The nominations for the 2023 Juno Awards are here, with Scarborough’s very own The Weeknd leading the way this year with six nominations to his name.  Following closely behind with five nominations is Avril Lavigne and Tate McRae.

 

 

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The JUNO Awards air Monday March 13 at 8PM, live from Edmonton, and hosted by Simu Liu.

 

 

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Check out the full list of nominations below.

 

 

TIKTOK JUNO FAN CHOICE 

Avril Lavigne
Lauren Spencer-Smith
MacKenzie Porter
Preston Pablo
Rêve
Shawn Mendes
Tate McRae
The Reklaws
The Weeknd
Tyler Shaw

 

SINGLE OF THE YEAR 

Bite Me Avril Lavigne
Flowers Need Rain Preston Pablo and Banx & Ranx
When You’re Gone Shawn Mendes
she’s all i wanna be Tate McRae
Sacrifice The Weeknd

 

INTERNATIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

= Ed Sheeran 
Harry’s House Harry Styles 
MONTERO Lil Nas 
Midnights Taylor Swift 
Red (Taylor’s Version) Taylor Swift

 

ALBUM OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY MUSIC CANADA 

WHO HURT YOU? Ali Gatie
Love Sux Avril Lavigne
Demons Protected By Angels NAV
i used to think i could fly Tate McRae
Dawn FM The Weeknd

 

ARTIST OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY SIRIUSXM CANADA

Avril Lavigne
Lauren Spencer-Smith
Michael Bublé
Shawn Mendes
The Weeknd

 

GROUP OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY SIRIUSXM CANADA 

Arcade Fire
Arkells
Billy Talent
Metric
The Reklaws

 

BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY FACTOR, THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA AND CANADA’S PRIVATE RADIO BROADCASTERS  

Dax
Devon Cole
Preston Pablo
RealestK
Rêve

 

BREAKTHROUGH GROUP OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY FACTOR, THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA AND CANADA’S PRIVATE RADIO BROADCASTERS  

Banx & Ranx
Harm & Ease
Rare Americans
Tommy Lefroy
Wild Rivers

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY SOCAN 

Abel Tesfaye
Faouzia
Tate McRae
Tenille Townes
TOBi

COUNTRY ALBUM OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY EDMONTON’S BEST HOTELS

Way Back High Valley Cage
Honkytonk Revival Jade Eagleson
Bronco Orville Peck
Masquerades Tenille Townes
Good Ol’ Days The Reklaws

 

ADULT ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY LONG & MCQUADE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 

Born Losers Altameda Pheromone
The Garden Basia Bulat Secret City
Being Somewhere Dan Mangan Arts & Crafts
Colder Streams The Sadies Dine Alone
How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars The Weather Station Next Door

 

ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

Blue Rev Alvvays Celsius Girls
Duality Luna Li AWAL
Sewn Back Together OMBIIGIZI Arts & Crafts
THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND PUP Little Dipper
Tongues Tanya Tagaq Six Shooter

 

POP ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

In The Meantime Alessia Cara
Love Sux Avril Lavigne 
The Loneliest Time Carly Rae Jepsen 
i used to think i could fly Tate McRae
Dawn FM The Weeknd

 

ROCK ALBUM OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY AMII – ALBERTA MACHINE INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE 

Otherness Alexisonfire Dine Alone
Crisis Of Faith Billy Talent 
Get Rollin’ Nickelback BMG
Outta Sight The Sheepdogs
EXPLOSIONS Three Days Grace

 

VOCAL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Featuring Caity Gyorgy La Reserve
blue Diana Panton Independent
Venez donc chez moi Laura Anglade and Sam Kirmayer Justin Time
Nikki By Starlight Nikki Yanofsky MNRK
The Ostara Project The Ostara Project Cella

 

JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SOLO) 

Joy Ernesto Cervini TPR
A Little Louder Now Lauren Falls
El Tinajon Luis Deniz Modica
Rumba Rafael Zaldivar Effendi
Kinds of Love Renee Rosnes Smoke Sessions

 

JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR (GROUP) 

Semantics Andrew Rathbun Quintet SteepleChase
Talk Memory BADBADNOTGOOD People’s Champ
The History of Us Carn Davidson 9 TPR
Desert Bloom Florian Hoefner Trio Alma
The Dragon’s Tail Mark Kelso & the Jazz Exiles

 

INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

Canadiana Canadian Brass Linus
Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More Esmerine Constellation
Iguana Hard Rubber Orchestra Redshift
aubades Jean-Michel Blais Arts & Crafts
Lionheart Stephan Moccio Decca

 

ALBUM FRANCOPHONE DE L’ANNÉE 

medium plaisir Ariane Roy La maison fauve
Mercure en mai Daniel Bélanger Secret City
PICTURA DE IPSE : Musique directe Hubert Lenoir Simone
Crash Les Louanges Bonsound
Chiac Disco Lisa LeBlanc Bonsound

 

CHILDREN’S ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

Nice to Meet You Beppie Platoon
Say Hello Jeremy and Jazzy Hidden Pony
I Am Love Splash’N Boots Independent
Walk off the Earth & Romeo Eats, Vol. 2 Walk off the Earth and Romeo Eats Golden Carrot
Maestro Fresh Wes Presents: Julia the Great Young Maestro and Keysha Freshh

 

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SOLO ARTIST) 

Winner of the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition Warsaw 2021 Bruce Liu Deutsche
Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 David Jalbert
La Zingarella: Through Romany Songland Isabel Bayrakdarian
Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin James Ehnes
Fables Philip Chiu

