Alberta Pop Sensation Tate McRAE and Nashville Josh Ross lead the list of nominees with five each for 2025 Junos, which were launched on Tuesday and highlighted the emergence of country music and punjabi in the main Canadian current.
McRAE is not exactly a newcomer to the Junos field, although he has seen stratospheric success in a relatively short period of time. Since her first nomination in 2021, they never left her out of the Board, although she only managed to take her first statues in 2024.
This year, it is competing in many of the main awards that will be awarded in Vancouver on March 30. Your 2023 album Think later And his single Bills Put it in The Running for Fan Choice, Single, Artist, Album and Pop Album of the Year.
She is competing in the album category against a group of linguistically diverse candidates. Roxane Bruneau’s Immerse It is a launch in French and Sukha Indisputable It is Punjabi, while Elisapie, who won the 2024 trophy by the contemporary indigenous artist or group of the year, is nominated for InuktitutYour album in that same language.
The explosive ascent of McRAe is perhaps a bit eclipsed by the nominee of the year Josh Ross. After his first nomination last year, for Fan Choice, the Country Star Single (Single again) and album (Complicated) Have it for the same categories as McRAE, just exchanging the “pop” album category for the country.
His success foresees an apparent invasion of country music in the entire list of Junos songs: four of the 10 nominated for the choice of fans are a country or country-adjacent, while a fifth (Shawn Mendes) was honored this year in much about the strength of his influenced country. single Why.
Mendes is prepared for three additional awards: simple, artist and pop album of the year (Shawn). That links it for the second more nominations with The Weeknd (real name Abel Tesfaye), who is in favor of Fan Choice, Artist, Songwriter and Single of the Year (Eternal achievement. Playboi Carti).
If I won the four, it would become the most award -winning artist of Junos of all time. He currently has 22 victories, just behind Anne Murray’s 25.
Nominated in key categories:
Election of Tiktok Juno fans: BBNO $, Dean Brody, Jade Eagleson, Josh Ross, Karan Aujla, Les Cowboys Frordes, Preston Pablo, Shawn Mendes, Tate McRAe, The Weeknd.
Artist of the year: Josh Ross, Kaytranada, Shawn Mendes, Tate Mcrae, The Weeknd.
Album: InuktitutElisapie; ComplicatedJosh Ross; ImmerseRoxane Bruneau; IndisputableSukha; Think later; Tate mcrae.
Single: Single againJosh Ross; Winning speechKaran Aujla; WhyShawn Mendes; BillsTate mcrae; EternalThe Weeknd (feat. Playboi Carti).
Cluster: Crash Adams, mother mother, Spiritbox, Sum 41, The Beaches.
His nomination count coincides with another great artist who performs an performance in this year’s Junos. Beyoncé’s album Cowboy It appears four times on the list of Junos, although without any of the nominations oriented to the singer itself.
Instead, four Canadians are ready for work that contributed to the Beyoncé Grammy winning album. Nathan Ferraro, born in Calgary, and Ontario are ready for composer of the year (not playing) for some of the biggest tracks of the album.
Meanwhile, Jack Rochon and Shawn Everett compete for Jack Richardson’s producer for his Cowboy songs.
The launch of the long -awaited Beyoncé Country album, Cowboy Carter, has many Black Country artists already seeing a lump in fans, and many expect a rebirth in black country music, even here in Canada.
Lowell and Ferraro’s “breach” composer category is a new one, and among a series of changed categories for the 2025 show. As a composer who has written for the winners of Juno de McRAe to Lennon Stella to Rêve, Lowell said the Creation of the category, and its first posterior nomination, meant so much, if not more, that its recent grammy assent.
“Seeing many of the artists he had developed, as they only dug and worked so hard to give them the songs that took them there, and then knowing that he would never get that recognition, it was very painful for me.” “She said. He added that so far, that lack of recognition for work composers has led the considerable talent of Canada to the south of the border.
“There are many people working hard to change the industry in the United States, “he said.” I am just saying this: ‘I am also doing it here. AND [that] There is something in the water in Canada; It is worth being here. We can make an industry of it ‘”.
