The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album released by a musical act from the United...
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up Mercury or mercury in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mercury most commonly refers to: Mercury (planet), the closest planet to the Sun Mercury (element)...
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Eden. In September 2024, the group were announced as winner of the Mercury Music Prize for their debut studio album "This Could Be Texas", released through...
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Lankum (section Mercury Prize)
increased the band's exposure significantly. It was nominated for the Mercury Prize and placed highly on several end-of-year lists. In 2024 the band released...
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Awards, and Grammy Awards. He won the BBC's Sound of... in 2012 and the Mercury Prize in 2020. Michael Samuel Kiwanuka was born in the Muswell Hill area of...
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Ben Howard (section Mercury Prize)
which was released on 30 September 2011. He was nominated for the 2012 Mercury Prize. Howard worked alongside India Bourne, Marcus Wright and Chris Bond...
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Villagers (band) (section Mercury Prize)
the 2010 Mercury Prize and the Choice Music Prize. Their second studio album, {Awayland} was released in 2013. It won the Choice Music Prize that year...
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and her seventh album Song for Our Daughter were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2008, 2010, 2013, and 2020, respectively. Her sixth record, Semper...
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Nubya Garcia and Moses Boyd. They are the recipients of the 2023 Mercury Music Prize. The London based quintet formed in 2012 by brothers Femi Koleoso...
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Car (2022), received nominations for the Ivor Novello Awards and the Mercury Prize in 2023. It received a Best Alternative Music Album nomination at the...
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Audio Vertigo, was released on 22 March 2024. In 2008, Elbow won the Mercury Music Prize for their album The Seldom Seen Kid. In 2009, they won the Brit Award...
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com. 19 April 2016. "BBC Radio 6 Music - Mercury Prize, 2015 - Mercury Prize 2015 shortlist". BBC. "Mercury Prize: Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen and Jorja Smith...
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Damon Albarn (section Mercury Prize)
Express) Egoli (2019) (with Africa Express) The Mercury Prize is a highly prestigious annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom...
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and in September 2012 in the United States, and won the 2012 British Mercury Prize. Sainsbury left the band in early 2014. Their second album, This Is...
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Lisa Hannigan (section Mercury Prize)
"Hannigan makes Mercury prize shortlist". The Irish Times. 21 July 2009. Retrieved 24 July 2009.[permanent dead link] "Barclaycard Mercury Prize 2009: Nominees...
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Year and four Brit Awards. He has also been co-nominated twice for the Mercury Prize and once for the Grammy Awards. He released his debut single, "Screen...
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Great About Britain. The album was nominated for the Mercury Prize; at Slowthai's 2019 Mercury Prize ceremony performance, he held a fake severed head of...
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16th-highest-rated album of all time. The album was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize for 2024 Album of the Year. The cover art and aesthetic became a popular...
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second for NME's best of the year lists among others, and winning the Mercury Prize in 2010. After their debut, Qureshi left the group. Their second album...
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Land? was released on 20 October 2023, being shortlisted for the 2024 Mercury Prize and featuring in numerous critics end of year lists. He was nominated...
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Tear the Heart with Bernard Butler, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Mercury Prize. Buckley was born in December 1989 in Killarney, County Kerry, to Marina...
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Kate Rusby (section Mercury Music Prize)
She is one of the few folk singers to have been nominated for the Mercury Prize. Rusby was born into a family of musicians in 1973 in Penistone, Barnsley...
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(2016) and Grey Area (2019), the last of which was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize and won the awards for Best Album at both the Ivor Novello Awards and...
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including Songwriter of the Year, and has also been nominated twice for the Mercury Prize and Grammy Awards. Matthew Timothy Healy was born on 8 April 1989 in...
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number 30 on the US Billboard 200. It was nominated for that year's Mercury Prize. She then released the EP M3LL155X (2015). Barnett took a four-year...
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runs the record label Speedy Wunderground. In 2014, Carey received two Mercury Prize nominations for his production work on two nominated albums: Everybody...
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presenters on BBC Radio 6 Music, and nominated for the Mercury Prize and the Choice Music Prize. The band's second studio album, A Hero's Death, written...
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M People (section Mercury Prize)
the chart until the following summer and later winning the band a Mercury Music Prize. A further two Top 10 singles followed: "Don't Look Any Further"...
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released four studio albums: Jungle (2014), which was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize, For Ever (2018), Loving in Stereo (2021), and Volcano (2023). The first...
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2003. which received widespread critical acclaim and earned him the Mercury Prize in 2003, eventually being certified platinum by the British Phonographic...
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