Adele, Rihanna Take Home Brit Awards

On Tuesday (February 21), some of a biggest names in a song business headed to London’s O2 Arena for a 2012 Brit Awards, where Adele, Rihanna and Bruno Mars were among a stars who took home prizes.

Grammy leader Adele combined to her endowment collection by nabbing dual Brits, including British Female Solo Artist and a night’s large prize, Mastercard British Album of a Year, for 21. And on Wednesday, a U.K. thespian will applaud a one-year anniversary of her chart-topping 21.

“It’s been an extraordinary year,” she told a room as she supposed a Female Solo Artist prize. She afterwards joked to presenter Kylie Minogue, “I feel like a drag black subsequent to you,” before thanking her record tag for “for vouchsafing me be a kind of artist we wish to be.”

There were also live performances from Florence and a Machine, Coldplay, Bruno Mars, Rihanna and, of course, Adele, who sang “Rolling in a Deep” only a small over a week given her Grammy performance.

Meanwhile, only as One Direction seems staid for a U.S. takeover a U.K. child rope nabbed a British Single endowment for their lane “What Makes You Beautiful,” that was expelled in a States final week.

Rihanna and Bruno Mars won International Female Solo Artist and International Male Solo Artist, respectively. “[Thanks to] all my fans who continue to support me no matter what,” pronounced Rihanna, who done headlines on Tuesday (February 21) by adding Chris Brown to her “Birthday Cake” remix.

Coldplay took home a British Group esteem for a third time. On a other finish of a spectrum, Grammy winners a Foo Fighters kick out folks like Jay-Z and Kanye West (a.k.a. a Throne), Lady Antebellum and Maroon 5 to win International Group. Lana Del Rey won a International Breakthrough Act award, only weeks after she forsaken her debut, Born to Die.

Other awards enclosed Outstanding Contribution Award for Blur, a Critics Choice Award for Emeli Sande and British Male Solo Artist for singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran, who also took British Breakthrough Act.