Sales for the Mercury Prize nominations:

 

Anna Calvi, Hunter (Domino): 9,823

 

Black Midi, Schlagenheim (Rough Trade): 3,400

 

Cate Le Bon, Reward (Mexican Summer): 2,957

 

Dave, Psychodrama (Dave Neighbourhood/Universal): 112,976

 

Foals, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Pt 1 (Warner Records): 51,712

 

Fontaines DC, Dogrel (Partisan): 17,915

 

Idles, Joy As An Act Of Resistance (Partisan): 48,554

 

Little Simz, Grey Area (Age 101/AWAL): 7,584

 

Nao, Saturn (RCA): 11,832

 

Seed Ensemble, Driftglass (Jazz Refreshed): 374

 

Slowthai, Nothing Great About Britain (Method/Universal), 15,252

 

The 1975, A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (Dirty Hit/Polydor): 138,397

LOL at an album that sold 374 copies being nominated for a Mercury Prize!

slowthai repping Northampton *.* would love if he could snatch the win!

Slowthai pls.

The Mercury Prize has gone to Dave! Psychodrama is a perfect choice of winner imo! :wub:

Easily my least favourite of the noms, oh well. Wolf Alice last year were much better winners

The 1975 not winning :cheer:

 

A bit gutted for slowthai but he was the bookies' favourite and they seem to win pretty rarely so should have seen it coming. Dave still a good winner x

should’ve been Idles let’s be honest

 

that Black Midi performance though *.*!!! scalped

 

 

That was easily my favourite of the nominations, very rare for my fave to end up winning so I'm glad to see Dave get such a deserved win! :wub: Those who have only heard singles like Location completely miss what an incredible artist he is, his lyrics can be brilliant and album tracks like Lesley really do surprise you.

Dave's lyrics are good tbf, but I just can't stand his sound.

Was rooting for Little Simz out of what I'd heard but good for Dave! It's really refreshing to see a music award that treats hip hop as the most culturally relevant, creatively vibrant genre out there, rather than a

to be avoided so it hopefully goes away.

Taken a listen to the winning album, very powerful stuff, I hadn't really heard much at all out of Dave (nor any of the other Mercury nominees, something I'm planning to fix), but well worthy winner, excellent lyrics throughout, 'Lesley' in particular is a beautiful track.

Yeh Daves album is excellent. I've actually got quite a few of the final list including Little Simz/Slowthai/Foals. Also meant to listen to the NAO album, she is 😍

I think it was a fully deserving winner. Tracks like Psycho, Black and Lesley are incredible. Fontaines D.C. and Little Simz were comfortably my two favourites from the list but Dave is great too.

The 1975 not winning :cheer:

 

I don't know whether them not being there or being read out first played a part, but it did strike me that there was zero cheering from the crowd when they were read out and various levels of whooping for the other eleven acts.