After COVID-19 caused the cancellation of the traditionally planned 2020 Juno Awards show in Saskatoon, organizers, performers, presenters, and the entire Canadian music industry had to pivot and come up with a new plan. So on Monday, June 29, the Junos went with plan b, a streamed show with performances, dedications, and of course, awards.

Was this the same extravaganza as it would have been as the SaskTel Centre, no. But, the Juno Awards show that we got did an excellent job of celebrating Canadian music, musicians, and the industry that gives us so much entertainment and love. We applaud every person involved with the show for their hard work, ideas, and ability to pull it off. Well done.

Winners across 42 award categories were announced on Monday night, including Alessia Cara who won three awards (Album of the Year, Pop Album of the Year, Songwriter of the Year) and Shawn Mendes (Artist of the Year, Single of the Year) and Tory Lanez (Rap Recording of the Year, R&B/Soul Recording of the Year) who each won two awards.

We offer our congratulations to all of the winners and nominees, and you can see the full list of all 41 categories a little further down in this post.

But first, some music!

There weren’t as many performances as they would have been at a traditional show, and that’s a bummer. But, the performances we saw from The Dead South, Neon Dreams, and iskwē were wonderful and represented what we love about Canadian music. The talent, the diverse sounds and genres and artists, and the creativity that flows through them all.

Check out the performance videos in these tweets from CBC Music.

2020 Juno Awards Performances

The Dead South – Diamond Ring

.@TheDeadSouth4 bring their live energy to your home with their performance of “Diamond Ring” at the #JUNOS presented by @TD_Canada.

Full show: https://t.co/avT39pIGXY | @thejunoawards pic.twitter.com/VMRVC6MDuT

— CBC Music (@CBCMusic) June 30, 2020

Neon Dreams – We Were Kings

Watch @neondreams‘ touching performance of their hit song “We Were Kings” during the #JUNOS presented by @TD_Canada.

Full show: https://t.co/avT39pIGXY | @thejunoawards pic.twitter.com/0C9QC0ADzD

— CBC Music (@CBCMusic) June 30, 2020

iskwē – Little Star

Watch @iskwe give a stunning performance of “Little Star” at the #JUNOS presented by @TD_Canada.

Full show: https://t.co/avT39pIGXY | @thejunoawards pic.twitter.com/KeuRLNXvi9

— CBC Music (@CBCMusic) June 30, 2020

We also want to take a minute to recognize and celebrate the industry members we lost in the last year. The video in the tweet below is touching and sweet and includes some names you may know and some you may not. They are all missed by the people who loved them and worked with them.

In Memoriam

Remembering the Canadian artists we lost over the last year. ❤️ #JUNOS pic.twitter.com/TZvKiu0pfv

— CBC Music (@CBCMusic) June 30, 2020

And now to the awards. There are 42 categories listed here – and that’s a lot. So scroll slowly to find the categories that interest you the most and see who won, and who was nominated for 2020 Juno awards.

2020 Juno Award Winners & Nominees

*winners in big bold gold at the top of each list. 

JUNO Fan Choice

☆ Avril Lavigne
☆ Alessia Cara
☆ Ali Gatie
☆ bbno$
☆ Justin Bieber
☆ Loud Luxury
☆ Nav
☆ Shawn Mendes
☆ The Weeknd
☆ Tory Lanez

Artist of the Year

☆ Shawn Mendes
☆ Alessia Cara
☆ Bryan Adams
☆ Jessie Reyez
☆ Tory Lanez

Group of the Year

☆ Loud Luxury
☆ 88Glam
☆ Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine
☆ The Reklaws
☆ Walk Off The Earth

Breakthrough Artist of the Year

☆ Lennon Stella
☆ Alexandra Stréliski
☆ Ali Gatie
☆ bbno$
☆ Tenille Townes

Breakthrough Group of the Year

☆ Neon Dreams
☆ Hunter Brothers
☆ Palaye Royale
☆ The Blue Stones
☆ Valley

Single of the Year

☆ Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello – Señorita
☆ Alessia Cara – Out of Love
☆ Bülow – Sweet Little Lies
☆ Lennon Stella – La Di Da
☆ Scott Helman – Hang Ups

