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Today, the Mercury Prize 2020 revealed its shortlist. There's a lot of great records on there. Dua Lipa's disco pop LP Future Nostalgia. Laura Marling's extraordinary Song For Our Daughter. Michael Kiwanuka's beautiful KIWANUKA...

But what of the past? The Mercury Prize (formerly known as The Mercury Music Prize) has been A Thing since 1992, when Primal Scream's Screamadelica won the honour and the £20,000 prize money. Since then, it's been a point of celebration and contention in every music fan's life...

How many winners can you remember off the top of your head? Did you discover any new gems from the many nominees there have been over the past eighteen years? Here are the Mercury Prize nods and winners from 1992 until the present day...

1992

Primal Scream - Screamadelica WINNER 
Barry Adamson - Soul Murder
Bheki Mseleku - Celebration
Jah Wobble - Rising Above Bedlam
Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's Dead
John Tavener - The Protecting Veil
Saint Etienne - Fox Base Alpha
Simply Red - Stars
U2 - Achtung Baby
Young Disciples - Road to Freedom

1993

Suede - Suede WINNER
Apache Indian - No Reservations
Dina Carroll - So Close
Gavin Bryars - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
New Order - Republic
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
Stan Tracey - Portraits Plus
Stereo MCs - Connected
Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
The Auteurs - New Wave

1994

M People - Elegant Slumming WINNER
Blur - Parklife
Ian McNabb - Head Like a Rock
Michael Nyman - The Piano Concerto and MGV
Paul Weller - Wild Wood
Pulp - His 'n' Hers
Shara Nelson - What Silence Knows
Take That - Everything Changes
The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Therapy? - Troublegum

1995 

Portishead - Dummy WINNER
Elastica - Elastica
Guy Barker - Into the Blue
James Macmillan - Seven Last Words From The Cross
Leftfield - Leftism
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Supergrass - I Should Coco
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Van Morrison - Days Like This

1996

Pulp - Different Class WINNER
Norma Waterson - Norma Waterson
Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack
Courtney Pine - Modern Day Jazz Stories
Artists for War Child - Help
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies - The Beltane Fire & Carline Mathilde
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah!
Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?

1997

Roni Size/Reprazent - New Forms WINNER
Suede - Coming Up
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Radiohead - OK Computer
Primal Scream - Vanishing Point
Beth Orton - Trailer Park
John Tavener - Syvati
The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
Spice Girls - Spice
Mark-Anthony Turnage - Your Rockaby

1998

Gomez - Bring It On WINNER
Asian Dub Foundation - Rafi's Revenge
Cornershop - When I Was Born for the 7th Time
Catatonia - International Velvet
Pulp - This Is Hardcore
Propellerheads - Decksanddrumsandrockandroll
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Eliza Carthy - Red Rice
4hero - Two Pages
Robbie Williams - Life Thru A Lens
The Verve - Urban Hymns
John Surman - Proverbs and Songs

1999

Talvin Singh - OK WINNER
Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Beth Orton - Central Reservation
Denys Baptiste - Be Where You Are
The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
Blur - 13
Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
Kate Rusby - Sleepless
Faithless - Sunday 8pm
Stereophonics - Performance and Cocktails
Black Star Liner - Bengali Bantam Youth Experience!
Thomas Ades - Asyla

2000

Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast WINNER
Coldplay - Parachutes
Death In Vegas - The Contino Sessions
Doves - Lost Souls
Helicopter Girl - How to Steal the World
Kathryn Williams - Little Black Numbers
Leftfield - Rhythm and Stealth
MJ Cole - Sincere
Nicholas Maw - Violin Concerto
Nittin Sawhney - Beyond Skin
The Delgados - The Great Eastern
Richard Ashcroft - Alone With Everybody

2001

PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea WINNER
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Ed Harcourt - Here Be Monsters
Elbow - Asleep in the Back
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Susheela Raman - Salt Rain
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
Tom McRae - Tom McRae
Turin Brakes - The Optimist LP
Zero 7 - Simple Things

2002

Ms. Dynamite - A Little Deeper WINNER
The Bees - Sunshine Hit Me
Beverley Knight - Who I Am
The Coral - The Coral
David Bowie - Heathen
Doves - The Last Broadcast
Electric Soft Parade - Holes in the Walls
Gemma Hayes - Night On My Side
Guy Barker - Soundtrack
Joanna MacGregor - Play
Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me
The Streets - Original Pirate Material

2003

Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner WINNER
Athlete - Vehicles and Animals
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
The Darkness - Permission to Land
Eliza Carthy - Anglicana
Floetry - Floetic
Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons
Martina Topley-Bird - Quixotic
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Soweto Kinch - Conversations with the Unseen
Terri Walker - Untitled
The Thrills - So Much for the City

2004

Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand WINNER
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Amy Winehouse - Frank
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Jamelia - Thank You
Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions
Keane - Hopes & Fears
Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
The Zutons - Who Killed...The Zutons
Ty - Upwards

2005

Anthony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now WINNER
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Coldplay - X&Y
Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope
Maximo Park - Maximo Park A Certain Trigger
M.I.A. - Arular
Polar Bears - Held on the Tips of Fingers
Seth Lakeman - Kitty Jay
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers

