Mercury Prize

The **Mercury Prize**, called the **Barclaycard Mercury Prize** for sponsorship reasons, is a yearly music prize.  It is awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was formed by the British Phonographic Industry and British Association of Record Dealers in 1992.  It was an alternative to the Brit Awards. It used to be called the **Mercury Music Prize**.

The prize was first sponsored by Mercury Communications. It was later sponsored by Technics, from 1998 to 2001.  Then Panasonic, in 2002 and 2003, and the Nationwide Building Society, from 2004 to 2008.  Barclaycard became the Prize's current sponsor in March 2009.

Nominations are announced in July. Presentation of the award usually takes place in September.

## Winners and shortlisted nominees

|Year|Winner|class="unsortable"|Shortlisted nominees|class="unsortable"|Ref(s)|
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|align="center"|1992|Primal Scream – _Screamadelica_|*Barry Adamson – _Soul Murder_ *Jah Wobble – _Rising Above Bedlam_ *The Jesus and Mary Chain – _Honey's Dead_ *Bheki Mseleku – _Celebration_ *Saint Etienne – _Foxbase Alpha_ *Simply Red – _Stars_ *U2 – _Achtung Baby_ *John Tavener & Steven Isserlis –_The Protecting Veil_ *Young Disciples – _Road to Freedom_|align="center"||
|align="center"|1993|Suede – _Suede_|*Apache Indian – _No Reservations_ *The Auteurs – _New Wave_ *Gavin Bryars – _Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet_ *Dina Carroll – _So Close_ *PJ Harvey – _Rid of Me_ *New Order – _Republic_ *Stereo MCs – _Connected_ *Sting – _Ten Summoner's Tales_ *Stan Tracey – _Portraits Plus_|align="center"||
|align="center"|1994|M People – _Elegant Slumming_|*Blur – _Parklife_ *Ian McNabb – _Head Like a Rock_ *Shara Nelson – _What Silence Knows_ *Michael Nyman – _The Piano Concerto/MGV_ *The Prodigy – _Music for the Jilted Generation_ *Pulp – _His 'n' Hers_ *Take That – _Everything Changes_ *Therapy? – _Troublegum_ *Paul Weller – _Wild Wood_|align="center"||
|align="center"|1995|Portishead – _Dummy_|*Guy Barker – _Into the Blue_ *Elastica – _Elastica_ *PJ Harvey – _To Bring You My Love_ *Leftfield – _Leftism_ *James MacMillan – _Seven Last Words from the Cross_ *Van Morrison – _Days Like This_ *Oasis – _Definitely Maybe_ *Supergrass – _I Should Coco_ *Tricky – _Maxinquaye_|align="center"||
|align="center"|1996|Pulp – _Different Class_|*Artists for War Child – _Help_ *Black Grape – _It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah_ *Peter Maxwell Davies/BBC Philharmonic – _The Beltane Fire / Caroline Mathilde_ *Manic Street Preachers – _Everything Must Go_ *Mark Morrison – _Return of the Mack_ *Oasis – _(What's the Story) Morning Glory?_ *Courtney Pine – _Modern Day Jazz Stories_ *Underworld – _Second Toughest in the Infants_ *Norma Waterson – _Norma Waterson_|align="center"||
|align="center"|1997|Roni Size/Reprazent – _New Forms_|*The Chemical Brothers – _Dig Your Own Hole_ *Beth Orton – _Trailer Park_ *Primal Scream – _Vanishing Point_ *The Prodigy – _The Fat of the Land_ *Radiohead – _OK Computer_ *Spice Girls – _Spice_ *Suede – _Coming Up_ *John Tavener – _Svyati_ *Mark-Anthony Turnage – _Your Rockaby_|align="center"||
