Winners + Nominees | The JUNO Awards
2020

Winners + Nominees

JUNO Fan Choice

WINNER

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Avril Lavigne

NOMINEES

Alessia Cara
Ali Gatie
bbno$
Justin Bieber
Loud Luxury
NAV
Shawn Mendes
The Weeknd
Tory Lanez

Single of the Year

WINNER

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Señorita

Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello

NOMINEES

Out Of Love

Alessia Cara

Sweet Little Lies

bülow

La Di Da

Lennon Stella

Hang Ups

Scott Helman

International Album of the Year

WINNER

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WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?

Billie Eilish

NOMINEES

Thank U, Next

Ariana Grande

No.6 Collaborations Project

Ed Sheeran

Free Spirit

Khalid

Hollywood’s Bleeding

Post Malone

Album of the Year

Presented by Music Canada

WINNER

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The Pains Of Growing

Alessia Cara

NOMINEES

INSCAPE

Alexandra Stréliski

Shine A Light

Bryan Adams

love

Michael Bublé

Bad Habits

NAV

Artist of the Year

WINNER

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Shawn Mendes

NOMINEES

Alessia Cara
Bryan Adams
Jessie Reyez
Tory Lanez

Group of the Year

WINNER

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Loud Luxury

NOMINEES

88Glam
Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine
The Reklaws
Walk Off the Earth

Breakthrough Artist of the Year

Presented by FACTOR, the Government of Canada, and Canada's Private Radio Broadcasters

WINNER

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Lennon Stella

NOMINEES

Alexandra Stréliski
Ali Gatie
bbno$
Tenille Townes

Breakthrough Group of the Year

Presented by FACTOR, the Government of Canada, and Canada's Private Radio Broadcasters

WINNER

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Neon Dreams

NOMINEES

Hunter Brothers
Palaye Royale
The Blue Stones
Valley

Songwriter of the Year

Presented by SOCAN

WINNER

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“Growing Pains” – co-songwriters Andrew Wansel, Warren Fielder, “Out of Love” – co-songwriter Rick Nowels (PAINS OF GROWING), “Rooting For You” – co-songwriter Jon Levine (THIS SUMMER)
Publisher – Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada

Alessia Cara

NOMINEES

Publisher – Wax on Wax Off Publishing / Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada
“Boys Will Be Boys” – co-songwriters David Charles Fischer, Mike Wise, Nathan Ferraro THE CONTENDER – bülow
“Sweet Little Lies” – co-songwriters David Charles Fischer, Mike Wise, Nathan Ferraro CRYSTALLINE – bülow
 “Two Punks In Love” – co-songwriters David Charles Fischer, Mike Wise, Nathan Ferraro TWO PUNKS IN LOVE – bülow 

bülow

Publisher – Secret City Music Publishing
“Broken”, “Dream for Dreaming” – co-songwriters Joseph Baron Grass, Mikhail Stein, Robbie Kuster
“Here Comes The River” – co-songwriters Joseph Baron Grass, Jules Buckley, Mikhail Stein
WAVE - Patrick Watson 

Patrick Watson

Publisher – Red Brick Music Publishing
“I Kept The Roses” – co-songwriters Chris Gelbuda, Dustin Christensen I KEPT THE ROSES – Tenille Townes
“Jersey On The Wall (I’m Just Asking)” – co-songwriters Gordie Sampson, Tina Parol JERSEY ON THE WALL (I’M JUST ASKING) – Tenille Townes 
“White Horse” – co-songwriters Daniel Tashian, Jeremy Spillman WHITE HORSE – Tenille Townes  

Tenille Townes

Publisher – Plug Your Ears Publishing
“All Hands”, “Dance”, “The Eighteenth Hole”
FOREVER OVERHEAD – Tim Baker 

Tim Baker

Country Album of the Year

WINNER

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Wild As Me

Meghan Patrick

NOMINEES

V

Aaron Goodvin

The Fall

Dallas Smith

Black Sheep

Dean Brody

State of Mind

Hunter Brothers

Adult Alternative Album of the Year

WINNER

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A Blemish in the Great Light

Half Moon Run

NOMINEES

A Pill for Loneliness

City and Colour

acākosīk

iskwē

Thanks for the Dance

Leonard Cohen

Wave

Patrick Watson

Alternative Album of the Year

Presented by Long & McQuade

WINNER

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Morbid Stuff

PUP

NOMINEES

Destroyer

Black Mountain

Foxwarren

Foxwarren

Here Comes The Cowboy

Mac DeMarco

Pony

Orville Peck

Pop Album of the Year

WINNER

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The Pains of Growing

Alessia Cara

NOMINEES

Head Above Water

Avril Lavigne

Crystalline

bülow

8:47

Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine

HERE WE GO!

Walk Off the Earth

Rock Album of the Year

WINNER

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A War On Everything

The Glorious Sons

NOMINEES

…but for the sun

Big Wreck

PEOPLESKILLS

Headstones

Order In Decline

Sum 41

Master Volume

The Dirty Nil

Vocal Jazz Album of the Year

WINNER

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Stay Tuned!

Dominique Fils-Aimé

NOMINEES

Nothing Never Happens

Bria Skonberg

MONTRÉAL

Elizabeth Shepherd

Wishes

Jazz Affair

Friday

Monkey House

Jazz Album of the Year: Solo

WINNER

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MiGRATIONS

Jacques Kuba Séguin

NOMINEES

UNSTOPPABLE

Joel Miller

Black Sea Suite

John Stetch

Absolutely Dreaming

Ted Quinlan

The Chronicles of Fezziwig

The Mark Kelso Jazz Project

Jazz Album of the Year: Group

WINNER

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Abundance

Ernesto Cervini’s Turboprop

NOMINEES

Undertones

Al Muirhead's Canadian Quintet

Jump Up

Brad Turner Quartet with Guest Seamus Blake

Trouble in Mind

Dave Young Trio

On Firm Ground / Tierra Firme

Jane Bunnett & Maqueque

Instrumental Album of the Year

WINNER

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INSCAPE

Alexandra Stréliski

NOMINEES

The Silent Wish

Bill McBirnie with Bernie Senensky

Calm and Cents

Kevin Hearn

SymphRONica UpfRONt

Ron Davis’ SymphRONica

Toothsayer

Tanya Tagaq

Francophone Album of the Year

WINNER

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La nuit est une panthère

Les Louanges

NOMINEES

Après

Fred Pellerin

L'étrange pays

Jean Leloup

La nuit des longs couteaux

Koriass

Tout ça pour ça

Loud

Children's Album of the Year

WINNER

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Greatest Hits, Vol. 4

Big Block Singsong

NOMINEES

A Cheerful Little Earful

Diana Panton

It’s GForce

GFORCE

This Is Us

Girl Pow-R

Sharon, Bram & Friends

Sharon & Bram

Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber

WINNER

View Artist

detach

Angela Schwarzkopf

NOMINEES

Alone & Unalone

Ensemble Paramirabo

Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Op. 12

James Ehnes

Elles

Marina Thibeault and Marie-Ève Scarfone

John Zorn: Cat O’Nine Tails, The Dead Man, Memento Mori & Kol Nidre

Quatuor Molinari

Classical Album of the Year: Large Ensemble

WINNER

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The John Adams Album

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, conducted by Kent Nagano

NOMINEES

The Bounds of our Dreams

Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra/Orchestre du Centre national des Arts du Canada, conducted by Alexander Shelley feat. Alain Lefèvre & Yosuke Kawasaki

Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos

Jan Lisiecki with Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

Sibelius 1

Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Chopin: Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, conducted by Kent Nagano feat. Charles Richard-Hamelin

Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral

WINNER

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Handel: Dixit Dominus; Bach & Schutz: Motets

Ottawa Bach Choir, conducted by Lisette Canton

NOMINEES

When There Is Peace: An Armistice Oratorio

Chor Leoni Men's Choir

Schubert: Schwanengesang; Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge

Gerald Finley

Summer Night

Peter Barrett, Martha Guth, Allyson McHardy, Helen Becqué

Schubert: Winterreise

Philippe Sly with Le Chimera Project

Classical Composition of the Year

WINNER

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Evta

Ana Sokolović

NOMINEES

"Everything Is... Distorted"

Bekah Simms

Under Sea, Above Sky

Jared Miller

The Coming of Sobs

Rose Bolton

Kickin' It 2.0

Vincent Ho

Rap Recording of the Year

WINNER

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Freaky

Tory Lanez

NOMINEES

88GLAM2

88Glam

Tomorrow Could Be The Day Things Change

Classified

Light Path 8

KILLY

Bad Habits

NAV

Dance Recording of the Year

WINNER

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Love Me

Felix Cartal & Lights

NOMINEES

Only When It Rains

Frank Walker x Astrid S

I'm Not Alright

Loud Luxury and Bryce Vine

Gravity

RALPH

We Found Love

Sultan + Shepard x Showtek

R&B/Soul Recording of the Year

WINNER

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Feel It Too

Jessie Reyez, Tory Lanez & Tainy

NOMINEES

Black Dove

Amaal

CASE STUDY 01

Daniel Caesar

The Gumption

Tanika Charles

Chixtape 5

Tory Lanez

Reggae Recording of the Year

WINNER

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The Warning Track

Lyndon John X

NOMINEES

Jah Children

Jay Douglas

Wah Gwaan

Exco Levi

Never Broken

Petraa

Another Man

STORRY

Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year

Presented by APTN

WINNER

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Stories from a Downtown Apartment

Celeigh Cardinal

NOMINEES

Yellowstone

Digawolf

nipiy

nêhiyawak

Siqinnaarut

Northern Haze

ataataga

Riit

Contemporary Roots Album of the Year

WINNER

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Mohawk

Lee Harvey Osmond

NOMINEES

Coyote

Catherine MacLellan

Easy Keeper

Del Barber

Little Bones

Irish Mythen

Passages

Justin Rutledge

Traditional Roots Album of the Year

WINNER

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Sugar & Joy

The Dead South

NOMINEES

Once A Day

April Verch

By Appointment Or Chance

Miranda Mulholland

Sketches

Natalie MacMaster

Assiniboine & The Red

The Small Glories

Blues Album of the Year

WINNER

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Mad Love

Dawn Tyler Watson

NOMINEES

Pocket Full Of Nothin'

