Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year

The Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year, administered by Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS), has been awarded since 2005 to recognize the best album in the adult alternative genre by a Canadian artist.

Winners and nominees

Year	Winner(s)	Album	Nominees [1]	Ref.
2005	Sarah Harmer	All of Our Names	Sarah Slean, Day One Matt Mays, Matt Mays Ron Sexsmith, Retriever Rufus Wainwright, Want Two
2006	Neil Young	Prairie Wind	Blue Rodeo, Are You Ready Luke Doucet, Broken (and other rogue states) Kathleen Edwards, Back to Me Low Millions, Ex-Girlfriends
2007	Jim Cuddy	The Light That Guides You Home	Sarah Harmer, I'm a Mountain Matt Mays, When the Angels Make Contact Ron Sexsmith, Time Being Neil Young, Living with War
2008	Blue Rodeo	Small Miracles	Tom Cochrane, No Stranger Jeremy Fisher, Goodbye Blue Monday Rufus Wainwright, Release the Stars Neil Young, Chrome Dreams II
2009	Serena Ryder	Is It O.K.	Kathleen Edwards, Asking for Flowers Ron Sexsmith, Exit Strategy of the Soul Sarah Slean, The Baroness Hawksley Workman, Between the Beautifuls
2010	Joel Plaskett	Three	Howie Beck, How to Fall Down in Public Cuff the Duke, Way Down Here Amy Millan, Masters of the Burial 1977, Nineteen Seventy-Seven
2011	Neil Young	Le Noise	Black Dub, Black Dub Luke Doucet and the White Falcon, Steel City Trawler Sarah Harmer, Oh Little Fire Justin Nozuka, You I Wind Land and Sea
2012	Feist	Metals	Jim Cuddy, Skyscraper Soul Cuff the Duke, Morning Comes Jenn Grant, Honeymoon Punch Ron Sexsmith, Long Player Late Bloomer
2013	Serena Ryder	Harmony	Bahamas, Barchords The Barr Brothers, The Barr Brothers Kathleen Edwards, Voyageur Royal Wood, We Were Born to Glory
2014	Ron Sexsmith	Forever Endeavour	A. C. Newman, Shut Down the Streets Basia Bulat, Tall Tall Shadow Hayden, Us Alone The Sadies, Internal Sounds
2015	Bahamas	Bahamas Is Afie	The Barr Brothers, Sleeping Operator Leonard Cohen, Popular Problems Jeremy Fisher, The Lemon Squeeze Jenn Grant, Compostela
2016	Whitehorse	Leave No Bridge Unburned	Tobias Jesso Jr., Goon Mo Kenney, In My Dreams Joel Plaskett, The Park Avenue Sobriety Test Daniel Romano, If I've Only One Time Askin'
2017	Gord Downie	Secret Path	Basia Bulat, Good Advice Wintersleep, The Great Detachment Leonard Cohen, You Want It Darker Andy Shauf, The Party
2018	Gord Downie	Introduce Yerself	Leif Vollebekk, Twin Solitude Terra Lightfoot, New Mistakes Timber Timbre, Sincerely, Future Pollution Whitehorse, Panther in the Dollhouse	[2]
2019	Bahamas	Earthtones	The Barr Brothers, Queens of the Breakers Dan Mangan, More or Less Rhye, Blood Gabrielle Shonk, Gabrielle Shonk	[3]
2020	Half Moon Run	A Blemish in the Great Light	City and Colour, A Pill for Loneliness Leonard Cohen, Thanks for the Dance iskwē, acākosīk Patrick Watson, Wave	[4]
2021	Bahamas	Sad Hunk	Begonia, Fear Basia Bulat, Are You in Love? Sarah Harmer, Are You Gone Rufus Wainwright, Unfollow the Rules	[5]
2022	Half Moon Run	Inwards & Onwards	Bahamas, Live to Tape, Vol. 1 Hannah Georgas, All That Emotion Andy Shauf, Wilds The Weather Station, Ignorance	[6]
2023	The Sadies	Colder Streams	Altameda, Born Losers Basia Bulat, The Garden Dan Mangan, Being Somewhere The Weather Station, How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars	[7]
2024	Feist	Multitudes	Begonia, Powder Blue Jeremy Dutcher, Motewolonuwok Hayden, Are We Good Shawnee Kish, Revolution	[8]
2025	Elisapie	Inuktitut	Terra Lightfoot, Healing Power The Secret Beach, We Were Born Here, What's Your Excuse? Leif Vollebekk, Revelation Wild Rivers, Never Better	[9]

References

1. "Juno Awards Alternative Album of the Year". junoawards.ca. Archived from the original on 28 April 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
2. "Arcade Fire and Daniel Caesar lead 2018 Juno Award nominations". CBC Music, February 6, 2018.
3. "Shawn Mendes and the Weeknd lead the 2019 Juno nominations". CBC Music, January 29, 2019.
4. Melody Lau, "Alessia Cara and Tory Lanez lead the 2020 Juno nominations". CBC Music, January 28, 2019.
5. Holly Gordon and Andrea Warner, "Here are the 2021 Juno Award winners". CBC Music, June 4, 2021.
6. Holly Gordon, "Here are all the 2022 Juno Award winners". CBC Music, May 14, 2022.
7. Jenna Benchetrit and Arti Patel, "The Weeknd picks up 4 wins on Junos 2023 opening night". CBC News, March 11, 2023.
8. "Junos 2024: full list of winners". CBC Music, March 23, 2024.
9. "Junos 2025: full list of winners". CBC Music, March 30, 2025.