Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year

The Juno Award for "Rock Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1991, as recognition each year for the best rock album in Canada. The award has been called a number of other names, including the "Best Hard Rock/Metal Album" and "Best Rock Album".^{[ citation needed ]}

Winners

Best Hard Rock/Metal Album (1991)

Year	Performing artist(s)	Work	Nominees	Ref.
1991	Rush	Presto	Lee Aaron, Bodyrock Andy Curran, Andy Curran Killer Dwarfs, Dirty Weapons Voivod, Nothingface

Hard Rock Album of the Year (1992 - 1993)

Year	Performing artist(s)	Work	Nominees	Ref.
1992	Rush	Roll the Bones	Lee Aaron, Some Girls Do Big House, Big House Brighton Rock, Love Machine Chrissy Steele, Magnet to Steele
1993	Slik Toxik	Doin' the Nasty	Killer Dwarfs, Method to the Madness Sven Gali, Sven Gali Triumph, Edge of Excess Voivod, Angel Rat

Best Hard Rock Album (1994 - 1995)

Year	Performing artist(s)	Work	Nominees	Ref.
1994	I Mother Earth	Dig	Doughboys, Crush Rush, Counterparts The Tea Party, Splendor Solis Wild T and the Spirit, Givin Blood
1995	Monster Voodoo Machine	Suffersystem	Econoline Crush, Purge Front Line Assembly, Millennium Malhavoc, Get Down Varga, Prototype

Best Rock Album (1996)

Year	Performing artist(s)	Work	Nominees	Ref.
1996	Alanis Morissette	Jagged Little Pill	Headstones, Teeth and Tissue Odds, Good Weird Feeling The Tea Party, The Edges of Twilight Neil Young, Mirror Ball

North Star Rock Album of the Year (1997)

Year	Performing artist(s)	Work	Nominees	Ref.
1997	The Tragically Hip	Trouble at the Henhouse	Big Sugar, Hemi-Vision I Mother Earth, Scenery and Fish Rush, Test for Echo The Watchmen, Brand New Day

Blockbuster Rock Album of the Year (1998)

Year	Performing artist(s)	Work	Nominees	Ref.
1998	Our Lady Peace	Clumsy	Econoline Crush, The Devil You Know Headstones, Smile and Wave Moist, Creature The Tea Party, Transmission

Best Rock Album (1999 - 2002)

Year	Performing artist(s)	Work	Nominees	Ref.
1999	The Tragically Hip	Phantom Power	54-40, Since When Matthew Good Band, Underdogs Sloan, Navy Blues The Watchmen, Silent Radar
2000	Matthew Good Band	Beautiful Midnight	Edwin, Another Spin Around the Sun Moist, Mercedes 5 and Dime Our Lady Peace, Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch The Tea Party, Triptych
2001	The Tragically Hip	Music @ Work	54-40, Casual Viewin' Finger Eleven, The Greyest of Blue Skies Treble Charger, Wide Awake Bored Wide Mouth Mason, Stew	[1]
2002	Nickelback	Silver Side Up	Bif Naked, Purge Big Sugar, Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready? Sloan, Pretty Together Sum 41, All Killer No Filler

Rock Album of the Year (2003 - Present)

