal was staged.) A backdrop of streamers fell to reveal a wall of spotlights, illuminating the lanky singer as he got right into “Back to Friends.”