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The Mercury Prize is awarded annually for the best album released in the United Kingdom by a British or Irish act. The Prize has no categories and is open to all genres of music. There are 12 shortlisted Albums of the Year

The prize was originally sponsored by Mercury Communications and was known as the Mercury Music Prize. It was created in 1992 as an alternative to the Brit Awards 

{| class="wikitable"
|Year
|Winner
|Shortlisted nominations included – 
|-
|1992
|Primal Scream – ''Screamadelica''
|Simply Red – ''Stars''

U2 – ''Achtung Baby''
|-
|1993
|Suede – ''Suede''
|East 17 – ''Walthamstow''

Sting – ''Ten Summoner’s Tales''
|-
|1994
|M People – ''Elegant Slumming''
|Blur – ''Parklife''

The Prodigy – ''Music for the Jilted Generation''

Take That – ''Everything Changes''
|-
|1995
|Portishead – ''Dummy'' 
|The Boo Radleys – ''Wake Up!''

Oasis – ''Definitely Maybe''
|-
|1996
|Pulp – ''Different Class''
|Manic Street Preachers – ''Everything  Must Go''

Oasis – ''(What’s the Story) Morning  Glory?''
|-
|1997
|Roni Size & Reprazent – ''New  Forms''
|The Chemical Brothers – ''Dig Your  Own Hole''

Radiohead – ''OK Computer''

Spice Girls – ''Spice''
|-
|1998
|Gomez – ''Bring It On''
|Massive Attack – ''Mezzanine''

The Verve – ''Urban Hymns''

Robbie Williams – ''Life thru a Lens''
|-
|1999
|Talvin Singh – ''Ok''
|Blur – ''13''

Stereophonics – ''Performance and  Cocktails''
|-
|2000
|Badly Drawn Boy – ''The Hour of  Dewilderbeest''
|Coldplay – ''Parachutes''

Doves – ''Lost Souls''
|-
|2001
|PJ Harvey – ''Stories from the City,  Stories from the Sea''
|Gorillaz – ''Gorillaz''

Radiohead – ''Amnesiac''
|-
|2002
|Ms. Dynamite – ''A Little Deeper''
|''David Bowie – Heathen''

Beverley Knight – ''Who I Am''
|-
|2003
|Dizzee Rascal – ''Boy in da Corner''
|Coldplay – ''A Rush of Blood to the  Head''

Radiohead – ''Hail to the Thief''
|-
|2004
|Franz Ferdinand – ''Franz Ferdinand''
|Keane – ''Hopes and Fears''

Snow Patrol – ''Final Straw''

Amy Winehouse – ''Frank''
|-
|2005
|Anthony and the Johnsons – ''I Am a  Bird Now''
|Bloc Party – ''Silent Alarm''

Coldplay – ''X&Y''

KT Tunstall – ''Eye to the Telescope''
|-
|2006
|Arctic Monkeys – ''Whatever People  Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not''
|Muse – ''Black Holes &  Revelations''

Thom Yorke – ''The Eraser''
|-
|2007
|Klaxons – ''Myths of the Near Future''
|Arctic Monkeys – ''Favourite Worst  Nightmare''

Dizzee Rascal – ''Maths + English''

Amy Winehouse – ''Back to Black''
|-
|2008
|Elbow – ''The Seldom Seen Kid''
|Adele – ''19''

Radiohead – ''In Rainbows''
|-
|2009
|Speech Debelle – ''Speech Therapy''
|Florence and the Machine – ''Lungs''

Kasabian – ''West Ryder Pauper  Lunatic Asylum''
|-
|2010
|The xx – ''xx'' 
|Mumford & Sons – ''Sigh No More''

Paul Weller – ''Wake Up the Nation''
|-
|2011
|PJ Harvey – ''Let England Shake''
|Adele – ''21''

Elbow – ''Build a Rocket Boys!''

Tinie Tempah – ''Disc-Overy''
|-
|2012
|alt-J – ''An Awesome Wave''
|Michael Kiwanuka – ''Home Again''

Plan B – ''ill Manors''
|-
|2013
|James Blake – ''Overgrown'' 
|Arctic Monkeys – ''AM''

David Bowie – ''The Next Day''
|-
|2014
|Young Fathers – ''Dead'' 
|Damon Albarn – ''Everyday Robots''

Royal Blood – ''Royal Blood''
|-
|2015
|Benjamin Clementine – ''At Least for  Now''
|Florence and the Machine – ''How Big,  How Blue, How Beautiful''

Wolf Alice – ''My Love Is Cool''
|-
|2016
|Skepta – ''Konnichiwa'' 
|David Bowie – ''Blackstar''

The 1975 – ''I Like It When You  Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It''

Radiohead – ''A Moon Shaped Pool''
|-
|2017
|Sampha – ''Process'' 
|Ed Sheeran – ''÷''

Stormzy – ''Gang Signs & Prayer''
|-
|2018
|Wolf Alice – ''Visions of a Life''
|Lily Allen – ''No Shame''

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – ''Who  Built the Moon?''
|-
|2019
|Dave – ''Psychodrama'' 
|Little Simz – ''Grey Area''

The 1975 – ''A Brief Inquiry into  Online Relationships''
|-
|2020
|Michael Kiwanuka – ''Kiwanuka'' 
|Dua Lipa – ''Future Nostalgia''

Stormzy – ''Heavy is the Head''
|-
|2021
|Arlo Parks – ''Collapsed in Sunbeams''
|Laura Mvula – ''Pink Noise''

Wolf Alice – ''Blue Weekend''
|-
|2022
|Little Simz – ''Sometimes I Might Be  Introvert''
|Harry Styles – ''Harry’s House''

Sam Fender – ''Seventeen Going Under''

Wet Leg – ''Wet Leg''
|}


'''Trivia'''

PJ Harvey is the only artist to win twice

Radiohead have had five nominations, with no wins. Thom Yorke also had an individual nomination

PJ Harvey has had four nominations, with two wins

Arctic Monkeys have had four nominations, with one win. Alex Turner also had a nomination as a member of The Last Shadow Puppets

Laura Marling has had four nominations, with no wins

In 2001 Gorillaz pulled out hours after being declared favourites to win the award. Cartoon bassist Murdoc said winning would be "like carrying a dead albatross round your neck for eternity"

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The winning artist receives a cash prize of £25,000