Big Dave McLean

Hand Me Down Blues

Durham County Poets

That's Where It's At

Michael Jerome Browne

The Northern South Vol. 2

Whitehorse

Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year

WINNER

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The Advent Of Christmas

Matt Maher

NOMINEES

The Heart Of Christmas

Brian Doerksen

Pursue

Brooke Nicholls

Wherever I Go

Dan Bremnes

ILL Street Blues

Fresh IE

World Music Album of the Year

WINNER

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BAROKAN

Djely Tapa

NOMINEES

Sombras

OKAN

Africa Without Borders

Okavango African Orchestra

Risorgimento

Romina Di Gasbarro

Galactic Gala

Silla and Rise

Jack Richardson Producer of the Year

WINNER

View Artist

“Brittle Bones Nicky” BRITTLE BONES NICKY – Rare Americans, “It’s Alright” (co-producer Ryan Guldemond) DANCE AND CRY – Mother Mother 

Ben Kaplan

NOMINEES

“Fear of the Flame” FEAR OF THE FLAME – Logan Staats, “Hide Your Love” NIGHT IN THE PARK, KISS IN THE DARK – Caveboy 

Derek Hoffman

"October”, “Rooting For You” (co-producer Midi Jones) THIS SUMMER – Alessia Cara 

Jon Levine

“Just Friends” HARTLAND ST. – Virginia to Vegas , “Sweet Little Lies" CRYSTALLINE – bülow 

Michael Wise

“Record Shop” CASCADIA – Said The Whale,  “Song In My Head” RIP – We Are The City 

Steve Bays

Recording Engineer of the Year

WINNER

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“Dividido (feat. Silvana Estrada)” SUBLIME – Alex Cuba, “Shotgun”  FRIDAY – Monkey House 

John 'Beetle' Bailey

NOMINEES

“If I Can't Have You” IF I CAN’T HAVE YOU – Shawn Mendes, “Incredible” INCREDIBLE – James TW 

George Seara

“Push For Yellow”, “There's Still A Light In The House” MAYBE – Valley 

Jason Dufour

“2 Myself” LUDIC – Ludic, “Known Better” MELT – Nuela Charles 

Ryan Worsley

“Midnight”, “Over Me” MIDNIGHT – Brooke Palsson 

Vic Florencia

Album Artwork of the Year

WINNER

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SELECTIONS FROM CUPHEAD – Kristofer Maddigan

Chad Moldenhauer (Art Director), Ian Clarke (Designer), Warren Clark and Lance Inkwell (Illustrators)  

NOMINEES

THE SUPERHERO SUITE – Kevin Hearn and Friends

Kevin Hearn (Art Director), Antoine Moonen (Designer), Lauchie Reid and Harland Williams (Illustrators)

BLOODCRUSH /BLOODMYTH – Ensign Broderick 

Kris Knight (Illustrator), Jason Sniderman (Art Director), James Mejia (Designer), Chris Peters (Illustrators), Stefanie Schneider (Photographer)

CASE STUDY 01 – Daniel Caesar 

Sean Brown & Keavan Yazdani (Art Directors)

MALICE, MERCY, GRIEF & WRATH – Belle Plaine 

Terri Fidelak (Art Director, Designer, & Illustrator), Regan Fraser (Art Director), Carey Shaw (Photographer)

Music Video of the Year

WINNER

View Artist

Little Star - iskwē

Sarah Legault, iskwē

NOMINEES

Bun Dem - Sarahmée

Caraz, Sarahmée

Record Shop - Said the Whale

Johnny Jansen, Said the Whale

Topographe - Corridor

Jonathan Robert, Corridor

Back Off - Laurence Nerbonne

Le GED, Laurence Nerbonne

Electronic Album of the Year

WINNER

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Beyond The Senses

REZZ

NOMINEES

Battle Lines

Bob Moses

Memory Emotion

Electric Youth

Dawn Chorus

Jacques Greene

A Beat Tape For Your Friends

Keys N Krates

Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year

WINNER

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Play to Win

Striker

NOMINEES

Evolution

Kobra And The Lotus

Martyr

Lindsay Schoolcraft

Through A Wall

Single Mothers

Orphans

The Agonist

Adult Contemporary Album of the Year

WINNER

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Shine a Light

Bryan Adams

NOMINEES

Unplugged Vol. 1

Lauren Spencer-Smith

Both Sides

Marc Jordan

Melt

Nuela Charles

Empower

Renée Lamoureux

Comedy Album of the Year

WINNER

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Lil Bit of Buddle

Sophie Buddle

NOMINEES

General Anxiety Disorder

Adam Christie

Straight White Fail

Jarrett Campbell

The Abyss Stares Back

Monty Scott

I'm Not Well

Steph Tolev