KURATED NO. 267-A
PREVIEW + PLAYLIST
The 55th JUNO AWARDS 2026
CONTENTS
PLAYLIST PART 1
JUNO Award NOMINEES 2026
32 Select Songs on Spotify and YouTube
PROFILES OF 6 ARTISTS
Blurbs, quotes and info
32-SONG TRACKLIST
Songs and artists
NOMINEES
47 categories and 225 nominees, 156 of whom are in for the first time
The JUNO Awards show took place at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena (above) last year. This year it moves to Hamilton and airs Sunday, March 29 at 5PM PDT and 8 PM EDT . Watch and listen on CBC-TV, CBC Gem, CBC Radio One, CBC Music and CBC Listen and globally at CBCMusic.ca/junos and CBC Music’s YouTube page.
THE 55TH JUNO AWARDS 2026
A diverse crop of 258 newcomers and veterans ensure that Canada’s music award show stays in tune
What keeps Canada’s JUNO Awards interesting is how they mirror our multicultural reality from ocean-to-ocean and the 49th parallel to the Far North. All corners of the country – from student radio stations to urban musical hot spots and everything in between – show up in the nominees list and on the awards stage.
Pop icon Nelly Furtado and the respected Joni Mitchell will both be honoured at this year’s event. Furtado will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame for her songwriting, 35 million album sales plus multiple Juno, Grammy and Latin Grammy trophies. Mitchell will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award and a musical tribute by Sarah McLachlan and Allison Russell presented by the National Music Centre. Other featured artists include Arkells, The Beaches, Daniel Caesar and William Prince. And this year Mae Martin – Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, and recording artist – will host for the first time and is also the event’s first non-binary emcee.
Nelly Furtado (top) and Joni Mitchell will be honoured at this year’s JUNO Awards
Playlist and nominees
This year 248 hopefuls are vying for recognition in JUNO’s 47 categories with 156 of them being first timers including almost everyone in the new Latin Music Recording of the Year list. The awards also feature multiple nominations for First Nation and Inuit artists across five different categories. That means there are a lot of unfamiliar names mixed in with the veterans. Front runners with the most nominations are Justin Bieber and Tate McRae. Included in the Fan Choice category are names like Cameron Whitcomb, Shubh, Josh Ross, James Barker Band and more. Better known are Shawn Mendes, The Weeknd and Karan Aujla.
A few artist profiles
Here’s a brief sample of some of the artists on this year’s JUNO Awards nominee list:
1) MISS EMILY – hailing from Ontario’s Prince Edward County Emily Fennell has been singing soul, blues and R&B since she was 12. Some 30 years on, her consistent work ethic has earned her several Maple Leaf Blues awards and a second JUNO nomination for Best Blues Album of the Year with her latest, The Medicine, produced by Colin Linden. She describes her debut single Stand Together, Band Together as “a soulful singalong that embraces the idea that my struggle is your struggle, your struggle is my struggle and none of us gets through this world alone.”
2) CROWN LANDS – recording since 2016 the Oshawa-based band’s name aims to challenge the Canadian government’s theft of indigenous land. The two-man band of Cody Bowles and Kevin Comeau explore progressive rock and have toured with KISS, Jack White and Greta van Vliet.
“Being a band called ‘Crown Lands,’ we have to talk about what’s actually going on and the fact that Crown Land is stolen land,” says Comeau. “We have to talk about colonization, the ramifications that are still being felt every single day, and the fact that it’s not ancient history.
“It’s ongoing and something we wanted to bring attention to, being in Canada and being a Canadian band,” Bowles adds. Crown Lands is nominated for Instrumental Album of the Year for Ritual II. The band won Breakthrough Group of the Year (2021) and received nominations for Rock Album of the Year in 2021 and 2024.
