Sam Smith, Charli XCX and Taylor Swift nominated for mtvU Woodie Awards

The nominees for this year's mtvU Woodie Awards have now been announced.

The 2015 Woodies will air live from SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas on March 20 and some of music's hottest acts are up for prizes including Artist of the Year, Best Cover Song and Video of the Year.

British singer Sam Smith has been recognised in the Artist of the Year and Best Cover Song categories, Charli XCX is up for the exact same two trophies, and 'Style' beauty Taylor Swift has been nominated for Best Cover Song after treating Live Lounge listeners to a rendition of Vance Joy's 'Riptide'. Beyoncé is up for the Video of the Year prize for her '7/11' offering, Lorde has been nominated for Best Cover Song, and 'Elastic Heart' superstar Sia is in the running for the Next Level Performance gong.

Check out the full list of nominees below:

Woodie Of The Year (Artist of the Year)
J. Cole
Sam Smith
Charli XCX
Run the Jewels
Porter Robinson
FKA twigs

Artist to Watch Woodie (Best Emerging Artist)
Years & Years
Rae Sremmurd
Raury
MisterWives
Kygo
James Bay

Best Video Woodie (Best Video of the Year)
FKA twigs – “Pendulum”
Childish Gambino – “Sober”
Beyoncé – “7/11”
Flying Lotus featuring Kendrick Lamar – “Never Catch Me”
Bad Suns – “Salt”
Vic Mensa – “Down On My Luck”

Cover Woodie (Best Cover Song)
Ed Sheeran, Sia, and Grouplove covering Beyoncé – “Drunk In Love”
Kiesza covering Hozier – “Take Me To Church”
Lorde covering Jeremih – “Don’t Tell Em”
Charli XCX covering Taylor Swift – “Shake It Off”
Taylor Swift covering Vance Joy – “Riptide”
Sam Smith covering Whitney Houston – “How Will I Know”

Next Level Performance Woodie (Finding New Ways to Reach Audiences)
Drake and Lil Wayne – created an app that allowed the audience to decide who performed first on their joint tour.
Childish Gambino – created an app that allowed users to display messages onto his tour stage.
Big Data – used social media during their performances to acknowledge specific audience members in real time in front of the entire crowd.
Sia – performed in several TV appearances without showing her face by utilising performance artists and actors to serve as a proxy for her.
Skrillex – performed Bonnaroo SuperJam session fusing EDM and live instrumentation with numerous surprise guests.

Co-Sign Woodie (Best Collaboration Between Artists)
Alesso featuring Tove Lo – “Heroes (We Could Be)”
Hoodie Allen featuring Ed Sheeran – “All About It”
Jack Ü featuring Kiesza – “Take Ü”
Fences featuring Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – “Arrows”
iLoveMakonnen featuring Drake – “Tuesday”
Eminem featuring Dej Loaf – “Detroit vs. Everybody”

Watch Taylor Swift covering 'Riptide' here: