Mercury Music Prize

The Mercury Music Prize is a music award given annually for the best British or Irish album of the previous 12 months. It was established in 1992 as an alternative to the industry-dominated Brit awards. It was originally sponsored by the now-defunct telecoms company Mercury, followed in 1998 by Technics and starting in 2004 the Nationwide Building Society.

Shortlists

Each year's winner is in bold.

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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

• Basement Jaxx – Kish Kash
• Belle & Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress
• Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
• 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

• Athlete - Vehicles and Animals
• Eliza Carthy - Anglicana
• Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
• The Darkness - Permission to Land
• Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
• 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

• 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 McGregor - Play
• Ms. Dynamite - A Little Deeper
• The Streets - Original Pirate Material

2001

• Basement Jaxx - Rooty
• Elbow - Asleep in the Back
• Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
• Gorillaz - Gorillaz (nomination withdrawn at the request of the band)
• Ed Hardcourt - Here Be Monsters
• PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
• 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

2000

• Richard Ashcroft - Alone with Everybody
• Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of 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 Baptiste - Be Where You Are
• Black Star Liner - Bengali Bantam Youth Experience!
• Blur - 13
• Chemical Brothers - Surrender
• Faithless - Sunday 8PM
• Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
• Beth Orton - Central Reservation
• Kate Rusby - Sleepless
• Talvin Singh - OK
• Stereophonics - Performance and Cocktails
• Underworld - Beaucoup 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
• Gomez - Bring It On
• Massive Attack - Mezzanine
• Propellerheads - Decksandrumsandrockandroll
• Pulp - This is Hardcore
• John Surman - Proverbs & Songs
• The Verve - Urban Hymns
• Robbie Williams - Life Thru a Lens

1997

• 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
• Roni Size/Reprazent - New Forms
• The Spice Girls - Spice
• Suede - Coming Up
• John Tavener - Syvati
• Mark-Anthony Turnage - Your Rockaby

1996

• Artists for War Child - Help
• Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah
• Peter Maxwell Davies/The 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
• 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
• M People - Elegant Slumming
• Ian McNabb - Head Like A Rock
• Shara Nelson - What Silence Knows
• Michael Nyman - The Piano Concerto and MGV
• The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
• Pulp - His'n'Hers
• Take That - Everything Changes
• Therapy? - Troublegum
• Paul Weller - Wild Wood

1993

• Apache Indian - No Reservations
• The Auteurs - New Wave
• Gavin Bryars - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
• Dina Caroll - So Close
• PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
• New Order - Republic
• Stereo MC's - Connected
• Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
• Suede - Suede
• Stan Tracey - Portraits Plus

1992

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