3) Begonia – known to her parents as Alexa Dirks, the Winnipeg, Manitoba-born singer is a three-time Juno nominee and Polaris Music Prize shortlister. This year she’s vying again for the Adult Alternative Album of the Year prize. Her powerful album Fantasy Life features strong musical arrangements and bold lyrical candour. She’s in high flying company with competitors Patrick Watson, the Weather Station, Bahamas and the Barr Brothers.
She says the new disc features “more risk, more complex vocals, more pop diva mania, more feeling, more truth and more fantasy”. Repeated listening doesn’t disappoint.
“There’s a spirit of freedom to this record that was such a big part of the songwriting sessions I had in L.A. with deadmen (Matt Peters and Matt Schellenberg),” Dirks shared in a release. “I spent a little over a month in total with them writing this record every day and it’s the most RIGHT in songwriting sessions that I’ve ever felt.”
4) PIQSIQ – PIQSIQ’s album, Legends, is nominated for Global Music Album of the Year and is the sister duos seventh recording since getting together in 2019. Tiffany Ayalik and Inuksuk Mackay, sing katajjaq – Inuit throat singing – and lend their voices to an array of Inuit mythologies on this latest project. Their Spotify biography says, “As PIQSIQ, (we) perform improvisational looping live, creating a dynamic audience experience that changes with every show. PIQSIQ incorporates their dark and ethereal style into their recordings… and continue to blend magic with sound to further develop their entrancing style.”
5) Lou-Adriane Cassidy – the talented French-Canadian singer is nominated for her third album Journal d’un Loup-Garou (Diary of a Werewolf) as Francophone Album of the Year which was also on the 2025 Polaris Prize long list. At age 28 Cassidy is a veteran performer having started singing at 16 appearing on various Quebecois talent shows. The disc is a concept album – a rarity in music today – which she describes as a theatrical “high-flying spectacle”. The album has a bold progressive rock sound which is a departure from her first two albums which featured more typical French “chansons”.
6) Josh Ross – from Waterdown, Ontario Ross became the first Canadian man in 30 years to top the US Country Music charts last year with the hit Later Tonight from his most recent album of the same name. The smooth-voiced Nashville resident was quick to follow up his previous disc, Complicated which won the 2025 JUNO for Country Album of the Year. In an interview with Beatroute online magazine to mark the Number 1 hit he said: “… I can honestly say that every song I’ve released is either my own story or something that’s happened to me or is really close to me. Songs like Single Again were actual moments of me telling a girl to let me know if she’s ever single again. Songs like First Taste of Gone, which was the first song that felt like it did something for me back in 2022, was about a girl moving on in my life at the time. I really try to pull from real life.”
Give today’s playlist a listen and stay tuned for JUNO Awards Part 2 next week. There’ll be another playlist and different artists on deck.
06 March 2026
32-song Track List
TD Juno Fan Choice Award
- Bbno$
- Cameron Whitcomb
- James Barker Band
- Josh Ross
- Justin Bieber
- Karan Aujla
- Shawn Mendes
- Shubh
- Tate McRae
- The Weeknd
Single of the year
