


The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) announced today the nominees for the 46th Annual JUNO Awards during a press conference at REBEL Nightclub in Toronto.
JUNO Week 2017 will take place in Ottawa from March 27 through April 2, 2017, and a live broadcast of The 2017 JUNO Awards will air on CTV and CTV GO on Sunday, April 2 from the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa.
Drake, Shawn Mendes and The Weekend lead the nominations with 5 each.
The complete 2017 JUNO Award Nominees list can be found below.
Indigenous Music Album of the Year
Fish Out Of Water – Crystal Shawanda
Round Dance & Beats (Powwow) – Bryden Gwiss Kiwenzie
Tiny Hands – Quantum Tangle
Debut – Silla + Rise
Earthly Days – William Prince
JUNO Fan Choice Award
Hedley
Justin Bieber
Drake
Shawn Mendes
Alessia Cara
Belly
Ruth B
The Weeknd
Tory Lanez
The Strumbellas
Single of the Year
Treat You Better – Shawn Mendes
One Dance ft. Wizkid & Kyla – Drake
Wild Things – Alessia Cara
Starboy ft. Daft Punk – The Weeknd
Spirits – The Strumbellas
International Album of the Year
This is Acting – Sia
ANTI – Rihanna
Made in the A.M. – One Direction
A Head Full of Dreams – Coldplay
Dangerous Woman – Ariana Grande
Album of the Year
Starboy – The Weeknd
Illuminate – Shawn Mendes
You Want It Darker – Leonard Cohen
Views – Drake
Encore un Soir – Céline Dion
Artist of the Year
Shawn Mendes
Drake
Alessia Cara
Leonard Cohen
The Weeknd
Group of the Year
Billy Talent
The Tragically Hip
Arkells
Tegan and Sara
The Strumbellas
Breakthrough Artist of the Year
KAYTRANADA
Ruth B
Tory Lanez
Andy Shauf
Jazz Cartier
Breakthrough Group of the Year
Bleeker
Cold Creek County
Bob Moses
The Zolas
The Dirty Nil
Songwriter of the Year
“Leaving Nashville” – co-songwriter Abe Stoklasa THE DRIVER – Charles Kelly Capitol*Universal “What Kind of Love is That” – co-songwriter Tom Douglas, “They Don’t Make Anything in That Town” HARD SETTLE, AIN’T TROUBLED – Donovan Woods
Donovan Woods
“Boyfriend” – co-songwriter Greg Kurstin, “100x” – co-songwriter Jesse Shatkin, “Stop Desire” LOVE YOU TO DEATH – Tegan and Sara
Tegan Quin and Sara Quin
“The Stranger”, The Only Place To Be”, “Son” SECRET PATH – Gord Downie
Gord Downie
“You Want It Darker”, It Seemed the Better Way”, “Traveling Light” YOU WANT IT DARKER – Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
“Lost Boy”, “Superficial Love”, “2 Poor Kids” THE INTRO – Ruth B
Ruth Berhe
Country Album of the Year
The Score – Aaron Pritchett
Hearts on Fire – Chad Brownlee
Side Effects – Dallas Smith
Tin Roof – Gord Bamford
Kiss Me Quiet – Jess Moskaluke
Adult Alternative Album of the Year
Good Advice – Basia Bulat
Secret Path – Gord Downie
The Great Detachment – Wintersleep
You Want It Darker – Leonard Cohen
The Party – Andy Shauf
Alternative Album of the Year
Touch – July Talk
Art Angels – Grimes
IV – Black Mountain
Weaves – Weaves
Sore – Dilly Dally
Pop Album of the Year
Know-It-All – Alessia Cara
Summerland – Coleman Hell
Astoria – Marianas Trench
Illuminate – Shawn Mendes
Love You to Death – Tegan and Sara
Rock Album of the Year
Morning Report – Arkells
Afraid of Heights – Billy Talent
Sittin’ Heavy – Monster Truck
TerraForm – Sam Roberts Band
Man Machine Poem – The Tragically Hip
Vocal Jazz Album of the Year
Quiet Nights – Matt Dusk & Florence K
You’ll Never Know – Heather Bambrick
I’m Still Learning – Barbra Lica
Bria – Bria Skonberg
Words – Amanda Tosoff
