Arctic Monkeys lead the nominations for this year's NME Awards.
The rock band are up for eight gongs including - Best British Band, Best Live Band, Best Album, Best Track and Best Music Video - following the success of their fifth studio record 'AM'.

The band - featuring frontman Alex Turner, guitarist Jamie Cook, bassist Nick O'Malley and drummer Matt Helders - are also nominated for Music Moment Of The Year, Hero Of The Year for Alex and Best Fan Community.

Haim - made up of sisters Alana, Danielle and Este Haim and friend Dash Hutton - follow closely behind with six nominations.
They said: ''We are so excited to be nominated for this year's NME Awards! This will be our first time, so please be gentle...''

The pop rock group are up for Best International Band, Best Live Band, Best Music Video, Best Band Blog or Twitter (Alana), Best Fan Community, and Hero Of The Year (Este).
They also posted on the band's Twitter account: ''WE ARE NOMINATED FOR 6 NME AWARDS! THANK YOU FOR VOTING, WE ARE READY TO RAGE! (sic)''

Queens of The Stone Age, Lily Allen and Arcade Fire have three nominations in a number of categories and fans have been voting in their thousands.
The NME Awards 2014, with Austin, Texas, will take place on Wednesday, February 26 at London's O2 Academy in Brixton.

NME editor Mike Williams said: ''The past 12 months of music have had everything - returning legends, era-defining singles, more albums with a claim to be modern classics than any year in recent memory and tons of massive live moments to celebrate.''

Russell Brand also features in both the Hero Of The Year and Villain Of The Year categories, along with Miley Cyrus, Robin Thicke, Harry Styles

David Cameron and Vladimir Putin, who voters disliked.

Vote nme.com/awardsvote to vote for the winners.

NME Awards 2014 with Austin Texas nominations as follows:

Best British Band

Arctic Monkeys
Foals
Palma Violets
Biffy Clyro
Disclosure
Two Door Cinema Club

Best International Band supported by Austin, Texas

Haim
Arcade Fire
Queens Of The Stone Age
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Phoenix
Vampire Weekend

Best Solo Artist

Lorde
Lily Allen
Jake Bugg
Paul McCartney
Kanye West
David Bowie

Best New Band supported by Mossimo

Drenge
Swim Deep
Chvrches
Jagwar Ma
Wolf Alice
Courtney Barnett

Best Live Band

Arctic Monkeys
Palma Violets
Biffy Clyro
Haim
Queens Of The Stone Age
Savages

Best Album

Arctic Monkeys - 'AM'
QOTSA, '...Like Clockwork'
Peace, 'In Love'
Kanye West, 'Yeezus'
Savages, 'Silence Yourself'
Drenge, 'Drenge'

Best Track supported by Blackstar Amplification

Arctic Monkeys, 'Do I Wanna Know?'
Lily Allen, 'Hard Out Here'
Disclosure, 'White Noise'
Arcade Fire, 'Reflektor'
Primal Scream, '2013'
Daft Punk, 'Get Lucky'

Best Music Video

Arctic Monkeys, 'Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?'
Pharell, 'Happy'
Arcade Fire, 'Reflektor'
Lily Allen, 'Hard Out Here'
Eagulls, 'Nerve Endings'
Haim, 'Falling'

Best Festival

Glastonbury
Reading & Leeds
T In The Park
Latitude
Bestival
V Festival

Best TV Show

Breaking Bad
Fresh Meat
Sherlock
Game Of Thrones
Misfits
Doctor Who

Best Music Film

Muscle Shoals
Made Of Stone
Sound City
The National: Mistaken For Strangers
Good Vibrations
Muse

Best Reissue

Nirvana, 'In Utero: 20th Anniversary Edition'
The Clash, 'Sound System'
The Beta Band, 'The Regal Years: 1997-2004'
The Breeders, 'LSXX (Last Splash 20th Anniversary Edition)'
Bob Dylan, 'Bootleg Series, Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969-1971)'
The Velvet Underground, 'White Light/White Heat 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition'

Best Band Blog Or Twitter

Jehnny Beth, Savages
Albert Hammond Jr
Alana Haim, Haim
James Blunt
Theo Hutchcraft, Hurts
Grimes

Best Book

Morrissey, Autobiography
Alan McGee, Creation Stories
Bob Stanley, Yeah Yeah Yeah
Mark Lewisohn, The Beatles - All These Years: Volume One: Tune In
Beck, Song Reader
Richard Hell, I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp

Best Small Festival

Rockness
Y Not
Kendall Calling
Swn
Green Man
Festival Number 6

Best Fan Community

Hurts
Haim
Arctic Monkeys
Muse
Peace
Morrissey

Music Moment Of The Year

Pussy Riot are freed
Arctic Monkeys headline Glastonbury
Noel and Damon come together for Teenage Cancer Trust
Rolling Stones headline Glastonbury
Morrissey's autobiography is released
Kanye West brings Jesus on stage

Worst Band

One Direction
The Wanted
The 1975
Imagine Dragons
30 Seconds To Mars
Muse

Hero Of The Year

Alex Turner
David Bowie
Este Haim
Russell Brand
Pussy Riot
Lou Reed

Villain Of The Year

Miley Cyrus
Robin Thicke
Harry Styles
David Cameron
Vladimir Putin
Russell Brand