2025 Polaris Music Prize

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2025 Polaris Music Prize
DateSeptember 16, 2025 (2025-09-16)
Location Massey Hall
CountryCanada
Website polarismusicprize.ca
  2024  · Polaris Music Prize · 2026 

The 2025 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize will be presented on September 16, 2025 at Massey Hall. [1]

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The prize for the winning album will be reduced to $30,000, rather than the $50,000 awarded to recent winners, but will be supplemented with a new $10,000 SOCAN Polaris Song Prize to honour individual songs. [2] This new award replaces the SOCAN Songwriting Prize, which has been dormant since 2023. [3]

The prize committee also launched the Polaris Festival, a series of concerts highlighting past and present Polaris nominees in a variety of locations across Canada.

Albums

Shortlist

The shortlist for albums was announced on July 10. [4]

Longlist

The longlist for albums was announced on June 10. [2]

Songs

Shortlist

The shortlist for songs was announced on July 29. [5]

Longlist

The longlist for songs was announced on June 24. [6]

Polaris Heritage Prize

Unlike in prior years, when the nominees for the Polaris Heritage Prize were announced at the Polaris gala with the winner announced approximately two weeks later, in 2025 for the first time the nominees were revealed in August and will be announced at the same ceremony as the album and song prizes. [7]

References

  1. Kerry Doole, "Polaris Music Prize Announces 40-Album 2025 Long List, Announces SOCAN Polaris Song Prize". Billboard , June 10, 2025.
  2. 1 2 Allie Gregory, "Polaris Music Prize Unveils 2025 Long List, Announces Song Prize". Exclaim! , June 10, 2025.
  3. Howard Druckman, "Polaris Music Prize announces 2025 Long List". Words & Music , June 11, 2025.
  4. Chelosky, Danielle (July 10, 2025). "Polaris Music Prize Announces 2025 Shortlist". Stereogum . Retrieved July 11, 2025.
  5. "Here's the inaugural 2025 Polaris Song Prize short list". CBC Music, July 29, 2025.
  6. Allie Gregory, "Here's the 2025 SOCAN Polaris Song Prize Long List". Exclaim! , June 24, 2025.
  7. Jen Zoratti, "Winnipeg’s Propagandhi in running for Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize". Winnipeg Free Press , August 8, 2025.