Mercury Prize

Mercury Prize (aiemmalta nimeltään Mercury Music Prize, nykyisin sponsorin mukaan virallisesti Hyundai Mercury Prize) on vuodesta 1992 alkaen jaettu vuosittainen musiikkipalkinto Ison-Britannian tai Irlannin vuoden parhaalle albumille. Palkinnon perusti alun perin British Phonographic Industry vaihtoehtona BRIT Awardsille.

Mercury Prizen voittajat ja ehdokkaat

Vuosi	Artisti	Albumi	Muut ehdokkaat
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
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
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
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
2006	Arctic Monkeys	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not	Isobel Campbell & 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
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
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?
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

• 2002: Ms. Dynamite – A Little Deeper
• 2001: PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
• 2000: Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour of Bewilderbeast
• 1999: Talvin Singh – Ok
• 1998: Gomez – Bring It On
• 1997: Roni Size/Reprazent – New Forms
• 1996: Pulp – Different Class
• 1995: Portishead – Dummy
• 1994: M People – Elegant Slumming
• 1993: Suede – Suede
• 1992: Primal Scream – Screamadelica

Aiheesta muualla

• Mercury Prizen virallinen kotisivu (englanniksi)