| 2025 Polaris Music Prize | |
|---|---|
| Date | September 16, 2025 |
| Location | Massey Hall |
| Country | Canada |
| Website | polarismusicprize |
The 2025 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize will be presented on September 16, 2025 at Massey Hall. [1]
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.
The shortlist for albums was announced on July 10. [4]
The longlist for albums was announced on June 10. [2]
The shortlist for songs was announced on July 29. [5]
The longlist for songs was announced on June 24. [6]
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]