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"The Barclaycard Mercury Prize 2012 has launched a new digital initiative for this year&amp;#039;s show. Fans have been invited to support their favourite &amp;#039;Album of the Year&amp;#039; Mercury nominee by tweeting them a message as part of the ceremony&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Voice Your Support&amp;#039; campaign.      The best 500 messages of support will then be recorded to a vocal audio track and handed to each of the 12 shortlisted acts. &amp;quot;Everyone knows the excitement you feel when you discover a great album and the first thing you want to do is tell all your friends,&amp;quot; said Gary Twelvetree, Global Brand Director at Barclaycard. &amp;quot;Through &amp;#039;Voice Your Support&amp;#039; we are giving music fans an amazing way to show their enthusiasm for their favourite shortlisted album by combining two technologies separated by 100 years.  &amp;quot;Twitter, the communication tool of today, and the vinyl record, which forever altered music. With &amp;#039;Voice Your Support&amp;#039; we&amp;#039;re showing our appreciation to the 12 best British albums of the year by giving music fans the chance to say thank you and offer them something back.&amp;quot; The Barclaycard Mercury Prize &amp;#039;Voice Your Support&amp;#039; website is live from today (October 26) until November 5. Jessie Ware, The Maccabees, Plan B, Django Django, Alt-J, Richard Hawley, Michael Kiwanuka, Ben Howard, Lianne La Havas, Roller Trio, Field Music and Sam Lee are this year&amp;#039;s Mercury Prize nominees. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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