February 4, 200917 yr The 2009 JUNO Award nominations were announced on Tuesday at a media conference at Toronto's Fairmont Royal York Hotel. Nickelback leads the awards with five nominations, including Album of the Year and Group of the Year. Sam Roberts trails the group with four nominations including Artist of the Year and Rock Album of the Year. Celine Dion is tied with Hedley, earning three JUNO Award nominations. Other nominees include Michael Bublé and Kardinal Offishall for Single of the Year. Alanis Morissette and Kreesha Turner are both nominated for Pop Album of the Year. Judging by this year's nominations, they are scraping at the bottom of the barrel for talent. Leading the nominations, this group can have their nickel back since I fail to see how their songs are worth more than that. Besides the claim that their songs all sound the same (which they do), I don't see how and why Nickelback received five nominations, surpassing Celine Dion and other Canadian musicians. But the group fails to be nominated in either pop or rock album categories, which makes me think that Canada has some respect for its pop and rock music. The nominations for International Album of the Year category lack diversity. AC/DC, Coldplay, Guns N' Roses, Jack Johnson and Metallica are competing to win the non-Canadian award. Overall, there are no real nail-biters. But the female musicians who are recognized, including Feist, Alanis Morissette and Ivana Santilli represent some of Canada's strongest women in music. The awards show, hosted by comedian Russell Peters airs on CTV on Sunday, March 29 from General Motors Place in Vancouver, BC. http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2009/02/03/2009-juno-award-nominations-announced.aspx
March 29, 200917 yr Author The Stills nab two Juno Awards Montreal indie rockers The Stills saw double in Vancouver tonight, picking up the best new group and best alternative album Juno Awards,Canada's top music honors, for their 2008 album "Oceans Will Rise." The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Science (CARAS) handed out 32 Junos at tonight's non-televised warm-up, attended by 1,200 music artists and industry folk. The remaining seven top awards will be given out during Sunday's primetime broadcast (CTV, 6 p.m. PST), hosted by comedian Russell Peters. Other big winners tonight include Toronto rap star Kardinal Offishall, who nabbed single of the year for "Dangerous," a collaboration with U.S. hip hop sensation Akon. Serena Ryder, last year's best new artist, won best adult alternative album for "Is It O.K.," while Alanis Morissette's "Flavors of Entanglement" won best pop album. Best rock album went to Montreal's Sam Roberts for "Love at the End of the World," and alt-popsters (and dads) Barenaked Ladies' "Snacktime!" won best children's album. Soul songstress Divine Brown landed her first Juno for "The Love Chronicles," named best R&B recording, and veteran folk artist Buffy Sainte-Marie won best aboriginal album for "Running from the Drum." Brit rockers Coldplay won international album of the year for "Viva La Vida." Eight-time Juno winner Sarah McLachlan was honored with the 2009 Allan Waters Humanitarian Award, recognizing her contributions to a range of charities and organizations in both Canada and abroad http://www.variety.com/article/VR1430001193.html?categoryid=16&cs=1
March 29, 200917 yr Author Coldplay win Juno award March 29, 2009 9:49 am Viva named Album of the Year Good morning. Last night, Coldplay won the International Album of the Year award at Canada's JUNO Awards. The band won the same gong - the only international category at the JUNOs - for X&Y in 2006.� Coldplay weren't able to be at the awards (as they were battling the weather in Abu Dhabi), but they sent an aceptance message which will be part of the TV broadcast of the show tonight on CTV at 9pm. Anchorman Yay...acceptance speech :dance:
March 29, 200917 yr Is CTV only Canadian? I want to watch this awards show a lotz. It's Canadian-based but depending on where you are, you might carry it. Otherwise maybe ctv.ca will show some clips or someone will upload it on YouTube :)
March 29, 200917 yr ^^Hmm.. Thanks. I have like 600 channels on cable, so I'll go check. edit: nope. Ah well, I'll just watch all the interesting bits on YouTube. :nice:
March 30, 200917 yr Add one more to the case: Coldplay win Juno Award for Best International Album! Well today Coldplay won another award, a Juno award! For all those Canadians out there, this is semi-big! Congrats on one me guys!
March 30, 200917 yr Not really. I sat through those freaking boring ass awards because on coldplay.com, it said CP sent in a video acceptance speech. So I sat there flipping to it for 2 hours. 2 dreadful hours. Horrible. And they didn't even present that award, so obviously no video message. Waste of time. But good on them for winning.
March 30, 200917 yr Not really. I sat through those freaking boring ass awards because on coldplay.com, it said CP sent in a video acceptance speech. So I sat there flipping to it for 2 hours. 2 dreadful hours. Horrible. And they didn't even present that award, so obviously no video message. Waste of time. But good on them for winning. Yaa I sat through an hour of it and gave up. I knew something was strange when they took all of 5 seconds to announce their win....grrr. I'm sorry you had to sit through the entire thing, Prospekt.
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