Mercury Prize 2024: Shortlist of albums of the year unveiled

The Mercury Prize shortlist of the albums of the year for 2024 has been unveiled with a strong showing for new UK talent.

The 12 nominees include two FAC Ambassadors, English Teacher and Nia Archives.

Brat summer continues, with Charli XCX's new album also on the list. The Last Dinner Party’s album is the biggest seller so far on the list, although the streaming momentum of Charli XCX’s Brat – perhaps the album of the summer – means the Atlantic artist will overtake them this week.

And Portishead singer Beth Gibbons, a former winner who picked up the prize with the trip hop act's debut album Dummy back in 1994, is now nominated for the first time in her own name, for her debut solo album Lives Outgrown.

This is the second time round for Ghetts, for his fourth album, On Purpose, With Purpose, and Corinne Bailey Rae, who is recognised for her fourth album, Black Rainbows.

Barry Can't Swim – When Will We Land? (Ninja Tune) 

Berwyn – Who Am I (Columbia) 

Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown (Domino)

Cat Burns – Early Twenties (RCA/Since ’93)

Charli XCX – Brat (Atlantic)

CMAT – Crazymad, For Me (AWAL)

Corinne Bailey Rae – Black Rainbows (Thirty Tigers)

Corto.alto – Bad With Names (New Soil/Marathon Artists)

English Teacher – This Could Be Texas (Island)

Ghetts – On Purpose, With Purpose (Warner Records)

Nia Archives – Silence Is Loud (Island)

The Last Dinner Party – Prelude To Ecstasy (Island)

Congratulations to all the nominees!