Junos 2016: Complete list of Juno Award nominees

The Weeknd, Drake and Justin Bieber — the three Canadian acts who have dominated the music charts at home and abroad for months — are leading the race for the 2016 Juno Awards, with two newcomers to the scene, singer-songwriter Alessia Cara and digital video sensation Shawn Mendes, also among the top contenders.

• The Weeknd, Drake, Justin Bieber lead race for 2016 Juno Awards

The 45th annual Juno Awards broadcast gala takes place Sunday, April 3 at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary. 

Here are the 2016 Juno Award nominees.

JUNO FAN CHOICE AWARD

• Alessia Cara
• Carly Rae Jepsen
• Cœur de pirate
• Dean Brody
• Drake
• Justin Bieber
• Shawn Hook
• Shawn Mendes
• The Weeknd
• Walk Off The Earth

SINGLE OF THE YEAR

• Here, Alessia Cara
• Hotline Bling, Drake
• What Do You Mean? , Justin Bieber
• Clothes Off , Ria Mae
• Can't Feel My Face, The Weeknd

INTERNATIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• 25, Adele
• Hozier, Hozier
• Title, Meghan Trainor
• Four, One Direction
• Dream Your Life Away, Vance Joy

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake
• À Paradis City, Jean Leloup
• Purpose, Justin Bieber
• Handwritten, Shawn Mendes
• Beauty Behind the Madness, The Weeknd

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

• City and Colour
• Drake
• Justin Bieber
• Shawn Mendes
• The Weeknd

GROUP OF THE YEAR

• Hedley
• Marianas Trench
• Metric
• Three Days Grace
• Walk Off The Earth

BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OF THE YEAR

• Alessia Cara
• Coleman Hell
• Francesco Yates
• Scott Helman
• Tobias Jesso Jr.

BREAKTHROUGH GROUP OF THE YEAR

• Dear Rouge
• Half Moon Run
• Milk & Bone
• The Elwins
• Young Empires

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR

• Abel Tesfaye
• Béatrice Martin
• Buffy Sainte-Marie
• Dallas Green
• Tobias Jesso Jr.

COUNTRY ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• Anchor, Autumn Hill
• Pick Me Up, Brett Kissel
• Gypsy Road, Dean  Brody
• County Line, High Valley
• Frontier, Paul Brandt

ADULT ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• If I've Only One Time Askin', Daniel Romano
• The Park Avenue Sobriety Test, Joel Plaskett
• In My Dreams, Mo Kenney
• Goon, Tobias Jesso Jr.
• Leave No Bridge Unburned, Whitehorse

ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• Deep in the Iris, BRAIDS
• Poison Season, Destroyer
• Are You Alone?, Majical Cloudz
• Half Free, U.S. Girls
• Viet Cong, Viet Cong

POP ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• Hello, Hedley
• Purpose, Justin Bieber
• Augusta, Scott Helman
• Handwritten, Shawn Mendes
• Sing It All Away, Walk Off The Earth

ROCK ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• Get Up, Bryan Adams
• The Physical World, Death From Above 1979
• Chaotic Neutral, Matthew Good
• No Fixed Address, Nickelback
• Future Nostalgia, The Sheepdogs

VOCAL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• New, Alex Pangman
• Live from the Cellar, Dan Brubeck Quartet
• Clear Day, Emilie-Claire Barlow
• This Bitter Earth, Jaclyn Guillou
• Some Version of the Truth, Tara Kannangara

JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR: SOLO

• It's About Time, Al Muirhead
• Dialectics, Curtis Nowosad
• Abeng, Rich Brown
• Movin' Forward, Robi Botos
• Duets, Tara Davidson

JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR: GROUP

• Forest Grove, Allison Au Quartet
• Over My Head, Brad Turner Quartet
• What I Hear Now, Jerry Granelli Trio
• Stealing From My Youth, Mark Kelso & The Jazz Exiles
• Sheer Tyranny of Will, Peripheral Vision

INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• Spin Cycle, Afiara Quartet and Skratch Bastid
• Never Were The Way She Was, Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld
• Orchestral Powwow, Cris Derksen
• Lost Voices, Esmerine
• Legacy Live, Jens Lindemann and  Tommy Banks

FRANCOPHONE ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• 22h22, Ariane Moffatt
• Zulu, Galaxie
• À Paradis City, Jean Leloup
• Les grandes artères, Louis-Jean Cormier
• Si l'aurore, Marie-Pierre Arthur

CHILDREN'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• Greatest Hits, Big Block Singsong
• Dirty Feet, Bobs & LoLo
• Forest Friends' Nature Club Album, Ginalina
• Songs from the Boot, Splash'N Boots
• More Sheep, Less Sleep, The Swinging Belles

CLASSICAL ALBUM: SOLO OR CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

• Liszt: Piano Sonata & Sonnets, Angela Hewitt
• Chamber Works by Jerzy Fitelberg, ARC Ensemble
• Mendelssohn: Op. 44 nos. 1, 2, Cecilia String Quartet
• Berlin Sonatas, Elinor Frey
• Franck & Strauss: Violin Sonatas, James Ehnes

CLASSICAL ALBUM: LARGE ENSEMBLE OR SOLOIST(S) WITH LARGE ENSEMBLE ACCOMPANIMENT

• Vivaldi: Four Seasons, James Ehnes with the Sydney Symphony
• Mahler 10, Orchestre Métropolitain
• Symphony and New Works for Organ and Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal with Olivier Latry and Jean-Willy Kunz
• Tomasi, Desenclos, Jolivet: French Trumpet Concertos, Paul Merkelo, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
• Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 2 & 3, Stewart Goodyear with the Czech National Symphony

