The Juno Awards of 2022 were held on May 15, 2022 in Toronto, Ontario. The awards were presented at the Budweiser Stage, an outdoor venue, and was hosted by actor Simu Liu.David Friend, "Actor Simu Liu to host first outdoor Juno Awards at Toronto’s Budweiser Stage in May". The Globe and Mail, February 2, 2022.
They were planned as an in-person gala ceremony, for the first time in three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. This was the first time the ceremony had been held in Toronto since the Juno Awards of 2011 (they were scheduled to hold an in-person ceremony in 2021, but were unable to do so due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
Special awards Deborah Cox was announced as 2022's inductee into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame,"Deborah Cox to be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at this year's Junos". CBC Music, March 29, 2022. Susan Aglukark was named the winner of the Juno Humanitarian Award,"Juno-winner Susan Aglukark shares the healing power of art with Indigenous youth". Unreserved, May 13, 2022. and Shawn Mendes was honoured with a special International Achievement Award to honour his global impact in music."Shawn Mendes to be honoured with special Juno award". CBC News, April 20, 2022.
Category changes Several category changes were announced by Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences chair Allen Reid at the 2021 Juno Awards: the former award for Rap Recording of the Year was split into two new categories for Rap Album/EP of the Year and Rap Single of the Year, the former award for Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year was split into new categories for Contemporary Indigenous Artist of the Year and Traditional Indigenous Artist of the Year, the former award for Classical Album of the Year – Solo or Chamber Ensemble was split into separate awards for Classical Album of the Year - Solo and Classical Album of the Year - Small Ensemble, with the award for Classical Album of the Year – Vocal or Choral Performance discontinued since the split meant that category was now fully duplicative of the other classical music categories, and a new category was introduced for Underground Dance Single of the Year.
Live performances Liu opened the ceremony with an updated riff on the 2000 "I Am Canadian" beer commercial, highlighting contemporary signifiers such as multicultural food, runaway housing prices and the legalization of marijuana.David Friend, "Juno Awards celebrate Avril Lavigne, Deborah Cox and host Simu Liu’s many talents". Toronto Star, May 15, 2022. Later in the ceremony, he also sang a short parody of Avril Lavigne's hit single "Complicated", with lyrics about his own rise from a working Canadian actor to a major movie star.
Arkells — "Reckoning"/"You Can Get It" Tesher — "Jalebi Baby" Lauren Spencer-Smith — "Fingers Crossed" Haviah Mighty — "So So"/"Protest" Charlotte Cardin — "Meaningless" Mustafa — "Stay Alive" Avril Lavigne — "Complicated"/"Bite Me"/"Girlfriend"/"Sk8er Boi"/"I'm with You" DJ Shub & Snotty Nose Rez Kids — "War Club" Deborah Cox — "Where Do We Go from Here"/"Nobody's Supposed to Be Here"/"Who Do U Love"/"Beautiful U R" bbno$ — "Lalala"/"edamame" Arcade Fire — "Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)"
Winners and nominees Nominees were announced on 1 March 2022.Jackson Weaver, "Charlotte Cardin, The Weeknd, Justin Bieber lead 2022 Juno Award nominees". CBC News, March 1, 2022.
