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 Manhattan Mercury ran another newspaper in the Seaton publishing group, the "Hastings (Neb.) Tribune", before entering into politics. The Manhattan Mercury The Manhattan Mercury is the local newspaper for Manhattan, Kansas. The "Mercury" is a daily newspaper published in the afternoon five days a week, and in the morning on Sunday. No Saturday edition is issued. The newspaper is physically printed on the "Mercury's" own in-house presses. The newspaper also maintains an online presence. The "Mercury" was founded as a weekly publication on May 9, 1884, at a time when Manhattan was already served by two other competing newspapers. It became a