# Juno Award for Breakthrough Group of the Year

The Juno Award for Breakthrough Group of the Year is presented by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences to the best new musical group in Canada. The award has been given annually since 1974, and was previously called Most Promising Group of the Year (1974–1993), Best New Group (1994–2002), and New Group of the Year (2003–2012). The award was customarily presented by the Minister of Canadian Heritage.
The award was discontinued following the Juno Awards of 2024. At the following Juno Awards of 2025, it was merged with the sibling category for Breakthrough Artist of the Year into a single category for Breakthrough Artist or Group of the Year.

## Recipients
### Most Promising Group of the Year (1974–1993)

| Year | Winner | Nominees |
| 1974 | Bachman-Turner Overdrive | Bearfoot Chester Scrubbaloe Caine Wednesday |
| 1975 | Rush | Beau Dommage Greaseball Boogie Band Mahogany Rush Ville Émard Blues Band |
| 1976 | Myles & Lenny | Aut'Chose Bond Heart Maneige |
| 1977 | THP Orchestra | Garfield Moxy Sweeney Todd Trooper |
| 1978 | Hometown Band | Black Light Orchestra Jackson Hawke Max Webster Prism |
| 1979 | Doucette | Max Webster Streetheart Teaze Zon |
| 1980 | Streetheart | FM The Minglewood Band Teaze The Raes |
| 1981 | Powder Blues | Loverboy Martha & the Muffins Red Rider Toronto |
| 1982 | Saga | Goddo Martha & the Muffins Red Rider The Kings |
| 1983 | Payola$ | Doug & the Slugs Headpins Spoons Strange Advance |
| 1984 | The Parachute Club | Honeymoon Suite Men Without Hats Platinum Blonde The Nylons |
| 1985 | Idle Eyes | Images in Vogue Rational Youth The Arrows The Box |
| 1986 | Glass Tiger | Cats Can Fly Chalk Circle Eye Eye One to One |
| 1987 | Frozen Ghost | Eight Seconds Haywire Nuance The Partland Brothers |
| No award ceremony was held in 1988 ||||
| 1989 | Barney Bentall & The Legendary Hearts | 54-40 The Jitters The Northern Pikes The Pursuit of Happiness |
| 1990 | The Tragically Hip | Brighton Rock Indio Paradox Sons of Freedom |
| 1991 | Leslie Spit Treeo | Bootsauce Crash Vegas National Velvet Spirit of the West |
| 1992 | Infidels | The Rankin Family West End Girls World on Edge Young Saints |
| 1993 | Skydiggers | Lost & Profound Pure Slik Toxik Sven Gali |

### Best New Group (1994–2002)

| Year | Winner | Nominees |
| 1994 | The Waltons | Moxy Früvous Junkhouse Sloan The Odds The Tea Party |
| 1995 | Moist | Big Sugar Farmer's Daughter The Gandharvas Wild Strawberries |
| 1996 | Philosopher Kings | Hemingway Corner Rainbow Butt Monkeys Rymes with Orange Sandbox |
| 1997 | The Killjoys | Limblifter Pluto Starkicker Victor |
| 1998 | Leahy | Bran Van 3000 Matthew Good Band The Age of Electric Wide Mouth Mason |
| 1999 | Johnny Favourite Swing Orchestra | Love Inc. New Meanies The Moffats The Wilkinsons |
| 2000 | Sky | Gob Len Prozzäk Serial Joe |
| 2001 | Nickelback | b4-4 Kittie Sum 41 Templar |
| 2002 | Default | Joydrop Smoother Sugar Jones Wave |

### New Group of the Year (2003–2012)

| Year | Winner | Nominees |
| 2003 | Theory of a Deadman | Bet.e & Stef Crush One Ton Simple Plan |
| 2004 | Billy Talent | Lillix The Dears The Trews Three Days Grace |
| 2005 | Alexisonfire | Death From Above The Marble Index The Waking Eyes Thornley |
| 2006 | Bedouin Soundclash | Boys Night Out Hedley Pocket Dwellers Silverstein |
| 2007 | Mobile | Evans Blue Idle Sons Jets Overhead Stabilo |
| 2008 | Wintersleep | Dragonette Faber Drive illScarlett State of Shock |
| 2009 | The Stills | Beast Cancer Bats Crystal Castles Plants and Animals |
| 2010 | Arkells | Down With Webster Stereos Ten Second Epic The New Cities |
| 2011 | Said the Whale | Die Mannequin Hollerado Misteur Valaire My Darkest Days |
| 2012 | The Sheepdogs | Braids Hey Rosetta! Mother Mother The Rural Alberta Advantage |

### Breakthrough Group of the Year (2013–present)

| Year | Winner | Nominees |
| 2013 | Monster Truck | Hey Ocean! The Pack A.D. Walk Off the Earth Yukon Blonde |
| 2014 | A Tribe Called Red | Autumn Hill Born Ruffians Courage My Love July Talk |
| 2015 | Magic! | Adventure Club Alvvays USS Zeds Dead |
| 2016 | Dear Rouge | The Elwins Half Moon Run Milk & Bone Young Empires |
| 2017 | The Dirty Nil | Bleeker Cold Creek County Bob Moses The Zolas |
| 2018 | The Beaches | James Barker Band The Dead South The Franklin Electric The Jerry Cans |
| 2019 | The Washboard Union | 88Glam Dizzy Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine Loud Luxury |
| 2020 | Neon Dreams | The Blue Stones Hunter Brothers Palaye Royale Valley |
| 2021 | Crown Lands | 2Frères Manila Grey Peach Pit Young Bombs |
| 2022 | Monowhales | Black Pistol Fire Cleopatrick Ocie Elliott Spiritbox |
| 2023 | Banx & Ranx | Harm & Ease Rare Americans Tommy Lefroy Wild Rivers |
| 2024 | New West | Busty and the Bass Crash Adams Good Kid Men I Trust |