- Options, Cameron Whitcomb
- Hate How You Look, Josh Ross
- Daisies, Justin Bieber
- Sports Car, Tate McRae
- Cry For Me, The Weeknd
Album of the year
- The Hard Way, Cameron Whitcomb
- Later Tonight, Josh Ross
- Swag II, Justin Bieber
- So Close to What, Tate McRae
- Hurry Up Tomorrow, the Weeknd
Breakthrough artist or group of the year
- Cameron Whitcomb
- Goldie Boutilier
- Jade LeMac
- Jutes
- Mico
- Noeline Hofmann
- Sacha
- Saya Gray
- Sofia Camara
- Yung kai
Artist of the year
- Bbno$
- Daniel Caesar
- Justin Bieber
- Tate McRae
- The Weeknd
Group of the year
- Arcade Fire
- Mother Mother
- Peach Pit
- The Beaches
- Three Days Grace
Classical album of the year (solo artist)
- Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Bruce Liu
- Zaytoun, Haitham Haidar
- Preludes by Chopin, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Messiaen, Górecki, Jan Lisiecki
- Awake and Dreaming, Katherine Dowling
- Obsession, Marie Nadeau-Tremblay
Classical album of the year (small ensemble)
- Current: Missing, ATOM (Artists of the Opera Missing), Timothy Long & the Continuum Ensemble
- Re/String, CC Duo & collectif9
- Vivaldi Les Quatres Nations (reconstruites), Ensemble Caprice sous la direction de Matthias Maute
- Kevin Lau: Kimiko’s Pearl, Mariko Anraku, Conrad Chow, Ron Korb & Rachel Mercer
- In an archipelago, Standing Wave
Classical album of the year (large ensemble)
- Benedict Sheehan: Ukrainian War Requiem, Axios Men’s Ensemble, the Tenors and Basses of Pro Coro Canada conducted by Michael Zaugg featuring John Tessier and Yuliia Zasimova
- Where Waters Meet, Canadian Chamber Choir featuring Sherryl Sewepagaham
- Ichmouratov: The Ninth Wave, Viola Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Les Violons du Roy conducted by Airat Ichmouratov featuring Elvira Misbakhova and Stéphane Tétreault
- Haydn: Symphony No. 43 in E-Flat Major, Hob. I:43 “Mercury” & Symphony No. 49 in F Minor, Hob. I:49 “La passione,” Tafelmusik conducted by Rachel Podger
- Stravinsky: Pulcinella, Le Baiser de la fée (Divertimento), Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gustavo Gimeno
Jazz album of the year (solo)
- City Lights, Anthony D’Alessandro
- Kinda Out West, Aretha Tillotson
- Immersed, Justin Gray
- Deeper Down, Nancy Walker
- Crossing Paths, Renee Rosnes
Jazz album of the year (group)
- Afrokando, Alexis Baro Y la Big Band
- Code Red, Code Quartet
- Are You Really Real, Shuffle Demons
- Impact, the Steve Holt Jazz Impact Quintet
- East Meets West: Connections, Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra
Vocal jazz album of the year
- Under the Lemon Tree, Ale Nuñez
- Alex Samaras Meets Judy Garland, Alex Samaras
- Seascape feat. Norma Winstone & Joe LaBarbera, Atlantic Jazz Collective
- Caity Gyorgy with Strings, Caity Gyorgy and Mark Limacher
- Get Out of Town, Laura Anglade
Instrumental album of the year
- Lotusland, Aaron Paris
- The love it took to leave you, Colin Stetson
- Ritual II, Crown Lands
- Désert (deluxe), Jean-Michel Blais and Lara Somogyi
- Le piano et le torrent, Viviane Audet
Blues album of the year
- Sing Pretty Blues, Crystal Shawanda
- Ooh Yeah!, Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne
- The Medicine, Miss Emily
- Answer the Call, Secondhand Dreamcar
- Hear My Heart, Steven Marriner
Traditional roots album of the year
- I Lost My Heart On Friday, Aerialists
