Mercury Prize: All the past winners

Remind yourself of every winner of the Mercury Prize, Britain's most prestigious music award.

mercury prize winners list

The Mercury Prize is the most prestigious award in British music. 

Every year, the honour - previously known as the Mercury Music Prize, the Hyundai Mercury Prize and Mercury Prize with FREE NOW - is awarded to an artist and album voted on by a crack group of music industry professionals. 

The only rule is that the twelve shortlisted acts for any given year have to release their work during the eligibility period and the work has to have been released by a British or Irish act (or by a band where over 50% of the members are British or Irish). 

Over the last 32 years, the Mercury Prize has been awarded to some of the most forward-facing albums (and artists) to emerge from Britain; including Skepta, Dave, Little Simz, James Blake, Sampha and many, many more.

As we look forward to the 2024 Mercury Prize (you can see the full shortlist for that here), here's the complete list of every act who has won the Mercury Prize.

Every Mercury Prize winner ever

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

2000: Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast

2001: PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

2002: Ms Dynamite - A Little Deeper

2003: Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner

2004: Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

2005: Anthony 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 a Near Future

2008: Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

2009: Speech Debelle - Speech Therapy

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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