2006

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not WINNER
Editors - The Back Room
Guillemots - Through the Windowpane
Hot Chip - The Warning
I Campbell & M Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Seas
Lou Rhodes - Beloved One
Muse - Black Holes & revelations
richard HAwley - Coles Corner
Scritti Politti - White Bread Black Beer
Sway - This I My Demo
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Zoe Rahman - Melting Pot

2007

Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future WINNER
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Basquiat Strings - Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford
Bat For Lashes - Fur and Gold
Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English
Fionn Regan - The End of History
Jamie T - Panic Prevention
Maps - Maps We Can Create
New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
The View - Hats Off to the Buskers
Young Knives - Voices of Animals and Men

2008

Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid WINNER
Estelle - Shine
Adele - 19
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Burial - Untrue
Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim
Neon Neon - Stainless Style
Portico Quartet - Knee-Deep In The North Sea
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset - The Winterset The Bairns
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement

2009

Speech Debelle - Speech Therapy WINNER
Florence + the Machine - Lungs
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
La Roux - La Roux
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
Led Bib - Sensible Shoes
Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Twice Born Men
The Invisible - The Invisible
Lisa Hannigan - Sea Sew

2010

The xx - xx WINNER
Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
I Am Kloot - Sky At Night
Dizzee Rascal - Tongue N' Cheek
Paul Weller - Wake Up the Nation
Corinne Bailey Rae - The Sea
Villagers - Becoming A Jackal
Kit Downes Trio - Golden
Foals - Total Life Forever
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

2011

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake WINNER
Metronomy - The English Riviera
Adele - 21
Everything Everything - Man Alive
Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam
Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
Tinie Tempah - Disc-Overy
Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys!
Gwilym Simcock - Good Days at Schloss Elmau
James Blake - James Blake
Katy B - On a Mission
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine

2012

Alt-J - An Awesome Wave WINNER
Ben Howard - Every Kingdom
Django Django - Django Django
Field Music - Plumb
Jessie Ware - Devotion
Lianna La Havas - Is Your Love Big Enough?
Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again
Plan B - Ill Manors
Richard Hawley - Standing at the Sky's Edge
Roller Trio - Roller Trio
Sam Lee - Ground of its Own
The Maccabees - Given to the Wild

2013

James Blake - Overgrown WINNER
Arctic Monkeys - AM
David Bowie - The Next Day
Disclosure - Settle
Foals - Holy Fire
Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg
Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
Laura Mvula - Sing to the Moon
Rudimental - Home
Savages - Silence Yourself
Villagers - Awayland

2014

Young Fathers - DEAD WINNER
Anna Calvi - One Breath
Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow
Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
FKA twigs - LP1
GoGo Penguin - v2.0
Jungle - Jungle
Kate Tempest - Everybody Down
Nick Mulvey - First Mind
Polar Bear - In Each and Every One
Royal Blood - Royal Blood

2015 

Benjamin Clementine - At Least For Now WINNER
C Duncan - Architect
Aphex Twin - Syro
ESKA - Eska
Florence + The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Gaz Coombes - Matador
Ghostpoet - Shedding Skin
Jamie xx - In Colour
Róisín Murphy - Hairless Toys
Slaves - Are You Satisfied?
SOAK - Before We Forget How To Dream
Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool

2016

Skepta - Konnichiwa WINNER
Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room
Kano - Made in the Manor
Jamie Woon - Making Time
David Bowie - Blackstar
Anohni - Hopelessness
Bat For Lashes - The Bride
Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Savages - Adore Life
The 1975 - I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
The Comet Is Coming - Channel the Spirits

2017

Sampha - Process WINNER
Alt-J - Relaxer
Blossoms - Blossoms
Dinosaur - Together, As One
Ed Sheeran - Divide
Glass Animals - How to be a Human Being
J Hus - Common Sense
Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos
Loyle Carner - Yesterday's Gone
Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer
The Big Moon - Love in the 4th Dimension
The xx - I See You

2018

Wolf Alice - Visions of a Life WINNER
Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Everything Everything - A Fever Dream
Everything is Recorded - Everything is Recorded
Florence + The Machine - High as Hope
Jorja Smith - Lost & found
King Krule - The Ooz
Lily Allen - No Shame
Nadine Shah - Holiday Destination
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Who Built The Moon?
Novelist - Novelist Guy
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile

2019

Dave - Psychodrama WINNER
Anna Calvi - Hunter
Black Midi - Schlagenheim
Cate Le Bon - Reward
Foals - Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1
Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel
IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance
Little Simz - Grey Area
NAO - Saturn
Seed Ensemble - Driftglass
Slowthai - Nothing Great About Britain
The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

2020

Anna Meredith - Fibs
Charli XCX - How I'm Feeling Now
Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
Georgia - Seeking Thrills
Kano - Hoodies All Summer
Lanterns on the Lake - Spook the Herd
Michael Kiwanuka - KIWANUKA
Moses Boyd - Dark Matter
Porridge Radio - Every Bad
Sports Team - Deep Down Happy
Stormzy - Heavy is the Head

So for 2020...who's your winner?

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