Mercury Prize: Previous winners and nominees

Since its inception in 1992, the Mercury Prize has been awarded to the best album of the year by a British or Irish artist.

Decided by a panel of music industry professionals, the award has typically seen a sharp rise in popularity of its nominees and even more for its winners.

1992

Winner

Primal Scream - Screamadelica

Nominees

• Barry Adamson – Soul Murder
• Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart – 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 and Steven Isserlis – The Protecting Veil
• Young Disciples – Road to Freedom

1993

Winner

Suede – Suede

Nominees

• 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

1994

Winner

M People – Elegant Slumming

Nominees

• 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

1995

Winner

Portishead – Dummy

Nominees

• 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

1996

Winner

Pulp – Different Class

Nominees

• 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

1997

Winner

Roni Size & Reprazent – New Forms

Nominees

• 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

1998

Winner

Roni Size & Reprazent – New Forms

Nominees

• 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 and Songs
• The Verve – Urban Hymns
• Robbie Williams – Life thru a Lens

1999

Winner

Talvin Singh – Ok

Nominees

• 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

2000

Winner

Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour of Bewilderbeast

Nominees

• Richard Ashcroft – Alone with Everybody
• 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

2001

Winner

PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

Nominees

• Basement Jaxx – Rooty
• Elbow – Asleep in the Back
• Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain
• Gorillaz – Gorillaz (nomination withdrawn at the request of the band)[51]
• 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

2002

Winner

Ms. Dynamite – A Little Deeper

Nominees

• 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

2003

Winner

Dizzee Rascal – Boy in da Corner

Nominees

• 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

2004

Winner

Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand

Nominees

• 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?

2005

Winner

Antony and the Johnsons – I Am a Bird Now

Nominees

• Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
• Coldplay – X&Y
• The Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike
• Hard-Fi – Stars of CCTV
• Kaiser Chiefs – Employment
• KT Tunstall – Eye to the Telescope
• The Magic Numbers – The Magic Numbers
• M.I.A. – Arular
• Maxïmo Park – A Certain Trigger
• Polar Bear – Held on the Tips of Fingers
• Seth Lakeman – Kitty Jay

2006

Winner

Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Nominees

• 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

2007

Winner

Klaxons – Myths of the Near Future

Nominees

• 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

2008

Winner

Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid

Nominees

• 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

2009

Winner

Speech Debelle – Speech Therapy

Nominees

• 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

2010

Winner

The xx – xx

Nominees

• Corinne Bailey Rae – The Sea
• Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions
• 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
• Villagers – Becoming a Jackal
• Paul Weller – Wake Up the Nation
• Wild Beasts – Two Dancers

2011

Winner

PJ Harvey – Let England Shake

Nominees

• Adele – 21
• James Blake – James Blake
• Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi
• Elbow – Build a Rocket Boys!
• Everything Everything – Man Alive
• Ghostpoet – Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam
• Katy B – On a Mission
• King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
• Metronomy – The English Riviera
• Gwilym Simcock – Good Days At Schloss Elmau
• Tinie Tempah – Disc-Overy

2012

Winner

alt-J – An Awesome Wave

Nominees

• Django Django – Django Django
• Field Music – Plumb
• Richard Hawley – Standing at the Sky's Edge
• Ben Howard – Every Kingdom
• 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

2013

Winner

James Blake – Overgrown

Nominees

• Arctic Monkeys – AM
• David Bowie – The Next Day
• Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg
• Disclosure – Settle
• Foals – Holy Fire
• Jon Hopkins – Immunity
• Laura Marling – Once I Was an Eagle
• Laura Mvula – Sing to the Moon
• Rudimental – Home
• Savages – Silence Yourself
• Villagers – Awayland

2014

Winner

Young Fathers – Dead

Nominees

• Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots
• Bombay Bicycle Club – So Long, See You Tomorrow
• Anna Calvi – One Breath
• East India Youth – Total Strife Forever
• FKA Twigs – LP1
• GoGo Penguin – V2.0
• Jungle – Jungle
• Nick Mulvey – First Mind
• Polar Bear – In Each and Every One
• Royal Blood – Royal Blood
• Kae Tempest – Everybody Down

2015

Winner

Benjamin Clementine – At Least for Now

Nominees

• 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

2016

Winner

Skepta – Konnichiwa

Nominees

• Anohni – Hopelessness
• Bat for Lashes – The Bride
• David Bowie – Blackstar
• The Comet Is Coming – Channel the Spirits
• Kano – Made in the Manor
• Michael Kiwanuka – Love & Hate
• Laura Mvula – The Dreaming Room
• The 1975 – I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It
• Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
• Savages – Adore Life
• Jamie Woon – Making Time

