{"id":654303,"date":"2026-10-22T23:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/654303\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T23:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:56:09","slug":"raye-wins-mercury-prize-for-album-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/654303\/","title":{"rendered":"Raye Wins Mercury Prize for Album of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSinger-songwriter and Variety Hitmakers 2024 honoree Raye<\/a> has won the 2026 Mercury prize for her epic second studio album, \u201cThis Music May Contain Hope,\u201d beating out Olivia Dean, Paul McCartney and others for the prize.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Mercury Prize has no real equivalent in the U.S., and is intended to recognize music from the U.K. and Ireland; the Brit Awards are more of a British equivalent to the Grammys. Past Mercury Prize best album winners include Arlo Parks, Little Simz, the XX, James Blake and others.<\/p>\n

\n\tRaye\u2019s album topped fellow nominees Dave (for \u201cThe Boy Who Played the Harp\u201d), Dove Ellis (\u201cBlizzard\u201d). Florence + the Machine (\u201cEverybody Scream\u201d), Jade (\u201cThat\u2019s Showbiz Baby!\u201d), Knats (\u201cA Great Day in Newcastle\u201d), Kojey Radical (\u201cDon\u2019t Look Down\u201d), Nia Archives (\u201cEmotional Junglist\u201d), Olivia Dean (\u201cThe Art of Loving\u201d), Paul McCartney (\u201cThe Boys of Dungeon Lane\u201d), Suede (\u201cAntidepressants\u201d) and the War Child \u201cHelp(2)\u201d compilation.<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety wrote of Raye\u2019s album:<\/a> \u201cSuffice it to say, the album does not lack for ambition: Divided into four sections based on the seasons, it sprawls across a surprisingly fast-moving 70 minutes, 17 songs and nearly as many styles. Inevitably, it runs the risk of being too much for some listeners: too many songs, too many stylistic pivots, too much of\u2026 well, basically everything. This is not an album for background listening \u2014 it basically demands your attention.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut as artists from Queen to Beyonc\u00e9 have proven, ambition and excess can be glorious things when deployed with intelligence and humor, and while we\u2019re not equating Raye with either of the above, there\u2019s a similar sense here of trusting the artist to take you on an interesting voyage without wasting your time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPerformers at the show included Suede, Pulp, and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer-songwriter and Variety Hitmakers 2024 honoree Raye has won the 2026 Mercury prize for her epic second studio…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409,4000],"class_list":["post-654303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-raye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}