– Bankole Notable Mercury-friendly accolades: Their story is one big Mercury-friendly accolade, with just the right amount of struggle (shedding their boy-band guise, a former album that got ditched) and a dose of triumph against adversity (forming an experimental rap group in Edinburgh).
Notable Mercury-friendly accolades: Manchester jazz trio who fuse traditional jazz elements with electronica and classical.
Notable Mercury-friendly accolades: His former band Portico Quartet were nominated for the prize back in 2008.
Mercury-friendly accolades: Calvi's work to date is not just commercially successful – her last album sold upwards of 170,000 copies - but it is also critically celebrated.
Notable Mercury-friendly accolades: A lot of time and attention was paid to Jungle's interesting aesthetic – and there was a sense of genuine excitement surrounding The Heat, a transfixing video which stars skating duo High Rollaz.
Notable Mercury-friendly accolades: The band celebrated a double victory with their debut – not only claiming the No 1 album spot but also becoming the fastest-selling rock debut in three years.
Notable Mercury-friendly accolades: They were nonimated for a Mercury back in 2005 (and lost out admirably to the mighty I Am a Bird Now by Antony and the Johnsons).
The Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin, is used to receiving accolades in friendly nations, but even he may raise an eyebrow at the prize he has just been awarded in China: peacemaker of the year.
In an excellent limited launch, Disney released Steven Spielberg's more accolade-friendly Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, in 15th place on $900,000 from 11 sites.
The great United and England statesman Sir Bobby Charlton received a similar accolade at the friendly against Belgium in June, but it was Beckham who was afforded the bigger ovation.
She saved a penalty in a friendly last year in Scotland, gaining accolades there and at home.