Album of the year

☆ Alessia Cara – The Pains of Growing
☆ Alexandra Stréliski – Inscape
☆ Bryan Adams – Shine a Light
☆ Michael Bublé – Love
☆ Nav – Bad Habits

Rock Album of the Year

☆ The Glorious Sons – A War on Everything
☆ Big Wreck – …but for the sun
☆ Headstones – Peopleskills
☆ Sum 41 – Order in Decline
☆ The Dirty Nil – Master Volume

Pop Album of the Year

☆ Alessia Cara – The Pains Of Growing
☆ Avril Lavigne – Head Above Water
☆ bülow – Crystalline
☆ Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine – 8:47
☆ Walk Off The Earth – Here We Go!

Country Album of the Year

☆ Meghan Patrick – Wild As Me
☆ Aaron Goodvin – V
☆ Dallas Smith – The Fall
☆ Dean Brody – Black Sheep
☆ Hunter Brothers – State Of Mind

Alternative Album of the Year

☆ Pup – Morbid Stuff
☆ Black Mountain – Destroyer
☆ Foxwarren – Foxwarren
☆ Mac DeMarco – Here Comes the Cowboy
☆ Orville Peck – Pony

Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year

☆ Striker – Play To Win
☆ Kobra And The Lotus – Evolution
☆ Lindsay Schoolcraft – Martyr
☆ Single Mothers – Through A Wall
☆ The Agonists – Orphans

Adult Alternative Album of the Year

☆ Half Moon Run – A Blemish In The Great Light
☆ City And Colour – A Pill For Loneliness
☆ iskwē – acākosīk
☆ Leonard Cohen – Thanks For The Dance
☆ Patrick Watson – Wave

Rap Recording of the Year

☆ Tory Lanez – Freaky
☆ 88Glam – 88Glam2
☆ Classified – Tomorrow Could be the Day Things Change
☆ Killy – Light Path 8
☆ Nav – Bad Habits

R&B/Soul Recording of the Year

☆ Jessie Reyez, Tory Lanez, & Tainy – “Feel it Too”
☆ Amaal – Black Dove
☆ Daniel Caesar – Case Study 01
☆ Tanika Charles – The Gumption
☆ Tory Lanez – Chixtape 5

Reggae Recording of the Year

☆ Lyndon John X – The Warning Track
☆ Exco Levi – Wah Gwaan
☆ Jay Douglas – Jah Children
☆ Petraa – Never Broken
☆ Storry – Another Man

Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year

☆ Celeigh Cardinal – Stories From A Downtown Apartment
☆ Digawolf – Yellowstone
☆ nêhiyawak – nipiy
☆ Northern Haze – Siqinnaarut
☆ RIIT – attataga

Electronic Album of the Year

☆ Rezz – Beyond the Senses
☆ Bob Moses – Battle Lines
☆ Electric Youth – Memory Emotion
☆ Jacques Greene – Dawn Chorus
☆ Keys N Krates – A Beat Tape For Your Friends

Vocal Jazz Album of the Year

☆ Dominique Fils-Aimé – Stay Tuned!
☆ Bria Skonberg – Nothing Never Happens
☆ Elizabeth Shepherd – Montréal
☆ Jazz Affair – Wishes
☆ Monkey House – Friday

Contemporary Roots Album of the Year

☆ Lee Harvey Osmond – Mohawk
☆ Catherine MacLellan – Coyote
☆ Del Barber – Easy Keeper
☆ Irish Mythen – Little Bones
☆ Justin Rutledge – Passages

Traditional Roots Album of the Year

☆ The Dead South – Sugar & Joy
☆ April Verch – Once A Day
☆ Miranda Mulholland – By Appointment Or Chance
☆ Natalie MacMaster – Sketches
☆ The Small Glories – Assiniboine & The Red

Album Francophone de l’Année

☆ Les Louanges – La nuit est une panthère
☆ Fred Pellerin – Après
☆ Jean Leloup – L’étrange pays
☆ Koriass – La Nuit des Longs Couteaux
☆ Loud – Tout ça pour ça

Classical Album of the Year : Solo or Chamber

☆ Angela Schwarzkopf – detach
☆ Ensemble Paramirabo – Alone & Unalone
☆ James Ehnes – Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Op. 12
☆ Marina Thibeault and Marie-Ève Scarfone – Elles
☆ Quatoour Molinari – John Zorn: Cat O’Nine Tails, The Dead Man, Memento Mori & Kol Nidre

