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Sam Fender has won the 2025 Mercury Prize for his album People Watching. The announcement was made during the award ceremony in Newcastle on Thursday night, marking the event's debut outside of London ...

Sam Fender fans have rushed to his defence after backlash over his big win at the 2025 Mercury Prize Awards. With one of the strongest shortlists in recent memory, the Geordie singer landed a hometown ...

Chants of 'Toon, toon, toon' echoed around Newcastle's Utilita Arena SAM Fender has won the 2025 Mercury Prize for his album People Watching. The singer-songwriter, 31, nabbed the trophy and £25,000 ...

A shocked Fender picked up the Mercury Prize before an adoring local crowd at the Utilita Arena - Euan Cherry/Getty Images Through floods of tears, visibly shaking and backed by the deafening audience ...

Sam Fender has said the north-east of England is the "best region in the country" after collecting his Mercury Prize in Newcastle. The North Shields singer won the award for his third studio album, ...

Sam Fender has been announced as the winner of the Mercury Prize 2025...and on home ground too. Following the ceremony at Newcastle's Utilita Arena, local Tyneside talent Sam Fender and his Number 1 ...

British singer-songwriter Sam Fender has won the Mercury Prize2025 for his third album, ‘People Watching’. The 31-year-old artist was previously nominated in 2022 and beat stiff competition this year ...

Last night, Sam Fender won the 2025 Mercury Prize — the annual award given to best album released by a musical act from the UK or Ireland determined by a panel of music industry figures — for his ...

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 ...

The singer, 31, toom home the presitigous award at the ceremony in Newcastle on Thursday, the first time the ceremony has been held outside London. The Mercury Prize is an annnual prize given to the ...

Sam Fender wins Mercury Prize 2025 for album People Watching Judges say Fender's "classic" album will take "pride of place in record collections for years to come" "We didn't think that was going to ...