Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year

Summary

The Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year is presented annually at Canada's Juno Awards to honour the best album of the year in the alternative rock and/or indie rock genres. The award was first presented in 1995 under the name Best Alternative Album, and adopted its current name in 2003.

Achievements edit

Arcade Fire and July Talk have won the award three times to date, while Broken Social Scene, Metric, Alvvays and Rufus Wainwright have won the award twice each. In addition to Broken Social Scene's wins as a band, three members have also won the award for separate projects — Emily Haines and James Shaw have also won the award twice with their band Metric, and Leslie Feist has won for a solo album. Arcade Fire have been nominated for the award four times overall, while July Talk, Broken Social Scene, Metric, Alvvays, Stars, Chad VanGaalen, and Tegan and Sara have received three nominations each.

Only two French-language albums have ever been nominated (Malajube's Trompe-l'œil and Karkwa's Les Chemins de verre) and none has ever won.

Recipients edit

Best Alternative Album (1995–2002) edit

Year Winner(s) Album Nominees Ref.
1995 Rose Chronicles Shiver [1]
1996 Art Bergmann What Fresh Hell Is This? [2]
1997 Sloan One Chord to Another [3]
1998 Bran Van 3000 Glee [4]
1999 Rufus Wainwright Rufus Wainwright [5]
2000 Julie Doiron and Wooden Stars Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars [6]
2001 The New Pornographers Mass Romantic [7]
2002 Rufus Wainwright Poses [8]

Alternative Album of the Year (2003–present) edit

Year Winner(s) Album Nominees Ref.
2003 Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People [9]
2004 Buck 65 Talkin' Honky Blues [10]
2005 Feist Let It Die [11]
2006 Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene [12]
2007 City and Colour Sometimes [13]
2008 Arcade Fire Neon Bible [14]
2009 The Stills Oceans Will Rise [15]
2010 Metric Fantasies [16]
2011 Arcade Fire The Suburbs [17]
2012 Dan Mangan Oh Fortune [18]
2013 Metric Synthetica [19]
2014 Arcade Fire Reflektor [20]
2015 July Talk July Talk [21]
2016 BRAIDS Deep in the Iris
2017 July Talk Touch [22]
2018 Alvvays Antisocialites [23]
2019 Dizzy Baby Teeth [24]
2020 PUP Morbid Stuff [25]
2021 July Talk Pray for It [26]
2022 Mustafa When Smoke Rises [27]
2023 Alvvays Blue Rev [28]
2024 Aysanabee Here and Now [29]

References edit

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