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# The Weeknd, Bieber, Drake Dominate 2016 Juno Award Nominantions – Here’s The Full List
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/the-weeknd-bieber-drake-dominate-2016-juno-award-nominantions-heres-the-full-list/
- Published: 2016-02-03T08:16:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-02-03T08:16:00.000Z
- Description: The Weeknd grabbed 6 nominations for the 2016 Juno Awards; and Justin Bieber and Drake each received 5. The show, organized by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences,. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2016/02/the-weeknd-bieber-drake-dominate-2016-juno-award-nominantions
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Conventions & Awards, Music Business, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:22

[![weeknd](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c8108cdf970b-150wi "weeknd")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c8108cdf970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)**The Weeknd** grabbed 6 nominations for the **2016 Juno Awards**; and **Justin Bieber** and **Drake** each received 5\. The show, organized by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, will air live on April 3rd. Here is the **full list of nominees:**

### JUNO Fan Choice Award

*Presented by TD*Walk Off The EarthThe WeekndShawn HookShawn MendesJustin BieberDrakeDean BrodyCœur de pirateCarly Rae JepsenAlessia Cara

### Single of the Year

**[![drake](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb08b54b1c970d-200wi "drake")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb08b54b1c970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)Can’t Feel My Face**The Weeknd**Clothes Off**Ria Mae**What Do You Mean?**Justin Bieber**Hotline Bling**Drake**Here**Alessia Cara

### International Album of the Year

*Sponsored by IDLA Associated Label Distribution* **Dream Your Life Away**Vance Joy**Four**One Direction**Title**Meghan Trainor**Hozier**Hozier**25**Adele

### Album of the Year

*Sponsored by Music Canada* **Beauty Behind the Madness**The Weeknd**Handwritten**Shawn Mendes**Purpose**Justin Bieber**À Paradis City**Jean Leloup**If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late**Drake

### Artist of the Year

The WeekndShawn MendesJustin BieberDrakeCity and Colour

### Group of the Year

Walk Off The EarthThree Days GraceMetricMarianas TrenchHedley

### Breakthrough Artist of the Year

*Sponsored by FACTOR, the Government of Canada, Canada’s Private Radio Broadcasters, and Radio Starmaker Fund*Tobias Jesso Jr.Scott HelmanFrancesco YatesColeman HellAlessia Cara

### Breakthrough Group of the Year

*Sponsored by FACTOR, the Government of Canada, Canada’s Private Radio Broadcasters, and Radio Starmaker Fund*Young EmpiresThe ElwinsMilk & BoneHalf Moon RunDear Rouge

### Songwriter of the Year

*Presented by SOCAN* **“When We Were Young” 25 – Adele | “Alive” Sia | “Without You” GOON – Tobias Jesso Jr.**Tobias Jesso Jr.**“Blood”, “Lover Come Back”, “Wasted Love” IF I SHOULD GO BEFORE YOU – City and Colour**Dallas Green**“Carry On”, “Crier tout bas”, “Oceans Brawl” ROSES – Cœur de Pirate**Béatrice Martin**“Farm In The Middle Of Nowhere”, “Ke Sakihitin Awasis (I Love You Baby)”, “Love Charms (Mojo Bijoux)” POWER IN THE BLOOD – Buffy Sainte-Marie**Buffy Sainte-Marie**“Can’t Feel My Face” – co-songwriters Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Peter Svensson, Ali Payami, “In The Night” – co-songwriters Ahmad Balshe, Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Peter Svensson, Ali Payami, “The Hills” – co-songwriters Ahmad Balshe, Emmanuel Nickerson, Carlo Mantagnese BEAUTY BEHIND THE MADNESS – The Weeknd** Abel Tesfaye

### Country Album of the Year

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

### Adult Alternative Album of the Year

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

### Alternative Album of the Year

*Sponsored by Long & McQuade* **Viet Cong**Viet Cong**Half Free**U.S. Girls**Are You Alone?**Majical Cloudz**Poison Season**Destroyer**Deep in the Iris**BRAIDS

### Pop Album of the Year

*Sponsored by TD* **Sing It All Away**Walk Off The Earth**Handwritten**Shawn Mendes**Augusta**Scott Helman**Purpose**Justin Bieber**Hello**Hedley

