page_title: Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music
section_title: Contemporary winners
hierarchical_section_title: Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music / Contemporary winners
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Paul McCartney in Arnhem, playing his customised Les Paul Guitar painted by Rosie Brooks at the GelreDome.
context_page_description: The Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music was the Lifetime Achievement award given by the British Phonographic Industry, an organisation which represents record companies and artists in the United Kingdom. The accolade is presented at the Brit Awards, an annual celebration of British and international music. The honourees are determined by the Brit Awards voting academy with over one-thousand members, which comprise record labels, publishers, managers, agents, media, and previous winners and nominees. The award was first presented in 1977 and was subsequently awarded annually from 1982 to 2010. The award has since been presented intermittently as the BRIT's Icon Award, with the original name being re-instated at the 2019 Brit Awards ceremony. Since 2000, the Classic BRIT Awards have also annually presented their own Outstanding Contribution to Music Award. The award was retired following the 2019 Brit Awards.
  Paul McCartney and John Lennon are the artists with the most wins with three awards.
caption: Paul McCartney received the award in 1977, 1983 and 2008
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