People Artist of the Year Group of the Year Charlotte Cardin Justin Bieber Shawn Mendes JP Saxe The Weeknd Arkells Loud Luxury Mother Mother The Reklaws Valley Breakthrough Artist of the Year Breakthrough Group of the Year Jessia 347aidan Faouzia Pressa Tesher Monowhales Black Pistol Fire Cleopatrick Ocie Elliott Spiritbox Fan Choice Award Songwriter of the Year Shawn Mendes 347aidan bbno$ Charlotte Cardin Forest Blakk Jessia Justin Bieber Loud Luxury Pressa The Weeknd Abel Tesfaye — "Hurricane", "Moth to a Flame", "Take My Breath" Mustafa Ahmed — "Air Forces", "The Hearse", "What About Heaven" Allison Russell — "4th Day Prayer", "Montreal", "Nightflyer" Tobi — "Off The Drugs", "Shall I Continue", "Too Hot" Charlotte Day Wilson — "I Can Only Whisper", "If I Could", "Wish It Was Easy" Producer of the Year Recording Engineer of the Year WondaGurl — "Fair Trade" (Drake feat. Travis Scott), "Made a Way" (FaZe Kaysan feat. Lil Durk and Future) Chromeo — On My Mind" (Anomalie & Chromeo), "Tango" (Onyx Collective) Kaytranada — "Caution" (Kaytranada), "Teen Scene" (Maeta) Charlotte Day Wilson — "I Can Only Whisper" (Charlotte Day Wilson feat. BadBadNotGood), "If I Could" (Charlotte Day Wilson) YogiTheProducer — "24hrs" (Savannah Ré), "Solid" (Savannah Ré) Hill Kourkoutis — "Howler" (SATE), "The Drought" (Tania Joy) Evan Miles — "Told You" (Jon Vinyl), "Use Me" (Plaza) George Seara — "Coldest Fire" (AHI, "Teach Me How to Love" (Shawn Mendes) John "Beetle" Bailey — "Maybe This Year" (Molly Johnson), "Mi Santuario" (Sultans of String feat. Juan Carlos Medrano) Serban Ghenea — "Leave the Door Open" (Anderson .Paak, Bruno Mars and Silk Sonic), "Stay" (The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber)
Albums Album of the Year Adult Alternative Album of the Year Charlotte Cardin, Phoenix Justin Bieber, Justice Tate McRae, Too Young to Be Sad Shawn Mendes, Wonder JP Saxe, Dangerous Levels of Introspection Half Moon Run, Inwards & Onwards Bahamas, Live to Tape, Vol. 1 Hannah Georgas, All That Emotion Andy Shauf, Wilds The Weather Station, Ignorance Adult Contemporary Album of the Year Alternative Album of the Year Serena Ryder, The Art of Falling Apart Tafari Anthony, The Way You See Me Desirée Dawson, Meet You at the Light Luca Fogale, Nothing Is Lost Mathew V, The Outer Circle Mustafa, When Smoke Rises Chiiild, Hope for Sale Grandson, Death of an Optimist Ruby Waters, If It Comes Down to It SATE, The Fool Blues Album of the Year Children's Album of the Year Colin James, Open Road Sue Foley, Pinky's Blues Colin Linden, bLOW Steve Marriner, Hope Dies Last Miss Emily, Live at the Isabel Garth Prince, Falling in Africa ABC Singsong, Words Words Words The Oot n' Oots, Ponderosa Bunchgrass and the Golden Rule Walk Off the Earth and Romeo Eats, Walk Off the Earth & Romeo Eats, Vol. 1 Maestro Fresh Wes, School Days Classical Album of the Year – Solo Classical Album of the Year – Large Ensemble Emily D'Angelo, enargeia Joshua Hopkins, Songs for Murdered Sisters Catherine Lee, Remote Together Jan Lisiecki, Chopin: Complete Nocturnes Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Introspection: Solo Piano Sessions L'Harmonie des saisons conducted by Eric Milnes ft. Hélène Brunet, Solfeggio Against the Grain Theatre with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Johannes Debus, Messiah/Complex Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sibelius 3 Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal conducted by Andrew McAnerney, L'Homme armé The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 & Symphonic Dances Classical Album of the Year – Small Ensemble Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year Andrew Wan and Charles Richard-Hamelin, Beethoven: Sonates pour violon et piano / Violin Sonatas Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 5 Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà, Immersion ARC Ensemble, Klebanov: Chamber Works Collectif9, No Time for Chamber Music Standing Wave, 20C Remix The Color, No Greater Love Kevin Adams and Voices of Praise, For the Kingdom Jennifer Lewin, Songs of the Lord Manic Drive, Vol. 1 Movement Worship, Moments