Mercury Prize winners: Full list of previous albums and artists to take home coveted music award by year

Mercury Prize 2023 is right around the corner - here’s a look at the past winners who walked away with the music award.

6th Sep 2023, 6:47pm

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The Mercury Prize - which is celebrating its 32nd year - is recognised for often marking out the stars of tomorrow in the music industry. Countless artists who have walked away with the esteemed music award have seen their careers skyrocket including James Blake, who’s album Overgrown saw sales jump more than 2,500% at Amazon UK, in the wake of his win.

However, the Mercury Prize is not just a springboard for up-and-coming talent but a way of giving critical recognition to legacy names like PJ Harvey and Elbow. The former won her second Mercury Prize in 2011 for the anthemic ‘Let England Shake’, released two decades into her career.

Loyle Carner is currently the bookies’ favourite to win this year’s prize but it’s not out of the realms of possibility to see an upset. Here’s a look at who’s won the Mercury Prize over the years including the full list of artists and albums celebrated by the music award show since 1992.

List of Mercury Prize winners by year

The full list of Mercury Prize winners are as follows....

90s

1992: Primal Scream - Screamadelica
1993: Suede - Suede
1994: M-People - Elegant Slumming
1995: Portishead - Dummy
1996: Pulp - Different Class
1997: Roni Size/Reprazent - New Forms
1998: Gomez - Bring It On
1999: Talvin Singh - OK

Portishead’s Dummy is a seminal album for followers of electronic and trip-hop

Portishead’s Dummy is a seminal album for followers of electronic and trip-hop

00s

2000: PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
2001: Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
2002: Ms. Dynamite - A Little Deeper
2003: Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
2004: Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
2005: Antony And The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
2006: Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
2007: Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
2008: Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
2009: Speech Debelle - Speech Therapy

Arctic Monkeys won the Mercury Prize for their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, in 2006

Arctic Monkeys won the Mercury Prize for their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, in 2006

2010s

2010: The xx - XX
2011: PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2012: Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
2013: James Blake - Overgrown
2014: Young Fathers - Dead
2015: Benjamin Clementine - At Least For Now
2016: Skepta - Konnichiwa
2017: Sampha - Process
2018: Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life
2019: Dave - Psychodrama

2020: Michael Kiwanuka - KIWANUKA
2021: Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
2022: Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
2023: Ezra Collective - Where I’m Meant To Be

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