Statistics for Mercury Prize Nominated Artists

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Year(s)	Album(s)	Artist	% Correct
2008; 2011	19; 21	Adele	100%
2004; 2007	Frank; Back to Black	Amy Winehouse	100%
1995; 1996	Definitely Maybe; (What's the Story) Morning Glory?	Oasis	100%
2006; 2007; 2013; 2018; 2023	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not; Favourite Worst Nightmare; AM; Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino; The Car	Arctic Monkeys	89%
2017	÷	Ed Sheeran	89%
2006	Black Holes & Revelations	Muse	89%
1994; 1999	Parklife; 13	Blur	78%
2000; 2003; 2005	Parachutes; A Rush of Blood to the Head; X&Y	Coldplay	78%
2002; 2013; 2016	Heathen; The Next Day; Blackstar	David Bowie	78%
2004	Franz Ferdinand	Franz Ferdinand	78%
1993; 1995; 2001; 2011	Rid of Me; To Bring You My Love; Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea; Let England Shake	PJ Harvey	78%
1997; 2001; 2003; 2008; 2016	OK Computer; Amnesiac; Hail to the Thief; In Rainbows; A Moon Shaped Pool	Radiohead	78%
1998	Life thru a Lens	Robbie Williams	78%
2014	Royal Blood	Royal Blood	78%
2010; 2017	xx; I See You	The xx	78%
1992	Achtung Baby	U2	78%
2005	Silent Alarm	Bloc Party	67%
2003; 2007; 2010	Boy in da Corner; Maths + English; Tongue n' Cheek	Dizzee Rascal	67%
2020	Future Nostalgia	Dua Lipa	67%
2010; 2013; 2019	Total Life Forever; Holy Fire; Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1	Foals	67%
2022	Harry's House	Harry Styles	67%
2013	Jake Bugg	Jake Bugg	67%
2011; 2013	James Blakel; Overgrown	James Blake	67%
2005	Employment	Kaiser Chiefs	67%
2009	La Roux	La Roux	67%
1998	Mezzanine	Massive Attack	67%
1995	Dummy	Portishead	67%
1992; 1997	Screamadelica; Vanishing Point	Primal Scream	67%
1999	Performance and Cocktails	Stereophonics	67%
2017; 2020	Gang Signs & Prayer; Heavy Is the Head	Stormzy	67%
1995	I Should Coco	Supergrass	67%
1997; 1999	Dig Your Own Hole; Surrender	The Chemical Brothers	67%
2003	Permission to Land	The Darkness	67%
2005	The Magic Numbers	The Magic Numbers	67%
1994; 1997	Music for the Jilted Generation; The Fat of the Land	The Prodigy	67%
1998	Urban Hymns	The Verve	67%
2001	Tom McRae	Tom McRae	67%
2005	I Am a Bird Now	Antony and the Johnsons	56%
2000	The Hour of Bewilderbeast	Badly Drawn Boy	56%
2001; 2004	Rooty; Kish Kash	Basement Jaxx	56%
2019	Psychodrama	Dave	56%
2006	The Back Room	Editors	56%
1995	Elastica	Elastica	56%
2001; 2008; 2011	Asleep in the Back; The Seldom Seen Kid; Build a Rocket Boys!	Elbow	56%
2009	Glasvegas	Glasvegas	56%
2004	Hopes and Fears	Keane	56%
1996; 1999	Everything Must Go; This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours	Manic Street Preachers	56%
1996	Return of the Mack	Mark Morrison	56%
2012; 2016; 2020	Home Again; Love & Hate; Kiwanuka	Michael Kiwanuka	56%
2002	A Little Deeper	Ms. Dynamite	56%
1994; 1996; 1998	His 'n' Hers; Different Class; This Is Hardcore	Pulp	56%
2004	Final Straw	Snow Patrol	56%
1997	Spice	Spice Girls	56%
1993; 1997	Suede; Coming Up	Suede	56%
1994	Everything Changes	Take That	56%
2016; 2019	I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It; A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships	The 1975	56%
2002	The Coral	The Coral	56%
2002; 2004	Original Pirate Material; A Grand Don't Come for Free	The Streets	56%
2004	Who Killed...... The Zutons?	The Zutons	56%
