Indie singer Sam Fender won the UK's prestigious Mercury Prize on Thursday with his chart-topping album "People Watching", as the award ceremony moved out of London for the first time. The crowd in ...

Sam Fender has won the 2025 Mercury Prize for his third album, People Watching, a steely-eyed dissection of working-class life in the north of England. The singer looked stunned when his name was ...

Sam Fender has won the 2025 Mercury Prize for his album People Watching. The annual award is given to best album released by a musical act from the UK or Ireland, as determined by a panel of music ...

He might have gone into the night languishing in eighth place in the odds on who was going to win, but it's Sam Fender's name that's on the Mercury Prize this year. And, having heard cries of 'fix' ...

The Mercury prize almost always produces surprises – among them, Gomez not The Verve in 1998, and English Teacher not Charli XCX in 2024 – but perhaps the biggest surprise is that the prize has ...

Fresh off his Mercury Prize win, Sam Fender has shared a new song, “Talk to You,” which features Elton John on piano. The Marcus Dravs-produced track comes off on the forthcoming deluxe edition of ...

Sam Fender has said the north-east of England is the "best region in the country" after collecting his Mercury Prize in ...

Sam Fender’s third album People Watching has been nominated for another national award following his Mercury Prize success.