2017

Winner

Sampha – Process

Nominees

• 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
• Kae Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos
• The xx – I See You

2018

Winner

Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life

Nominees

• Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
• Everything Everything – A Fever Dream
• Everything Is Recorded – Everything Is Recorded
• Florence + 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

2019

Winner

Dave – Psychodrama

Nominees

• Anna Calvi – Hunter
• Black Midi – Schlagenheim
• Cate Le Bon – Reward
• Foals – Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1
• Fontaines D.C. – Dogrel
• Idles – Joy as an Act of Resistance
• Little Simz – Grey Area
• Nao – Saturn
• SEED Ensemble – Driftglass
• slowthai – Nothing Great About Britain
• The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships

2020

Winner

Michael Kiwanuka – Kiwanuka

Nominees

• Anna Meredith – Fibs
• Charli XCX – How I'm Feeling Now
• Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia
• Georgia – Seeking Thrills
• Kano – Hoodies All Summer
• Lanterns on the Lake – Spook the Herd
• Laura Marling – Song for Our Daughter
• Moses Boyd – Dark Matter
• Porridge Radio – Every Bad
• Sports Team – Deep Down Happy
• Stormzy – Heavy Is the Head

2021

• Anna Meredith – Fibs
• Charli XCX – How I'm Feeling Now
• Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia
• Georgia – Seeking Thrills
• Kano – Hoodies All Summer
• Lanterns on the Lake – Spook the Herd
• Laura Marling – Song for Our Daughter
• Moses Boyd – Dark Matter
• Porridge Radio – Every Bad
• Sports Team – Deep Down Happy
• Stormzy – Heavy Is the Head

Winner

Arlo Parks – Collapsed in Sunbeams

Nominees

• Berwyn – Demotape/Vega
• Black Country, New Road – For the First Time
• Celeste – Not Your Muse
• Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises
• Ghetts – Conflict of Interest
• Hannah Peel – Fir Wave
• Laura Mvula – Pink Noise
• Mogwai – As the Love Continues
• Nubya Garcia – Source
• Sault – Untitled (Rise)
• Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend

2022

Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

Winner

Nominees

• Fergus McCreadie – Forest Floor
• Gwenno – Tresor
• Harry Styles – Harry's House
• Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler – For All Our Days That Tear the Heart
• Joy Crookes – Skin
• Kojey Radical – Reason to Smile
• Nova Twins – Supernova
• Sam Fender – Seventeen Going Under
• Self Esteem – Prioritise Pleasure
• Wet Leg – Wet Leg
• Yard Act – The Overload

2023

Winner

Ezra Collective – Where I'm Meant to Be

Nominees

• Arctic Monkeys – The Car
• Fred Again – Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022)
• J Hus – Beautiful and Brutal Yard
• Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good!
• Jockstrap – I Love You Jennifer B
• Lankum – False Lankum
• Loyle Carner – Hugo
• Olivia Dean – Messy
• Raye – My 21st Century Blues
• Shygirl – Nymph
• Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy

2024

Winner

English Teacher – This Could Be Texas

Nominees

• Barry Can't Swim – When Will We Land?
• Berwyn – Who Am I
• Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown
• Cat Burns – Early Twenties
• Charli XCX – Brat
• CMAT – Crazymad, for Me
• Corinne Bailey Rae – Black Rainbows
• corto.alto – Bad With Names
• Ghetts – On Purpose, with Purpose
• The Last Dinner Party – Prelude to Ecstasy
• Nia Archives – Silence Is Loud

2025

Winner

Sam Fender – People Watching

Nominees

• CMAT – Euro-Country
• Emma-Jean Thackray – Weirdo
• FKA Twigs – Eusexua
• Fontaines D.C. – Romance
• Jacob Alon – In Limerence
• Joe Webb – Hamstrings & Hurricanes
• Martin Carthy – Transform Me Then Into a Fish
• Pa Salieu – Afrikan Alien
• PinkPantheress – Fancy That
• Pulp – More
• Wolf Alice – The Clearing

2026

Winner

TBC

Nominees

• Artists for War Child – Help(2)
• Dave – The Boy Who Played the Harp
• Dove Ellis – Blizzard
• Florence + The Machine – Everybody Scream
• Jade – That's Showbiz Baby!
• Knats – A Great Day in Newcastle
• Kojey Radical – Don't Look Down
• Nia Archives – Emotional Junglist
• Olivia Dean – The Art of Loving
• Paul McCartney – The Boys of Dungeon Lane
• Raye – This Music May Contain Hope
• Suede – Antidepressants