CLASSICAL ALBUM: VOCAL OR CHORAL PERFORMANCE

• Vivaldi: Sacred Music, Vol. 4, Claire de Sévigné, Maria Soulis, and Aradia Ensemble
• Sacred Reflections of Canada - A Canadian Mass, Canadian Chamber Choir
• Peter-Anthony Togni: Responsio, Jeff Reilly with Andrea Ludwig, Charles Daniels, John Potter, and Suzie
• Leblanc
• Las Ciudades de Oro, L'Harmonie des Saisons
• Chansons Perpétuelles, Marie-Nicole Lemieux

CLASSICAL COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR

• Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems, Dinuk Wijeratne
• Piano Quartet, John Burge
• The Afar, Jordan Pal
• Centennials, Michael Oesterle
• Bookburners, Nicole Lizée

RAP RECORDING OF THE YEAR

• Sour Soul, BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah
• If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake
• Kardi Gras Vol. 1: The Clash, Kardinal Offishall
• Can't Fly Without Gravity, k-os
• For The Town, SonReal

DANCE RECORDING OF THE YEAR

• We All Fall Down ft. Jamie Lidell, A-Trak
• Badman (Torro Torro Remix), Autoerotique & Max Styler
• At All, Kaytranada
• Save Me ft. Katy B, Keys N Krates
• Be Right There, Sleepy Tom & Diplo

R&B/SOUL RECORDING OF THE YEAR

• Four Pink Walls, Alessia Cara
• The Fall Out, August Rigo
• Déjà Vu, Dru
• Butchy's Son, Patrick Lehman
• Beauty Behind the Madness , The Weeknd

REGGAE RECORDING OF THE YEAR

• The French Sessions, Dubmatix
• Hello Mama, Exco Levi
• Nah Complain ft. Daddy U Roy, Kafinal
• Sexy Gal ft. T.O.K., Kreesha Turner
• Escape from the Mongoose Gang, Lyndon John X

ABORIGINAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• The One, Armond Duck Chief
• Come and Get Your Love: The Tribe Session, Black Bear
• Power In The Blood, Buffy Sainte-Marie
• Rumble, Derek Miller
• Refined, Don Amero

CONTEMPORARY ROOTS ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• So Let's Go, Alan Doyle
• Power In The Blood, Buffy Sainte-Marie
• The Bliss, Fortunate Ones
• Indian Ocean, Frazey Ford
• Beautiful Scars, LeE HaRVeY OsMOND

TRADITIONAL ROOTS ALBUM OF  THE YEAR

• The Chance, J.P. Cormier
• Jayme Stone's Lomax Project, Jayme Stone
• Domestic Eccentric, Old Man Luedecke
• A Wanderer I'll Stay, Pharis and Jason Romero
• Songs In The Dark, The Wainwright Sisters

BLUES ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• Faded But Not Gone, Big Dave McLean
• Brothers In This World, Blackburn
• Vicksburg Call, David Gogo
• This Is From Here, Harrison Kennedy
• Sliding Delta, Michael Jerome Browne

CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN/GOSPEL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• Brave New World, Amanda Cook
• Where The Light Is, Dan Bremnes
• Saints & Sinners, Matt Maher
• We Are, The City Harmonic
• TREES - Chapter 2, Tim Neufeld

WORLD MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• Healer, Alex Cuba
• Neo-Reconquista, Boogat
• Revuelta Danza Party, Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra
• Moorka, Lemon Bucket Orkestra
• Resistance, The Souljazz Orchestra

JACK RICHARDSON PRODUCER OF THE YEAR

• Bob Ezrin
• Dallas Green
• Henry "Cirkut" Walter
• Steve Webster & Emilie-Claire Barlow
• Thomas "Tawgs" Salter

RECORDING ENGINEER OF THE YEAR

• Gus Van Go,
• Liam O'Neil
• Noah "40" Shebib
• Serban Ghenea
• Shawn Everett

RECORDING PACKAGE OF THE YEAR

• CLUB MEDS, Dan Mangan + Blacksmith - Cam Dales and Ben Clarkson
• LOST VOICES, Esmerine - Clyde Henry Productions: Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, Constellation: Ian Ilavsky
• ELEMENTS, Long Distance Runners - Duncan Major, Joel Upshall
• WEST TRAINZ, West Trainz - Erik West Milette
• LES GRANDES ARTÈRES, Louis-Jean Cormier - Sarah Marcotte-Boislard

VIDEO OF THE YEAR

• Virgins, Eva Michon (Death From Above 1979)
• Dark Days, Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux and Chandler Levack (Pup)
• For the Town, Peter Huang (Sonreal)
• Avalanche, Philip Sportel (Kalle Mattson)
• Hello, Xavier Dolan (Adele)

ELECTRONIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• A Life Well Lived, AM Static
• Concubine, Concubine
• The Midas Touch, Discrete
• Noontide, Humans
• The Other Day, Pomo

HEAVY METAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• Searching for Zero, Cancer Bats
• Never Wanna Die, Diemonds
• Desire Will Rot, Fuck the Facts
• Of Ghosts and Gods, Kataklysm
• Success, KEN mode

ADULT CONTEMPORARY ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• Wallflower, Diana Krall
• Refined, Don Amero
• A Jann Arden Christmas, Jann Arden
• What Love Is All About, Johnny Reid
• Under One Sky, The Tenors