- Gold and Coal, Cassie and Maggie
- The Moon’s Daughter, Heather MacIsaac
- Heal the Divide, Morgan Toney
- Folk Signals, the Southern Residents
Contemporary roots album of the year
- Strange Trip Ahead, Mariel Buckley
- The Hammer & the Rose, Matt Andersen
- Purple Gas, Noeline Hofmann
- These Dark Canyons, the Young Novelists
- Further From the Country, William Prince
Country album of the year
- Let Your Horses Run, Brett Kissel
- The Hard Way, Cameron Whitcomb
- One Of Us, James Barker Band
- Later Tonight, Josh Ross
- Golden Child, Meghan Patrick
Adult alternative album of the year
- My Second Last Album, Bahamas
- Fantasy Life, Begonia
- Uh Oh, Patrick Watson
- Let it Hiss, the Barr Brothers
- Humanhood, the Weather Station
Alternative album of the year
- Edge of the Earth, Aysanabee
- Who Will Look After the Dogs?, Pup
- Saya, Saya Gray
- Sorry, It’s Over, the OBGMs
- All Cylinders, Yves Jarvis
Rock album of the year
- Roll With the Punches, Bryan Adams
- Inertia, grandson
- No Hard Feelings, the Beaches
- Metro, the Blue Stones
- The Damn Truth, the Damn Truth
- Alienation, Three Days Grace
Metal/hard music album of the year
- Heaven Let Them Die, Counterparts
- An Insatiable Violence, Cryptopsy
- Shadow Work, Despised Icon
- Antibloom, Silverstein
- A Pathway to the Moon, Unreqvited
Adult contemporary album of the year
- NU2U, Nuela Charles
- Conditions of Love Vol. 1, Rose Cousins
- Better Broken, Sarah McLachlan
- Rebuild, Shawn Hook
- Believer, Sister Ray
Pop album of the year
- Bbno$, bbno$
- Swag II, Justin Bieber
- 7, Nelly Furtado
- So Close to What, Tate McRae
- Hurry Up Tomorrow, the Weeknd
Dance recording of the year
- Loving You, A-Trak
- Do What I Want, Anna Sofia
- Dominate, Chyl
- Bet On Me, Debby Friday
- I, sabotage, Felix Cartal
Underground dance single of the year
- Cosmic Affliction (toi toi toi), AADJA
- Main de Fer, Annie-Claude Deschênes
- Icarus, F7
- Phantom Vibrations feat. Teddy Bryant, Gene Tellem
- Yeah!, Pacific Coliseum
Electronic album of the year
- Channel 303, Cloverdale
- The Starrr of the Queen of Life, Debby Friday
- Bab El Mdina, Didon
- Shades of Meridian, Èbony
- Glow Up, Korea Town Acid
Rap single of the year
- Mula, Connor Price feat. Big Sean
- Pursuit, Freddie Dredd
- Unlimited, Nav feat. Playboi Carti
- Dumb, SonReal and Snotty Nose Rez Kids
- Who’s Driving You?, Tobi, Saukrates and Jully Black
Rap album/EP of the year
- Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow, Ardn
- About Time, Connor Price
- Misery Loves Company, NorthSideBenji
- Dry Cry, SadBoi
- Elements Vol. 2, Tobi
Traditional R&B/soul recording of the year
- Have a Baby (With Me), Daniel Caesar
- **GOLIATH**, Jessie Reyez
- Say Yes, Melanie Fiona
- Formed, Savannah Ré
- Reasons to Stay, Tanika Charles
Contemporary R&B recording of the year
- Set Me Free, Adria Kain
- Mirage, Avenoir
- Son of Spergy, Daniel Caesar
- Paid in Memories, Jessie Reyez
- Life 2, Majid Jordan
- Therapist, SadBoi
Reggae recording of the year
- Ready For You, Exco Levi and Kheilstone
- Dagga Riddim Cypher, Jojo You Made That, Yung 2nuff, Erin B, Topman Meeko, One Don & Enzooo
- Deh Yah, Kirk Diamond
- Welcome to Paradise, Naomi Cowan
- More Reggae (Funk It Up), Samora and Ammoye
Children’s album of the year
- Ari Cui Cui et les jeux d’rôles (Les contes classiques en musique), Ari Cui Cui
- Little Leaf, Chris McKhool
- All the Earth Speaks, Ginalina