Classical Album of the Year: Large Ensemble

☆ Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, conducted by Kent Nagano – The John Adams Album
☆ Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra/Orchestre du Centre National Des Arts du Canada, conducted by Alexander Shelley – The Bound of our Dreams
☆ Jan Lisiecki with Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos
☆ Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Sibelius 1
☆ Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, conducted by Kent Nagano feat. Charles Richard-Hamelin – Chopin: Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral

☆ Ottawa Bach Choir, conducted by Lisette Canton – Handel: Dixit Dominus; Bach & Schutz: Motets
☆ Chor Leoni Men’s Choir – When There is Peace: An Armistice Oratorio
☆ Gerald Finley – Schubert: Schwanengesang; Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge
☆ Peter Barrett, Martha Guth, Allyson McHardy, Helen Becqué – Summer Night
☆ Philippe Sly with Le Chimera Project – Schubert: Winterreise

Jazz Album of the Year: Solo

☆ Jacques Kuba Seguin – Migrations
☆ Joel Miller – Unstoppable
☆ John Stetch – Black Sea Suite
☆ Ted Quinlan – Absolutely Dreaming
☆ The Mark Kelso Jazz Project – The Chronicles of Fezziwig

Jazz Album of the Year: Group

☆ Ernesto Cervini’s Turboprop – Abundance
☆ Al Muirhead’s Canadian Quintet – Undertones
☆ Brad Turner Quartet with guest Seamus Blake – Jump Up
☆ Dave Young Trio – Trouble In Mind
☆ Jane Bunnett & Maqueque – On Firm Ground / Tierra Firme

Contemporary Christian Gospel Album of the Year

☆ Matt Maher – The Advent Of Christmas
☆ Brian Doerksen – The Heart Of Christmas
☆ Brooke Nicholls – Pursue
☆ Dan Bremnes – Wherever I Go
☆ Fresh IE – Ill Street Blues

Adult Contemporary Album of the Year

☆ Bryan Adams – Shine A Light
☆ Lauren Spencer-Smith – Unplugged Vol. 1
☆ Marc Jordan – Both Sides
☆ Nuela Charles – Melt
☆ Renée Lamoureux – Empower 

Instrumental Album of the Year

☆ Alexandra Stréliski – Inscape
☆ Bill McBirnie with Bernie Senensky – The Silent Wish
☆ Kevin Hearn – Calm and Cents
☆ Ron Davis’ SymphRONica – SymphRONica UpfRONt
☆ Tanya Tagaq – Toothsayer

Blues Album of the Year

☆ Dawn Tyler Watson – Mad Love
☆ Big Dave McLean – Pocket Full Of Nothin’
☆ Durham County Poets – Hand Me Down Blues
☆ Michael Jerome Browne – That’s Where It’s At
☆ Whitehorse – The Northern South Vol. 2

World Music Album of the Year

☆ Djely Tapa – Barokan
☆ Okan – Sombras
☆ Okavango African Orchestra – Africa Without Borders
☆ Romina Di Gasbarro – Risorgimento
☆ Silla and Rise – Galactic Gala

Children’s Album of the Year

☆ Big Block Singsong – Greatest Hits, Vol. 4
☆ Diana Panton – A Cheerful Little Earful
☆ Gforce Fan – It’s GForce
☆ Girl Pow-R – This is Us
☆ Sharon & Bram – Sharon, Bram & Friends

Comedy Album of the Year

☆ Sophie Buddle – Lil Bit of Buddle
☆ Adam Christie – General Anxiety Disorder
☆ Jarrett Campbell – Straight White Fail
☆ Monty Scott – The Abyss Stares Back
☆ Steph Tolev – I’m Not Well

International Album of the Year

☆ Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Alseep, Where Do We Go?
☆ Ariana Grande – Thank U, Next
☆ Ed Sheeran – No.6 Collaborations Project
☆ Khalid – Free Spirit
☆ Post Malone – Hollywood’s Bleeding

