Posted September 14, 20177 yr 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.
September 14, 20177 yr Is Dummy by Portishead a million seller? That's one of the very best albums ever.
September 14, 20177 yr 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 ;)
September 17, 20177 yr 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) 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).
September 18, 20177 yr Another sales list from 2011 https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet...ckFaeVZVR2dKZ0E
September 18, 20186 yr Author 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.
October 2, 20186 yr 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
October 2, 20186 yr It will probably have the downgraded 94-96 sales on it and possibly missing 1993 as that was before the OCC time.
September 19, 20195 yr Author https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/m...-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.
September 19, 20195 yr They didn't even change the positions from the last time they posted this... :lol:
September 19, 20195 yr 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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