Juno Awards of 2024

The Juno Awards of 2024 were held on 24 March 2024, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to honour achievements in Canadian music in 2023.^[1] It recognized the best recordings, compositions, and artists of the eligibility year determined by the members of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. The ceremony was hosted by Nelly Furtado.^[2]

Juno Awards of 2024
The Juno Awards Logo
Date	24 March 2024
Location	Halifax, Nova Scotia
Hosted by	Nelly Furtado
Most awards	Charlotte Cardin, Tate McRae, Aysanabee, Shawn Everett, TOBi, The Beaches (2)
Most nominations	Charlotte Cardin (6)
Website	junoawards.ca
Television/radio coverage
Network	CBC CBC Gem
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Charlotte Cardin was the leading nominee with six nominations while Talk and Daniel Caesar had five each.^[3]

Performers

Performers included Furtado, Charlotte Cardin, Talk, Josh Ross and Karan Aujla, as well as a joint performance by Elisapie and Jeremy Dutcher, a posthumous tribute to Canadian musical icons Gordon Lightfoot and Robbie Robertson by singer-songwriters Allison Russell and Aysanabee, and a posthumous tribute to Karl Tremblay by Alexandra Stréliski.^{[2] [3][4]}

List of performers at the 2024 Junos ceremony

Artist(s)	Song(s)
Nelly Furtado	"Say It Right" "Maneater" "Promiscuous" "Eat Your Man" "Give It to Me" "I'm Like a Bird
Karan Aujla Ikky	"Admirin' You" "Softly"
Jeremy Dutcher Elisapie Morgan Toney	"Honor Song" "Skicinuwihkuk" "Uummati Attanarsimat"
TALK	"Run Away to Mars" "A Little Bit Happy"
Charlotte Cardin	"Confetti"
Alexandra Stréliski Allison Russell Aysanabee Julian Taylor Logan Staats Shawnee Kish William Prince In memoriam of Karl Tremblay, Gordon Lightfoot, and Robbie Robertson	"Les Étoiles filantes" "If You Could Read My Mind" "The Weight"
Josh Ross	"Trouble" "Single Again"
Maestro Fresh Wes Canadian Music Hall of Fame performance presented by TD	"Beethoven's Fifth" "Underestimated" "Stick to Your Vision" "Conducting Thangs" "Let Your Backbone Slide"
The Beaches	"Blame Brett"

Winners and nominees

The following are the winners and nominees of the Juno Awards of 2024.^[5] Winners appear first and highlighted in bold.

People

Artist of the Year	Group of the Year
Tate McRae Charlotte Cardin Daniel Caesar Lauren Spencer-Smith Shania Twain	The Beaches Arkells Loud Luxury Nickelback Walk Off the Earth
Breakthrough Artist of the Year	Breakthrough Group of the Year
Talk Karan Aujla Connor Price Lu Kala Shubh	New West Busty and the Bass Crash Adams Good Kid Men I Trust
Fan Choice Award	Songwriter of the Year
Karan Aujla Charlotte Cardin Daniel Caesar DVBBS Josh Ross Shubh Tate McRae The Weeknd ThxSoMch Walk Off the Earth	Aysanabee — "Alone", "Here and Now", "Somebody Else" Charlotte Cardin, Jason Brando, Lubalin — "Confetti", "Daddy's a Psycho", "Jim Carrey" Nicholas Durocher, Connor Riddell — "Afraid of the Dark", "A Little Bit Happy", "Wasteland" William Prince — "Broken Heart of Mine", "Easier and Harder", "When You Miss Someone" Allison Russell — "Eve Was Black", "Stay Right Here", "The Returner"
Producer of the Year	Recording Engineer of the Year
Shawn Everett — "Used to Be Young" (Miley Cyrus), "What Now" (Brittany Howard) Jason Brando, Lubalin, Mathieu Sénéchal, Sam Avant — "Confetti", "Jim Carrey" (Charlotte Cardin) Hill Kourkoutis — "Ego Death" (Aysanabee), "Whiskey Bar" (Tafari Anthony) Joel Stouffer — "Breaking Up with Jesus", "Whitney" (Rêve) Wondagurl — "Circus Maximus", "Hyaena" (Travis Scott)	Shawn Everett — "Used to Be Young" (Miley Cyrus), "What Now" (Brittany Howard) Serban Ghenea — "Anti-Hero" (Taylor Swift), "Paint the Town Red" (Doja Cat) Matty Green — "because of you" (Chris LaRocca), "Midnight Dreams" (Ellie Goulding) George Seara — "Everything Belongs", "The Promise Is the Same" (Cory Asbury) Denis Tougas — "Dawgcatcher", "Special" (Amanda Marshall)

