The Ivors announce 2025 award winners including Charli XCX, Lola Young and BERWYN

The winners of The Ivors have been announced! The awards, which celebrate this year’s best achievements in songwriting and screen composition, have revealed that iconic artists such as Charli xcx, Lola Young and BERWYN are among the 2025 winners.

The 70th ceremony - which took place at Grosvenor House, London - saw ‘BRAT”s Charli xcx honoured with the Songwriter of the Year Award for her work on the aforementioned hit album. Meanwhile, Lola Young was chosen for the Rising Star Award with Amazon Music, owing to her successful single ‘Messy’, and BERWYN scooped his first Ivor for 2024’s ‘WHO AM I’, which was named Best Album.

During the evening, Robbie Williams was honoured with the PRS for Music Icon award, while U2 were presented with a fellowship of the Academy by Ed Sheeran. Brandon Flowers was also given the Special International Award, which was presented to him by Fellow of The Ivors Academy, Bruce Springsteen.

Other winners included the likes of Orla Gartland (who won Best Song Musically and Lyrically for ‘Mine’), Self Esteem (who won the Visionary Award with Amazon Music), and Sans Soucis (who scooped up Best Contemporary Song for their track ‘Circumnavigating Georgia’).

You can find the full list of 2025 winners here:

BEST ALBUM
‘WHO AM I’ written and performed by BERWYN music published in the UK by Sony Music Publishing

BEST CONTEMPORARY SONG
‘CIRCUMNAVIGATING GEORGIA’ written and performed by Sans Soucis music published in the UK by Sentric Music

BEST SONG MUSICALLY AND LYRICALLY
‘MINE’ written and performed by Orla Gartland music published in the UK by San Remo Live-Kobalt Music Publishing

PRS FOR MUSIC MOST PERFORMED WORK
‘STARGAZING’ written by Peter Fenn, Jesse Fink and Myles Smith music published in the UK by Kobalt Music Publishing obo Songs by 308 Publishing-Where Da Kasz At, Lyric Global Copyright Services Crescendo obo Arcade Artists Publishing-Jesse Fink Publishing-Spirit One Music Crescendo and Sony Music Publishing performed by Myles Smith

RISING STAR AWARD WITH AMAZON MUSIC
LOLA YOUNG

BEST ORIGINAL FILM SCORE
‘THE SUBSTANCE’ composed by Raffertie music published in the UK by Universal Music Publishing obo Universal Pictures Music

BEST ORIGINAL VIDEO GAME SCORE
‘FAREWELL NORTH’ composed by John Konsolakis

BEST TELEVISION SOUNDTRACK
‘TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY’ composed by Vince Pope music published in the UK by Universal Music Publishing obo T-L Music Publishing

ACADEMY FELLOWSHIP
Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. for U2

OUTSTANDING SONG COLLECTION
Kele Okereke, Russell Lissack, Gordon Moakes and Matt Tong for BLOC PARTY

PRS FOR MUSIC ICON AWARD
ROBBIE WILLIAMS

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR with AMAZON MUSIC
CHARLI XCX

SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL AWARD
BRANDON FLOWERS

VISIONARY AWARD with AMAZON MUSIC
SELF ESTEEM

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