Junos 2016: Complete list of Juno Award nominees

The Weeknd, Drake and Justin Bieber the three Canadian acts who have dominated the music charts at home and abroad for months are leading the race for the 2016 Juno Awards, withtwonewcomers to the scene,singer-songwriter Alessia Cara and digital video sensation Shawn Mendes, also among the top contenders.

• The Weeknd, Drake, Justin Bieber lead race for 2016 Juno Awards

The45thannual Juno Awards broadcast galatakes place Sunday, April 3 at theScotiabankSaddledome in Calgary.

Here are the 2016 Juno Award nominees.

JUNO FAN CHOICE AWARD

• Alessia Cara
• Carly Rae Jepsen
• Cur de pirate
• Dean Brody
• Drake
• Justin Bieber
• Shawn Hook
• Shawn Mendes
• The Weeknd
• Walk Off The Earth

SINGLE OF THE YEAR

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

INTERNATIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• 25, Adele
• Hozier, Hozier
• Title, Meghan Trainor
• Four, One Direction
• Dream Your Life Away, Vance Joy

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

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

GROUP OF THE YEAR

• Hedley
• Marianas Trench
• Metric
• Three Days Grace
• Walk Off The Earth

BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OF THE YEAR

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

BREAKTHROUGH GROUP OF THE YEAR

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

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR

• Abel Tesfaye
• Batrice Martin
• Buffy Sainte-Marie
• Dallas Green
• Tobias Jesso Jr.

COUNTRY ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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

ADULT ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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

ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• Deep in the Iris, BRAIDS
• Poison Season, Destroyer
• Are You Alone?, Majical Cloudz
• Half Free, U.S. Girls
• Viet Cong, Viet Cong

POP ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• Hello, Hedley
• Purpose, Justin Bieber
• Augusta, Scott Helman
• Handwritten, Shawn Mendes
• Sing It All Away, Walk Off The Earth

ROCK ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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

VOCAL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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

JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR: SOLO

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

JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR: GROUP

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

INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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

FRANCOPHONE ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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

CHILDREN'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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

CLASSICAL ALBUM: SOLO OR CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

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

CLASSICAL ALBUM: LARGE ENSEMBLE OR SOLOIST(S) WITH LARGEENSEMBLE ACCOMPANIMENT

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

CLASSICAL ALBUM: VOCAL OR CHORAL PERFORMANCE

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

CLASSICAL COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR

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

RAP RECORDING OF THE YEAR

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

DANCE RECORDING OF THE YEAR

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

R&B/SOUL RECORDING OF THE YEAR

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

REGGAE RECORDING OF THE YEAR

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

ABORIGINAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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

CONTEMPORARY ROOTS ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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

TRADITIONAL ROOTS ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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

BLUES ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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

CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN/GOSPEL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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

WORLD MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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

JACK RICHARDSON PRODUCER OF THE YEAR

• Bob Ezrin
• Dallas Green
• Henry "Cirkut" Walter
• Steve Webster & Emilie-Claire Barlow
• Thomas "Tawgs" Salter

RECORDING ENGINEER OF THE YEAR

• Gus Van Go,
• Liam O'Neil
• Noah "40" Shebib
• Serban Ghenea
• Shawn Everett

RECORDING PACKAGE OF THE YEAR

• CLUB MEDS, Dan Mangan + Blacksmith - Cam Dales and Ben Clarkson
• LOST VOICES, Esmerine - Clyde Henry Productions: Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, Constellation: Ian Ilavsky
• ELEMENTS, Long Distance Runners - Duncan Major, Joel Upshall
• WEST TRAINZ, West Trainz - Erik West Milette
• LES GRANDES ARTRES, Louis-Jean Cormier - Sarah Marcotte-Boislard

VIDEO OF THE YEAR

• Virgins, Eva Michon(Death From Above 1979)
• Dark Days, Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux and Chandler Levack (Pup)
• For the Town, Peter Huang (Sonreal)
• Avalanche, Philip Sportel (Kalle Mattson)
• Hello, Xavier Dolan (Adele)

ELECTRONIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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

HEAVY METAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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

ADULT CONTEMPORARY ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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