Juno Awards of 2016

The 2016 Juno Awards Logo

Date| 2–3 April 2016
Venue| Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary, Alberta
Hosted by| Jann Arden and Jon Montgomery
Television/radio coverage
Network| CTV
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The Juno Awards of 2016, honouring Canadian music achievements, were presented in Calgary the weekend of 2–3 April 2016. The ceremonies were held at the Scotiabank Saddledome and televised on CTV.[1] It was the first televised awards show to be broadcast in 4K ultra high-definition.[2]

## Events

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The primary ceremony hosts were musician Jann Arden and athlete and television personality Jon Montgomery.[3] It included performances by Bryan Adams, Dean Brody, Alessia Cara, Dear Rouge, Coleman Hell, Scott Helman, Shawn Hook, Lights, Shawn Mendes, The Weeknd and Whitehorse.[4][5] The television broadcast on CTV attracted ratings of 1.4 million viewers.[6]

The Juno Cup charity hockey game was played at Max Bell Centre on 1 April.[7]

## Nominees and winners

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Musician Burton Cummings is the 2016 inductee into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. His band, The Guess Who, was inducted in 1987.[8] Rosalie Trombley, former music director for CKLW radio, will be presented with the year's Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award.[9] Arcade Fire is the recipient of the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award for their contributions to various non-profit organizations.[10]

Nominees were announced on 2 February 2016.[11] The lack of female nominees in categories such as Artist of the Year and Album of the Year resulted in social media discussions tagged "#JunosSoMale". Musicians Amy Millan and Grimes were also critical of the gender balance of this year's nominations.[12][13]

### People

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Artist of the Year | Group of the Year

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* The Weeknd
* City and Colour
* Drake
* Justin Bieber
* Shawn Mendes

* Walk off the Earth
* Hedley
* Marianas Trench
* Metric
* Three Days Grace

Breakthrough Artist of the Year | Breakthrough Group of the Year

* Alessia Cara
* Coleman Hell
* Francesco Yates
* Scott Helman
* Tobias Jesso Jr.

* Dear Rouge
* Half Moon Run
* Milk & Bone
* The Elwins
* Young Empires

Fan Choice Award | Songwriter of the Year

* Justin Bieber
* Alessia Cara
* Carly Rae Jepsen
* Cœur de pirate
* Dean Brody
* Drake
* Shawn Hook
* Shawn Mendes
* The Weeknd
* Walk off the Earth

* Abel Tesfaye \- "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) from Beauty Behind the Madness by The Weeknd
* Béatrice Martin \- "Carry On", "Crier tout bas", "Oceans Brawl" from Roses by Cœur de pirate
* Buffy Sainte-Marie \- "Farm in the Middle of Nowhere", "Ke Sakihitin Awasis (I Love You Baby)", "Love Charms (Mojo Bijoux)" from Power in the Blood by Buffy Sainte-Marie
* Dallas Green \- "Blood", "Lover Come Back", "Wasted Love" from If I Should Go Before You by City and Colour
* Tobias Jesso Jr. \- "When We Were Young" from 25 by Adele; "Alive" from This Is Acting by Sia; "Without You" from Goon by Tobias Jesso Jr.

Producer of the Year | Recording Engineer of the Year

* Bob Ezrin \- "Honey Honey", "What Love Is All About" from What Love Is All About by Johnny Reid
* Dallas Green (co-producer Karl Bareham) \- "Lover Come Back", "Wasted Love" from If I Should Go Before You by City and Colour
* Henry "Cirkut" Walter \- "Locked Away feat. Adam Levine" (co-producer Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald) from What Dreams Are Made Of by Rock City; "Sugar" (co-producer Joshua "Ammo" Coleman) from V by Maroon 5
* Steve Webster & Emilie-Claire Barlow \- "La Llorona", "On a Clear Day" from Clear Day by Emilie-Claire Barlow
* Thomas "Tawgs" Salter \- "Bungalow" from Augusta by Scott Helman; "Rule the World" (co-producer Gianni Luminati) from Sing It All Away by Walk off the Earth

* Shawn Everett \- "Don't Wanna Fight", "Gimme All Your Love" from Sound & Color by Alabama Shakes
* Gus van Go \- "Downtown", "Sweet Disaster" from Leave No Bridge Unburned by Whitehorse
* Liam O'Neil \- "Celebrate", "The Governess" from Pagans in Vegas by Metric
* Noah "40" Shebib \- "Jungle", "Know Yourself" from If You're Reading This It's Too Late by Drake
* Serban Ghenea - "Can't Feel My Face", "In the Night" from Beauty Behind the Madness by The Weeknd

### Albums

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Album of the Year | Aboriginal Album of the Year

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

* Buffy Sainte-Marie, Power in the Blood
* Armond Duck Chief, The One
* Black Bear, Come and Get Your Love: The Tribe Session
* Derek Miller, Rumble
* Don Amero, Refined

The award was rescinded in 2025, over citizenship requirements.[14]

Adult Alternative Album of the Year | Adult Contemporary Album of the Year

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

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

Alternative Album of the Year | Blues Album of the Year

* BRAIDS, Deep in the Iris
* Destroyer, Poison Season
* Majical Cloudz, Are You Alone?
* U.S. Girls, Half Free
* Preoccupations (then-known as Viet Cong), Viet Cong

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

Children's Album of the Year | Classical Album of the Year – Solo or Chamber Ensemble

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

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

Classical Album of the Year – Large Ensemble or Soloist(s) with Large Ensemble Accompaniment | Classical Album of the Year – Vocal or Choral Performance

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

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

Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year | Country Album of the Year