Also new this year is “musical recording of southern Asia of the year”, which is destined to highlight the local talent inspired by the genres of that region, including Punjabi and Bollywood Music.
Among his nominees are Ap Dhillon (The brown footprint), Jonita Gandhi (Love like this) and Karan Aujla, who last year became Punjabi’s first artist to win the choice of fans. Aujla is nominated in the southern music category for Tauba TaubaAnd it is also nominated for Fan Choice and Single of the Year (Winning speech). Dhillon is also ready for composer and advance artist or group of the year, a category that merged for this year.
Artists Sukha and Ar Paisley help complete Punjabi artists nominated in that category. Also nominated for the advance is the Palestinian Canadian artist Nemahsis, who told CBC’s Q which was withdrawn by its label in 2023 for publishing pro-Palestinian content in its social media accounts. She is nominated as an independent artist.
Artist or advance group of the year: Alexander Stewart, AP Dhillon, Ar Paisley, Chris Gray, Ekkstacy, Nemahsis, Owen Riegling, Sukha, Tony Ann, Zeina.
Songwriter: Abel Tesfaye, Ap Dhillon, Jessie Reyez, Mustafa, Nemah Hasan.
Composer (non -performance): Evan Blair, Lowell, Nathan Ferraro, Shaun Frank, Tobias Jesso Jr.
Rap album: 96 miles from BethlehemBelly; Luke viewClassified; The flower I knewDijahsb; See you when I see youDom Vallie; Red futureChildren of the brat.
Pop album: Sangrant heartAlexander Stewart; If this is all … Jamie well; AnywherePreston Pablo; ShawnShawn Mendes; Think laterTate mcrae
Country album: THE COMPASS PROJECT – ALBUM WESTBrett Kissel; Dallas Smith, Dallas Smith; ComplicatedJosh Ross; No one was born with a broken heartMackenzie Porter; Go homeTyler Joe Miller.
Without changes this year are the recording of the reggae, and the categories of albums of children and Christians/Gospel. Although the organizers of Junos initially announced that these categories would be placed in “hiatus”, a violent reaction led them to restore all three, while maintaining their decision to exclude the category of international albums.
That decision was made far ahead of the current commercial war of Canada-United States. Even so, the CEO of the Allan Reid organization told CBC News that the only omission speaks of the mandate of Junos to raise and promote Canadian music to the Canadian public.
“It is sad to see the situation that is happening right now … but I am also very excited about patriotism that is really being created,” he said. “It’s an exciting moment for Canadian music.”
Children’s album nominees also present what is quickly becoming Juno’s most youthful pillar. Romeo Eats (Real Name Romeo Aniello) now has its third Juno nomination, since it becomes the youngest nominee at four years in 2022 and the youngest winner the following year.
When it comes to exclusions, eagle eyes fans can notice the absence of certified lover and the conversation point of the Super Bowl Drake. Despite launching multiple clues in his infamous enmity with rapper Kendrick Lamar, Drake is absent again from the lists of Junos, an uncompeeving omission, from the God’s plan The artist stopped sending his music for consideration in 2018.
Also absent from this year’s lists are Arkells for the group of the year. As the most awarded group in that category, with six victories, it is a remarkable exclusion. Since 2010, only four times have passed.
However, Sum 41 rockers are ready for the prize, and are also scheduled to give their final performance as a band in the Vancouver show, where they will also be included in the Hall of Fame of Canadian Music. Michael Bublé de BC is the host of the ceremonies for the third time, and will share the stage with other nominees nominees Peach Pit, Ekkstacy, Tobias Jesso Jr., mother mother, Snotty nose rez Kids, Dallas Smith and more.
BOI-1DA will receive the International Achievement Award and Sarah Harmer the 2025 Humanitarian Award.
The program will broadcast on March 30 at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT on CBC TV, CBC Gem, CBC Radio One, CBC Music, CBC Listen and Globally in CBCMUSIC.CA/JUNOS and the YouTube page of CBC Music.
