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UK-signed breakthrough acts Keane, Franz Ferdinand and Scissor Sisters have picked up multiple nominations for this year’s Music Week Awards.

The three groups, whose debut albums all achieved multi-platinum status domestically last year, lead the hopefuls in the event’s shortlists, which were announced last night at an event at London’s Whitfield Street Studios.

Keane claim two mentions across the nine judged shortlists with Island’s Jon Turner and Alex Waldron for best UK marketing campaign, while Universal’s Chris Dwyer and Alex Myers are challenging for best international marketing campaign.

Franz Ferdinand’s two nominations include best marketing campaign, while Mirelle Davis and Caroline Butler and Epic US’s Brian Cellar are shortlisted for the act in the best international marketing campaign category.

Scissor Sisters, who scored last year’s biggest-selling album in the UK, are represented by Polydor’s Sundraj Sreenivasan in the best PR campaign category and by the same label’s Orla Lee for best UK marketing campaign.

The winners of the judged categories and other award winners will be announced at the Music Week Awards ceremony on March 3 at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, but four market share awards were given out at last night’s launch event. The top singles and top albums company prizes were both won by BMG, while UMTV was named as top compilations company and Ministry of Sound best independent label.

The full list of nominations are:

Best Digital Music Service sponsored by Sonopress
AOL Music
Karmadownload.com
Napster
Urban Digital Vending by Inspired Broadcast Networks
Vital PIAS

Best Radio Station sponsored by PPL
Clyde 1
107.6 Juice FM
Kerrang! 105.2
Radio City 96.7
XFM

Best Music Exploitation
Thunderbirds by Busted in the 'Thunderbirds' film
Oh, 2 Be A Speaker by Fatboy Slim in the O2 'Speakers' ad
Stop by Jamelia in the 'Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason' film
You'll Be Under My Wheels by Prodigy in the BMW 1 Series ad
Confusion by The Zutons in the Peugeot 'Shame' ad

Best PR Campaign
Duff Battye of Duff Press for Velvet Revolver
Murray Chalmers of Parlophone for Jamelia
Rachel Hendry of Darling Dept for The Killers
Matthew Rankin of Atlantic Records for Brian Wilson
Sundraj Sreenivasan of Polydor for Scissor Sisters

Best Catalogue Marketing Campaign
Chris Birrell of Demon Music Group for The Very Best of Brazil
Daryl Easlea of Universal Music UK for The Summer of Motown
Emma Greengrass of Big Brother Recordings for Oasis - Definitely Maybe DVD
Danny Keene of Demon Music Group for Ian Dury Re-issues
John Reed of Sanctuary for The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society

Best TV Concept Marketing Campaign
Grainne Devine Gill of Sony BMG for Ultimate Dirty Dancing
Karen Meekings and Eddie Ruffett of UMTV for Pop Party 2
Marium Raja of Def Jam / Mercury for Westwood
Catrin Thomas of EMI Virgin for The Best Worship Songs Ever

Best International Marketing Campaign sponsored by Interoute
Mirelle Davis & Caroline Butler of Domino Records and Brian Cellar of Epic US for Franz Ferdinand
Chris Dwyer and Alex Myers of Universal for Keane
Chris Dwyer and Rob Fleming of Universal for U2
Carole MacDonald and Mike Allen of EMI for Robbie Williams - Greatest Hits
Sian Thomas of Universal for Jamie Cullum

Best UK Marketing Campaign sponsored by Yahoo! Launch
Orla Lee of Polydor for Scissor Sisters
Mark Mitchell of King Harvest and Bart McDonagh of Domino for Franz Ferdinand
Jo Power of Sony BMG for Kasabian
Siona Ryan of Parallel Lines for The Killers
Poppy Stanton of Polydor for Girls Aloud
Jon Turner and Alex Waldron of Island for Keane