Who judges the Mercury prize?

Local radio DJs, conductors and the editor of Top Gear magazine, apparentlyEveryone, it seems, has an opinion on this year's Mercury prize. For every "good on you, Speech!" there's a "who cares what a room full of so-called experts thinks anyway?" According to NME's James MacMahon: "There's no mention of what qualifies any of the names on the list (of judges) to pass comment on a record's worth, or even what the process is that precedes the point where Holland says 'and the winner is ...'" In fa...

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