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Our Lady Peace, Nickelback & Leonard Cohen Lead Juno Awards Nominees
02/11/2002 5:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Mark Armstrong
(2/11/02, 5 p.m. ET) -- Canadian rockers Our Lady Peace and Nickelback and folk singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen are the top nominees for the 2002 Juno Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Grammy Awards. The nominees were announced Monday (February 11) at a press conference at CTV's Masonic Temple studios in Toronto.
Toronto's own Our Lady Peace leads the finalists with five nominations, including best album, best group, best single, best album design, and best video. Vancouver-based rock band Nickelback and Cohen received four nominations apiece. Nickelback landed nominations in the best album, best group, best single, and best rock album categories. The band's sound engineer Randy Staub scored a nomination for best recording engineer for his work on the Nickelback songs "How You Remind Me" and "Too Bad."
Cohen received nods for best artist, best songwriter, best pop album, and best video. Sum 41, Diana Krall, and Hawksley Workman follow closely behind the leaders with three Juno nods each.
This year several artists received two nominations, including Amanda Marshall (best single, best artist), Sloan (best single, best rock album), Nelly Furtado (best album, best artist), and Rufus Wainwright (best songwriter, best alternative album), among others.
Ross Reynolds, the chairman of the Canadian Association Of Recording Arts And Sciences (CARAS), said in a statement, "We are delighted at the caliber of artists represented in this year's nominees slate. The number of internationally recognized artists is truly impressive and indicative of the strength and reach of the Canadian music industry."
Alanis Morissette, Furtado, Krall, Marshall, Nickelback, Sum 41, and Great Big Sea are scheduled to perform at the Junos. The Barenaked Ladies will host the Canadian music awards ceremony, which will be broadcast from Mile One Stadium in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, at 8 p.m. ET on April 14. The event will be broadcast for the first time by CTV.
The Juno Awards features 38 musical fields, and a complete list of nominees in those fields is available at junos.sympatico.ca.
2002 Juno Awards nominees in select categories:
BEST SINGLE: "California" - Wave "Everybody's Got A Story" - Amanda Marshall "How You Remind Me" - Nickelback "If It Feels Good Do It" - Sloan "Life" - Our Lady Peace
BEST SELLING ALBUM - FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC: All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2 Black & Blue - Backstreet Boys Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water- Limp Bizkit Hotshot - Shaggy Survivor - Destiny's Child
BEST ALBUM: All Killer No Filler - Sum 41 Silver Side Up - Nickelback Spiritual Machines - Our Lady Peace The Look of Love - Diana Krall Whoa, Nelly! - Nelly Furtado
BEST ARTIST: Leonard Cohen Nelly Furtado Garou Diana Krall Amanda Marshall
BEST GROUP: Matthew Good Band Nickelback Our Lady Peace Sum 41 The Tea Party BEST NEW SOLO ARTIST: Gabrielle Destroismaisons Jelleestone Maren Ord Thrust Hawksley Workman
BEST NEW GROUP: Default Joydrop Smoother Sugar Jones Wave
BEST NEW COUNTRY ARTIST/GROUP: Steve Fox Aaron Lines Ennis Sisters J.R. Vautour Doc Walker
BEST COUNTRY ARTIST/GROUP: Paul Brandt Lisa Brokop Carolyn Dawn Johnson Jimmy Rankin The Wilkinsons
BEST RAP RECORDING: Firestarter Volume 1: Quest For Fire - Kardinal Offishall Easy To Slip - Solitair Bad Dreams - Swollen Members Jelleestone Thirteen - Jelleestone Still Too Much - Ghetto Concept featuring Snow, Kardinal Offishall, Maestro, Red-One, and Ironside
BEST POP ALBUM: Girl Versions - Emm Gryner Morning Orbit - David Usher Open - Cowboy Junkies Saturday People - Prozzak Ten New Songs - Leonard Cohen
BEST ROCK ALBUM: All Killer No Filler - Sum 41 Brothers & Sisters, Are You Ready? - Big Sugar Pretty Together - Sloan Purge - Bif Naked Silver Side Up - Nickelback
-- Jason Gelman, New York
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