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Tate McRae's Sports Car is the winner of the JUNO's 2026 Single of the Year!

It is also worth mentioning in this post, for the sake of not repeating, Tate McRae is also the 2026 JUNO Artist of the Year!

This song is the most popular song of the So Close to What album, which also won the Best Album of the Year! For more information about Tate McRae, read my last post from her winning the best album.

Tate McRae's So Close To What is the winner of the 2026 JUNOs Album of the Year and Pop Album of the Year!

Tate McRae is a very young artist, born in 2003 and no stranger to the JUNOs, winning an award every year since 2024 and having been nominated since 2021. She was born in Calgary, Alberta, and her first appearance to the world was as a contestant on the 2016 season So You Think You Can Dance at the age of 13. Ever since then, she has been dancing, singing, and writing much of her own songs and music videos.

Hey guys! I am going to do a little recap series of scheduled posts to follow up on the March 29th Junos! I got to see the Junos IRL this year and it was an amazing time. I will be scheduling some posts to go up regularly for the next month or so with the JUNO tag down below, and possible a JUNO flair as well. These posts will showcase all the winners and what they were nominated for, and I might include some of the nominees in some posts as well.

For anyone who doesn't know, the JUNOS is a annual event in Canada in which Canadian music, musicians, and music adjacent people are all nominated and voted on -- essentially determining who are the best or most notable artists of the year. It is a wonderful celebration of Canadian music -- one of our greatest cultural exports. With a tradition starting in 1970, the JUNOS have grown each year into a event which celebrates Canadian excellence.

The first artist is bbno$, the winner of the TD Juno Fan Choice!

bbno$, from Vancouver, British Columbia, is a rapper who really gained popularity in 2019, and has only been growing since. This is actually his second year in a row winning the Fan Choice Award, first winning it in 2025. He first started making music in the mid 2010s while recovering from a back injury that ended his career as a professional swimmer. By 2016 he quickly gained notoriety in surprising places -- garnering an unexpectedly large audience in China of all places! bbno$ is also well known for his collaborations with other rap artists, likely adding to his widespread popularity.

I've included his most popular song from his 2025 album, bbno$ for this post. It is also his most listened to song overall. Rap music is not my forte or my genre of choice, so please do correct me if I am not mentioning anything super important about this artist!

Toronto was a short lived group that was formed in 1979 and lasted only until 1984. Unsurprisingly, the band was created in Toronto, the city. Their most well known song is the one linked here, "Your Daddy Don't Know", which breached the top 5 charts of Canada and the top 100 in the US.

Reading about this music in writing about this post led me to a new sub genre of rock, "Arena Rock" otherwise commonly referred to as corporate rock. The name is often intended as an insult/critique to the genre because it is seen as being a completely sterilized verson of rock music that was adopted/created by corporations to be suitable for a mass audience -- think tv or radio advertising, or, to be played in a stadium. The idea was that the song would be so completely inoffensive, that no one could be upset by it. An interesting phrase so be sure! I can think of quite a few bands and music genres that are under siege from corporate interests who want to sterilize any impact of the music by making as inoffensive to anyone as possible -- all for profit, naturally.

So if you got anyone in your life that was around in Canada during the early 80s, they probably got real sick of hearing this song on the radio.

Angine de Poitrine est ma nouvelle fascination. Le groupe compte deux membres, Khn de Poitrine (guitare, basse, instruments microtonaux et... aussi les «voix» des chansons) et Klek de Poitrine (batterie). Il y a des spéculations sur leur identité, mais ils préfèrent rester anonymes. Ils se décrivent comme « voyageurs de l'espace-temps » et nés des divinitiés rock de la Terre.

Depuis 2023, le groupe a explosé à l'échelle mondiale. 1,2 million d'auditeurs chaque mois ! Ils viennent de Saguenay, Quebec et le duo joue ensemble depuis 2013. Tout le reste est inconnu. Et c'est tant mieux! Ils souhaitent rester anonymes.

Désolé de ne pas avoir publié récemment! Mon nouveau travail à Hamilton était très fatigant. Piefed permet de programmer des posts -- je vais experimenter avec ça pour Vendredi Français!

Wanted to post this Friday but run on some technical issues

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[QUICK EDIT: This move is still in the works, just waiting for approval from FedeCan admins on PieFed.ca]

Hey all!

It's been about a year since the creation of this community, I wish I can recall the exact date, but regardless, the fact it's been that long gives me whiplash. When I made this community on my old Lemmy.ca account, I didn't expect it to gain over 300 subscribers, so before going into the rest of this announcement, I do want to say thanks to everyone for being a part of it, whether it posting and commenting, upvoting, or just silently interacting with the links posted.

Getting to the meat and potatoes of the announcement, in four or five days Maple Music will be migrating from Lemmy.ca to PieFed.ca. There's nothing wrong with Lemmy.ca, or the people behind it (especially seeing that the same people run PieFed.ca), but there's a bunch of key features in PieFed that will help the community grow in the long term.

To start off with, PieFed allows for post flairs. For a music community like Maple Music, this can be incredibly helpful for sorting posts by genres. If someone wants to find Canadian music of a specific genre, assuming they're using PieFed, they'll be able to click on the Flair of a certain genre like Country, Metal, Electronic, Hip-Hop, and so on, and be greeted with a curated feed of posts that include that Flair. For an example of this in action, feel free to check out the Obscure Music community on PieFed.social.

Secondly, an unfortunate annoyance in music and art sharing communities is people sharing content they like, only to receive downvotes. While the downvote feature is, in my personal opinion, important overall, it gets annoying when users share content they enjoy only to be downvoted by those who are not the target demographic. Moving to PieFed from Lemmy would help alleviate this, as PieFed software has an option to restrict downvotes to community members. Doing this will help build a more positive community by preventing new posters from feeling discouraged by downvotes from users with uncurated feeds, while also leaving the downvote feature open for legitimate use cases (controversial musicians, problematic lyrics, etc.).

A huge feature that PieFed has over Lemmy is the Wiki feature. Moving Maple Music to PieFed.ca will allow the development of a dedicated wiki for finding Canadian music and musicians which is readily accessible without needing to pin dedicated "Megathread" posts. This can be useful for easier sorting of music resources by region if one wishes to find music from a specific province or territory, as well as documenting weekly Featured Artists (Which will come back!)

Lastly, PieFed comes with various other improvements that will likely benefit the community such as polls, support for hashtags (which will help for finding music of specific sub-genres), and a number of helpful moderation tools.

Adding a personal opinion between the two, I'm personally of the belief that open source should support open source, and on top of the features PieFed has too offer, I personally just like the fact that the source code for PieFed is hosted on Codeberg rather than GitHub.

If anybody has any thoughts before the move, feel free to share them here. Seeing that Maple Music has been federated with PieFed.ca for some time now, posts from Lemmy.ca should be migrated into the new community, removing the concern of losing content contributed to the community.

Sorry to share three musicians from Alberta in a row, but I'm just sharing this track that I posted here on older account of mine that was since deleted.

Love ilysm's stuff, great rapper from Edmonton.

Christian metal band from Peterborough.