|align="center"|1998|Gomez – _Bring It On_|*4hero – _Two Pages_ *Asian Dub Foundation – _Rafi's Revenge_ *Eliza Carthy – _Red Rice_ *Catatonia – _International Velvet_ *Cornershop – _When I Was Born for the 7th Time_ *Massive Attack – _Mezzanine_ *Propellerheads – _Decksandrumsandrockandroll_ *Pulp – _This Is Hardcore_ *John Surman – _Proverbs & Songs_ *The Verve – _Urban Hymns_ *Robbie Williams – _Life thru a Lens_|align="center"||
|align="center"|1999|Talvin Singh – _Ok_|*Thomas Adès – _Asyla_ *Denys Baptiste – _Be Where You Are_ *Black Star Liner – _Bengali Bantam Youth Experience!_ *Blur – _13_ *The Chemical Brothers – _Surrender_ *Faithless – _Sunday 8PM_ *Manic Street Preachers – _This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours_ *Beth Orton – _Central Reservation_ *Kate Rusby – _Sleepless_ *Stereophonics – _Performance and Cocktails_ *Underworld – _Beaucoup Fish_|align="center"||
|align="center"|2000|Badly Drawn Boy – _The Hour of Bewilderbeast_|*Richard Ashcroft – _Alone with Everybody_ *Coldplay – _Parachutes_ *M. J. Cole – _Sincere_ *Death in Vegas – _The Contino Sessions_ *The Delgados – _The Great Eastern_ *Doves – _Lost Souls_ *Helicopter Girl – _How to Steal the World_ *Leftfield – _Rhythm and Stealth_ *Nicholas Maw – _Violin Concerto_ *Nitin Sawhney – _Beyond Skin_ *Kathryn Williams – _Little Black Numbers_|align="center"||
|align="center"|2001|PJ Harvey – _Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea_|*Basement Jaxx – _Rooty_ *Elbow – _Asleep in the Back_ *Goldfrapp – _Felt Mountain_ *Gorillaz – _Gorillaz_ (nomination withdrawn at the request of the band) *Ed Harcourt – _Here Be Monsters_ *Tom McRae – _Tom McRae_ *Radiohead – _Amnesiac_ *Susheela Raman – _Salt Rain_ *Super Furry Animals – _Rings Around the World_ *Turin Brakes – _The Optimist LP_ *Zero 7 – _Simple Things_|align="center"||
|align="center"|2002|Ms. Dynamite – _A Little Deeper_|*Guy Barker – _Soundtrack_ *The Bees – _Sunshine Hit Me_ *David Bowie – _Heathen_ *The Coral –  _The Coral_ *Doves – _The Last Broadcast_ *The Electric Soft Parade – _Holes in the Wall_ *Gemma Hayes – _Night on My Side_ *Beverley Knight – _Who I Am_ *Roots Manuva – _Run Come Save Me_ *Joanna MacGregor – _Play_ *The Streets – _Original Pirate Material_|align="center"||
|align="center"|2003|Dizzee Rascal – _Boy in da Corner_|*Athlete – _Vehicles and Animals_ *Eliza Carthy – _Anglicana_ *Coldplay – _A Rush of Blood to the Head_ *The Darkness – _Permission to Land_ *Floetry – _Floetic_ *Soweto Kinch – _Conversations with the Unseen_ *Lemon Jelly – _Lost Horizons_ *The Thrills – _So Much for the City_ *Martina Topley-Bird – _Quixotic_ *Radiohead – _Hail to the Thief_ *Terri Walker – _Untitled_|align="center"||
|align="center"|2004|Franz Ferdinand – _Franz Ferdinand_|*Basement Jaxx – _Kish Kash_ *Belle & Sebastian – _Dear Catastrophe Waitress_ *Jamelia – _Thank You_ *Keane – _Hopes and Fears_ *Snow Patrol – _Final Straw_ *Joss Stone – _The Soul Sessions_ *The Streets – _A Grand Don't Come for Free_ *Ty – _Upwards_ *Amy Winehouse – _Frank_ *Robert Wyatt – _Cuckooland_ *The Zutons – _Who Killed...... The Zutons?_|align="center"||
