Mercury Prize increase of their album "The Seldom Seen Kid" after winning the Prize in 2008. In their winner's speech, Elbow's frontman Guy Garvey said that winning the Mercury Prize was 'Quite literally the best thing that has ever happened to us'. Similarly, sales of The xx's winning album rose by 450% the day after they won the 2010 Mercury Prize and 2013 winner James Blake saw a 2,500% sales increase on Amazon after he was announced as the winner of the 2013 Mercury Prize. 2011 winner PJ Harvey's album "Let England Shake" jumped from number 181 to 24 in the UK
Mercury Rev Singles Chart. Mercury Rev's "The Secret Migration" was released on January 24, 2005. This was followed up in 2006, by a compilation album, "" and the film soundtrack album "Hello Blackbird". More recently, the band released a pair of albums on September 29, 2008: "Snowflake Midnight", and a free MP3 album of instrumentals, "Strange Attractor". Mercury Rev's most recent album, "The Light in You", was released on October 2, 2015 through Bella Union. It was their first studio album in seven years. Mercury Rev Mercury Rev is an American indie rock band formed in 1989 in Buffalo, New York. Original