Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize 2011: The Short List

Everyone’s favourite music award (Mercu-what?), the nominees for this year’s Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize 2011 have been announced.

In the running are:

Adele – ‘Rolling In The Deep’
Hurts – ‘Stay’
Jessie J – ‘Do It Like A Dude’
Joe McElderry – ‘Ambitions’
Mark Ronson & The Business Intl feat Boy George etc – ‘Somebody To Love Me’
Nadia Oh – ‘Taking Over The Dancefloor’
Nicola Roberts – ‘Beat Of My Drum’
The Saturdays – ‘Higher’
Sunday Girl – ‘Stop Hey’
Take That – ‘The Flood’
The Wanted – ‘All Time Low’
Yasmin – ‘Finish Line’

The gong, which ‘recognises amazingness in the field of pop music by awarding twenty quid (cash) to the artist responsible for the best British pop single of the previous last twelve months,’ has previously gone to the likes of Girls Aloud, Amy Winehouse and Example.

Find out more information - including details of how you can be a judge - here. The winner will be decided and announced on 6th September.

We recently had a chat with one of the nominees, Nicola Roberts - see what she had to say here.