- Hip Kids Music, Vol. 1, Hip Kids Music
- Maestro Fresh Wes Presents: Young Maestro “Rhyme Travellers – Back to the Time Machine,” Young Maestro
Comedy album of the year
- Dragonflies, Adam Christie
- Fish From the Jar, Charlie Demers
- Dawud, Dave Merheje
- Homesick., Faris Hytiaa
- I’m Nervous, Robby Hoffman
Traditional Indigenous artist or group of the year
- Battle at the Beach, Bad Eagle
- On the Move, Bear Creek
- Me & You, Manitou Mkwa Singers
- Anirniliit Suli, Piunguałaq
- Nakota Tayhunyabi, YB Nakota
Contemporary Indigenous artist or group of the year
- Edge of the Earth, Aysanabee
- Lovechild, Sebastian Gaskin
- Chapter 1, Shawnee Kish
- Siibii, Siibii
- Sage My Soul, Tia Wood
Francophone album of the year
- Dogue, Ariane Roy
- On s’enverra des fleurs, Fredz
- Les amours de seconde main, JF Pauzé
- Journal d’un Loup-Garou, Lou-Adriane Cassidy
- Dix chansons démodées pour ceux qui ont le cœur abîmé, Pierre Lapointe
Contemporary Christian/gospel album of the year
- Vulnerable Too, Bridge Music
- Outlaw Gospel, collect.assembly
- The light that leads to you, Elenee
- Where the Heart Is, Kofi Dartey
- Jubilate, Ryan Ofei
Global music album of the year
- Bab El Mdina, Didon
- Ghoyoum, Kazdoura
- Future Village, Kizaba
- Legends, Piqsiq
- Rammana, Salin
South Asian music recording of the year
- Afsos, AP Dhillon and Anuv Jain
- P-pop Culture, Karan Aujla
- Renaissance, Ikky and Raf Saperra
- Supreme, Shubh
- By Any Means, Sukha
Album artwork of the year
- Catherine Lepage (art director), Simon Rivest (art director), Daniel Lanois (illustrator), Norah Chassagne (illustrator), Régine Chassagne (illustrator, photographer): Pink Elephant, Arcade Fire
- Jérôme Beaulieu (art director), Etienne Bonneville (designer), Chris de Muri (illustrator), Alina Herta (photographer): Beat Bouquet, Misc
- Kevin Moore (art director), Kyle Joinson (photographer): Tsunami Sea, Spiritbox
- Logan Dane Morrison (art director): The Hard Way, Cameron Whitcomb
- Mykael Nelson (art director), Nicolas Lemieux (designer), Liliane Jodoin (illustrator), Felipe Arriagada (illustrator): Bambini Symphonique, Alain Trudel and Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
Music video of the year
- Bellatores, Adrian Villagomez (Apashe & Vladimir Cauchemar)
- Driving, Adrian Villagomez (Eddie Benjamin)
- Luther, Karena Evans (Kendrick Lamar, SZA)
- OK!, Shiraz (Haviah Mighty)
- Listen2me, Winston Hacking (Foxwarren)
Jack Richardson producer of the year
- Cirkut: Apt. (co-producers Bruno Mars, Omer Fedi, Rogét Chahayed), from Apt., Rosé and Bruno Mars; Abracadabra (co-producers Andrew Watt, Lady Gaga), from Mayhem, Lady Gaga; Disease (co-producers Andrew Watt, Lady Gaga), from Mayhem, Lady Gaga; A Little More (co-producers Blake Slatkin, Ed Sheeran), from A Little More, Ed Sheeran; It Girl, (co-producer Lostboy), from It Girl, Jade; AEOMG (co-producer M-Phazes), from Why Not More?, Coco Jones
