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Feb 05, 2014 Drake By Laura Studarus

The Juno awards have been announced. Under the Radar favorites Arcade Fire and Tegan & Sara have been nominated in several categories. Also on the board is Drake, who’s up for a Artist of the year and a fan choice award. Check out the full list of nominees below.

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Reflektor — Arcade Fire
Loved Me Back to Life — Céline Dion
Nothing Was the Same — Drake
To Be Loved — Michael Bublé
Harmony — Serena Ryder

ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Céline Dion
Drake
Michael Bublé
Robin Thicke
Serena Ryder

GROUP OF THE YEAR
Arcade Fire
Blue Rodeo
Hedley
Tegan and Sara
Walk Off the Earth

JUNO FAN CHOICE AWARD
Arcade Fire
Avril Lavigne
Céline Dion
Drake
Hedley
Justin Bieber
Michael Bublé
Robin Thicke
Serena Ryder
Walk Off the Earth

SINGLE OF THE YEAR
Reflektor — Arcade Fire
Inner Ninja — Classified ft. David Myles
It’s a Beautiful Day — Michael Bublé
What I Wouldn’t Do — Serena Ryder
Closer — Tegan and Sara

INTERNATIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Unorthodox Jukebox — Bruno Mars
The Marshall Mathers LP 2 — Eminem
Night Visions — Imagine Dragons
Take Me Home — One Direction
The Truth About — Love P!nk

BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Brett Kissel
Florence K
Tim Hicks
Tyler Shaw
Wake Owl

BREAKTHROUGH GROUP OF THE YEAR
A Tribe Called Red
Autumn Hill
Born Ruffians
Courage My Love
July Talk

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
Arcade Fire
Henry “Cirkut” Walter
Ron Sexsmith
Serena Ryder
Tegan and Sara Quin

COUNTRY ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Started With a Song — Brett Kissel
Crop Circles — Dean Brody
Country Junkie — Gord Bamford
Small Town Pistols — Small Town Pistols
Throw Down — Tim Hicks

ADULT ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Shut Down the Streets — A.C. Newman
Tall Tall Shadow — Basia Bulat
Us Alone — Hayden
Forever Endeavour — Ron Sexsmith
Internal Sounds — The Sadies

ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Reflektor — Arcade Fire
The Poet’s Dead — Rah Rah
Today We’re Believers — Royal Canoe
Warring — The Darcys
Uzu — Yamantaka//Sonic Titan

POP ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Wild Life — Hedley
To Be Loved — Michael Bublé
Blurred Lines — Robin Thicke
Heartthrob — Tegan and Sara
R.E.V.O. — Walk Off the Earth

ROCK ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Love + Fury — Headstones
Coyote — Matt Mays
Arrows of Desire — Matthew Good
Furiosity — Monster Truck
Transit of Venus — Three Days Grace

RAP RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Classified — Classified
Nothing Was the Same — Drake
In My Opinion — Rich Kidd
Flying Colours — Shad
Everywhere We Go — SonReal

DANCE RECORDING OF THE YEAR
This is What it Feels Like — Armin van Buuren & Trevor Guthrie
>album title goes here< — deadmau5
Tsunami — DVBBS & Borgeous
Locked Down — Jacynthe
Heartbreaker — Mia Martina

R&B/SOUL RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Kaleidoscope — Joanna Borromeo
Can’t Choose — JRDN ft. Kardinal Offishall
There’s Only One — Kim Davis
Gone — Melanie Durrant
Kiss Land — The Weeknd

REGGAE RECORDING OF THE YEAR
Mandela — Akustix
Baby It’s You — Ammoye
Love Collision — Dru
Rebel Massive — Dubmatix
Strive — Exco Levi & Kabaka Pyramid

ABORIGINAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Keep a Fire — Amanda Rheaume
Small Town Stories — Desiree Dorion
Surrender — George Leach
Burn Me Down — Inez Jasper
Road Renditions — Nathan Cunningham

VOCAL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Stealing Genius — Amy McConnell & William Sperandei
Courage, My Love — Erin Propp with Larry Roy
My Funny Valentine – The Chet Baker Songbook — Matt Dusk
Notes On Montréal ft. Sienna Dahlen — Mike Rud
Triades — Sonia Johnson, Charles Biddle Jr. & Annie Poulain

CONTEMPORARY JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Gratitude — Brandi Disterheft
Habitat — Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra
Brooklyn Babylon — Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
Mirror of the Mind — Earl MacDonald
Le refuge — Trifolia

TRADITIONAL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Nine — Carn Davidson 9
The Ian McDougall 12tet LIVE — Ian McDougall 12-tet
Our Second Set — John MacLeod & His Rex Hotel Orchestra
Ripple Effect — Mike Downes
Look for the Silver Lining — Phil Dwyer and Don Thompson

INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
New History Warfare Vol.3: To See More Light — Colin Stetson
Dalmak — Esmerine
Senna — Mahogany Frog
Down Home — Petr Cancura
Invitation — The Peggy Lee Band

FRANCOPHONE ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Himalaya mon amour — Alex Nevsky
Omniprésent — Damien Robitaille
Chic de ville — Daniel Bélanger
Fox — Karim Ouellet
Punkt — Pierre Lapointe

CHILDREN’S ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Sing As We Go! — Charlie Hope
What’s the Big Idea?!? — Gary Rasberry
Colour It — Helen Austin
Mon coffret à surprises — Marie-Claude
Coconuts Don’t Fall Far From the Tree — Splash’N Boots

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: SOLO OR CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Prokofiev Complete Works for Violin — James Ehnes
Chopin: Études Op. 10 & 25 — Jan Lisiecki
Mozart: Concertos Nos. 13 & 14 — Janina Fialkowska / The Chamber Players of Canada
Liszt at The Opera — Louis Lortie
Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas — Stewart Goodyear

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: LARGE ENSEMBLE OR SOLOIST(S) WITH LARGE ENSEMBLE ACCOMPANIMENT
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 27 — Angela Hewitt
Britten & Shostakovich: Violin Concerti — James Ehnes
Canadian Concerto Project, Volume One — Nadina Mackie Jackson and Guy Few with Group of 27
House of Dreams — Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances & Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring — Toronto Symphony Orchestra

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: VOCAL OR CHORAL PERFORMANCE
Berlioz: Les nuits d’été – Palej : The Poet & the War – Rorate Coeli — Group of 27, Eric Paetkau -Conductor, Shannon Mercer
Ravel, Sayat-Nova & Kradjian: Troubadour & the Nightingale — Isabel Bayrakdarian
Lettres de Madame Roy à sa fille Gabrielle Marie-Nicole — Lemieux & André Gagnon
Handel: Orlando, HWV 31 — Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Alexander Weimann, Owen Willets, Karina Gauvin, Allyson McHardy, Amanda Forsythe, Nathan Berg
A Quiet Place: Music for Healing III — Vancouver Chamber Choir

CLASSICAL COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR
Field Notes — Allan Gordon Bell GRAVITY AND GRACE
Isomorphia for Orchestra and Electronics — James O’Callaghan MAHLER SYMPHONY 9
Quatuors à cordes No. 12 — R. Murray Schafer QUATUOR MOLINARI
Magnificat — Stephen Chatman MAGNIFICAT: SONGS OF REFLECTION
Atacama: Symphonie No. 3 — Tim Brady ATACAMA: Symphonie No. 3

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