Mercury Prize £25,000. The winner also receives an additional winner's trophy. To date, PJ Harvey is the only artist to have won the award on more than one occasion (in 2001 and 2011). She was also the first female solo artist to receive the award. Alex Turner has received five nominations as a member of Arctic Monkeys and The Last Shadow Puppets, winning once. Thom Yorke has 6 nominations, 5 with Radiohead and one for "The Eraser", but has never won. The Mercury Prize can have a considerable effect on sales for those artists who are shortlisted. Elbow saw a 700% sales
Prize Lady Prize Lady Prize Lady is a top New Zealand thoroughbred racehorse. Prize Lady is a bay mare bred in New Zealand by D.G. & R.B. McLaren Ltd. She was sired by the American stallion Prized who won the Breeders' Cup Turf in 1989. As a three-year-old Prize Lady showed very promising form as she finished second in both the Travis Stakes and the New Zealand Oaks. When moved up in distance she showed improved form and won the Auckland Cup in 2007. She repeated her Auckland Cup victory in 2008 becoming the first horse to achieve this feat since Il