Sam Fender wins 2025 Mercury Prize

Sam Fender has won the 2025 Mercury Prize for his album People Watching.

Among other nominated artists were Pulp, Wolf Alice, FKA Twigs, PinkPantheress, Pa Salieu, Emma-Jean Thackray, Jacob Alon, Joe Webb and Martin Carthy.

If Wolf Alice or Pulp had won the prize, they would have become only the second artist to have won the award twice after PJ Harvey, who won it with Stories From The City in 2001 and Let England Shake in 2011.

Pulp won the prize in 1996 with their album Different Class, whilst Wolf Alice won with Visions Of A Life in 2017.

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