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- Irish singer and songwriter Damien Rice won the third annual Shortlist Music Prize. The ceremony culminated in a four-and-a-half-hour concert at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, featuring Rice and seven of the nine nominees. The award was conceived as an American equivalent of the UK's Mercury Prize and recognized progressive artists whose latest albums had sold fewer than 500,000 copies at the time of nomination.