Here’s the short list for the 2023 Mercury Prize
The Mercury Prize (the inspiration for Canada’s Polaris Prize) seeks to determine the best album in the UK from the last year regardless of commercial success or genre. The short list of 12
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The Short List for the 2023 Polaris Music Prize is here!
In a process that started last year, more than 200 music boffins across country nominated, debated, and then voted on more than 200 albums with the goal of whittling things down to the
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Here’s the Short List for the 2022 Polaris Music Prize. One of these albums will win $50,000 tonight
What was once a list of more then 200 nominated albums became a Long List of forty. And now just ten remain in contention for the 2022 Polaris Music Prize. Here we go
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We have the Short List for Britain’s 2022 Mercury Prize
A few weeks after the Polaris Music Prize announced the Short List for 2022, the equivalent Short List for Britain’s Mercury Prize is out. Here are the nominations in alphabetical order. Fergus McCreadie
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The 2021 Polaris Music Prize Gala is TONIGHT!
The finale of the 2021 Polaris Music prize is coming up tonight (September 27) and after months of debating and arguing, one album will be named the best Canadian record of the year
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Here is the Short List for the 2021 Polaris Music Prize
You know we’re deep into summer when we start talking about the finalists for the Polaris Music Prize. We started with over 200 albums nominated by more than 200 music wonks across the
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Here is your Polaris Music Prize shortlist for 2020
When this whole process began, music wonks such as myself nominated over 200 albums for consideration by the Polaris Music Prize jury. Last month, a cull cut that down to the Long List
Read MoreHere is the Short List for the 2019 Polaris Music Prize
First came the nominations, resulting in about 200 candidate albums. Then came the vote to bring things down to the Long List. Now after another round of voting by music wonks across the
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Shortlist nominations for the 2018 Mercury Prize announced
The Mercury Prize is the UK equivalent of Canada’s Polaris Music Prize: An attempt to name the best British or Irish album of the past year regardless of genre or commercial success. And
Read MoreAnd the 2018 Polaris Music Prize Short List is…
After a year of arguing, lobbying, cajoling, kvetching, and passioned imploring by the 200+ members of the extended Polaris Music Prize jury, it’s come down to these ten finalists for the 2018 prize.
Read MoreHere Are Your Performers for the 2016 Polaris Music Prize
We’re less than three weeks from the Polaris Music Prize Gala, the night where one artist will be recognized as released the best Canadian album of the year. (Review the Short List here.)
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