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Posted by: liamk97 14th September 2017, 11:22 AM
The biggest selling Mercury Prize-winning albums revealed
13 September 2017 | By Rob Copsey
For some acts, the prize has been a springboard to further success, while others never quite managed to escape its shadow.
Over the last 26 years, the Mercury Prize has thrust plenty of gems of albums into the spotlight that may have otherwise gone unnoticed forever.
For acts such as The xx, Dizzee Rascal and Alt-J, the prize has been a springboard to further success, often on a global scale, while others never quite managed to escape its shadow.
With this year's recipient announced on September 14, Official Charts has crunched the numbers to reveal which Mercury Prize-winning records have sold the most.
Finishing top of the pile are Arctic Monkeys, winners in 2006 with their debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not. The record was hugely popular before its Mercury nod - shifting 360,000 copies in its opening week alone - but its win no doubt spurred on sales, which currently stand at just shy of 1.7 million.
Three more prize winning albums have passed the million sales mark; Pulp's Different Class, which won in 1996, has sold 1.3m, and Franz Ferdinand's self-titled debut - released in 2004 at the height of the early '00s indie-pop wave - has shifted 1.28m. Meanwhile, Mercury shortlist regulars Elbow have sold 1.1m of The Seldom Seen Kid, which won the gong in 2008.
M People, the often-forgotten winners of the Mercury Prize in 1994, have the sixth best-selling winners album with their second album Elegant Slumming (756,000), while Londoners The xx - an act who shot to worldwide fame thanks to their win - place eighth with healthy sales of 577,000 for their self-titled debut. Originally entering the Official Albums Chart at 36 in 2009, the record shot to Number 3 after their win the following year.
PJ Harvey - the only artist to claim the Mercury twice - sees her 2001 winner Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (294,000) place just two spots higher than 2011's Let England Shake (173,000), just ahead of last year's winner, Konnichiwa by Skepta (147,000).
This year's Mercury Prize winner will be announced at an awards show held at London's Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith on Thursday, September 14. The event will feature live performances from the majority of the twelve shortlisted artists, broadcast on BBC Four and BBC Radio 6 Music.
The Official best-selling Mercury Prize-winning albums
POS TITLE ARTIST PEAK YEAR OF WIN
1 WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM THAT'S WHAT I'M NOT ARCTIC MONKEYS 1 2006 1.7m
2 DIFFERENT CLASS PULP 1 1996 1.3m
3 FRANZ FERDINAND FRANZ FERDINAND 3 2004 1.28m
4 THE SELDOM SEEN KID ELBOW 5 2008 1.1m
5 DUMMY PORTISHEAD 2 1995
6 ELEGANT SLUMMING M PEOPLE 4 1994 756k
7 SCREAMADELICA PRIMAL SCREAM 8 1992
8 XX THE XX 3 2010 577k
9 A LITTLE DEEPER MS DYNAMITE 10 2002
10 BRING IT ON GOMEZ 11 1998
11 THE HOUR OF BEWILDERBEAST BADLY DRAWN BOY 13 2000
12 AN AWESOME WAVE ALT-J 13 2012
13 MYTHS OF THE NEAR FUTURE KLAXONS 2 2007
14 NEW FORMS RONI SIZE/REPRAZENT 8 1997
15 SUEDE SUEDE 1 1993
16 BOY IN DA CORNER DIZZEE RASCAL 23 2003
17 STORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA PJ HARVEY 23 2001 294k
18 I AM A BIRD NOW ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS 16 2005
19 LET ENGLAND SHAKE PJ HARVEY 8 2011 173k
20 KONNICHIWA SKEPTA 2 2016 147k
21 OK TALVIN SINGH 41 1999
22 OVERGROWN JAMES BLAKE 8 2013
23 AT LEAST FOR NOW BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE 37 2015
24 DEAD YOUNG FATHERS 35 2014
25 SPEECH THERAPY SPEECH DEBELLE 65 2009
©2017 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.
Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 14th September 2017, 12:28 PM
Is Dummy by Portishead a million seller?
That's one of the very best albums ever.
Posted by: Bjork 14th September 2017, 12:38 PM
According to wiki its on 825k (up to sept 2011) so quite far
But agree amazing album
Some great albums in the list, Together with some wtf like M People 
Posted by: lewistgreen 17th September 2017, 03:26 PM
OCC have also compiled a chart for the best selling albums from past winners of the prize. Full chart below with the year won and peak position in brackets.
1. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not (2006, #1)
2. Pulp - Different Class (1996, #1)
3. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004, #3)
4. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (2008, #5)
5. Portishead - Dummy (1995, #2)
6. M People - Elegant Slumming (1994, #4)
7. Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1992, #8)
8. The xx - xx (2010, #3)
9. Ms. Dynamite - A Little Deeper (2002, #10)
10. Gomez - Bring It On (1998, #11)
11. Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast (2000, #13)
12. alt-J - An Awesome Wave (2012, #13)
13. Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future (2007, #2)
14. Roni Size & Reprazent - New Forms (1997, #8)
15. Suede - Suede (1993, #1)
16. Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner (2003, #23)
17. PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (2001, #23)
18. Antony & The Johnson - I Am A Bird Now (2005, #16)
19. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (2011, #8)
20. Skepta - Konnichiwa (2016, #2)
21. Talvin Singh - OK (1999, #41)
22. James Blake - Overgrown (2013, #8)
23. Benjamin Clementine - At Least For Now (2015, #37)
24. Young Fathers - Dead (2014, #35)
25. Speech Debelle - Speech Therapy (2009, #65)
Three more prize winning albums have passed the million sales mark; Pulp's Different Class, which won in 1996, has sold 1.3m, and Franz Ferdinand's self-titled debut - released in 2004 at the height of the early '00s indie-pop wave - has shifted 1.28m. Meanwhile, Mercury shortlist regulars Elbow have sold 1.1m of The Seldom Seen Kid, which won the gong in 2008.
M People, the often-forgotten winners of the Mercury Prize in 1994, have the sixth best-selling winners album with their second album Elegant Slumming (756,000), while Londoners The xx - an act who shot to worldwide fame thanks to their win - place eighth with healthy sales of 577,000 for their self-titled debut. Originally entering the Official Albums Chart at 36 in 2009, the record shot to Number 3 after their win the following year.
PJ Harvey - the only artist to claim the Mercury twice - sees her 2001 winner Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (294,000) place just two spots higher than 2011's Let England Shake (173,000), just ahead of last year's winner, Konnichiwa by Skepta (147,000).
Posted by: Brett-Butler 17th September 2017, 04:10 PM
Like heck Roni Size has sold more copies than Suede's debut album!
Posted by: dandy* 17th September 2017, 06:26 PM
That does seem incredibly unlikely!
Posted by: Jester 17th September 2017, 07:19 PM
What has the marvellous Dummy sold? Clearly between 800k and a million then?
Posted by: JCM20 18th September 2017, 07:21 PM
Another sales list from 2011
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AiXOITXusTjadHltV3hDN3c0Z1NYckFaeVZVR2dKZ0E
Posted by: liamk97 18th September 2018, 12:14 PM
Mercury Prize: The best-selling winning albums
17 September 2018 | By Rob Copsey
For some acts, the prize was a springboard to further success, while others never quite escaped its shadow.
Over the last 27 years, the Mercury Prize has thrust plenty of gems of albums into the spotlight that may otherwise have gone unnoticed forever.
For acts such as The xx, Dizzee Rascal and Alt-J, the prize was a springboard to further success, often on a global scale, while others never quite managed to escape its shadow.
With this year's recipient announced on Thursday September 20, Official Charts has crunched the numbers to reveal which Mercury Prize-winning records have sold the most, based on a combined figure of physical, digital, and streaming equivalent sales.
Finishing top of the pile are Arctic Monkeys, winners in 2006 with their debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not. The record was hugely popular before its Mercury nod - shifting 360,000 copies in its opening week alone - but its win no doubt spurred on sales, which currently stand at just shy of 1.78 million. Look at Arctic Monkey's Official UK Chart history in full here.
Three more prize winning albums have passed the million sales mark; Pulp's Different Class, which won in 1996, has sold 1.3m, and Franz Ferdinand's self-titled debut - released in 2004 at the height of the early '00s indie-pop wave - has shifted 1.29m. Meanwhile, Mercury shortlist regulars Elbow have sold 1.1m of The Seldom Seen Kid, which won the gong in 2008.
M People, the often-forgotten winners of the Mercury Prize in 1994, have the sixth best-selling winners album with their second album Elegant Slumming (757,000), while Londoners The xx - an act who shot to worldwide fame thanks to their win - place eighth with healthy sales of 597,000 for their self-titled debut. Originally entering the Official Albums Chart at 36 in 2009, the record shot to Number 3 after their win the following year.
First winners Primal Scream, who are still together, come in seventh with Screamadelica, on 707,000.
PJ Harvey – the only artist to claim the Mercury twice – sees her 2001 winner Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (296,000) place just two spots higher than 2011's Let England Shake (175,000), just ahead of last year's winner, Konnichiwa by Skepta (173,000).
This year's Mercury Prize winner will be announced at an awards show held at London's Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith on Thursday, September 20. The event will feature live performances from the majority of the twelve shortlisted artists, broadcast on BBC Four and BBC Radio 6 Music.
