Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year
The Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year is presented annually at Canada's Juno Awards to honour the best album of the year in the alternative rock and/or indie rock genres. The award was first presented in 1995 under the name Best Alternative Album, and adopted its current name in 2003.
Achievements[]
Arcade Fire and July Talk have won the award three times to date, while Broken Social Scene and Rufus Wainwright have won the award twice each. In addition to Broken Social Scene's wins as a band, three members have also won the award for separate projects — Emily Haines and James Shaw have also won the award twice with their band Metric, and Leslie Feist has won for a solo album. Arcade Fire have been nominated for the award four times overall, while Broken Social Scene, Metric, Stars, Chad VanGaalen, Tegan and Sara and July Talk have received three nominations each.
Only two French-language albums have ever been nominated (Malajube's Trompe-l'œil and Karkwa's Les Chemins de verre) and none has ever won.
Recipients[]
Best Alternative Album (1995–2002)[]
Year | Winner(s) | Album | Nominees | Ref. |
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1995 | Rose Chronicles | Shiver |
|
[1] |
1996 | Art Bergmann | What Fresh Hell Is This? |
|
[2] |
1997 | Sloan | One Chord to Another |
|
[3] |
1998 | Bran Van 3000 | Glee |
|
[4] |
1999 | Rufus Wainwright | Rufus Wainwright | [5] | |
2000 | Julie Doiron and Wooden Stars | Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars |
|
[6] |
2001 | The New Pornographers | Mass Romantic |
|
[7] |
2002 | Rufus Wainwright | Poses |
|
[8] |
Alternative Album of the Year (2003–present)[]
Year | Winner(s) | Album | Nominees | Ref. |
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2003 | Broken Social Scene | You Forgot It in People |
|
[9] |
2004 | Buck 65 | Talkin' Honky Blues |
|
[10] |
2005 | Feist | Let It Die |
|
[11] |
2006 | Broken Social Scene | Broken Social Scene |
|
[12] |
2007 | City and Colour | Sometimes |
|
[13] |
2008 | Arcade Fire | Neon Bible |
|
[14] |
2009 | The Stills | Oceans Will Rise |
|
[15] |
2010 | Metric | Fantasies |
|
[16] |
2011 | Arcade Fire | The Suburbs |
|
[17] |
2012 | Dan Mangan | Oh Fortune |
|
[18] |
2013 | Metric | Synthetica |
|
[19] |
2014 | Arcade Fire | Reflektor | [20] | |
2015 | July Talk | July Talk |
|
[21] |
2016 | BRAIDS | Deep in the Iris |
|
|
2017 | July Talk | Touch |
|
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2018 | Alvvays | Antisocialites |
|
[22] |
2019 | Dizzy | Baby Teeth |
|
[23] |
2020 | PUP | Morbid Stuff |
|
[24] |
2021 | July Talk | Pray for It |
|
[25] |
References[]
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- ^ "Best Alternative Album: Yearly summary: 1998". JunoAward.ca. Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 7, 2012.
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- ^ "Best Alternative Album: Yearly summary: 2000". JunoAward.ca. Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 7, 2012.
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- ^ "Best Alternative Album: Yearly summary: 2002". JunoAward.ca. Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 7, 2012.
- ^ "Yearly summary: 2003". JunoAwards.ca. Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
- ^ "Yearly summary: 2004". JunoAwards.ca. Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
- ^ "Yearly summary: 2005". JunoAwards.ca. Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
- ^ "Yearly summary: 2006". JunoAwards.ca. Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
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- ^ "Yearly summary: 2010". JunoAwards.ca. Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
- ^ "Yearly summary: 2011". JunoAwards.ca. Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
- ^ "Yearly summary: 2012". JunoAwards.ca. Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
- ^ "Yearly summary: 2013". JunoAwards.ca. Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved April 4, 2013.
- ^ "Yearly summary: 2014". JunoAwards.ca. Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 30, 2014.
- ^ "Yearly summary: 2015". JunoAwards.ca. Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
- ^ "Arcade Fire and Daniel Caesar lead 2018 Juno Award nominations" Archived 2018-02-08 at the Wayback Machine. CBC Music, February 6, 2018.
- ^ "Shawn Mendes and the Weeknd lead the 2019 Juno nominations". CBC Music, January 29, 2019.
- ^ Melody Lau, "Alessia Cara and Tory Lanez lead the 2020 Juno nominations". CBC Music, January 28, 2020.
- ^ Holly Gordon and Andrea Warner, "Here are the 2021 Juno Award winners". CBC Music, June 4, 2021.
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