# Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year

The Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year is presented annually at Canada's Juno Awards to honour the best album of the year in the alternative rock and/or indie rock genres. The award was first presented in 1995 under the name Best Alternative Album, and adopted its current name in 2003.

## Achievements

Arcade Fire and July Talk have won the award three times to date, while Broken Social Scene, Metric, Alvvays and Rufus Wainwright have won the award twice each. In addition to Broken Social Scene's wins as a band, three members have also won the award for separate projects — Emily Haines and James Shaw have also won the award twice with their band Metric, and Leslie Feist has won for a solo album. Arcade Fire have been nominated for the award four times overall, while July Talk, Broken Social Scene, Metric, Alvvays, Stars, Chad VanGaalen, and Tegan and Sara have received three nominations each.
Only two French-language albums have ever been nominated (Malajube's Trompe-l'œil and Karkwa's Les Chemins de verre) and none has ever won.

## Recipients
### Best Alternative Album (1995–2002)

| Year | Winner(s) | Album | Nominees |
| 1995 | Rose Chronicles | Shiver | Smilin' Buddha Cabaret – 54-40 Forever Again – Eric's Trip Project Twinkle – King Cobb Steelie Naveed – Our Lady Peace Twice Removed – Sloan |
| 1996 | Art Bergmann | What Fresh Hell Is This? | Somebody Spoke – The Hardship Post Kombinator – The Inbreds Fluke – Rusty Mock Up, Scale Down – The Super Friendz |
| 1997 | Sloan | One Chord to Another | Purple Blue – Eric's Trip It's Sydney or the Bush – The Inbreds Limblifter – Limblifter Self Title – Treble Charger |
| 1998 | Bran Van 3000 | Glee | Love Story – Copyright Stuff – Holly McNarland Get Outta Dodge – Huevos Rancheros Maybe It's Me – Treble Charger |
| 1999 | Rufus Wainwright | Rufus Wainwright | Bring Yourself Up – Bodega BTK – BTK Breath from Another – Esthero The Closer I Get – Hayden |
| 2000 | Julie Doiron and Wooden Stars | Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars | My Love Is Bold – Danko Jones You Can't Stop the Bum Rush – Len Clayton Park – Thrush Hermit Sometimes I Cry – Tricky Woo |
| 2001 | The New Pornographers | Mass Romantic | Carpal Tunnel Syndrome – Kid Koala Mayday – King Cobb Steelie The East Infection – Ramasutra Left and Leaving – The Weakerthans |
| 2002 | Rufus Wainwright | Poses | Constantines – Constantines (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves – Hawksley Workman Down at the Khyber – Joel Plaskett Emergency Night of the Shooting Stars – Rheostatics |

### Alternative Album of the Year (2003–present)

| Year | Winner(s) | Album | Nominees |
| 2003 | Broken Social Scene | You Forgot It in People | Square – Buck 65 Make Up the Breakdown – Hot Hot Heat The New Deal – The New Deal Alone at the Microphone – Royal City |
| 2004 | Buck 65 | Talkin' Honky Blues | Shine a Light – Constantines Truthfully Truthfully – Joel Plaskett Heart – Stars Reconstruction Site – The Weakerthans |
| 2005 | Feist | Let It Die | The Slow Wonder – A.C. Newman Funeral – Arcade Fire Now, More Than Ever – Jim Guthrie Set Yourself on Fire – Stars |
| 2006 | Broken Social Scene | Broken Social Scene | Elevator – Hot Hot Heat Live It Out – Metric Twin Cinema – The New Pornographers So Jealous – Tegan and Sara |
| 2007 | City and Colour | Sometimes | Skelliconnection – Chad VanGaalen Return to the Sea – Islands Trompe-l'œil – Malajube Not Saying/Just Saying – Shout Out Out Out Out |
| 2008 | Arcade Fire | Neon Bible | LP – Holy Fuck Close to Paradise – Patrick Watson The Con – Tegan and Sara Welcome to the Night Sky – Wintersleep |
| 2009 | The Stills | Oceans Will Rise | In the Future – Black Mountain Soft Airplane – Chad VanGaalen The Chemistry of Common Life – Fucked Up Parc Avenue – Plants and Animals |
| 2010 | Metric | Fantasies | Face Control – Handsome Furs Post-Nothing – Japandroids I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day – Julie Doiron Sainthood – Tegan and Sara |
| 2011 | Arcade Fire | The Suburbs | Forgiveness Rock Record – Broken Social Scene Les Chemins de verre – Karkwa Heartland – Owen Pallett Champ – Tokyo Police Club |
| 2012 | Dan Mangan | Oh Fortune | Native Speaker – Braids Kaputt – Destroyer David Comes to Life – Fucked Up Creep on Creepin' On – Timber Timbre |
| 2013 | Metric | Synthetica | Hannah Georgas – Hannah Georgas Celebration Rock – Japandroids Little Mountain – Said the Whale The North – Stars |
| 2014 | Arcade Fire | Reflektor | The Poet's Dead – Rah Rah Today We're Believers – Royal Canoe Warring – The Darcys UZU – Yamantaka // Sonic Titan |
| 2015 | July Talk | July Talk | Alvvays – Alvvays Shrink Dust – Chad VanGaalen Animism – Tanya Tagaq Hot Dreams – Timber Timbre |
| 2016 | BRAIDS | Deep in the Iris | Poison Season – Destroyer Are You Alone? – Majical Cloudz Half Free – U.S. Girls Viet Cong – Viet Cong |
| 2017 | July Talk | Touch | IV – Black Mountain Sore – Dilly Dally Art Angels – Grimes Weaves – Weaves |
| 2018 | Alvvays | Antisocialites | Everything Now – Arcade Fire Life After Youth – Land of Talk Retribution – Tanya Tagaq Wide Open – Weaves |
| 2019 | Dizzy | Baby Teeth | Ken – Destroyer Dose Your Dreams – Fucked Up TPC – Tokyo Police Club In a Poem Unlimited – U.S. Girls |
| 2020 | PUP | Morbid Stuff | Destroyer – Black Mountain Foxwarren – Foxwarren Here Comes the Cowboy – Mac DeMarco Pony – Orville Peck |
| 2021 | July Talk | Pray for It | Heavy Light — U.S. Girls Pity Party — Curtis Waters The Sun and Her Scorch — Dizzy This Place Sucks Ass — PUP |
| 2022 | Mustafa | When Smoke Rises | Death of an Optimist — Grandson The Fool — SATE Hope for Sale — Chiiild If It Comes Down to It — Ruby Waters |
| 2023 | Alvvays | Blue Rev | Duality — Luna Li Sewn Back Together — OMBIIGIZI Tongues — Tanya Tagaq The Unraveling of PUPTheBand — PUP |
| 2024 | Aysanabee | Here and Now | Dizzy, Dizzy Leith Ross, To Learn Softcult, See You in the Dark TALK, Lord of the Flies & Birds & Bees |
| 2025 | TBA | TBA | Luna Li, When a Thought Grows Wings Nemahsis, Verbathim Peach Pit, Magpie Ruby Waters, What's the Point Valley, Water the Flowers, Pray for a Garden |