1995	Days Like This	Van Morrison	56%
2022	Wet Leg	Wet Leg	56%
2012; 2017	An Awesome Wave; Relaxer	alt-J	44%
2011; 2014; 2019	Anna Calvi; One Breath; Hunter	Anna Calvi	44%
1996	It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah	Black Grape	44%
2017	Blossoms	Blossoms	44%
2008	Do You Like Rock Music?	British Sea Power	44%
2012	Django Django	Django Django	44%
2011; 2018	Man Alive; A Fever Dream	Everything Everything	44%
2009; 2015; 2018	Lungs; How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful; High as Hope	Florence + the Machine	44%
2009	Friendly Fires	Friendly Fires	44%
1998	Bring It On	Gomez	44%
2005	Stars of CCTV	Hard-Fi	44%
2004	The Soul Sessions	Joss Stone	44%
2009	West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum	Kasabian	44%
2005	Eye to the Telescope	KT Tunstall	44%
1995; 2000	Leftism; Rhythm and Stealth	Leftfield	44%
2019; 2022	Grey Area; Sometimes I Might Be Introvert	Little Simz	44%
2005	Arular	M.I.A.	44%
2010	Sigh No More	Mumford & Sons	44%
2018	Who Built the Moon?	Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds	44%
1994; 2010	Wild Wood; Wake Up the Nation	Paul Weller	44%
2012	ill Manors	Plan B	44%
2023	My 21st Century Blues	Raye	44%
2022	Seventeen Going Under	Sam Fender	44%
1992	Stars	Simply Red	44%
1993	Connected	Stereo MCs	44%
1993	Ten Summoner's Tales	Sting	44%
2008	The Age of the Understatement	The Last Shadow Puppets	44%
2003	Vehicles and Animals	Athlete	33%
2004	Dear Catastrophe Waitress	Belle & Sebastian	33%
2010	Only Revolutions	Biffy Clyro	33%
2014	So Long, See You Tomorrow	Bombay Bicycle Club	33%
2010	The Sea	Corinne Bailey Rae	33%
1998	When I Was Born for the 7th Time	Cornershop	33%
2014	Everyday Robots	Damon Albarn	33%
2013	Settle	Disclosure	33%
2000; 2002	Lost Souls; The Last Broadcast	Doves	33%
2003	Floetic	Floetry	33%
2006	Through the Windowpane	Guillemots	33%
2019	Joy as an Act of Resistance	Idles	33%
2014; 2017	Everybody Down; Let Them Eat Chaos	Kae Tempest	33%
2000	Little Black Numbers	Kathryn Williams	33%
2011	On a Mission	Katy B	33%
2007	Myths of the Near Future	Klaxons	33%
2008; 2010; 2013; 2020	Alas, I Cannot Swim; I Speak Because I Can; Once I Was an Eagle; Song for Our Daughter	Laura Marling	33%
2005	A Certain Trigger	Maxïmo Park	33%
2011	The English Riviera	Metronomy	33%
1994	Elegant Slumming	M People	33%
1993	Republic	New Order	33%
2005; 2014	Held on the Tips of Fingers; In Each and Every One	Polar Bear	33%
1998	Decksandrumsandrockandroll	Propellerheads	33%
2000	Alone with Everybody	Richard Ashcroft	33%
2006; 2012	Coles Corner; Standing at the Sky's Edge	Richard Hawley	33%
1997	New Forms	Roni Size & Reprazent	33%
2002	Run Come Save Me	Roots Manuva	33%
2017	Process	Sampha	33%
2022	Prioritise Pleasure	Self Esteem	33%
2016	Konnichiwa	Skepta	33%
2001	Rings Around the World	Super Furry Animals	33%
2005	Thunder, Lightning, Strike	The Go! Team	33%
2012	Given to the Wild	The Maccabees	33%
1994	Troublegum	Therapy?	33%
2003	So Much for the City	The Thrills	33%
2007	Hats Off to the Buskers	The View	33%
2006	The Eraser	Thom Yorke	33%
2011	Disc-Overy	Tinie Tempah	33%
2001	The Optimist LP	Turin Brakes	33%
2016	Hopelessness	Anohni	22%
2015	Syro	Aphex Twin	22%
1998	Rafi's Revenge	Asian Dub Foundation	22%
2007	Basquiat Strings	Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford	22%
2007; 2009; 2016	Fur and Gold; Two Suns; The Bride	Bat for Lashes	22%
