In the years following its release, "Urban Hymns" has received much acclaim. In 2000 it was voted number 213 in Colin Larkin's "All Time Top 1000 Albums". "Q" included it in their 1999 list of the 90 best albums of the 1990s, while the magazine's readers voted it the eighteenth best album of all-time in 1998, later moved up to sixteenth place in a similar list compiled in 2006. The Verve were awarded with the first ever "Q" Classic Album award for "Urban Hymns" at the 2007 "Q" Awards, and the following year, "Urban Hymns" was ranked as the tenth best British album of all time in a poll jointly conducted by "Q" and HMV. It was also nominated for Best British Album of the Last 30 Years at the 2010 Brit Awards, but lost to Oasis' "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?". In 2013, "NME" ranked it at number 128 in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.