 

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR (LARGE ENSEMBLE) 

Clara – Robert – Johannes: Lyrical Echoes Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra
Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 Ensemble Caprice, Ensemble Vocal Arts-Quebec
Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen – Arvo Pärt: Symphonie No. 4, “Los Angeles” I Musici de Montréal
Radiant Dawn: Music for Advent and Christmas The Elora Singers

 

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SMALL ENSEMBLE) 

Nagamo Andrew Balfour and musica intima Redshif
Hemsi: Chamber Works ARC Ensemble Chandos
Vagues et ombres collectif9 Alpha
Early Italian Cello Concertos Elinor Frey and Rosa Barocca, conducted by Claude Lapalme Analekta
De la cour de Louis XIV à Shippagan! Chants traditionnels acadiens et airs de cour du XVIIe siècle Suzie LeBlanc, Marie Nadeau-Tremblay, Vincent Lauzer, and Sylvain Bergeron

 

CLASSICAL COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR 

An Overall Augmented Sense of Well-being Anthony Tan
Bestiary I & II Bekah Simms Centrediscs
The Black Fish Keyan Emami Centrediscs
Prayers for Ruins Nicole Lizée Analekta
Supervillain Études Vincent Ho Navona

 

RAP ALBUM/EP OF THE YEAR

GONZO Boslen Capitol
Retrospected (Acoustic) Classified Halflife
The Fleur Print Vol. 2 Jazz Cartier Petal Garden
Demons Protected By Angels NAV
Shall I Continue? TOBi

 

DANCE RECORDING OF THE YEAR 

Afterglow Bob Moses and Kasablanca Astralwerks
Shinigami Eyes Grimes Columbia
These Nights feat. KIDDO Loud Luxury Armada
CTRL + ALT + DEL Rêve 31 East
Spiral Rezz RCA

 

CONTEMPORARY R&B RECORDING OF THE YEAR

When Flowers Bloom Adria Kain ArtHaus
If I Get Caught dvsn
No Longer in the Suburbs Dylan Sinclair Five Stone
YESSIE Jessie Reyez Island
WTF Savannah Ré

 

REGGAE RECORDING OF THE YEAR I ENREGISTREMENT REGGAE DE L’ANNÉE

Water Ammoye Lulaword
Like A Star Celena
Jah Love Exco Levi
In The Streets Kairo McLean Soul Survival
Reggae Party feat. Kairo McLean & Finn Kirk Diamond, Kairo McLean and Finn

 

CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR (PRESENTED BY DESTINATION INDIGENOUS) 

Watin
Zhawenim
Code Red
Beyond The Reservoir
The Crossing

 

CONTEMPORARY ROOTS ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

O Glory
That Was You and Me
Hold on to Love
Come Morning
House of Dreams

 

TRADITIONAL ROOTS ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

Hurricane Clarice
20 printemps
Narrow Line
Tell ‘Em You Were Gold
The Empress

BLUES ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

Long River
Midnight Blues
Thanks For Tomorrow
Preach To My Soul
Live at the King Eddy

 

CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN/GOSPEL ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

Into The Wild
TRUST
Jordan St. Cyr
Only Ever Always
The Church Will Rise

 

GLOBAL MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR I ALBUM DE MUSIQUE GLOBALE DE L’ANNÉE

In the Footsteps of Rumi
Thieves of Dreams
José Louis And The Paradox Of Love
Vox.Infold
Tradisyon

 

JACK RICHARDSON PRODUCER OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY AUDIO-TECHNICA 

Akeel Henry

Banx & Ranx

KAYTRANADA

Mike Wise

Murda Beatz

 

RECORDING ENGINEER OF THE YEAR 

Derek Hoffman

George Seara

Gus van Go

Jason Dufour

Serban Ghenea

ALBUM ARTWORK OF THE YEAR 

Emy Storey

Ian Ilavsky

Jud Haynes

Kee Avil, Lawrence Fafard

Lights, Virgilio Tzaj, Matt Barnes 

 

MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY YOUTUBE

Fraud
Unholy feat. Kim Petras
Have Mercy
Different Than Before
Remember Me For Me feat. Lily Moore

 

ELECTRONIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

NOT OK
Spectrums
Nightmare on Rezz Street 2 Mix
Synthetic Season One
Interior

 

METAL/HARD MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

Psychic Jailbreak
Merciless Destruction
Paid In Full
Synchro Anarchy
Thought Form Descent

 

ADULT CONTEMPORARY ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

Adventure Book
Descendant
He Sang She Sang
Higher
A Tyler Shaw Christmas

 

COMEDY ALBUM OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY SIRIUSXM CANADA 

Let Me Hold Your Baby
Splash Pad
A Person Who Is Gingerbread
Here Live, Not A Cat
Things Black Girls Say – The Album

 

TRADITIONAL R&B/SOUL RECORDING OF THE YEAR 

Please Do Not Lean feat. BADBADNOTGOOD
PALISADE
All I Need
Last One feat. Dylan Sinclair
HOW TO MAKE LOVE

 

RAP SINGLE OF THE YEAR 

Alejandro Sosa
Been Himma
Wrath
Twin Flame
Wrong Decisions

 

UNDERGROUND DANCE SINGLE OF THE YEAR 

Debonair
Aye Aye
The Time Is (Now)
I Knew Techno
Easy

 

TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR

kâkîsimo ?????
Katajjausiit
Mikwanak Kamôsakinat
Ôskimacîtahowin: A New Beginning
Unbreakable

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