It is not just a US phenomenon - new urban stars have won the UK's Mercury Music Prize for the best album of the year for the last two years, while even Prince Charles is getting in on the act, hosting an urban music festival in May.

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Ocean is nominated for six awards at the February 10 show, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Urban Contemporary Album, where his competition includes none other than Brown.

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The award, traditionally presented by broadcaster Jools Holland, celebrates the best British or Irish album of the year.

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Capone five nominations included two nods for record of the year - for Rita's A Festa and Skank's Dois Rios - producer of the year, album of the year and best engineered album.

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Sanz received nominations for best overall album and best male pop vocal album for No Es Lo Mismo and song of the year and record of the year for the album's title track.

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Fiesta should not only be considered the Best Classical Album, but also the Album and Record of the Year.

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The Scottish singer's Our Version of Events was the best-selling album in the UK last year.

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Fellow tenor Rolando Villazon is up for two awards on Thursday in the album of the year and best male artist categories.

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In the year their debut album came out, they topped NME magazine's readers' poll in four categories - best new band, band of the year, album of the year and single of the year, for Fools Gold.

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The woman whose latest album (after 30 years in the business) was among the top 10 best selling albums of the year (Madonna) is not on this list.

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