See also: Mercury

The Mercury Music Prize is an annual reward which devotes the best the last twelve months British or Irish album. Create in 1992 it wants to be an alternative to the Brit Awards, too commercial. It is allotted by a very restricted panel individuals resulting from music industry. One often reproaches him for yielding to the Hype and the mode. One also reproaches him for forgetting the independent labels. The nominated ones are generally known during July. The French equivalent is the Prix Constantin, the Canadian equivalent the Polaris Music Prize.

Nominated and victorious

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2007

• Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worst Nightmare
• Basquiat Strings and Seb Rochford - Basquiat Strings
• Beats For Lashes - Fur and Gold
• Dizzee Rascal - Maths and English
• Klaxons - Myths off the Near Future
• Maps - We Can Create
• New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
• Fionn Regan - He End off History
• Jamie T - Panic grass Prevention
• The View - Hats Off to the Buskers
• Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
• The Young Knives - Voices off Animals and Men

2006

• Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That' S What I' m Not

• Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Balad Off The Broken Seas
• Scritti Politti - White Bread Black Beer
• Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
• Richard Hawley - Adhesives Corner
• Editors - The Back Room
• Zoe Rahman - Melting Pot
• Hot Chip - The Warning
• MUSE - Black Holes & Revelations
• Lou Rhodos - Beloved One
• Sway - This Is My Demo
• Thom Yorke - The Eraser

2005

• Antony and the Johnsons - I Am has Bird Now
• Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
• Coldplay - X&Y
• Hardware-Fi - Stars off CCTV
• Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
• KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope
• M.I.A. - Arular
• Maxïmo Park - has Certain Trigger
• Polar Bear - Held One The Tips Off Fingers
• Seth Lakeman - Kitty Jay
• The Go! TEAM - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
• The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers

2004

• Meanly Jaxx - Kish Kash
• Beautiful & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
• Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
• Jamelia - Thank You
• Keane - Hopes and Fears
• Snow Patrol - Final Straw
• Joss Stone - Drunk The Sessions
• The Streets - has Large Don' T Like For Free
• Ty - Upwards
• Amy Winehouse - Frank
• Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland
• The Zutons - Who Killed… The Zutons?

2003

• Athlete - Vehicles And Animals
• Eliza Carthy - Anglicana
• Coldplay - has off Rush Blood to the Head
• The Darkness - Permission to Land
• Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
• Floetry - Floetic
• Soweto Kinch - Conversations with the Unseen
• Lemon Jello - Lost Horizons
• The Thrills - So Much for the City
• Martina Topley-Bird - Quixotic
• Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
• Terri Walker - Untitled

2002

• Guy Barker - Soundtrack
• The Bees - Sunshine, Hit Me
• David Bowie - Heathen
• The Coral - The Coral
• Doves - The Last Broadcast
• The Electric Soft Parades - Holes in the wall
• Gemma Beam - Night one my Side
• Beverley Knight - Who I Am
• Roots Manuva - Run Like Save Me
• Joanna McGregor - Play
• ms. Dynamite - has Little Deeper
• The Streets - Original Pirate Material

2001

• Meanly Jaxx - Rooty
• Elbow - Asleep in the Back
• Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
• Gorillaz - Gorillaz (nomination cancelled at the request of the group)
• ED Harcourt - Young stag Be Monsters
• PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
• Tom McRae - Tom McRae
• Radiohead - Amnesiac
• Raman Susheela - Salt Rain
• Super Furry Animals - Boxing rings Around the World
• Turin Brakes - The Optimist LP
• Zero 7 - Simple Things

2000

• Richard Ashcroft - Alone with Everybody
• Badly Drawn Servant boy - The Hour off Bewilderbeast
• Coldplay - Parachutes
• MJ 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

1999

• Thomas Adès - Asyla
• Denys Baptist - Be Where You Are
• Black Star Liner - Bengali Bantam Youth Experiment!
• Blur - 13
• Chemical Brothers - Surrender
• Faithless - Sunday 8PM
• Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Such Me Yours
• Beth Orton - Central Reservation
• Kate Rusby - Sleepless
• Talvin Singh - Ok
• Stereophonics - Performance and Cocktails
• Underworld - Much Fish

1998

• 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
• Gum - Bring It One
• Massive Attack - Mezzanine
• Propellerheads - Decksandrumsandrockandroll
• Pulp - This Is Hardcore
• John Surman - Proverbs & Songs
• The Liveliness - Urban Hymns
• Robbie Williams - Life thru has Lens

1997

• The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
• Beth Orton - Trailer card Park
• Primal Scream - Vanishing Not
• The Prodigy - Conceited The off the Land
• Radiohead - OK Computer
• Roni Size/Reprazent - New Forms
• The Spice Girls - Spice
• Sweden - Coming Up
• John Tavener - Syvati
• Mark-Anthony Turnage - Your Rockaby

1996

• Artists for War Child - Help
• Black Bunch - 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 off the Mack
• Oasis - (What' S the Story) Morning Glory?
• Courtney Fucks - Modern Day Jazz Stories
• Pulp - Different Class
• Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants
• Norma Waterson - Norma Waterson

1995

• 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 These
• Oasis - Definitely Maybe
• Portishead - Dummy
• Supergrass - I Should Coco
• Tricky - Maxinquaye

1994

• Blur - Parklife
• Mr. People - Elegant Slumming
• Ian McNabb - Head Like has Rock'n'roll
• Shara Nelson - What Silence Knows
• Michael Nyman - The Piano Concerto and MGV
• The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
• Pulp - His' Hers
• Take That - Everything Changes
• Therapy? - Troublegum
• Paul Weller - Wild Wood

1993

• Apache Indian - No Reservations
• The Authors - New Wave
• Gavin Bryars - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
• Dined Caroll - So Close
• PJ Harvey - Rid off Me
• New Order - Republic
• Stereo MC' S - Connected
• Sting - Ten Summoner' S Tales
• Sweden - Sweden
• Stan Tracey - Portraits More

1992

• Barry Adamson - Drunk Murder
• Jah Wobble - Rising Above Bedlam
• The Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey' S Dead
• Bheki Mseleku - Celebration
• Primal Scream - Screamadelica
• Holy Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
• Simply Red - Stars
• U2 - Achtung Baby
• John Tavener & Steven Isserlis - The Protecting Veil
• Young Disciples - Road To Freedom

See too

• Price Constantin
• Official site

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