Mercury Prize 2024 nominees revealed with The Last Dinner Party, Beth Gibbons and more

The 12 albums nominated for the 2024 Mercury Prize have been revealed today (25th July).

The shortlist has once again been selected by an independent panel of judges consisting of musicians, broadcasters, writers and eminent industry figures.

Albums by British and Irish artists with a UK release date between 15th July 2023 and 12th July 2024 are eligible for this year’s coveted Prize.

See the full 2024 Mercury Prize shortlist:

The grand winner of the 2024 Mercury Prize will be revealed in September, however there won’t be the usual live performance at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith. Further details will be revealed at a later date.

Since its inception as the Mercury Music Prize in 1992 when Primal Scream’s seminal masterpiece ‘Screamadelica’ won, albums by Suede (‘Suede’), Portishead (‘Dummy’), Pulp (‘Different Class’), Badly Drawn Boy (‘The Hour of Bewilderbeast’) PJ Harvey (‘Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea’ and ‘Let England Shake’), Dizzee Rascal (‘Boy in da Corner’), Franz Ferdinand (‘Franz Ferdinand’), Arctic Monkeys (‘Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not’), The xx (‘The xx’), Elbow (‘Seldom Seen Kid’), Dave (‘Psychodrama’) and Michael Kiwanuka ('Kiwanuka') have all triumphed over the past 32 years.

In 2023, London based jazz quintet Ezra Collective won with their critically lauded second album ‘Where I'm Meant to Be.’

Radiohead have appeared on the shortlist a record five times, yet, despite being one of the most critically acclaimed acts of the past 30 years, they have failed to scoop a single Mercury Prize win.

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