Charlotte Cardin, Karan Aujla Win Large on the 2024 Juno Awards: Full Winners Listing

The 2024 Juno Awards seemed to the way forward for Canadian music, whereas additionally honoring its historical past.

A quartet of acts who’ve had main breakthroughs this yr gained the key awards given out on the CBC-televised broadcast on Sunday evening (March 24) dwell from Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Punjabi-Canadian world star Karan Aujla gained the TikTok Fan Selection award, the one fan-chosen award of the ceremony. “Typically I can’t consider I’m that very same child who misplaced my mother and father after I was in India, made my technique to Canada, and now I’m right here!” mentioned the B.C.-based artist, one among Billboard Canada’s inaugural cowl stars. “If you’re dreaming, be sure you dream massive.”

Charlotte Cardin gained album of the year for her album 99 Nights. The 2023 album has propelled the Montreal-based artist to new crossover heights, hitting No. 3 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, whereas its widespread single “Confetti” reached the highest 10 of the Canadian Sizzling 100 and spent 35 weeks on the chart. It additionally earned her first American chart hit, and it’s at the moment on the Grownup Pop Airplay chart. Cardin later carried out the infectious earworm whereas precise confetti rained from the ceiling.

The Seashores, in the meantime, gained group of the yr. Accepting the award from Nova Scotia’s personal Anne Murray, who holds the report for many Junos ever with 25, the Toronto band devoted their speech to the subsequent era of rockers. “To all of the younger ladies watching, go begin bands together with your greatest mates!” They later closed the festivities with a rendition of their main breakthrough single “Blame Brett.”

Each Cardin and The Seashores gained awards on the 2024 Juno Opening Evening Awards the evening earlier than (March 23) for pop album of the yr and rock album of the yr, respectively.

In a white fur cape, TALK had a rock star second performing his epic single “Run Away to Mars,” which went to No. 1 on the Grownup Different Airplay chart final yr. The Ottawa-born artist, who’s had over 400 million world streams, later took residence the award for breakthrough artist of the yr. In his speech, he talked concerning the significance of arts funding, simply after Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St.-Onge introduced the federal government would improve the Canadian Music Fund.

Numerous the evening’s performances motioned towards the more and more numerous and world way forward for Canadian music. Wearing a spiffy white outfit with a 4 backup dancers in pink, Aujla carried out early on, taking part in pop hits “Admiring You” and “Softly.” Each got here from his album Making Recollections, which made historical past because the highest-charting Punjabi debut ever on the Canadian Albums chart. Ikky, who made the album with Aujla, acted as hype man on an elevated platform.

Within the BillboardPunjabi Wave cowl story, AP Dhillon talked about his efficiency on the 2023 Junos ceremony and the way he lobbied to make sure majorly widespread Punjabi music would have a chronic platform on the awards. Evidently, they’ve stored their phrase.

This yr’s Junos additionally had probably the most Indigenous nominees in award historical past. Anita Landback, Tanas Sylliboy, Sarah Prosper set the stage with a land acknowledgment that intersected with a efficiency by Juno winner Jeremy Dutcher in Wolastoqey, who then joined in a duet with Elisapie on an Inuktitut model of Blondie’s “Coronary heart of Glass.” Together with Aujla and others, it meant performances featured a minimum of six completely different languages, together with English and French.

The Junos has struggled with star energy in recent times — Drake has boycotted the final half decade, whereas chart-topper Tate McRae was not in attendance to simply accept her two awards this yr — they’ve made up for it with improved illustration of what makes Canadian music distinctive.

This yr, additionally they paid tribute to the nation’s music historical past.

The ceremony was hosted by pop star Nelly Furtado, who opened the ceremony with a rapid-fire medley of her a number of many years of hits: “Say It Proper,” “Maneater,” “Promiscuous,” “Give It To Me,” “I’m Like A Hen” — all from the 2000s and her new one with Dom Dolla, “Eat Your Man.”

Kardinal Offishall inducted “our rap Prime Minister” Maestro Contemporary Wes into the Canadian Music Corridor of Fame. The hip-hop hero had the primary Canadian rap report to ever chart on the Billboard Sizzling 100 with “Let Your Spine Slide,” was the primary winner of the rap album of the yr on the 1991 Junos for Symphony in Impact, and is at the moment amidst a wave of recognition for his place within the nation’s music historical past. A pre-taped video featured contributions from this yr’s winner, TOBi, legacy Canadian artists like Snow and American legends like Chuck D of Public Enemy. “Now, this music we love gained’t ever be underestimated,” he mentioned. He later carried out a medley of his hits, together with “Spine.”

A particular efficiency honoured a handful of Canadian legends who died this yr. Neo-classical Quebecois artist Alexandra Streliski paid tribute to Karl Tremblay of Les Cowboys Fringants with an instrumental piano efficiency. Then Allison Russell, Aysanabee, William Prince, Shawnee Kish, Logan Staats, Julian Taylor all joined collectively for lovely renditions of Gordon Lightfoot’s “If You May Learn My Thoughts” and The Band’s “The Weight” for the late Robbie Robertson.

And actor Elliot Web page introduced the humanitarian award to Tegan and Sara, stressing the significance of the Canadian Quin sisters’ Tegan and Sara Basis’s essential work for younger queer individuals at a time when the rights of 2SLGBTQ+ persons are beneath menace, together with from the Alberta authorities. “If the world weren’t so hostile to 2SLGBTQ+ we’d see ourselves purely as musicians,” they mentioned, including “we love being homosexual. So homosexual.”

Right here’s our report on all of the winners from Saturday’s Opening Evening Juno Awards.

Listed here are the nominees within the classes that had been introduced on the dwell telecast, with winners checked.