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
The Big Prize of this album, the band won the Juno Award for "Group of the Year" and was also nominated for "Album of the Year" in 1986. In a 2008 interview, Honeymoon Suite's guitarist Derry Grehan said "I think our best record was "The Big Prize"." Following the success of their debut album and a subsequent two-year tour, Honeymoon Suite wrote much of their next album on the road. "The Big Prize" was produced by Bruce Fairbairn with assistance from fellow Canadian Bob Rock and featured the trademark 80s sound of rock guitars interlaced with keyboards. The first single "Bad Attitude" was