### Rock Album of the Year

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

### Vocal Jazz Album of the Year

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

### Jazz Album of the Year: Solo

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

### Jazz Album of the Year: Group

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

### Instrumental Album of the Year

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

### Francophone Album of the Year

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

### Children's Album of the Year

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

### Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber Ensemble

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

### Classical Album of the Year: Large Ensemble or Soloist(s) with Large Ensemble Accompaniment

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

### Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral Performance

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

### Classical Composition of the Year

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

### Rap Recording of the Year

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

### Dance Recording of the Year

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

### R&B/Soul Recording of the Year

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

### Reggae Recording of the Year

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

### Aboriginal Album of the Year

*Sponsored by Aboriginal Peoples Television Network* **Refined**Don Amero**Rumble**Derek Miller**Power In The Blood**Buffy Sainte-Marie**Come and Get Your Love: The Tribe Session**Black Bear**The One**Armond Duck Chief

### Contemporary Roots Album of the Year

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

### Traditional Roots Album of the Year

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

### Blues Album of the Year

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

### Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year

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

### World Music Album of the Year

*Sponsored by Canada Council for the Arts* **Resistance**The Souljazz Orchestra**Moorka**Lemon Bucket Orkestra**Revuelta Danza Party**Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra**Neo-Reconquista**Boogat**Healer**Alex Cuba

### Jack Richardson Producer of the Year

**“Bungalow” AUGUSTA – Scott Helman | “Rule The World” (co-producer Gianni Luminati) SING IT ALL AWAY – Walk Off The Earth**Thomas "Tawgs" Salter**“La Llorona”, “On a Clear Day” CLEAR DAY – Emilie-Claire Barlow**Steve Webster & Emilie-Claire Barlow**“Locked Away ft. Adam Levine” (co-producer Lukasz “Dr. Luke Gottwald) WHAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF – R. City | “Sugar” (co-producer Joshua "Ammo” Coleman) V – Maroon 5**Henry "Cirkut" Walter**(co-producer Karl Bareham) “Lover Come Back”, “Wasted Love” IF I SHOULD GO BEFORE YOU – City and Colour**Dallas Green**“Honey Honey”, “What Love Is All About” WHAT LOVE IS ALL ABOUT – Johnny Reid**Bob Ezrin

### Recording Engineer of the Year

*Sponsored by Ontario Institute of Audio Recording Technology \[OIART\]* **“Can’t Feel My Face”, “In The Night” BEAUTY BEHIND THE MADNESS – The Weeknd**Serban Ghenea**“Jungle”, “Know Yourself” IF YOU’RE READING THIS IT’S TOO LATE – Drake**Noah "40" Shebib**“Celebrate”, “The Governess” PAGANS IN VEGAS – Metric**Liam O'Neil**“Downtown”, “Sweet Disaster” LEAVE NO BRIDGE UNBURNED – Whitehorse**Gus Van Go**“Don’t Wanna Fight”, “Gimme All Your Love” SOUND & COLOUR – Alabama Shakes Maple** Shawn Everett

### Recording Package of the Year

**LES GRANDES ARTÈRES – Louis-Jean Cormier**Sarah Marcotte-Boislard (Art Director)**WEST TRAINZ – West Trainz**Erik West Milette (Art Director)**ELEMENTS – Long Distance Runners**Duncan Major (Art Director/Designer), Joel Upshall (Photographer)**LOST VOICES – Esmerine**Clyde Henry Productions: Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (Art Directors/Designers/Illustrators/Photographers), Constellation: Ian Ilavsky (Designer)**CLUB MEDS – Dan Mangan + Blacksmith**Cam Dales (Art Director/Designer), Ben Clarkson (Art Director/Illustrator)

### Video of the Year

*Sponsored by MuchFACT, exclusively funded by Bell Media* **Hello – ADELE**Xavier Dolan**Avalanche – KALLE MATTSON**Philip Sportel**For the Town – SONREAL**Peter Huang**Dark Days – PUP**Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux, Chandler Levack**Virgins – DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979**Eva Michon

### Electronic Album of the Year

**The Other Day**Pomo**Noontide**HUMANS**The Midas Touch**Discrete**Concubine**Concubine**A Life Well Lived**AM Static

### Heavy Metal Album of the Year

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

### Adult Contemporary Album of the Year

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

### Canadian Music Hall of Fame

Burton Cummings

### Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award

Rosalie Trombley