Grimes, Japandroids, Carly Rae Jepsen & more win at Canadian Music Week awards

The annual Canadian Music Week was held this past week in Toronto, with the winners of their flagship award ceremony The Indies announced last night (23 March).

Among the big hitters were Japandroids taking home the top prize of ‘Album of the Year’, Carly Rae Jepsen being handed ‘Single of the Year’ for her pop smash-hit ‘Call Me Maybe’ and Metric netting the ‘Group of the Year’ award.

Cold Specks picked up ‘Female Artist of the Year’, while Deadmau5 and Grimes won best ‘Live Artist’ and ‘Electronic Artist’ respectively. Elsewhere, METZ were honoured as ‘Punk/Hardcore Group of the Year’ and The Weeknd was awarded the ‘R&B Artist of the Year’ accolade.

The full list of winners, courtesy of Spinner, is as below:

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Japandroids - Celebration Rock

SINGLE OF THE YEAR
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe

GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Metric

ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Carly Rae Jepsen

FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Cold Specks

MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Matt Mays

LIVE ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
deadmau5

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
Josh Ramsay

VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Marianas Trench Fallout

MUST FOLLOW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Said The Whale

COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR
Artists Against Bullying - True Colors

MOST PLAYED INDEPENDENT ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Carly Rae Jepsen

BEST-SELLING INDEPENDENT RELEASE OF THE YEAR
Metric Synthetica

ALTERNATIVE ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Yukon Blonde

BLUES ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer

CHILDREN’S ARTIST/GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
Jennifer Gasoi

COUNTRY ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Dallas Smith

DANCE ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Massari

ELECTRONIC ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Grimes

FOLK/ROOTS ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
The Wooden Sky

FRANCOPHONE ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Lisa LeBlanc

JAZZ ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Emilie-Claire Barlow

METAL ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Devin Townsend Project

POP ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Marianas Trench

PUNK/HARDCORE ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
METZ

RAP/HIP-HOP ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Cadence Weapon

ROCK ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Big Wreck

SOUL/R&B ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
The Weeknd

WORLD ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
The Souljazz Orchestra

INTERNATIONAL GROUP OR DUO OF THE YEAR
The Black Keys

INTERNATIONAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Taylor Swift

INTERNATIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Mumford & Sons Babel

INTERNATIONAL SINGLE OF THE YEAR
fun. - We Are Young

INTERNATIONAL BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
The Lumineers

INTERNATIONAL VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop

SIRIUSXM EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR (English)
Poor Young Things

SIRIUSXM EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR (French)
Canailles