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
Music of Sussex (nominated for a Mercury Prize for "Do You Like Rock Music?"), The Go! Team (nominated for a Mercury Prize for "Thunder, Lightning, Strike"), The Kooks, The Electric Soft Parade (nominated for a Mercury Prize for "Holes in the Wall"), The Ordinary Boys, The Pipettes, Brakes, Architects, Blood Red Shoes and Dead Swans. Keane's 2004 debut album "Hopes and Fears" won a Brit Award and a Mercury Prize nomination, and went to number one in the UK album chart. Keane's follow up albums "Under The Iron Sea" and "Perfect Symmetry" also rose to the top of the UK album chart. 2004