Year	Performing artist(s)	Work	Nominees	Ref.
2003	Our Lady Peace	Gravity	Danko Jones, Born a Lion The Tea Party, The Interzone Mantras Treble Charger, Detox Wide Mouth Mason, Rained Out Parade
2004	Sam Roberts	We Were Born in a Flame	Billy Talent, Billy Talent Danko Jones, We Sweat Blood Nickelback, The Long Road Sum 41, Does This Look Infected?
2005	Sum 41	Chuck	Default, Elocation Thornley, Come Again The Tea Party, Seven Circles The Tragically Hip, In Between Evolution
2006	Nickelback	All the Right Reasons	Hedley, Hedley Jonas, Jonas Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times Theory of a Deadman, Gasoline
2007	Billy Talent	Billy Talent II	Mobile, Tomorrow Starts Today Sam Roberts, Chemical City Sloan, Never Hear the End of It The Tragically Hip, World Container
2008	Finger Eleven	Them vs. You vs. Me	Matthew Good, Hospital Music Pride Tiger, The Lucky Ones The Saint Alvia Cartel, The Saint Alvia Cartel Sum 41, Underclass Hero	[2]
2009	Sam Roberts	Love at the End of the World	Matt Mays & El Torpedo, Terminal Romance Protest the Hero, Fortress Sloan, Parallel Play The Trews, No Time for Later
2010	Billy Talent	Billy Talent III	Alexisonfire, Old Crows/Young Cardinals Nickelback, Dark Horse Three Days Grace, Life Starts Now The Tragically Hip, We Are the Same	[3]
2011	Matthew Good	Vancouver	Cancer Bats, Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones Die Mannequin, Fino + Bleed Finger Eleven, Life Turns Electric Hail the Villain, Population: Declining	[4]
2012	The Sheepdogs	Learn & Burn	Arkells, Michigan Left Matthew Good, Lights of Endangered Species Sam Roberts, Collider Sloan, The Double Cross	[5]
2013	Rush	Clockwork Angels	Big Wreck, Albatross Billy Talent, Dead Silence The Sheepdogs, The Sheepdogs The Tragically Hip, Now for Plan A	[6]
2014	Matt Mays	Coyote	Headstones, Love + Fury Matthew Good, Arrows of Desire Monster Truck, Furiosity Three Days Grace, Transit of Venus	[7]
2015	Arkells	High Noon	Big Wreck, Ghosts Sam Roberts Band, Lo-Fantasy The Glorious Sons, The Union Your Favorite Enemies, Between Illness and Migration	[8]
2016	Death from Above 1979	The Physical World	Bryan Adams, Get Up Matthew Good, Chaotic Neutral Nickelback, No Fixed Address The Sheepdogs, Future Nostalgia	[9]
2017	The Tragically Hip	Man Machine Poem	Arkells, Morning Report Billy Talent, Afraid of Heights Monster Truck, Sittin' Heavy Sam Roberts Band, Terraform	[10]
2018	The Glorious Sons	Young Beauties and Fools	Big Wreck, Grace Street Death from Above, Outrage! Is Now Nickelback, Feed the Machine Theory, Wake Up Call
2019	Arkells	Rally Cry	Monster Truck, True Rockers The Sheepdogs, Changing Colours The Trews, Civilianaires Three Days Grace, Outsider
2020	The Glorious Sons	A War on Everything	Big Wreck, ...but for the sun The Dirty Nil, Master Volume Headstones, Peopleskills Sum 41, Order in Decline	[11]
2021	JJ Wilde	Ruthless	Crown Lands, Crown Lands Sam Roberts Band, All of Us Silverstein, A Beautiful Place to Drown Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Colorado	[12]
2022	The Beaches	Sisters Not Twins (The Professional Lovers Album)	Arkells, Blink Once Black Pistol Fire, Look Alive The Blue Stones, Hidden Gems The Dirty Nil, Fuck Art	[13]
2023	Alexisonfire	Otherness	Billy Talent, Crisis of Faith Nickelback, Get Rollin' The Sheepdogs, Outta Sight Three Days Grace, Explosions	[14]
2024	The Beaches	Blame My Ex	The Blue Stones, Pretty Monster Crown Lands, Fearless The Glorious Sons, Glory Metric, Formentera II	[15]
2025	Nobro	Set Your Pussy Free	Big Wreck, Pages Mother Mother, Grief Chapter Sum 41, Heaven :x: Hell JJ Wilde, Vices	[16]

See also

• Category:Canadian rock music groups
• Category:Canadian rock musicians

References

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13. Jackson Weaver, "Charlotte Cardin, The Weeknd, Justin Bieber lead 2022 Juno Award nominees". CBC News, March 1, 2022.
14. Jenna Benchetrit and Arti Patel, "The Weeknd picks up 4 wins on Junos 2023 opening night". CBC News, March 11, 2023.
15. "Junos 2024: full list of winners". CBC Music, March 23, 2024.
16. "Junos 2025: full list of winners". CBC Music, March 30, 2025.