The Mercury Prize winners of the 2000s
The top 3 according to 903 votes from people: The Hour of Bewilderbeast — Badly Drawn Boy · Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea — PJ Harvey · Boy in da Corner — Dizzee Rascal. (Updated Jul 3, 2024.)
The ten albums that won the Mercury Prize from 2000 to 2009, from Badly Drawn Boy to Speech Debelle.
Top 10
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1
The Hour of Bewilderbeast — Badly Drawn Boy
2000. Damon Gough's lo-fi debut.
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2
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea — PJ Harvey
2001. New York and Dorset; Harvey's first Mercury.
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3
Boy in da Corner — Dizzee Rascal
2003. The 18-year-old's grime landmark from east London.
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4
A Little Deeper — Ms. Dynamite
2002. UK garage and R&B with 'Dy-Na-Mi-Tee'.
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5
Franz Ferdinand — Franz Ferdinand
2004. Glasgow art-rock with 'Take Me Out'.
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6
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not — Arctic Monkeys
2006. The fastest-selling debut album in UK history at the time.
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7
Myths of the Near Future — Klaxons
2007. The 'new rave' moment.
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8
I Am a Bird Now — Antony and the Johnsons
2005. Chamber pop about gender and identity.
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9
The Seldom Seen Kid — Elbow
2008. The Manchester band's breakthrough, with 'One Day Like This'.
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10
Speech Therapy — Speech Debelle
2009. Intimate rap from south London.
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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Comments (13)
Boy in da Corner winning was massive for grime.
Ms. Dynamite, Dy-Na-Mi-Tee, what a debut.
Klaxons winning over Amy Winehouse's Back to Black is still a head scratcher.
PJ Harvey winning, and she won again in 2011.
Franz Ferdinand, Take Me Out still a banger.
Boy in da Corner by Dizzee Rascal changed British music.
Antony and the Johnsons, I Am a Bird Now is haunting.
Badly Drawn Boy's debut, so charming.
Arctic Monkeys debut is the fastest-selling debut album in UK history.
Speech Debelle winning in 2009, nobody saw that coming.
The Mercury always has a surprise winner, that's the fun.
Arctic Monkeys winning with their debut, what a moment.
Elbow's Seldom Seen Kid, 'One Day Like This' still gives me chills.