Florence And The Machine leads MOJO Honour's List Nominees

This time last year her debut album, Lungs, hadn't been released. Since then Florence Welch has enjoyed a meteoric rise and clearly made her mark among MOJO readers as she scooped four nominations when the shortlists for this year's MOJO Honours List were unveiled last night. No other act in the seven-year history of the MOJO Honours List has ever been nominated in four voted-for categories.

Florence And The Machine are nominated in the MOJO Best Album category (sponsored by Ford Transit) for Lungs, MOJO Breakthrough Act, MOJO Best Live Act (sponsored by Red Stripe) and MOJO Song Of The Year for You've Got The Love.

Elsewhere, Kasabian are nominated three times for MOJO Song Of The Year (Fire), MOJO Best Album (sponsored by Ford Transit) for West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, and MOJO Best Live Act (sponsored by Red Stripe), while Sheffield's Arctic Monkeys are nominated in the latter category as well as in MOJO Song Of The Year for Crying Lightning. Fellow Steel City hero Richard Hawley receives two nominations in the MOJO Song Of The Year category (Open Up Your Door) and the MOJO Best Album category (sponsored by Ford Transit) for Truelove's Gutter.

The full list of nominees reads as follows:

MOJO BEST ALBUM
(sponsored by Ford Transit)

Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (Columbia)
Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter (Mute)
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (Drag City)
Florence And The Machine - Lungs (Island)
Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation (Island)

MOJO BREAKTHROUGH ACT

The Jim Jones Revue
John Grant
Florence And The Machine
The Low Anthem
Mumford And Sons

MOJO BEST COMPILATION

A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind - Volume 2: Pagan Love Vibrations Compiled And Mixed By The Amorphous Androgynous (Platipus Records)
Can You Dig It? The Music And Politics Of Black Action Films 1968-1975 (Soul Jazz)
Where The Action Is: Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 (Rhino)
Charlie Gillett's Radio Picks From Honky Tonk (Ace)
Island Records Reggae Box Set - War Ina Babylon (Universal Music Catalogue)

MOJO BEST LIVE ACT
(sponsored by Red Stripe)

Kasabian
Midlake
Rufus Wainwright
Arctic Monkeys
Florence And The Machine

MOJO SONG OF THE YEAR

Richard Hawley - Open Up Your Door (Mute)
Florence And The Machine - You've Got The Love (Island)
Kasabian - Fire (Columbia)
Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning (Domino)
Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name (Sony)

In addition to these contemporary categories the MOJO Honours List will also include a host of merit awards bestowed by the magazine itself. These will include The MOJO Inspiration Award (sponsored by HMV), The MOJO Les Paul Award (sponsored by Gibson), The MOJO Hall Of Fame award (sponsored by Universal Music Catalogue) and the MOJO Catalogue Release Of The Year (sponsored by HMV).