2015	At Least for Now	Benjamin Clementine	22%
1997; 1999	Trailer Park; Central Reservation	Beth Orton	22%
2021	For the First Time	Black Country, New Road	22%
2019	Schlagenheim	Black Midi	22%
2008	Untrue	Burial	22%
1998	International Velvet	Catatonia	22%
2020	How I'm Feeling Now	Charli XCX	22%
2000	The Contino Sessions	Death in Vegas	22%
2015	Eska	Eska	22%
2008	Shine	Estelle	22%
2018	Everything Is Recorded	Everything Is Recorded	22%
2023	Where I'm Meant to Be	Ezra Collective	22%
1999	Sunday 8PM	Faithless	22%
2011; 2015	Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam; Shedding Skin	Ghostpoet	22%
2017	How to Be a Human Being	Glass Animals	22%
2001	Felt Mountain	Goldfrapp	22%
2021	Fir Wave	Hannah Peel	22%
2006	The Warning	Hot Chip	22%
2012; 2023	Devotion; That! Feels Good!	Jessie Ware	22%
2018	Lost & Found	Jorja Smith	22%
2014	Jungle	Jungle	22%
2016; 2020	Made in the Manor; Hoodies All Summer	Kano	22%
2023	False Lankum	Lankum	22%
2003	Lost Horizons	Lemon Jelly	22%
2018	No Shame	Lily Allen	22%
2009	Sea Sew	Lisa Hannigan	22%
2007	We Can Create	Maps	22%
2021	As the Love Continues	Mogwai	22%
2008	Stainless Style	Neon Neon	22%
1996	Norma Waterson	Norma Waterson	22%
2018	Novelist Guy	Novelist	22%
2008	Raising Sand	Robert Plant & Alison Krauss	22%
2012	Roller Trio	Roller Trio	22%
2013	Home	Rudimental	22%
1992	Foxbase Alpha	Saint Etienne	22%
2006	White Bread Black Beer	Scritti Politti	22%
2015	Are You Satisfied?	Slaves	22%
2019	Nothing Great About Britain	slowthai	22%
2003	Conversations with the Unseen	Soweto Kinch	22%
2009	Speech Therapy	Speech Debelle	22%
1999	Ok	Talvin Singh	22%
2000	The Great Eastern	The Delgados	22%
2002	Holes in the Wall	The Electric Soft Parade	22%
2009	The Invisible	The Invisible	22%
1992	Honey's Dead	The Jesus and Mary Chain	22%
1995	Maxinquaye	Tricky	22%
2004	Upwards	Ty	22%
1996; 1999	Second Toughest in the Infants; Beaucoup Fish	Underworld	22%
2015; 2018; 2021	My Love Is Cool; Visions of a Life; Blue Weekend	Wolf Alice	22%
2014; 2023	Dead; Heavy Heavy	Young Fathers	22%
2007	Voices of Animals and Men	Young Knives	22%
1998	Two Pages	4hero	11%
2020	Fibs	Anna Meredith	11%
1993	No Reservations	Apache Indian	11%
2021	Collapsed in Sunbeams	Arlo Parks	11%
1996	Help	Artists for War Child	11%
1992	Soul Murder	Barry Adamson	11%
2012	Every Kingdom	Ben Howard	11%
2021	Demotape/Vega	Berwyn	11%
2002	Who I Am	Beverley Knight	11%
1992	Celebration	Bheki Mseleku	11%
1999	Bengali Bantam Youth Experience!	Black Star Liner	11%
2019	Reward	Cate Le Bon	11%
2015	Architect	C Duncan	11%
2021	Not Your Muse	Celeste	11%
1996	Modern Day Jazz Stories	Courtney Pine	11%
1999	Be Where You Are	Denys Baptiste	11%
1993	So Close	Dina Carroll	11%
2017	Together, As One	Dinosaur	11%
2014	Total Strife Forever	East India Youth	11%
2001	Here Be Monsters	Ed Harcourt	11%
1998; 2003	Red Rice; Anglicana	Eliza Carthy	11%
2022	Forest Floor	Fergus McCreadie	11%
2012	Plumb	Field Music	11%
2007	The End of History	Fionn Regan	11%
2014	LP1	FKA twigs	11%
2021	Promises	Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra	11%
2019	Dogrel	Fontaines D.C.	11%
2023	Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022)	Fred Again	11%
1993	Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet	Gavin Bryars	11%
2015	Matador	Gaz Coombes	11%
2002	Night on My Side	Gemma Hayes	11%
2020	Seeking Thrills	Georgia	11%