Movement Contemporary Indigenous Artist of the Year Traditional Indigenous Artist of the Year DJ Shub, War Club Shawnee Kish, Shawnee Kish Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Life After Adrian Sutherland, When the Magic Hits Jayli Wolf, Wild Whisper Fawn Wood, Kakike Manitou Mkwa Singers, Manitou Mkwa Singers II Nimkii and the Niniis, Nang Giizhigoong Joel Wood, Singing Is Healing Young Spirit, Angel Eagle: Cree Round Dance Songs Country Album of the Year Electronic Album of the Year Brett Kissel, What Is Life? Tenille Arts, Girl to Girl Dean Brody, Boys Tim Hicks, Campfire Troubadour The Reklaws, Sophomore Slump Tor, Oasis Sky Attlas, Out Here With You Sydney Blu, Conviction The Halluci Nation, One More Saturday Night Zeds Dead, Catching Z’s Francophone Album of the Year Instrumental Album of the Year Cœur de pirate, Impossible à aimer Roxane Bruneau, Acrophobie Louis-Jean Cormier, Le ciel est au plancher FouKi, Grignotines de Luxe Vincent Vallières, Toute beauté n’est pas perdue David Myles, That Tall Distance Cœur de pirate, Perséides Frank Evans and Ben Plotnick, Madison Archives Jorane, Hemenetset Jens Lindemann with Jon Kimura Parker, Matt Catingub and the Canadian All Star JazzPops Orchestra, Then is Now Rhapsody in Blue International Album of the Year Jazz Album of the Year – Solo Olivia Rodrigo, Sour Adele, 30 Doja Cat, Planet Her The Kid Laroi, F** ck Love 3: Over You Taylor Swift, Evermore Will Bonness, Change of Plans Efajemue, Aesthetics Jon Gordon, Stranger Than Fiction Jesse Ryan, Bridges Andrés Vial, When Is Ancient? Jazz Album of the Year – Group Vocal Jazz Album of the Year Avataar, Worldview Lina Allemano Four, Vegetables Esteban Herrera, The Prophet The David Restivo Trio, Arancina Christine Tassan Quintette, Voyage intérieur Caity Gyorgy, Now Pronouncing: Caity Gyorgy Alex Bird and the Jazz Mavericks, You Are the Light and the Way Holly Cole Trio, Montreal (Live) Elizabeth Shepherd and Michael Occhipinti, The Weight of Hope Amanda Tosoff, Earth Voices Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year Pop Album of the Year Archspire, Bleed the Future The Agonist, Days Before the World Wept Brand of Sacrifice, Lifeblood Danko Jones, Power Trio Spiritbox, Eternal Blue Charlotte Cardin, Phoenix Justin Bieber, Justice Jessia, How Are You? Tate McRae, Too Young to Be Sad Shawn Mendes, Wonder Rap Album/EP of the Year Rock Album of the Year Haviah Mighty, Stock Exchange Belly, See You Next Wednesday Nav, Emergency Tsunami NorthSideBenji, The Extravagant Collection Pressa, Gardner Express (Deluxe) 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 Contemporary Roots Album of the Year Traditional Roots Album of the Year Allison Russell, Outside Child AHI, Prospect The Fretless, Open House Suzie Ungerleider, My Name Is Suzie Ungerleider Donovan Woods, Without People Maria Dunn, Joyful Banner Blazing Alan Doyle, Back to the Harbour The Fugitives, Trench Songs Over the Moon, Chinook Waltz John Reischman, New Time & Old Acoustic Global Music Album of the Year Comedy Album of the Year Afrikana Soul Sister, Kalasö Alex Cuba, Mendó Beny Esguerra and New Tradition Music, Northside Kuisi: A New Tradition, Vol. 3 Moonshine, SMS for Location, Vol. 4 Donné Roberts, OYA Andrea Jin, Grandma's Girl Seán Devlin, Airports, Animals Hisham Kelati, Tigre King Keith Pedro, Trillipino Gavin Stephens, All Inclusive Coma
Songs and recordings Single of the Year Classical Composition of the Year Charlotte Cardin, "Meaningless" Justin Bieber and Daniel Caesar ft. Giveon, "Peaches" Jessia, "I'm Not Pretty" Brett Kissel, "Make a Life, Not a Living" The Weeknd, "Take My Breath" Keiko Devaux, "Arras" Kati Agócs, "Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra" Dorothy Chang, "Flight" Jaap Nico Hamburger, "Chamber Symphony No. 2: Children’s War Diaries" Saman Shahi, "Breathing in the Shadows" Dance Recording of the Year Rap Single of the Year Kaytranada, "Caution" Ceréna, "see" DVBBS, "Sleep" Karl Wolf, "Get Away (Radio Edit)" Rezz and deadmau5, "Hypnocurrency" Charmaine, "Bold" Anders and FRVRFRIDAY, "What I Like" bbno$ feat. Rich Brian, "edamame" NorthSideBenji and DJ Charlie B, "30,000"