Mercury Prize

Quality:

Mercury Prize - Annual music prize in the United Kingdom. Article “Mercury Prize” in Simple English Wikipedia has 64.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 31 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Mercury Prize”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 949 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 38 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4023 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1532 in September 2016
• Global: #8408 in October 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5936 in October 2025
• Global: #13339 in September 2009

There are 31 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Mercury Prize		77.9028
2	Vietnamese (vi) Giải Mercury		68.3264
3	Simple English (simple) Mercury Prize		64.4352
4	Polish (pl) Mercury Prize		63.3363
5	Serbian (sr) Награда Меркјури		58.8945
6	Catalan (ca) Premi Mercury		58.4244
7	Swedish (sv) Mercury Prize		55.1734
8	Russian (ru) Mercury Prize		54.955
9	Indonesian (id) Mercury Prize		52.3467
10	Spanish (es) Premio Mercury		47.2563

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mercury Prize		4 307 356
2	Russian (ru) Mercury Prize		118 273
3	Spanish (es) Premio Mercury		108 862
4	German (de) Mercury Prize		84 035
5	French (fr) Mercury Prize		83 433
6	Italian (it) Premio Mercury		58 179
7	Polish (pl) Mercury Prize		57 664
8	Japanese (ja) マーキュリー賞		48 890
9	Chinese (zh) 水星音樂獎		34 016
10	Portuguese (pt) Mercury Prize		33 811

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mercury Prize		9 405
2	Japanese (ja) マーキュリー賞		242
3	Italian (it) Premio Mercury		217
4	French (fr) Mercury Prize		181
5	Russian (ru) Mercury Prize		161
6	German (de) Mercury Prize		147
7	Spanish (es) Premio Mercury		143
8	Chinese (zh) 水星音樂獎		90
9	Polish (pl) Mercury Prize		67
10	Portuguese (pt) Mercury Prize		61

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mercury Prize		377
2	French (fr) Mercury Prize		90
3	German (de) Mercury Prize		67
4	Russian (ru) Mercury Prize		50
5	Italian (it) Premio Mercury		46
6	Dutch (nl) Mercury Prize		40
7	Spanish (es) Premio Mercury		30
8	Hebrew (he) פרס מרקיורי		23
9	Polish (pl) Mercury Prize		22
10	Swedish (sv) Mercury Prize		22

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mercury Prize		2
2	Arabic (ar) جائزة ميركوري		1
3	Catalan (ca) Premi Mercury		1
4	Italian (it) Premio Mercury		1
5	Belarusian (be) Mercury Prize		0
6	Czech (cs) Mercury Prize		0
7	German (de) Mercury Prize		0
8	Spanish (es) Premio Mercury		0
9	Persian (fa) جایزه مرکوری		0
10	Finnish (fi) Mercury Prize		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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