|align="center"|2005|Antony and the Johnsons – _I Am a Bird Now_|*Bloc Party – _Silent Alarm_ *Coldplay – _X&Y_ *Hard-Fi – _Stars of CCTV_ *Kaiser Chiefs – _Employment_ *KT Tunstall – _Eye to the Telescope_ *M.I.A. – _Arular_ *Maxïmo Park – _A Certain Trigger_ *Polar Bear – _Held on the Tips of Fingers_ *Seth Lakeman – _Kitty Jay_ *The Go! Team – _Thunder, Lightning, Strike_ *The Magic Numbers – _The Magic Numbers_|align="center"||
|align="center"|2006|Arctic Monkeys – _Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not_|*Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – _Ballad of the Broken Seas_ *Editors – _The Back Room_ *Guillemots – _Through the Windowpane_ *Richard Hawley – _Coles Corner_ *Hot Chip – _The Warning_ *Muse – _Black Holes & Revelations_ *Zoe Rahman – _Melting Pot_ *Lou Rhodes – _Beloved One_ *Scritti Politti – _White Bread Black Beer_ *Sway – _This Is My Demo_ *Thom Yorke – _The Eraser_|align="center"||
|align="center"|2007|Klaxons – _Myths of the Near Future_|*Arctic Monkeys – _Favourite Worst Nightmare_ *Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford – _Basquiat Strings_ *Bat for Lashes – _Fur and Gold_ *Dizzee Rascal – _Maths + English_ *Maps – _We Can Create_ *New Young Pony Club – _Fantastic Playroom_ *Fionn Regan – _The End of History_ *Jamie T – _Panic Prevention_ *The View – _Hats Off to the Buskers_ *Amy Winehouse – _Back to Black_ *Young Knives – _Voices of Animals and Men_|align="center"||
|align="center"|2008|Elbow – _The Seldom Seen Kid_|*Adele – _19_ *British Sea Power – _Do You Like Rock Music?_ *Burial – _Untrue_ *Estelle – _Shine_ *The Last Shadow Puppets – _The Age of the Understatement_ *Laura Marling – _Alas, I Cannot Swim_ *Neon Neon – _Stainless Style_ *Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – _Raising Sand_ *Portico Quartet – _Knee Deep In The North Sea_ *Radiohead – _In Rainbows_ *Rachel Unthank and the Winterset – _The Bairns_|align="center"||
|align="center"|2009|Speech Debelle – _Speech Therapy_|*Bat for Lashes – _Two Suns_ *Florence and the Machine – _Lungs_ *Friendly Fires – _Friendly Fires_ *Glasvegas – _Glasvegas_ *Lisa Hannigan – _Sea Sew_ *The Horrors – _Primary Colours_ *The Invisible – _The Invisible_ *Kasabian – _West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum_ *La Roux – _La Roux_ *Led Bib – _Sensible Shoes_ *Sweet Billy Pilgrim – _Twice Born Men_|align="center"||
|align="center"|2010|The xx – _xx_|*Biffy Clyro – _Only Revolutions_ *Corinne Bailey Rae – _The Sea_ *Dizzee Rascal – _Tongue n' Cheek_ *Foals – _Total Life Forever_ *I Am Kloot – _Sky at Night_ *Kit Downes Trio – _Golden_ *Laura Marling – _I Speak Because I Can_ *Mumford & Sons – _Sigh No More_ *Paul Weller – _Wake Up the Nation_ *Villagers – _Becoming a Jackal_ *Wild Beasts – _Two Dancers_|align="center"||
|align="center"|2011|PJ Harvey – _Let England Shake_|*Adele – _21_ *Anna Calvi – _Anna Calvi_ *Elbow – _Build a Rocket Boys!_ *Everything Everything – _Man Alive_ *Ghostpoet – _Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam_ *Gwilym Simcock – _Good Days at Schloss Elmau_ *James Blake – _James Blake_ *Katy B – _On a Mission_ *King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – _Diamond Mine_ *Metronomy – _The English Riviera_ *Tinie Tempah – _Disc-Overy_|align="center"||