Albums

Album of the Year	Adult Alternative Album of the Year
Charlotte Cardin, 99 Nights Daniel Caesar, Never Enough Lauren Spencer-Smith, Mirror Alexandra Stréliski, Néo-Romance Talk, Lord of the Flies & Birds & Bees	Feist, Multitudes Begonia, Powder Blue Jeremy Dutcher, Motewolonuwok Hayden, Are We Good Shawnee Kish, Revolution
Adult Contemporary Album of the Year	Alternative Album of the Year
Amanda Marshall, Heavy Lifting Banners, I Wish I Was Flawless, I'm Not Luca Fogale, Run Where the Light Calls Steph La Rochelle, Wildflower Josh Sahunta, To Be Loved, Vol. 1	Aysanabee, Here and Now Dizzy, Dizzy Leith Ross, To Learn Softcult, See You in the Dark Talk, Lord of the Flies & Birds & Bees
Blues Album of the Year	Children's Album of the Year
Blue Moon Marquee, Scream, Holler & Howl Matt Andersen, The Big Bottle of Joy Blackburn Brothers, Soulfunkn'blues Michael Jerome Browne, Gettin' Together Brandon Isaak, One Step Closer	The Swinging Belles, Welcome to the Flea Circus ABC Singsong, Big Words Ginalina, Going Back: Remembered and Remixed Family Folk Songs, Vol. 1 Splash'N Boots, Love-a-By Young Maestro, Maestro Fresh Wes Presents: Young Maestro Stick to Your Vision for Young Athletes
Classical Album of the Year – Solo	Classical Album of the Year – Large Ensemble
James Ehnes, Nielsen: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 4 Barbara Hannigan, Infinite Voyage Matt Haimovitz, De Hartmann: Cello Concerto Marc-André Hamelin, Fauré: Nocturnes & Barcarolles Suzie LeBlanc, mouvance	Orchestre classique de Montréal conducted by Jacques Lacombe, Maxime Goulet: Symphonie de la tempête de verglas Cryptid Ensemble conducted by Brian Current, Bekah Simms: Bestiaries Montreal Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rafael Payare, Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Orchestre Métropolitain conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sibelius 3 & 4 The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Rachmaninoff: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3; Isle of the Dead
Classical Album of the Year – Small Ensemble	Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year
Constantinople, Il Ponte di Leonardo Andrew Armstrong and James Ehnes, Mythes Les Barocudas, Basta parlare! Cheng² Duo, Portrait Angèle Dubeau and La Pietà Analekta, Portrait: Alex Baranowski	K-Anthony, Arrow Stirling John, Where I'm Meant to Be Joshua Leventhal, All Ye Lepers Brooke Nicholls, Glory to God Tuzee, Alive
Contemporary Indigenous Artist of the Year	Traditional Indigenous Artist of the Year
Elisapie, Inuktitut Aysanabee, Here and Now Blue Moon Marquee, Scream, Holler & Howl Shawnee Kish, Revolution Zoon, Bekka Ma’iingan	Joel Wood, Sing. Pray. Love. The Bearhead Sisters, Mitòòdebi (For My Relatives) Nimkii and the Niniis, LFS5 The Red River Ramblers, Reverie Young Scouts, Drum Nation
Country Album of the Year	Electronic Album of the Year
