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The Mercury Prize 1996

Click on an album to read more about it at Amazon. 1996 was the year Jarvis Cocker's band Pulp
hit the big time. Different Class beat nine other albums to win them the Mercury Prize. Among the
runners up were Oasis, nominated for the second year in a row. Their album (What's The Story)
Morning Glory had been the favourite to win. It would later go on to sell more than 10 million copies.


Nominees and
Winners from
Other Years

2007 : 2006
2005 : 2004
2003 : 2002
2001 : 2000
1999 : 1998
1997 : 1995
1994
: 1993
1992

Winners Only
1992–2007


1996 Best Album
Nominees and Winners
Grammy Awards
MOBO Awards
Q Awards

1996
Best Album lists
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Winner
 
Pulp
Different Class
Previous albums: Countdown, Freaks, His 'n' Hers, Intro – The Gift Recordings, Separations
Albums released since: Goes To The Disco, On Fire, The Peel Sessions, This Is Hardcore, We Love Life
 
Also nominated
 
Black Grape
It's Great When You're Straight.... Yeah!
Previous albums: None
Albums released since: Stupid Stupid Stupid
 

Manic Street Preachers
Everything Must Go

Previous albums: Generation Terrorists, Gold Against The Soul, The Holy Bible
Albums released since: Know Your Enemy, Lifeblood, Send Away The Tigers, This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours...
 
Peter Maxwell Davies
The Beltane Fire/Caroline Mathilde
Previous albums: Into The Labyrinth, Symphony No 1, Symphony No 2, Symphony No 3, The Lighthouse, The Martyrdom Of St Magnus, Worldes Blis/The Turn Of The Tide/Sir Charles His Pavan
Albums released since: Carolísima, Chamber Works, Job, Landscape & Time, Mavis In Las Vegas, Salome, Sinfonia
 
Mark Morrison
Return Of The Mack
Previous albums: None
Albums released since: The Judgement
 
Oasis
(What's The Story) Morning Glory
Previous albums: Definitely Maybe
Albums released since: Be Here Now, Don't Believe The Truth, Familiar To Millions (Live), Heathen Chemistry, Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants, Stop The Clocks, The Masterplan
 
Courtney Pine
Modern Day Jazz Stories
Previous albums: Closer To Home, Destiny's Song And The Image Of Pursuance, Journey To The Urge Within, The Vision's Tale, To The Eyes Of Creation, Within The Realms Of Our Dreams

Albums released since: Another Story, Back In The Day, Devotion, Remix Album, Resistance, Underground

 
Underworld
Second Toughest In The Infants
Previous albums: Change The Weather, Dubnobasswithmyheadman, Underneath The Radar
Albums released since: A Hundred Days Off, Beaucoup Fish, Breaking And Entering (Soundtrack with Gabriel Yared), Everything Everything, Live In Tokyo, Sunshine (Soundtrack with John Murphy), Wordimagesoundplay (Soundtrack)
 
Various
Help: Artists For War Child
Previous albums: None
Albums released since: None
 

Norma Waterson
Norma Waterson

Previous albums: Waterson:Carthy (with Martin and Eliza Carthy)
Albums released since: Bright Shiny Morning, Common Tongue (with Martin and Eliza Carthy), The Very Thought Of You

 



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