El prestigioso galardón musical Mercury Prize 2012 ha recaído sobre la formación Alt-J gracias a su disco debut An Awesome Wave (Infectious Music, 2012).
∆, formación británica formada por Gwil Sainsbury (guitarra/bajo), Joe Newman (guitarra/voces), Gus Unger-Hamilton (teclado) y Thom Green (batería) se ha impuesto sobre otros candidatos como Jessie Ware, Django Django o Richard Hawley.
Anteriores ganadores
2011 PJ Harvey -Let England Shake
2010 The xx-xx
2009 Speech Debelle -Speech Therapy
2008 Elbow -The Seldom Seen Kid
2007 Klaxons -Myths of the Near Future
2006 Arctic Monkeys- Whatever people says I am, that’s what I’m not
2005 Anthony and the Johnsons -I´m a bird now
2004 Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
2003 Dizzee Rascal – Boy In Da Corner
2002 Ms. Dynamite – A Little Deeper
2001 PJ Harvey – Songs From The City, Stories From The Sea
2000 Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
1999 Talvin Singh – OK
1998 Gomez – Bring It On
1997 Roni Size/Reprazent – New Forms
1996 Pulp – Different Class
1995 Portishead – Dummy
1994 M People – Elegant Slumming
1993 Suede – Suede
1992 Primal Scream – Screamadelica
