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
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