List of awards and nominations received by PJ Harvey
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PJ Harvey is an English musician and singer-songwriter. She has released ten studio albums—Dry (1992), Rid of Me (1993), To Bring You My Love (1995), Is This Desire? (1998), Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000), Uh Huh Her (2004), White Chalk (2007), Let England Shake (2011), The Hope Six Demolition Project (2016), and I Inside the Old Year Dying (2023) —and two collaboration albums with John Parish. In addition, she has released three compilation albums and three video albums. Several of Harvey's singles have appeared on the UK Singles Chart, including "Down by the Water" which peaked at number 38, "A Perfect Day Elise" which peaked at number 25, and "The Letter" which peaked at number 28.[1]
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Since the release of Dry, Harvey has received widespread critical acclaim. In 1992, Rolling Stone named her Best New Female Singer[2] and Best Songwriter.[2][3] Among the accolades she has received are the 2001 and 2011 Mercury Prize for Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea and Let England Shake respectively—the only artist to have been awarded the prize twice[4]—eight BRIT Award nominations, seven Grammy Award nominations, and the Outstanding Contribution To Music at the NME Awards. Two of her albums—Rid of Me and Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea—have been listed on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list[5][6] and her third studio album To Bring You My Love was named album of the year by Hot Press,[7] People,[8] Rolling Stone[9] and The Village Voice.[10]
Harvey's eighth studio album, Let England Shake, was released in 2011 to "universal acclaim".[11] It was nominated for best album at the BRIT Awards,[12] NME Awards,[13] Q Awards[14] and the South Bank Sky Arts Awards.[15] In addition to winning album of the year at the Ivor Novello Awards[16] and the Mercury Prize,[17] Let England Shake was named best album of 2011 by 16 international publications and was featured on 34 other publications' year-end lists.[18] Overall, Harvey has received 6 awards from 29 nominations.