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

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

Electronic Album of the Year | Francophone Album of the Year

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

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

Instrumental Album of the Year | International Album of the Year

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

* Adele, 25
* Ciara, Jackie
* Hozier, Hozier
* Meghan Trainor, Title
* Vance Joy, Dream Your Life Away

Jazz Album of the Year – Solo | Jazz Album of the Year – Group

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

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

Vocal Jazz Album of the Year | Heavy Metal Album of the Year

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

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

Pop Album of the Year | Rock Album of the Year

* Justin Bieber, Purpose
* Hedley, Hello
* Scott Helman, Augusta
* Shawn Mendes, Handwritten
* Walk off the Earth, Sing It All Away

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

Contemporary Roots Album of the Year | Traditional Roots Album of the Year

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

The award was rescinded in 2025, over citizenship requirements.[15]

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

World Music Album of the Year

* Boogat, Neo-Reconquista
* Alex Cuba, Healer
* Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra, Revuelta Danza Party
* The Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Moorka
* The Souljazz Orchestra, Resistance

### Songs and recordings

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Single of the Year | Classical Composition of the Year

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* The Weeknd, "Can't Feel My Face"
* Alessia Cara, "Here"
* Drake, "Hotline Bling"
* Justin Bieber, "What Do You Mean?"
* Ria Mae, "Clothes Off"

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

Dance Recording of the Year | R&B/Soul Recording of the Year

* Keys N Krates, "Save Me" feat. Katy B
* A-Trak, "We All Fall Down" feat. Jamie Lidell
* Autoerotique & Max Styler, "Badman (Torro Torro Remix)"
* Borgeous & Lights, "Zero Gravity"
* Sleepy Tom & Diplo, "Be Right There"

"At All" by Kaytranada was originally nominated in this category, but later review discovered that it was originally released outside the eligibility period and it was replaced on the nominee list by "Zero Gravity".[16]

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

Rap Recording of the Year | Reggae Recording of the Year

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

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

### Other

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Recording Package of the Year | Video of the Year

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* 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)
* Elements \- Long Distance Runners

Duncan Major (Art Director/Designer), Joel Upshall (Photographer)
* West Trainz \- West Trainz

Erik West Milette (Art Director)
* Les Grandes artères \- Louis-Jean Cormier

Sarah Marcotte-Boislard (Art Director)

* "Hello" - Adele

Xavier Dolan
* "Virgins" - Death from Above 1979

Eva Michon
* "Dark Days" - PUP

Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux and Chandler Levack
* "For the Town" - SonReal

Peter Huang
* "Avalanche" - Kalle Mattson

Philip Sportel

## References

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5. ^ O'Kane, Josh (2 February 2016). "The Weeknd, Drake and Justin Bieber lead Juno nominations". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
6. ^ Gonshor, Bram (5 April 2016). "Banner year for Canadian music celebrated at 2016 JUNO Awards in Calgary". Music Canada. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
7. ^ "Rockers Take On NHL Greats For 13th Annual JUNO Cup in Calgary". CARAS. 27 January 2016. Archived from the original on 3 February 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
8. ^ The Canadian Press (25 January 2016). "Burton Cummings's solo work gets Canadian Hall of Fame nod". CBC News. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
9. ^ Chen, Dalson (19 January 2016). "Legendary local radio figure Rosalie Trombley to receive special Juno award". Windsor Star. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
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Juno Awards

Awards to individuals|

* Artist of the Year
* Fan Choice
* Group of the Year
* Breakthrough Artist or Group of the Year
* Producer
* Recording Engineer
* Songwriter
* Songwriter (Non-Performer)

Awards for recordings|

* Album of the Year
* Adult Alternative
* Adult Contemporary
* Alternative
* Blues
* Children's
* Comedy
* Classical – Large Ensemble
* Classical – Small Ensemble
* Classical – Solo
* Classical Composition
* CCM/Gospel
* Contemporary Indigenous Artist
* Contemporary R&B/Soul
* Contemporary Roots
* Country
* Dance
* Electronic
* Francophone
* Global Music
* Heavy Metal
* Instrumental
* Jazz – Solo
* Jazz – Group
* Jazz – Vocal
* Pop
* Rap Album/EP
* Rap Single
* Reggae
* Rock
* Single of the Year
* South Asian Music
* Traditional Indigenous Artist
* Traditional R&B/Soul
* Traditional Roots
* Underground Dance

Awards for technicality|

* Music DVD
* Recording Package
* Video

Discontinued categories|

* Breakthrough Artist of the Year (1974–2024)
* Breakthrough Group of the Year (1974–2024)
* Classical Album of the Year (1977–1985)
* Classical – Solo or Chamber Ensemble (1985–2021)
* Classical – Vocal or Choral Performance (1994–2021)
* Indigenous Artist or Group (1994–2021)
* International (1975–2024)
* Jazz Album (1977–1993)
* Jazz – Contemporary (1994–2014)
* Jazz – Traditional (1994–2014)
* Rap Recording (1991–2021)
* R&B/Soul Recording (1985–2020)
* Roots and Traditional Album (1989–1995)
* Roots & Traditional Album – Solo (1996–2015)
* Roots & Traditional Album – Group (1996–2015)

Special awards|

* Canadian Music Hall of Fame
* Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award
* Juno Humanitarian Award

Years|

* 1970
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* 1974
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* 1976
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* 19891
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* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020
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* 2022
* 2023
* 2024
* 2025

Leadership|

* Walt Grealis
* Stan Klees
* Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences

Notes|

1 Due to the rescheduling of the ceremony from late fall to early spring, no ceremony was held in 1988.

See also
Music of Canada
Polaris Music Prize
Much Music Video Awards
Félix Awards
East Coast Music Awards
Western Canadian Music Awards
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