James Barker Band, Ahead of Our Time Dean Brody, Right Round Here Jade Eagleson, Do It Anyway Brett Kissel, The Compass Project - South Album Tyler Joe Miller, Spillin' My Truth	BAMBII, Infinity Club Rich Aucoin, Synthetic Season 2 Harrison, Birds, Bees, the Clouds and the Trees Tim Hecker, No Highs Kid Koala, Creatures of the Late Afternoon
Francophone Album of the Year	Instrumental Album of the Year
Les Cowboys Fringants with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, En concert avec l’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (sous la direction du chef Simon Leclerc) FouKi, Zayon Karkwa, Dans la seconde Salebarbes, À boire deboutte Souldia, Non conventionnel	Colin Stetson, When we were that what wept for the sea Meredith Bates, Tesseract Markus Floats, Fourth Album Haralabos (Harry) Stafylakis, Calibrating Friction Alexandra Stréliski, Néo-Romance
International Album of the Year	Jazz Album of the Year – Solo
SZA, SOS Luke Combs, Gettin' Old Metro Boomin, Heroes & Villains Taylor Swift, 1989 (Taylor's Version) Morgan Wallen, One Thing at a Time	Christine Jensen, Day Moon Gentiane MG, Walls Made of Glass Jocelyn Gould, Sonic Bouquet Noam Lemish, Twelve Russ Macklem, The South Detroit Connection
Jazz Album of the Year – Group	Vocal Jazz Album of the Year
Hilario Duran and His Latin Jazz Big Band, Cry Me a River Allison Au with the Migrations Ensemble, Migrations Canadian Jazz Collective, Septology: The Black Forest Session Mike Murley and Mark Eisenman Quartet, Recent History Nick Maclean Quartet feat. Brownman Ali, Convergence	Dominique Fils-Aimé, Our Roots Run Deep Denielle Bassels, Little Bit a' Love Laila Biali, Your Requests Alex Bird and Ewen Farncombe, Songwriter Caity Gyorgy and Mark Limacher, You're Alike, You Two
Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year	Pop Album of the Year
Cryptopsy, As Gomorrah Burns Danko Jones, Electric Sounds Kataklysm, Goliath KEN Mode, Void Voivod, Morgöth Tales	Charlotte Cardin, 99 Nights Rêve, Saturn Return Lauren Spencer-Smith, Mirror Shania Twain, Queen of Me Valley, Lost in Translation
Rap Album/EP of the Year	Rock Album of the Year
TOBi, Panic bbno$, bag or die Haviah Mighty, Crying Crystals Kaytraminé, Kaytraminé Connor Price, Spin the Globe	The Beaches, Blame My Ex The Blue Stones, Pretty Monster Crown Lands, Fearless The Glorious Sons, Glory Metric, Formentera II
Contemporary Roots Album of the Year	Traditional Roots Album of the Year
William Prince, Stand in the Joy The Good Lovelies, We Will Never Be the Same Allison Russell, The Returner Logan Staats, A Light in the Attic Julian Taylor, Beyond the Reservoir	David Francey, The Breath Between Jackson Hollow, Roses James Keelaghan, Second Hand Benjamin Dakota Rogers, Paint Horse Morgan Toney, Resilience
Global Music Album of the Year	Comedy Album of the Year
Okan, Okantomi Bel and Quinn, Donte sann yo Kizaba, Kizavibe Moonshine, SMS for Location Vol. 5 Waahli, Soap Box	Kyle Brownrigg, A Lylebility Graham Clark, Never Was Laurie Elliott, Sexiest Fish in the Lake Mae Martin, SAP Derek Seguin, Life of Leisure

