Coldplay Pick Up Best Group, Best Single At Raft Awards

The polls are closed, the votes are counted, and the results are in!

Singer-songwriter KT Tunstall is Queen of The Raft Awards with an historic four wins including Best Female, Best Album’, Best Newcomer, and Best Website. Not bad for an artist who just over a year ago was relatively unknown!

Since her career defining performance on Later With Jools Holland, KT has gone from strength to strength, firstly being nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and now receiving three nominations in the 2006 Brit Awards. Her acclaimed debut album ‘Eye To The Telescope’ has amassed sales of over one million copies in the UK alone.

The undisputed King of Pop, Robbie Williams, proved his staying power taking the Best Male Artist crown while his recent one-off album launch show in Berlin was named Best Live Performance. They are the biggest band in the world so it’s no surprise that Coldplay walked away with Best Group and also Best Single for ‘Fix You’.

Sugababes beat of strong competition Girls Aloud, Westlife and Madonna to be crowned Best Pop Act while the Black Eyed Peas, who have had an exceptional year with their second album ‘Monkey Business’, pipped to the post the likes of Kanye West, 50 Cent, Gorillaz and Lemar to take home the honour of Best Urban Act.

Gorillaz bagged Best Video for ‘Dare’, ‘Lost’ won the battles of the TV shows and the latest installment of the Harry Potter saga, ‘The Goblet Of Fire’, overcame the Force to win Best Film.Check out the full list of winners and runners-up below:

Best Group

Coldplay

Gorillaz

White Stripes

Arcade Fire

Kaiser Chiefs

Male Artist

Robbie Williams

James Blunt

Simon Webbe

Will Young

Lee Ryan

Female Artist

KT Tunstall

Kelly Clarkson

Madonna

Mariah Carey

Kate Bush

Best Urban Act

Black Eyed Peas

Kanye West

Gorillaz

50 cent

Lemar

Best Pop Act

Sugababes

Girls aloud

Westlife

Madonna

Pussycat Dolls

Best Dance Act

Gorillaz

Madonna

Mylo

Prodigy

Basement Jaxx

Best Album

KT Tunstall

Colplay

Lee Ryan

Kaiser Chiefs

Gorillaz

Best Single

Coldplay - Fix you

KT Tunstall - Black Horse and the Cherry Tree

James Blunt - You’re Beautiful

Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot

Gorillaz - Dirty Harry

Best Video

Gorillax - Dare

KT Tunstall - Otherside

Madonna - Hung up

Coldplay - Talk

Gorillax - Feel Good Inc

Best Newcomer

KT Tunstall

James Blunt

Pussycat Dolls

Son of Dork

The Magic Numbers

Best Website

KT Tunstall

Gorillaz

Coldplay

Robbie Williams

Simon Webb

Best Live Performance

Robbie Williams

Coldplay

KT Tunstall

Gorillaz

U2

Best TV Show

Lost

Little Britain

Eastenders

Peep Show

Big Brother

Best Movie

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Star Wars Revenge of the Sith

Batman Begins

King Kong

Sin City

Best Mobile

Nokia

Motorla

Samsung

Sony Eriksson

Orange

Download store

i-tunes

Napster

HMV

Virgin

Woolworths

Everybody who voted in The Raft Awards was automatically entered into our prize draw to win an MP3 player and The Raft’s Top 10 CDs of the year. Congratulations to our winner Chris Garbutt of Colchester who won the MP3 player and CDs, and to our five runners up who each won The Raft’s Top 10 CDs. Chris Risby, London; Hollie King, Middlesex; Christian Lean, Leeds; Geoff Leone, Angus; Helen Davies, Co. Durham.

Source: http://the-raft.com