Dance Recording of the Year

☆ Felix Cartel & Lights – Love Me
☆ Frank Walker x Astrid S – Only When It Rains
☆ Loud Luxury and Bryce Vine – I’m Not Alright
☆ RALPH – Gravity
☆ Sultan + Sheppard x Showtek – We Found Love

Classical Composition of the Year

☆ Ana Sokolovic – Evta
☆ Bekah Simms – “Everything Is… Distorted”
☆ Jared Miller – Under Sea, Above Sky
☆ Rose Bolton – The Coming Of Sobs
☆ Vincent Ho – Kickin’ It 2.0

Music Video of the Year

☆ iskwē – Little Star (Director: Sarah Legault)
☆ Saramée – Bun Dem (Director: Caraz)
☆ Said The Whale – Record Shop (Director: Johnny Jansen)
☆ Corridor – Topographe (JDirector: onathan Robert)
☆ Laurence Nerbonne – Back Off (Director: Le GED)

Songwriter of the Year

☆ Alessia Cara: Growing Pains (co-songwriters Andrew Wansel, Warren Fielder); Out of Love (co-songwriter Rick Nowels) (Alessia Cara, The Pains of Growing); Rooting For You (co-songwriter Jon Levine) (Alessia Cara, This Summer)
☆ Bülow, Two Punks in Love: Boys Will Be Boys (co-songwriters David Charles Fischer, Mike Wise, Nathan Ferraro for Bülow – The Contender); Sweet Little Lies (co-songwriters David Charles Fischer, Mike Wise, Nathan Ferraro for Bülow – Crystalline); Two Punks in Love (co-songwriters David Charles Fischer, Mike Wise, Nathan Ferraro)
☆ Patrick Watson, Wave: Broken, Dream for Dreaming (co-songwriters Joseph Baron Grass, Mikhail Stein, Robbie Kuster); Here Comes the River (co-songwriters Joseph Baron Grass, Jules Buckley, Mikhail Stein)
☆ Tenille Townes, White Horse: I Kept the Roses (co-songwriters Chris Gelbuda, Dustin Christensen for Tenille Townes – I Kept the Roses); Jersey On The Wall (I’m Just Asking) (co-songwriters Gordie Sampson, Tina Parol for Tenille Townes – Jersey on the Wall (I’m Just Asking)); White Horse (co-songwriters Daniel Tashian, Jeremy Spillman)
☆ Tim Baker, Forever Overhead: All Hands, Dance, The Eighteenth Hole

Producer of the Year

☆ Ben Kaplan
☆ Derek Hoffman
☆ Jon Levine
☆ Michael Wise
☆ Steve Bays

Recording Engineer of the Year

☆ John “Beetle” Bailey: Dividido (feat. Silvana Estrada) (Alex Cuba, Sublime); Shotgun (Monkey House, Friday)
☆ George Seara: If I Can’t Have You (Shawn Mendes, If I Can’t Have You); Incredible (James TW, Incredible)
☆ Jason Dufour: Push For Yellow, There’s Still a Light in the House (Valley, Maybe)
☆ Ryan Worsley: 2 Myself (Ludic, Ludic); Known Better (Nuela Charles, Melt)
☆ Vic Florencia: Midnight, Over Me (Brooke Palsson, Midnight)

Album Artwork of the Year

☆ Chad Moldenhauer (art director), Ian Clarke (designer), Warren Clark and Lance Inkwell (illustrators) for Kristofer Maddigan – Selections From Cuphead
☆ Kevin Hearn (art director), Antoine Moonen (designer), Lauchie Reed and Harland Williams (illustrators) for Kevin Hearn and Friends – The Superhero Suite
☆ Kris Knight (art director and designer), Chris Peters (illustrator) and Stefanie Schneider (photographer) for Ensign Broderick – Bloodcrush/Bloodmyth
☆ Sean Brown and Keavan Yazdani (art directors) for Daniel Caesar – Case Study 01
☆ Terri Fidelak (art director, designer and illustrator) and Carey Shaw (photographer) for ☆ Belle Plaine, Malice, Mercy – Grief and Wrath

We’re sad that we didn’t get the full on production and show that a non-CODID-19 world would have given us, but we’re proud of the show we saw and the music that was celebrated.

Hit play now to watch the full stream of the 2020 Juno Awards show, presented by TD.

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