Songs and recordings

Single of the Year	Classical Composition of the Year
Tate McRae, "Greedy" Charlotte Cardin, "Confetti" Daniel Caesar, "Always" Lu Kala, "Pretty Girl Era" Talk, "A Little Bit Happy"	Nicole Lizée, "Don't Throw Your Head in Your Hands" Amy Brandon, "Simulacra" Iman Habibi, "Shāhīn-nāmeh, for Voice and Orchestra" Emilie Cecilia LeBel, "…and the Higher Leaves of the Trees Seemed to Shimmer in the Last of the Sunlight’s Lingering Touch of Them…" Dinuk Wijeratne, "Portrait of an Imaginary Sibling"
Dance Recording of the Year	Rap Single of the Year
Felix Cartal and Karen Harding, "Need Your Love" Dom Dolla and Nelly Furtado, "Eat Your Man" DVBBS, Jeremih and Sk8, "Crew Thang" Loud Luxury and DVBBS feat. Kane Brown, "Next to You" Frank Walker feat. Ella Henderson, "I Go Dancing"	TOBi, "Someone I Knew" Belly, "American Nightmare" Haviah Mighty, "Honey Bun" Pressa, "Minimum Wage" Connor Price feat. Bens, "Spinnin'"
Contemporary R&B/Soul Recording of the Year	Traditional R&B/Soul Recording of the Year
Daniel Caesar, Never Enough Nonso Amadi, When It Blooms Aqyila, For the Better Shay Lia, Facets Jon Vinyl, Heartbreak Hill	Aqyila, "Hello" Jhyve, "Unbreakable" Luna Elle, "9 to 5" Katie Tupper, Where to Find Me RealestK, Real World
Reggae Recording of the Year	Underground Dance Single of the Year
Kirk Diamond feat. Finn, Dread Ammoye, "Stir This Thing" Jah'Mila, Roots Girl Exco Levi, "Feel Like Home" Omega Mighty feat. 4Korners and Haviah Mighty, "Rush Dem"	Blond:ish, "Call My Name" DJ Karaba, "Mad Mess" LostBoyJay, "Could Be Wrong" Peach, "Eclipse" Smalltown DJs, "Concorde Groove"

Other

Album Artwork of the Year	Video of the Year
Nicolas Lemieux, Mykaël Nelson, Albert Zablit — Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Riopelle symphonique Carolyne De Bellefeuille, Jessica Ledoux, Mali Savaria-Ille, Veronique Lafortune, Leeor Wild — Elisapie, Inuktitut Heather Goodchild, Colby Richardson, Colin Fletcher, Sara Melvin — Feist, Multitudes Kit King, Vanessa Heins — City and Colour, The Love Still Held Me Near Quinton Nyce, Brodie Metcalfe, Davis Graham, Kaylee Smoke — Snotty Nose Rez Kids, I’M GOOD, HBU?	Ethan Tobman — Allison Russell, "Demons" Andrew De Zen — Alaskan Tapes, "Of Woods and Seas" Jordan Clarke — des hume feat. juicelover, "onetwostep" Sterling Larose — Snotty Nose Rez Kids, "DAMN RIGHT" Sterling Larose and Zachary Vague — young friend, "feral canadian scaredy cat"
MusiCounts Teacher of the Year
Stephen Richardson - École St. Joseph, Yellowknife, NT Zeda Ali - Sunnyview Middle School, Brampton, ON Robert Bailey - École Charlie Killam School, Camrose, AB Élisabeth Bouchard-Bernier - École Des Explorateurs, Malartic, QC Sarah Comerford - Macdonald Drive Junior High, St. John's, NL

Special awards

Maestro Fresh Wes was this year's Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee, the first rapper to receive the honour. It was presented by Kardinal Offishall.^[6][2] Tegan and Sara were given the Juno Humanitarian Award from actor Elliot Page for their work as advocates for the 2SLGBTQ+ community.^[2]

References

1. Etan Vlessing, "Juno Awards: Charlotte Cardin Leads With Six Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter, February 6, 2024.
2. Press, David Friend The Canadian (7 November 2023). "Nelly Furtado promises 'sexy,' 'spicy' show as host of 2024 Juno Awards". thecanadianpressnews.ca. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
3. Press, David Friend The Canadian (6 February 2024). "Charlotte Cardin leads Juno nominations with six, Talk and Daniel Caesar nab five". thecanadianpressnews.ca. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
4. David Friend, "Aysanabee and Allison Russell to be involved in Junos tribute to Lightfoot, Robertson". Toronto Star, February 29, 2024.
5. David Friend, "2024 Juno Awards nominations: Charlotte Cardin leads with 6 nods". Global News, February 6, 2024.
6. "Maestro Fresh Wes to be inducted into Canadian Music Hall of Fame". thecanadianpressnews.ca. 7 November 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2024.