Jazz Album of the Year: Solo
Blue Canvas – Brandi Disterheft
Written in the Rocks – Renee Rosnes
Momentum – Shirantha Beddage
Superconductor – Seamus Blake
Nudging Forever – Mike Janzen
Jazz Album of the Year: Group
Real Enemies – Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
One Way Up – Dave Young Quintet
Twenty – Metalwood
Flux – Quinsin Nachoff’s FLUX
Sweet Canadiana –Order of Canada Band
Instrumental Album of the Year
The Ridge – Sarah Neufeld
Flow – David Braid
Movements 1 – Blitz//Berlin
Bird’s Nest – The Fretless
Everyone Knows Everyone – Pugs & Crows and Tony Wilson
Francophone Album of the Year
Trente – Karim Ouellet
Le fantastique des astres – Yann Perreau
Ultramarr – Fred Fortin
Love Suprême – Koriass
XO – Laurence Nerbonne
Children’s Album of the Year
I Believe in Little Things – Diana Panton
Owl Singalong – Raffi
Big Yellow Tunes – Splash‘N Boots
De Tombouctou à Bombay – Kattam
Wordplay – Will Stroet
Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber Ensemble
Schubert: Sonatas and Impromptus
Janina Fialkowska
Overtures to Bach
Matt Haimovitz
Brahms: String Quartets, Op. 51 NOS. 1 & 2
New Orford String Quartet
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, OP. 71 TH14
Stewart Goodyear
Beethoven, Enescu & Chopin: Works for Piano (Live)
Charles Richard-Hamelin
Classical Album of the Year: Large Ensemble or Soloist(s) with Large Ensemble Accompaniment
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir
Poulenc: Piano Concertos & Aubade
Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier, BBC Philharmonic
Going Home Star – Truth and Reconciliation
Steve Wood and the Northern Cree Singers, Tanya Tagaq, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Schumann
Jan Lisiecki, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Vivaldi: Concertos
Les Violons du Roy & Mathieu Lussier
Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral Performance
L’Aiglon – Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano
Dark Star Requiem – Tapestry Opera, Gryphon Trio, Elmer Iseler Singers
Handel Messiah – Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Sir Andrew Davis
Bach: Magnificat BWV 243 – Arion Baroque Orchestre, Alexandre Weimann
Four Thousand Winter – Daniel Taylor, The Trinity Choir
Classical Composition of the Year
Going Home Star – Truth and Reconciliation
Christos Hatzis
The Debrecen Passion
Kati Agócs
Immersion
Jordan Nobles
And I need a room to receive five thousand people with raised glasses…or…what a glorious day, the birds are singing “halleluia”
Ana Sokolović
Dark Star Requiem
Andrew Staniland
Rap Recording of the Year
Another Day in Paradise
Belly
Views
Drake
I Told You
Tory Lanez
Hotel Paranoia
Jazz Cartier
Die Every Day
Tasha the Amazon
Dance Recording of the Year
Limitless ft. Delaney Jane
Adventure Club
Northern Lights
Zeds Dead
Let You Get Away ft. Ashe – Shaun Frank
Off the Ground ft. Shae Jacobs – Bit Funk
You Can’t Deny – Jacques Greene
R&B/Soul Recording of the Year
Starboy – The Weeknd
Sept. 5th – Dvsn
Pilgrim’s Paradise – Daniel Caesar
Soul Run – Tanika Charles
PARTYNEXTDOOR 3 – PARTYNEXTDOOR
Reggae Recording of the Year
Sorry – Ammoye
Cry Every Day – Blessed
Roll ‘Dem ft. Gappy Ranks – Dubmatix
Siren – Exco Levi
Who Feels It Knows – Jay Kartier
Contemporary Roots Album of the Year
The Family Album – Matthew Barber & Jill Barber
Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen? – Lisa LeBlanc
Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams – Corin Raymond
Earthly Days – William Prince
Strange Country – Kacy & Clayton
Traditional Roots Album of the Year
Someday the Heart Will Trouble the Mind – The High Bar Gang
Gathering – Maria Dunn
The Original – Jenny Whiteley
Auprès du poêle – Ten Strings And A Goat Skin
Secret Victory – The East Pointers
Blues Album of the Year
The Northern South Vol. 1 – Whitehorse
Ride The One – Paul Reddick
Rich in Love – Colin Linden
Blue Highways – Colin James
Monkey Brain – Sean Pinchin
Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year
Eternally Grateful – Warren Dean Flandez
Hootenanny! – Tim Neufeld & the Glory Boys
Where the Good Way Lies – Steve Bell
Reborn – MANAFEST
Potter & Clay – Jaylene Johnson
World Music Album of the Year
Nouvelle Journée – Lorraine Klaasen
Subcontinental Drift – Sultans of String
Okavango African Orchestra – Okavango African Orchestra
Nazar – Turkwaz
Dance of the Infidels – Nomadica
Jack Richardson Producer of the Year
“Work” (Co-producer Charlotte Day Wilson) CDW – Charlotte Day Wilson, “High Five” (Co-producer Dan Kurtz) ROYAL BLUES – Dragonette
Howie Beck
“The Enforcer” (Co-producer Monster Truck) SITTIN’ HEAVY – Monster Truck, “Fever” DEALBREAKER – Royal Tusk
Eric Ratz
“R.E.D. ft. Yasiin Bey, Narcy & Black Bear”, “Sila ft. Tanya Tagaq” WE ARE THE HALLUCI NATION – A Tribe Called Red
A Tribe Called Red
“One Dance”, “Too Good” VIEWS – Drake
Nineteen85
“Afraid of Heights”, “Rabbit Down the Hole” AFRAID OF HEIGHTS – Billy Talent
Ian D’Sa
Recording Engineer of the Year
“Afraid of Heights” AFRAID OF HEIGHTS – Billy Talent Warner, “Don’t Tell Me How to Live” SITTIN’ HEAVY – Monster Truck
Eric Ratz
“Treat You Better”, “Don’t Be A Fool” ILLUMINATE – Shawn Mendes
George Seara
“The Magician”, “To You” THE PARTY – Andy Shauf
Andy Shauf
“Shine A Light” BANNERS EP – BANNERS, “Armageddon” ARMAGEDDON – Michelle Treacy
Matty Green
“Push + Pull”, “Beck + Call” TOUCH – July Talk
Jason Dufour
Recording Package of the Year
OOBOPOPOP – Valaire
Karim Charlebois-Zariffa (Art Director, Designer), Olivier Charland (Illustrator), Scottie Cameron (Photographer)
L’HEPTADE – Harmonium
John Wellman, Chris Sheppard, Joshua Geary (Art Directors)
SECRET PATH – Gord Downie
Jonathan Shedletzky (Art Director), Isis Essery (Designer), Jeff Lemaire (Illustrator)
LIVE AT COPPS – Alexisonfire
Justin Ellsworth (Art Director, Designer), Dustin Rabin (Photographer)
ART ANGELS – Grimes
Claire Boucher (Art Director, Designer, Illustrator), Rankin (Photographer)
Video of the Year
Kill v Maim – GRIMES
Claire Boucher
Lite Spots – KAYTRANADA
Martin C. Pariseau
R.E.D. ft. Yasiin Bey, Narcy & Black Bear – A Tribe Called Red
Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman
Killa – WIWEK/SKRILLEX
Jodeb
The Stranger – Gord Downie
Justin Stephenson
Electronic Album of the Year
99.9% – KAYTRANADA
Congrats – Holy Fuck
We Are the Halluci Nation – A Tribe Called Red
Days Gone By – Bob Moses
Checkpoint Titanium – Harrison
Heavy Metal Album of the Year
Transcendence – Devin Townsend Project
Pacific Myth – Protest the Hero
Beast – Despised Icon
Suicide Society- Annihilator
Coral Throne – Mandroid Echostar
Adult Contemporary Album of the Year
Encore un soir – Céline Dion
Hard Sail – Chantal Kreviazuk
Beating Heart – Mark Masri
Wonderland – Sarah McLachlan
A Fine Line –Heather Rankin