The weekend of March 24th-26th the JUNO Awards took place. This Canadian’s time to shine show recognizes all the Canadians Worldwide. Including celebs like Shawn Mendes and Gord Downie.

The JUNO’s have been here ever since 1971 and it was named in tribute to Pierre Juneau. He is the first chairperson of of the Canadian Radio-television and the Telecommunications Commission.

At this years JUNO’s two Canadian artists have made history at the ceremony. Shawn Mendes and Gord Downie. Both of these inspiring artists have received more than one award at this shows recognition. It is difficult to achieve more than one award, but these two have accomplished it.

The both of them have made the winners list with Shawn Mendes receiving two awards and Gord Downie with a total of three. Congratulations to these two artist.

Here are the winners of the of the categories of this years JUNO’s show,

JUNO Fan Choice- Shawn Mendes

Single of the Year- “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back”, Shawn Mendes

International Album of the Year- DAMN., Kendrick Lamar

Album of the Year- Everything Now, Arcade Fire

Artist of the Year- Gord Downie

Group of the Year- A Tribe Called Red

Breakthrough Artist of the Year- Jessie Reyez

Breakthrough Group of the Year- The Beaches

Songwriter of the Year- Gord Downie and Kevin Drew

Country Album of the Year- Game On, James Barker Band

Adult Alternative Album of the Year- Introduce Yerself, Gord Downie

Alternative Album of the Year- Antisocialites, Alvvays

Pop Album of the Year- Skin & Earth, Lights

Rock Album of the Year- Young Beauties and Fools, The Glorious Sons

Vocal Jazz Album of the Year- Turn Up the Quiet, Diana Krall

Jazz Album of the Year (solo)- Root Structure, Mike Downes

Jazz Album of the Year (Group)- The North, David Braid, Mike Murley, Anders Mogensen and Johnny Aman

Instrumental Album of the Year- Stubborn Persistent Illusions, Do Make Say Think

Francophone Album of the Year- Paloma, Daniel Bélanger

Children’s Album of the Year- Hear the Music, Fred Penner

Classical Album of the Year (Solo or Chamber)- Chopin Recital 3, Janina Fialkowska

Classical Album of the Year (Large Ensemble)- Chopin: Works for Piano & Orchestra, Jan Lisiecki with NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester

Classical Album of the Year (Vocal or Choral)- Crazy Girl Crazy, Barbara Hannigan with Ludwig Orchestra

Classical Composition of the Year- “My Name is Amanda Todd”, Jocelyn Morlock

Rap Recording of the Year- “Shooters”, Tory Lanez

Dance Recording of the Year- “Closer (ft. Laurell)”, Nick Fiorucci

R&B/Soul Recording of the Year- “Freudian”, Daniel Caesar

Reggae Recording of the Year- “Greater”, Kirk Diamond

Indigenous Music Album of the Year- Medicine Songs, Buffy Sainte-Marie

Contemporary Roots Album of the Year- Bone on Bone, Bruce Cockburn

Traditional Roots Album of the Year- Illusion & Doubt, The Dead South

Blues Album of the Year- Time to Roll, MonkeyJunk

Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year- First Day of My Life, The Color

World Music Album of the Year- Where the Galleon Sank, Kobo Town

Jack Richardson Producer of the Year award- Diana Krall and Tommy Lipuma

Recording Engineer of the Year- Riley Bell

Album Artwork of the Year- Marianne Collins, Ian Ilavsky and Steve Farmer

Video of the Year- “VENUS FLY”, Grimes

Electronic Album of the Year- Mass Manipulation, Rezz

Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year- Voice of the Void, Anciients

Adult Contemporary Album of the Year- Nobody But Me, Michael Bublé

Comedy Album of the Year- I Wanted To Be A Dinosaur, Ivan Decker

International Achievement Award- Arcade Fire

Canadian Music Hall of Fame- Barenaked Ladies

Humanitarian Award (Formally Allan Waters Humanitarian Award)- Gary Slaight

Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award- Denise Donlon

Hopefully your favorite Canadians have won the awards you wanted them to at this year’s award show. If they did not, be sure to stick around for next year’s award show and vote!