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
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