Band members Leah Fay and Peter Dreimanis appeared through webcam to accept this award. It truly is a beautiful song, and will be part of JP Saxe’s upcoming album Dangerous Levels of Introspection which will release on June 25.īest Alternative Album went to yet another Toronto music act, July Talk, for their album Pray For It. This version of "If The World Was Ending" features 25 different artists recording themselves singing clips of the song, including Keith Urban, Noah Cyrus, Finneas, Lindsey Stirling, Alessia Cara, Niall Horan, and so many other talented artists. Another video was made for the song and released on April 30th 2020, with proceeds going to the Doctors Without Borders charity. The original video for the song currently has over 140 million views on YouTube.
The song was produced by Finneas, brother of pop sensation Billie Eilish. Saxe rose to fame after his collaboration with girlfriend Michaels, for the Grammy nominated song titled “If The World Was Ending”. Justin Bieber won best Pop Album for his album Changes and while he didn’t show up to accept the award, he did pre-record a performance of his song “Somebody”.Īnother Toronto native - and boyfriend to pop star Julia Michaels - JP Saxe, took home the award for Breakthrough Artist. Shawn Mendes - also a no-show - won the Juno Fan Choice for Wonder. The Weeknd) took home the most wins for his album After Hours – including Single of the Year, Album of the Year, Artist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, Contemporary R&B Recording of the Year – he did not make an appearance. While Toronto Native Abel Tesfaye (A.K.A. For the second year in a row the awards ceremony was held virtually, featuring pre-recorded performances from Canadian superstars Justin Bieber, Shania Twain, Celine Dion and more. The name was shortened to Juno, and in 1975 it was aired on Canadian television for the first time.Īfter previously being postponed twice this year, the 2021 Juno Awards aired on Sunday, June 6th, marking the 50th anniversary of the awards show. The winning name was “Juneau”, after the first president of the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission), Pierre Juneau.
After its success, RPM Magazine polled its readers again, this time to come up with an official name for the ceremony. This first ceremony was called the “Gold Leaf Awards” and took place in 1970, in Toronto Ontario.
Sometime after this started, Stan Klees, who owned record labels such as Tamarac Records and Red Leaf Records in the 1960s, got together with the founder of RPM, Walt Grealis, and the two of them decided to plan a formal ceremony for the music industry. These results would then get announced each December in the magazine. Everyone knows that the Junos are basically Canada’s version of the Grammy’s, but did you know how the Junos came to be? Back in 1964, RPM Magazine started to poll Canadians to see who their favorite music groups and artists were.
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