|align="center"|2012|Alt-J – _An Awesome Wave_|*Ben Howard – _Every Kingdom_ *Django Django – _Django Django_ *Field Music – _Plumb_ *Richard Hawley – _Standing at the Sky's Edge_ *Michael Kiwanuka – _Home Again_ *Lianne La Havas – _Is Your Love Big Enough?_ *Sam Lee – _Ground of its Own_ *The Maccabees – _Given to the Wild_ *Plan B – _ill Manors_ *Roller Trio – _Roller Trio_ *Jessie Ware – _Devotion_|align="center"||
|align="center"|2013|James Blake – _Overgrown_|*Arctic Monkeys – _AM_ *David Bowie – _The Next Day_ *Disclosure – _Settle_ *Foals – _Holy Fire_ *Jake Bugg – _Jake Bugg_ *Jon Hopkins –  _Immunity_ *Laura Marling – _Once I Was an Eagle_ *Laura Mvula – _Sing to the Moon_ *Rudimental – _Home_ *Savages – _Silence Yourself_ *Villagers – _{Awayland}_|align="center"||
|align="center"|2014|Young Fathers – _Dead_|*Anna Calvi – _One Breath_ *Bombay Bicycle Club – _So Long, See You Tomorrow_ *Damon Albarn – _Everyday Robots_ *East India Youth – _Total Strife Forever_ *FKA twigs – _LP1_ *GoGo Penguin – _V2.0_ *Jungle – _Jungle_ *Kate Tempest – _Everybody Down_ *Nick Mulvey – _First Mind_ *Polar Bear – _In Each and Every One_ *Royal Blood – _Royal Blood_|align="center"||
|align="center"|2015|Benjamin Clementine – _At Least for Now_|*Aphex Twin – _Syro_ *Gaz Coombes – _Matador_ *C Duncan – _Architect_ *Eska – _Eska_ *Florence and the Machine – _How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful_ *Ghostpoet – _Shedding Skin_ *Róisín Murphy – _Hairless Toys_ *Slaves – _Are You Satisfied?_ *SOAK – _Before We Forgot How to Dream_ *Wolf Alice – _My Love Is Cool_ *Jamie xx – _In Colour_|align="center"||
|align="center"|2016|Skepta – _Konnichiwa_|*Anohni – _Hopelessness_ *Bat for Lashes – _The Bride_ *David Bowie – _Blackstar_ *Jamie Woon – _Making Time_ *Kano – _Made in the Manor_ *Laura Mvula – _The Dreaming Room_ *Michael Kiwanuka – _Love & Hate_ *Radiohead – _A Moon Shaped Pool_ *Savages – _Adore Life_ *The 1975 – _I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It_ *The Comet Is Coming – _Channel the Spirits_|align="center"||
|align="center"|2017|Sampha – _Process_|* alt-J – _Relaxer_ * The Big Moon – _Love in the 4th Dimension_ * Blossoms – _Blossoms_ * Loyle Carner – _Yesterday's Gone_ * Dinosaur – _Together, As One_ * Glass Animals – _How to Be a Human Being_ * J Hus – _Common Sense_ * Ed Sheeran – _÷_ * Stormzy – _Gang Signs & Prayer_ * Kate Tempest – _Let Them Eat Chaos_ * The xx – _I See You_|align="center"||
|align="center"|2018|Wolf Alice – _Visions of a Life_|* Arctic Monkeys – _Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino_ * Everything Everything – _A Fever Dream_ * Everything Is Recorded – _Everything Is Recorded_ * Florence and the Machine – _High as Hope_ * Jorja Smith – _Lost & Found_ * King Krule – _The Ooz_ * Lily Allen – _No Shame_ * Nadine Shah – _Holiday Destination_ * Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – _Who Built the Moon?_ * Novelist – _Novelist Guy_ * Sons of Kemet – _Your Queen Is a Reptile_|||

## Related pages

- Choice Music Prize (Ireland)
- Polaris Music Prize (Canada)
- Prix Constantin (France)
- Shortlist Music Prize (United States)
- Australian Music Prize (Australia)

## Other websites

- Official site

## Infobox (award)

- **name**: Mercury Prize
- **caption**: The Mercury Prize logo
- **awarded for**: Best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland
- **location**: United Kingdom
- **year**: (as Mercury Music Prize)