Michael Bublé is to host the 2017 Brit Awards, the U.K.'s biggest awards show, due to take place at London's O2 Arena on February 22. He replaces British TV personalities Ant and Dec, who have hosted the event for the past two years.
A British TV audience of almost 6 million tuned in to watch the two-hour show, which saw nearly 7.5 million tweets sent, with Adele's acceptance of the global success award generating a peak of 55,000 tweets per minute. The global success prize was one of four awards that Adele won the night, alongside British female artist, British single and album of the year. Other winners included James Bay, Coldplay, Tame Impala, Bieber, Bjork and One Direction.
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Nominations for this year's awards will be announced on Jan. 14 and for the first time will be broadcast in a primetime slot on commercial TV station ITV.