- Greg Wells: Dancing Through Life (co-producers Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Oremus), from Wicked: The Soundtrack, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Wicked movie cast; Defying Gravity (co-producer), from Wicked: The Soundtrack, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Wicked movie cast; No One Mourns the Wicked (co-producers Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Oremus), from Wicked: The Soundtrack, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Wicked movie cast; Popular (co-producer Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Oremus), from Wicked: The Soundtrack, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Wicked movie cast; The Wizard and I (co-producers Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Oremus), from Wicked: The Soundtrack, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Wicked movie cast; What Is This Feeling? (co-producers Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Oremus), from Wicked: The Soundtrack, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Wicked movie cast
- Gus van Go: Killed For Sport (co-producers Baby Nova, Lowell), from Killed For Sport, Baby Nova; Can I Call You in the Morning? (co-producer Lowell), from No Hard Feelings, the Beaches; Did I Say Too Much (co-producer Sam Willows), from No Hard Feelings, the Beaches; Last Girls at the Party (co-producers Aidan Hogg, Georgia Filpo), from No Hard Feelings, the Beaches; Fine, Let’s Get Married (co-producer Lowell), from No Hard Feelings, the Beaches; Too Pretty For Buffalo (co-producers Baby Nova, Lowell), from Too Pretty For Buffalo, Baby Nova
- Joel Stouffer: Body, Shawn Desman and Jamie Fine; How to Sing for Money (co-producer Corey LeRue), from How to Sing for Money, Maggie Andrew; Lie (co-producer Shawn Hook), from Rebuild, Shawn Hook; Revelation (co-producer the Knocks), the Knocks, Dragonette; Talk About Me, from Talk About Me, Tedy Sony; Anyways How You Been?, from Was I(t) Worth It?, Sofia Camara
- Karen Kosowski: Feels Like Christmas and Sugar Cookie, from Feels Like Christmas, Mickey Guyton; Blood From a Stone, Stoned Alone feat. Caitlyn Smith, Jessica, Jezebel from Golden Child, Meghan Patrick; You Don’t Know Me At All, from You Don’t Know Me At All, Mickey Guyton
Recording engineer of the year
- Jason Dufour: Home (Phillip’s Version), from Home (Phillip’s Version), Phillip Phillips; Blue Sky Mystery feat. Filter, from Last Night on Earth, Finger Eleven
- John “Beetle” Bailey: All I See feat. Cube, from All I See, Molly Johnson; Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em, from Crashbox, Monkey House
- L Stu Young: ..Thus Is Why (I Don’t Spring for Love), from Saya, Saya Gray; Lie Down.., from Saya, Saya Gray
- Serban Ghenea: The Fate of Ophelia, from The Life of a Showgirl, Taylor Swift; That’s So True, from The Secret of Us, Gracie Abrams
- Shawn Everett: 12 to 12, from 12 to 12, sombr; End of the World, from Something Beautiful, Miley Cyrus
Classical composition of the year
- Cloud Path, Amy Brandon
- The Laws of Nature, Andrew Staniland
- Kevin Lau: Kimiko’s Pearl, Kevin Lau
- Linda Catlin Smith: The Complete Piano Solos (1989-2023) Vol. 1 – The Plains, Linda Catlin Smith
- Music for Body-Without-Organs, Nicole Lizée
Songwriter of the year
- Ashton Simmonds (Daniel Caesar): Call On Me (co-songwriters Eric Donaldson, Isaac Stalling, Jordan Evans, Matthew Burnett, Rami Dawod); Moon feat. Bon Iver (co-songwriters Dylan Wiggins, Isaac Stalling, Justin Vernon, Matthew Burnett, Rami Dawod, Simon Axel Hessman); Who Knows (co-songwriters Alex O’Connor, Dylan Wiggins, Justin Vernon, Matthew Burnett, Mustafa Ahmed, Romil Hemnani)
- Jessie Reyez: **CUDN’T B ME**; **GOLIATH** (co-songwriters Gamal Kosh Lewis, Jeff Gitelman, Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson); Ocean (co-songwriters Burns, Calvin Harris)
