The 2011 Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize nominations were announced last Tuesday. The Mercury Prize is widely viewed as being such a credible award, it can shine a very bright light on the nominees and on new talent in particular. Selected from album releases by UK artists, winning the prize or being merely nominated can have a huge effect of on album sales.
Particularly for new acts, having launched a debut album earlier in the year and then generated plenty of buzz across the festivals season, being nominated confirms that you’ve really arrived and broken through into the mainstream as a new artist. This years nominees are ….
Adele – 21
Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi
Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys!
Everything Everything – Man Alive
Ghostpoet – Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam
Gwilym Simcock – Good Days At Schloss Elmau
James Blake – James Blake
Katy B – On A Mission
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
Metronomy – The English Riviera
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
Tinie Tempah – Disc-Overy
PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake album is the bookies favourite to win at 15/8 at Paddy Power.
