No big surprises when the Juno nominees were announced yesterday: once again it's the Drake and Justin Bieber show!
Drake, who will host the broadcast ceremony from Toronto, walked away with a field best six nominations. That includes the Fan Choice Award, Single of the Year, Album of the Year and Artist of the Year.
Bieber, who refuses to go away, follows with four nominations including Fan Choice, Album of the Year and Pop Album of the Year.
The Arcade Fire also received four nods, for Album, Group, Songwriter and Alternative album of the Year.
Broken Social Scene, Hedley and Johnny Reid are also multiple nominees.
Other highlights include:
- k.d. lang's rendition of Hallelujah, up for Single of the Year
- Sarah McLachlan up for Artist, Songwriter and Pop Album of the year
- Hannah Georgas nominated for Songwriter and New Artist of the Year, while Said The Whale is up for New Group of the Year
Click inside for a list of nominees in major categories.
JUNO FAN CHOICE AWARD
Drake
Hedley
Johnny Reid
Justin Bieber
Michael Bublé
SINGLE OF THE YEAR
Oh Canada, Classified
Find Your, Love Drake
Perfect, Hedley
Hallelujah Vancouver Winter 2010, kd lang
Wavin’ Flag, Young Artists for Haiti
INTERNATIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Recovery, Eminem
Teenage Dream, Katy Perry
Animal, Ke$ha
Need You Now, Lady Antebellum
Speak Now, Taylor Swift
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
The Suburbs, Arcade Fire
Thank Me Later, Drake
The Show Must Go, Hedley
A Place Called Love, Johnny Reid
My World 2.0, Justin Bieber
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Drake
Johnny Reid
Justin Bieber
Neil Young
Sarah McLachlan
GROUP OF THE YEAR
Arcade Fire
Broken Social Scene
Down With Webster
Great Big Sea
Three Days Grace
NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Basia Bulat
Bobby Bazini
Caribou
Hannah Georgas
Meaghan Smith
NEW GROUP OF THE YEAR
Die Mannequin
Hollerado
Misteur Valaire
My Darkest Days
Said The Whale
SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
Arcade Fire
Drake
Hannah Georgas
Royal Wood
Sarah McLachlan
COUNTRY ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Love Rules, Carolyn Dawn Johnson
Trail in Life, Dean Brody
Sunshine, Deric Ruttan
Day Job, Gord Bamford
A Place Called Love, Johnny Reid
ADULT ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Black Dub, Black Dub
You I Wind Land and Sea, Justin Nozuka
Steel City Trawler, Luke Doucet And The White Falcon
Le Noise, Neil Young
Oh Little Fire, Sarah Harmer
ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR
The Suburbs, Arcade Fire
Forgiveness Rock Record, Broken Social Scene
Les chemins de verre, Karkwa
Heartland, Owen Pallett
Champ, Tokyo Police Club
POP ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Better in Time, Bobby Bazini
Time to Win Vol. 1, Down With Webster
Can’T keEp A SecrEt, Faber Drive
My World 2.0, Justin Bieber I
Laws of Illusion, Sarah McLachlan
ROCK ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones, Cancer Bats
Fino + Bleed, Die Mannequin
Life Turns Electric, Finger Eleven
Population: Declining, Hail the Villain
Vancouver, Matthew Good
VOCAL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR
The Beat Goes On, Emilie-Claire Barlow
Last Call, Jeff Healey
Nina Kellylee Evans
Tracing Light, Laila Biali
Nikki, Nikki Yanofsky