Benedict XVI was nominated on Monday to one of the Classical Brit Awards are delivered on 13 May. The voice of the Holy Father is included in the album Alma Mater. Music from the Vatican, an album that rivals none other than the Record of the Year award, which decides the audience through their votes.

The nomination of the Pope becomes important when one considers that competes in a category that includes the 10 best-selling albums of 2009. La The peculiarity is that it is the public should choose the winners from among the ten best-selling albums over the last year.

Among them Male Voice, Only Men Aloud, Camilla Kerslake,The Priests, Blake, Howard Goodall, The Coldstream Guards and Faryl Smith, 14-year-old star of Britain's Got Talent, also nominated for the prize to Best Young Artist of classical music.

Nominations are also two Antonio Pappano, conductor and music director of the Royal Opera, and composer Howard Goodall.