The Official best-selling Mercury Prize-winning albums
POS TITLE ARTIST PEAK YEAR OF WIN
1 WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM THAT'S WHAT I'M NOT ARCTIC MONKEYS 1 2006 1.780m
2 DIFFERENT CLASS PULP 1 1996 1.3m
3 FRANZ FERDINAND FRANZ FERDINAND 3 2004 1.29m
4 THE SELDOM SEEN KID ELBOW 5 2008 1.1m
5 DUMMY PORTISHEAD 2 1995
6 ELEGANT SLUMMING M PEOPLE 4 1994 757k
7 SCREAMADELICA PRIMAL SCREAM 8 1992 707k
8 XX THE XX 3 2010 597k
9 A LITTLE DEEPER MS DYNAMITE 10 2002
10 BRING IT ON GOMEZ 11 1998
11 THE HOUR OF BEWILDERBEAST BADLY DRAWN BOY 13 2000
12 AN AWESOME WAVE ALT-J 13 2012
13 MYTHS OF THE NEAR FUTURE KLAXONS 2 2007
14 NEW FORMS RONI SIZE/REPRAZENT 8 1997
16 BOY IN DA CORNER DIZZEE RASCAL 23 2003
17 SUEDE SUEDE 1 1993
18 STORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA PJ HARVEY 23 2001 296k
19 I AM A BIRD NOW ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS 16 2005
20 LET ENGLAND SHAKE PJ HARVEY 8 2011 175k
21 KONNICHIWA SKEPTA 2 2016 173k
22 OK TALVIN SINGH 41 1999
23 OVERGROWN JAMES BLAKE 8 2013
24 PROCESS SAMPHA 7 2017
25 AT LEAST FOR NOW BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE 37 2015
26 DEAD YOUNG FATHERS 35 2014
27 SPEECH THERAPY SPEECH DEBELLE 65 2009
©2018 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.
Posted by: JCM20 19th September 2018, 02:09 PM
This must include streams then, as WPSIATWIN was on 1.63m in May.
Posted by: Bjork 2nd October 2018, 10:59 AM
Wait is the data on M People correct?
I had it much much higher
A thread at Haven on million seller albums has it on 1 million
Posted by: Gezza 2nd October 2018, 01:04 PM
It will probably have the downgraded 94-96 sales on it and possibly missing 1993 as that was before the OCC time.
Posted by: Bjork 2nd October 2018, 01:41 PM
thanks that makes sense
Posted by: 28 Daleks Later 3rd October 2018, 11:23 AM
Was lucky to find At Least For Now in a H&D charity shop back in June 2016.
Posted by: Medellíam 19th September 2019, 11:32 AM
https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/mercury-prize-the-best-selling-winning-albums__20414/
The Official biggest Mercury Prize-winning albums
POS TITLE ARTIST PEAK YEAR OF WIN CHART SALES
1 WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM THAT'S WHAT I'M NOT ARCTIC MONKEYS 1 2006 1.86M
2 DIFFERENT CLASS PULP 1 1996 1.32M
3 FRANZ FERDINAND FRANZ FERDINAND 3 2004 1.3M
4 THE SELDOM SEEN KID ELBOW 5 2008 1.1M
5 DUMMY PORTISHEAD 2 1995 907K
6 ELEGANT SLUMMING M PEOPLE 4 1994 758K
7 SCREAMADELICA PRIMAL SCREAM 8 1992 707k
8 XX THE XX 3 2010 612K
10 BRING IT ON GOMEZ 11 1998 499K
9 A LITTLE DEEPER MS DYNAMITE 10 2002 498K
11 THE HOUR OF BEWILDERBEAST BADLY DRAWN BOY 13 2000 460K
12 AN AWESOME WAVE ALT-J 13 2012 428K
13 MYTHS OF THE NEAR FUTURE KLAXONS 2 2007 350K
14 NEW FORMS RONI SIZE/REPRAZENT 8 1997 335K
16 BOY IN DA CORNER DIZZEE RASCAL 23 2003 306K
17 SUEDE SUEDE 1 1993 301K
18 STORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA PJ HARVEY 23 2001 298K
19 I AM A BIRD NOW ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS 16 2005 232K
21 KONNICHIWA SKEPTA 2 2016 191K
20 LET ENGLAND SHAKE PJ HARVEY 8 2011 177K
22 OK TALVIN SINGH 41 1999 91K
23 OVERGROWN JAMES BLAKE 8 2013 81K
23 VISIONS OF A LIFE WOLF ALICE 2 2018 80K
24 PROCESS SAMPHA 7 2017 57K
25 AT LEAST FOR NOW BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE 37 2015 35K
26 DEAD YOUNG FATHERS 35 2014 19K
27 SPEECH THERAPY SPEECH DEBELLE 65 2009 15K
Copyright Official Charts Company 2019.
*This chart is compiled taking in physical sales, downloads and streaming equivalent sales.
Posted by: Bré 19th September 2019, 11:52 AM
They didn't even change the positions from the last time they posted this... 
Posted by: tommie 19th September 2019, 11:55 AM
I guess PJ Harvey's Stories From The City will go Platinum within a year or so then, unless it's already certified based on shipments.
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