The 2025 JUNO Awards will celebrate 208 nominees, including 67 first-time nominees. This represents the incredible depth and diversity that defines Canadian music across all 46 categories. The inaugural South Asian Music Recording of the Year Award will also be presented for the first time. The nominations for the JUNO Awards 2025 were recently announced and we are so thrilled to see artists from our community to be among these over multiple categories. See below for who has been nominated in each category and who we are rooting to win, we will update this if anyone wins! For full list of nominees check out the JUNOs website: junoawards.ca
Updated: 31/03/2025 - WINNERS NOW MARKED
TikTok JUNO Fan Choice
Karan Aujla
Single of the Year: Presented by YouTube
Karan Aujla - Winning Speech
Album of the Year: Presented by Music Canada
Sukha - UNDISPUTED
Breakthrough Artist or Group of The Year: Presented By Factor, The Government Of Canada And Canada’s Private Radio Broadcasters
AP Dhillon
AR Paisley
Nehmasis WINNER
Sukha
Tony Ann
Zeina
Classical Album of the Year: Small Ensemble
Kevin Lau: Under a Veil of Stars - St. John–Mercer–Park Trio
Jazz Album of the Year: Solo
Audrey Ochoa - The Head Of A Mouse
Jazz Album of the Year: Group
Raagaverse - Jaya
Instrumental Album of the Year
Ginger Beef - Ginger Beef
Melón Jimenez and Lara Wong - Confluencias
Alternative Album of the Year
Luna Li - When a Thought Grows Wings
Nehmasis - Verbathim WINNER
Dance Recording of the Year
WAWA - Foul Taste
Underground Dance Single of the Year
Ciel - Bamboo WINNER
Contemporary R&B Recording of the Year
Zeina - Eastend Confessions
Global Music Album of the Year
Abby V - Aarambh
South Asian Music Recording of the Year
AP Dhillon - The Brownprint WINNER
Chani Nattan, Inderpal Moga and Jazzy B - COOLIN
Jonita Gandhi - Love Like That
Karan Aujla - Tauba Tauba (From "Bad Newz")
Yanchan Produced and Sandeep Narayan - Arul
Classical Composition of the Year
Gabriel Dharmoo - the fog in our poise
Vivian Fung - String Quartet No. 4 "Insects and Machines"
Songwriter of the Year: Presented by SOCAN
AP Dhillon
Nehmasis