{"id":722576,"date":"2026-08-01T10:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/722576\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T10:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:18:25","slug":"mercury-prize-olivia-dean-nominated-for-prestigious-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/722576\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Prize: Olivia Dean nominated for prestigious award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are 12 albums that get shortlisted for the award every year, and whilst all nominees get an &#8216;Album of the Year&#8217; trophy, only one can be the overall winner. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And that artist also gets \u00a325,000 too! <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/articles\/c2dke909n62o\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Fender<\/a> won the Mercury Prize, and donated the prize money to supporting small music venues across the UK. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;ll have to wait until October to find out this year&#8217;s winner, at Newcastle&#8217;s Utilita Arena. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are 12 albums that get shortlisted for the award every year, and whilst all nominees get an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-722576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}