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
2008 Polaris Music Prize Evelyn Cote ("Ici"), Lana Gay (CBC Radio 3), Kevin Kelly ("Newfoundland Herald"), Joshua Ostroff (AOL Canada), James Stewart Reaney ("London Free Press"), Li Robbins (CBC Radio/"The Globe and Mail"), Hannah Simone (MuchMusic), Darryl Sterdan ("Winnipeg Sun") and Frank Yang ("Chromewaves"). The prize's 10-album shortlist was announced on July 7. On June 12, for the first time in the three-year history of the award, the preliminary 40-album longlist was published. 2008 Polaris Music Prize The 2008 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 30, 2008 at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto. The prize was won by