- Justin Bieber: Daisies (co-songwriters Carter Lang, Daniel Chetrit, Dijon Duenas, Dylan Wiggins, Eddie Benjamin, Tobias Jesso Jr., Michael Gordon); Speed Demon (co-songwriters Carter Lang, Daniel Chetrit, Dylan Wiggins, Eddie Benjamin, Jackson Lee Morgan, Tobias Jesso Jr.); Yukon (co-songwriters Carter Lang, David White, Daniel Chetrit, Dijon Duenas, Dylan Wiggins, John Madara, Kejuan Waliek Muchita, Marshall Mathers, Robert M. Crawford, Tauheed Epps)
- Tate McRae: Purple lace bra (co-songwriters Amy Allen, Emile Haynie); Revolving door (co-songwriters Grant Boutin, Julia Michaels, Ryan Tedder); Sports car (co-songwriters Grant Boutin, Julia Michaels, Ryan Tedder)
- The Beaches: Can I Call You in the Morning? (co-songwriters Gus Van Go, Elizabeth Lowell Boland); Did I Say Too Much (co-songwriters Karah McGillivray, Gus Van Go, Sam Willows, Zale Epstein); Lesbian of the Year (co-songwriters Sam Willows, Zale Epstein)
Songwriter of the year (non-performer)
- Elizabeth Lowell Boland: World’s Smallest Violin (co-songwriters Amanda Ava Koci, Arthur Remond, Hamid Bashir, Kyle Buckley, Lolo), from Don’t Click Play, Ava Max; Girls Like You (co-songwriters Donny Bravo, Michael Wise, Nathan Ferraro, Sofia Camara), from Hard to Love, by Sofia Camara; Too Pretty For Buffalo (co-songwriters Gus Van Go, Kayleigh O’Connor), from Too Pretty For Buffalo, Baby Nova
- Hayley Gene Penner: Small Hands feat. Raiche (co-songwriters Eren Cannata, Jaten Dimsdale, Jett Gitelman, Skyler Stonestreet), from I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy, Teddy Swims; West End Girl (co-songwriters Alessandro Bruccellati, Blue May, Lily Cooper), from West End Girl, Lily Allen; Woman of Faces (co-songwriters Jamie Hartman, Celeste, Kiddo, Matt Maltese), from Woman of Faces, Celeste
- Mustafa: Rearrange My World (co-songwriters Alexander O’Conner, Ashton Simmonds, Devonte Hynes), Daniel Caesar and Rex Orange County; Have A Baby (With Me) (co-songwriters Bobby Dixon, Ashton Simmons, Bradley Brown, Dalton Brown, Dave Richards, Jordan Evans, Les McCan, Miguel Orlando Collins, Paul Heaton, Teo Halm), from Son of Spergy, Daniel Caesar; There’s a Field (That’s Only Yours) (co-songwriters Alexander O’Conner, Ashton Simmonds), Daniel Caesar and Rex Orange County
- Nathan Ferraro: After You feat. Faangs (co-songwriters Mikkel Cox, Christophe Dalla-Ca, David Guetta, Faangs, Feli Ferraro, Heavy Mellow, Olivier Giacamotto, Tobias Frederiksen), David Guetta, Kiko, Olivier Giacomotto; Girls Like You (co-songwriters Donny Bravo, Michael Wise, Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Sofia Camara), from Hard to Love, Sofia Camara; Parking Lot (co-songwriters Sofia Camara, Elizabeth Lowell Boland, Mike Wise), from Hard to Love, Sofia Camara
- Tobias Jesso Jr.: La Yugular (co-songwriters David Rodriguez, Dylan Wiggins, Elliot Kozel, Noah Goldstein, Rosalía), from Lux, Rosalía; Daisies (co-songwriters Carter Lang, Daniel Chetrit, Dijon Duenas, Dylan Wiggins, Eddie Benjamin, Justin Bieber, Michael Gordon), from Swag II, Justin Bieber; Man I Need (co-songwriters Olivia Dean, Zachary Nahome), from The Art of Loving, Olivia Dean
Latin music recording of the year
- Índole, Alex Cuba
- Baila y Confía, Andy Rubal
- Vanity, Isabella Lovestory
- La Belleza, Lido Pimienta
- He Sanado Varias Cosas, Mario Puglia
