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 Kingdom or Ireland.[1] It was created by Jon Webster and Robert Chandler in association with the British Phonographic Industry and British Association of Record Dealers in 1992 as an alternative to the Brit Awards.
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The MercuryPrize, 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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he won the BBC's Sound of 2012; and, in September 2020, he won the MercuryPrize. Born and raised in Muswell Hill, London, Kiwanuka is the son of Michael...
which was released on 3 October 2011. He was nominated for the 2012 MercuryPrize. Howard worked alongside India Bourne, Marcus Wright and Chris Bond...
increased the band's exposure significantly. It was nominated for the MercuryPrize and placed highly on several end-of-year lists. Leaving school at the...
Express) Egoli (2019) (with Africa Express) The MercuryPrize is a highly prestigious annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom...
com. 19 April 2016. "BBC Radio 6 Music - MercuryPrize, 2015 - MercuryPrize 2015 shortlist". BBC. "MercuryPrize: Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen and Jorja Smith...
in 2022 and received nominations for the Ivor Novello Awards and the MercuryPrize in 2023. It received a Best Alternative Music Album nomination at the...
Great About Britain. The album was nominated for the MercuryPrize; at Slowthai's 2019 MercuryPrize ceremony performance, he held a fake severed head of...
including Songwriter of the Year, and has also been nominated twice for the MercuryPrize and Grammy Awards. Matthew Timothy Healy was born on 8 April 1989 in...
2009. "Hannigan makes Mercuryprize shortlist". The Irish Times. 21 July 2009. Retrieved 24 July 2009. "Barclaycard MercuryPrize 2009: Nominees announced"...
Process, was released on 3 February 2017 by Young and won the 2017 MercuryPrize. His second album, Lahai, was released on 20 October 2023. Sampha was...
Nubya Garcia and Moses Boyd. They are the recipients of the 2023 Mercury Music Prize. The members of Ezra Collective met at the jazz programme Tomorrow's...
Songwriter of the Year. He has also been co-nominated twice for the MercuryPrize, and once for the Grammy Awards. George Bedford Daniel was born in Brussels...
(2016) and Grey Area (2019), the last of which was shortlisted for the MercuryPrize and won the awards for Best Album at both the Ivor Novello Awards and...
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...
number 30 on the US Billboard 200. It was nominated for that year's MercuryPrize. She released the EP M3LL155X (2015) and took a four-year hiatus, after...
Me" and "Shutdown". The album, which was widely acclaimed, won the MercuryPrize. In 2018, he produced and was featured on American rapper ASAP Rocky's...
second for NME's best of the year lists among others, and winning the MercuryPrize in 2010. After their debut, Qureshi left the group and their second...
album in four years, Skinty Fia was the band's first to not receive a MercuryPrize nomination, though it again was well received by critics. Chatten launched...
awarded the prize twice. She has also garnered eight Brit Award nominations, eight Grammy Award nominations and two further MercuryPrize nominations...