2021	Conflict of Interest	Ghetts	11%
2014	V2.0	GoGo Penguin	11%
1995; 2002	Into the Blue; Soundtrack	Guy Barker	11%
2022	Tresor	Gwenno	11%
2011	Good Days At Schloss Elmau	Gwilym Simcock	11%
2000	How to Steal the World	Helicopter Girl	11%
2010	Sky at Night	I Am Kloot	11%
1994	Head Like a Rock	Ian McNabb	11%
2006	Ballad of the Broken Seas	Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan	11%
1992	Rising Above Bedlam	Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart	11%
2004	Thank You	Jamelia	11%
1995	Seven Last Words from the Cross	James MacMillan	11%
2007	Panic Prevention	Jamie T	11%
2016	Making Time	Jamie Woon	11%
2022	For All Our Days That Tear the Heart	Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler	11%
2017; 2023	Common Sense; Beautiful and Brutal Yard	J Hus	11%
2002	Play	Joanna MacGregor	11%
2023	I Love You Jennifer B	Jockstrap	11%
1998	Proverbs and Songs	John Surman	11%
1997	Svyati	John Tavener	11%
1992	The Protecting Veil	John Tavener and Steven Isserlis	11%
2013	Immunity	Jon Hopkins	11%
2022	Skin	Joy Crookes	11%
1999	Sleepless	Kate Rusby	11%
2011	Diamond Mine	King Creosote & Jon Hopkins	11%
2018	The Ooz	King Krule	11%
2010	Golden	Kit Downes Trio	11%
2022	Reason to Smile	Kojey Radical	11%
2020	Spook the Herd	Lanterns on the Lake	11%
2013; 2016; 2021	Sing to the Moon; The Dreaming Room; Pink Noise	Laura Mvula	11%
2009	Sensible Shoes	Led Bib	11%
2012	Is Your Love Big Enough?	Lianne La Havas	11%
2006	Beloved One	Lou Rhodes	11%
2017; 2023	Yesterday's Gone; Hugo	Loyle Carner	11%
1997	Your Rockaby	Mark-Anthony Turnage	11%
2003	Quixotic	Martina Topley-Bird	11%
1994	The Piano Concerto/MGV	Michael Nyman	11%
2000	Sincere	MJ Cole	11%
2020	Dark Matter	Moses Boyd	11%
2018	Holiday Destination	Nadine Shah	11%
2019	Saturn	Nao	11%
2007	Fantastic Playroom	New Young Pony Club	11%
2000	Violin Concerto	Nicholas Maw	11%
2014	First Mind	Nick Mulvey	11%
2000	Beyond Skin	Nitin Sawhney	11%
2022	Supernova	Nova Twins	11%
2021	Source	Nubya Garcia	11%
2023	Messy	Olivia Dean	11%
1996	The Beltane Fire / Caroline Mathilde	Peter Maxwell Davies/BBC Philharmonic	11%
2020	Every Bad	Porridge Radio	11%
2008	Knee Deep in the North Sea	Portico Quartet	11%
2008	The Bairns	Rachel Unthank and the Winterset	11%
2004	Cuckooland	Robert Wyatt	11%
2015	Hairless Toys	Róisín Murphy	11%
2012	Ground of its Own	Sam Lee	11%
2021	Untitled (Rise)	Sault	11%
2013; 2016	Silence Yourself; Adore Life	Savages	11%
2019	Driftglass	SEED Ensemble	11%
2005	Kitty Jay	Seth Lakeman	11%
1994	What Silence Knows	Shara Nelson	11%
2023	Nymph	Shygirl	11%
2015	Before We Forgot How to Dream	Soak	11%
2018	Your Queen Is a Reptile	Sons of Kemet	11%
2020	Deep Down Happy	Sports Team	11%
1993	Portraits Plus	Stan Tracey	11%
2001	Salt Rain	Susheela Raman	11%
2006	This Is My Demo	Sway	11%
2009	Twice Born Men	Sweet Billy Pilgrim	11%
2003	Untitled	Terri Walker	11%
1993	New Wave	The Auteurs	11%
2002	Sunshine Hit Me	The Bees	11%
2017	Love in the 4th Dimension	The Big Moon	11%
2016	Channel the Spirits	The Comet Is Coming	11%
2009	Primary Colours	The Horrors	11%
1999	Asyla	Thomas Adès	11%
2010; 2013	Becoming a Jackal; Awayland	Villagers	11%
2010	Two Dancers	Wild Beasts	11%
2022	The Overload	Yard Act	11%
1992	Road to Freedom	Young Disciples	11%
2001	Simple Things	Zero 7	11%
2006	Melting Pot	Zoe Rahman	11%
2015	In Colour	Jamie xx	0%