Mercury Prize
Le Mercury Music Prize (Prix de musique Mercure en français) est une récompense annuelle qui consacre le meilleur album britannique ou irlandais des douze derniers mois. Créé en 1992, elle se veut une alternative aux Brit Awards. Il est attribué par un panel très restreint de personnes issues de l'industrie musicale. On lui reproche souvent de céder à la mode. On lui reproche également d'oublier les labels indépendants. Les nommés sont connus le plus souvent au cours du mois de juillet.
L'équivalent français est le Prix Constantin, l'équivalent canadien le Prix de musique Polaris.
Palmarès
Années 90
Nominés :
- 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)
Nominés :
Nominés :
Nominés :
Nominés :
- 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)
Nominés :
Nominés :
- 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
Nominés :
- 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
Années 2000
Nominés :
- 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)
Nominés :
- Basement Jaxx (Rooty)
- Elbow (Asleep in the Back)
- Goldfrapp (Felt Mountain)
- 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)
Nominés :
- 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
- The Streets – Original Pirate Material
Nominés :
- 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
Nominés :
- Basement Jaxx – Kish Kash
- Belle and 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?
Nominés :
- 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
Nominés :
- Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan (Ballad Of The Broken Seas)
- Scritti Politti (White Bread Black Beer)
- Guillemots (Through The Windowpane)
- Richard Hawley (Coles Corner)
- Editors (The Back Room)
- Zoe Rahman (Melting Pot)
- Hot Chip (The Warning)
- Muse (Black Holes and Revelations)
- Lou Rhodes (Beloved One)
- Sway (This Is My Demo)
- Thom Yorke (The Eraser)
Nominés :
- Arctic Monkeys (Favourite Worst Nightmare)
- Basquiat Strings et Seb Rochford (Basquiat Strings)
- Bat For Lashes (Fur and Gold)
- Dizzee Rascal (Maths and 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)
- The Young Knives (Voices of Animals and Men)
Nominés :
- Adele (19)
- British Sea Power (Do You Like Rock Music?)
- Burial (Untrue)
- Estelle – Shine
- Laura Marling (Alas, I Cannot Swim)
- Neon Neon (Stainless Style)
- Portico quartet (Knee Deep In The North Sea)
- Rachel Unthank and the Winterset (The Bairns)
- Radiohead (In Rainbows)
- Robert Plant & Alison Krauss (Raising Sand)
- The Last Shadow Puppets (The Age of the Understatement)
Nominés :
- Bat For Lashes (Two Suns)
- Florence and the Machine (Lungs)
- Friendly Fires (Friendly Fires)
- Glasvegas (Glasvegas)
- Kasabian (West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum)
- La Roux (La Roux)
- Led Bib (Sensible Shoes)
- Lisa Hannigan (Sea Sew)
- Sweet Billy Pilgrim (Twice Born Men)
- The Horrors (Primary Colours)
- The Invisible (The Invisible)
Années 2010
Nominés :
- Biffy Clyro (Only Revolutions)
- Corinne Bailey Rae (The Sea)
- Dizzee Rascal (Tongue N' Cheek)
- Kit Downes Trio (Golden)
- Foals (Total Life Forever)
- I Am Kloot (Sky At Night)
- 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)
Nominés :
- 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 and Jon Hopkins (Diamond Mine)
- Metronomy (The English Riviera)
- Tinie Tempah (Disc-Overy)
Nominés :
- Ben Howard (Every Kingdom)
- Django Django (Django Django)
- Field Music (Plumb)
- Jessie Ware (Devotion)
- Lianne La Havas (Is Your Love Big Enough ?)
- Michael Kiwanuka (Home Again)
- Plan B (Ill Manors)
- Richard Hawley (Standing at the Sky's Edge)
- Roller Trio (Roller Trio)
- Sam Lee (Ground Of Its Own)
- The Maccabees (Given to the Wild)
Nominés :
Nominés :
- 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)
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