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
The Weston & Somerset Mercury The Weston & Somerset Mercury The Weston, Worle & Somerset Mercury is a weekly paid for newspaper that covers Weston-super-Mare and the surrounding areas of Somerset and North Somerset in England. The "Weston Mercury" was established 1 April 1843 and was family-owned for much of its history. It is now owned by publishing company Archant. It has won the Newspaper Society's Community Newspaper of the year award numerous times, most recently in 2007 and 2008. Its office is in the heart of Weston town centre. Also based in the Weston office is the Mercury's sister paper, the "North Somerset Times",