Adele, Emeli Sande and Ben Howard accept been honoured at this year's Brit Awards commemoration at London's O2 Arena.
Sande won best British changeable and British album, while Howard biconcave best British macho and breakthrough.
Adele won best individual for her James Bond affair Skyfall - but she was not at the event, instead allotment to rehearse for the Oscars in Los Angeles.
She beatific a video bulletin apropos to endure year's ceremony, if her best anthology accepting accent was cut short.
"Thank you so abundant for this Brit Award, it agency a lot," she said.
"Sorry I can't be with you tonight, I'm in LA call for the Oscars. I will not accumulate you too continued because I don't wish to arrest the best anthology accent at the end of the night. But I adulation you all."
Sande had gone into the accident with four nominations in total, including two in the best individual category. Her celebration in the best British changeable class meant there was no following win for Amy Winehouse.
Accepting the best anthology statuette, Sande batten of herself as "a actual absurd pop star".
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| Adele sent her acceptance speech via video from Los Angeles |
"This is an anthology I wrote because I didn't accept the aplomb to say these things in person," she told the crowd.
Sande's admission anthology Our Version Of Events was the a lot of accepted anthology of 2012 in the UK, affairs 1.4 actor copies.
Their win came 10 canicule afterwards the group's LP Babel took the anthology of the year bays at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The almanac has now gone aback to amount one in the US.
Singer-songwriter Ben Howard was a abruptness champ of best British breakthrough, assault the bookmakers' favourite Rita Ora.
Coldplay won best British reside act, assault The Rolling Stones, who were nominated 35 years afterwards they were shortlisted for the aboriginal anytime Brit Awards.
In the all-embracing categories, the Black Keys won best group, Frank Ocean was called best macho and Lana Del Rey best up best female.
A appropriate acceptance accolade went to the alms War Child, while there was a "global success award" for boy bandage One Direction in acceptance of their hit cachet overseas.
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| Ben Howard took the awards for best British male and British breakthrough |
The five-piece acclimated the commemoration to accord the aboriginal reside arrangement of their Comic Relief single, a assortment of Blondie's One Way Or Another and The Undertones' Teenage Kicks.
The night's added performers included Robbie Williams, Muse, Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake.
Comedian James Corden alternate as host this year and acclimated his aperture accepted to accomplish ablaze of acid abbreviate Adele's accent in 2012.
"That never happens here. Not on my watch. Not any more," he joked.
The winners all accustomed a bays advised by the artisan Damien Hirst.
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