Harry Styles received his first British Music Mercury Prize nomination with his third solo album, competing with artists including singer-songwriter Sam Fender and rapper Little Simz.
Styles was runner-up Tuesday for his album “Harry’s House,” which has topped the UK charts for six weeks, more than the albums he recorded as a member of boy band One Direction combined.
The 12 titles nominated for this year’s Mercury Prize, which recognizes the best British or Irish album of the year, include Fender’s “Seventeen Going Under” and Little Simz’s “Sometimes I Might Be Introvert”.
Jessie Buckley, who recently won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Sally Bowles in “Cabaret,” also made the list for the first time with “For All Our Days That Tear The Heart,” her album with former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler.
A jury that included musicians Jamie Cullum and Anna Calvi narrowed the list down to 12.
The group said the albums covered “everything from imaginative pop to pioneering rap and Cornish-language folk-rock”.
The awards ceremony will be on September 8 in London and will feature performances by many of the nominees.
