We’ve been running our year-end readers’ polls for 16 years now, and have been keeping track of them online for 11 of those years.
It occurred to us that we should probably have some kind of aggregate page listing our winners throughout the years so people can see how the poll’s evolved in its existence. For example, Avril Lavigne’s dominance can easily be seen, as can Simple Plan’s and Our Lady Peace’s, though the latter’s popularity comes early last decade.
So here’s a list of winners in our year-end readers’ polls from 2010, counting back to 2000:
2010
The Golden Toque Award (Best Canadian Album):
1. Hail The Villain — Population: Declining
2. Sweet Thing — Sweet Thing
The International Golden Toque Award (Best International Album):
1. Katy Perry — Teenage Dream
2. Linkin Park — A Thousand Suns
The Blissful Noise Award (Best Song):
1. Avril Lavigne’s “Alice”
2. Hedley’s “Hands Up”
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Male (Sexiest Canadian Man):
1. Pierre Bouvier (Simple Plan)
2. Ben Kowalewicz (Billy Talent)
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Female (Sexiest Canadian Woman):
1. Avril Lavigne
2. LIGHTS
The Lord Mullet Of Stanley Award (Best Hair):
1. LIGHTS
2. Avril Lavigne
The Follow The Herd Award (Stupidest Trend)
1. Vampire anything
2. 3D anything
The Thank You Much-ly Award (Best Video):
1. Danko Jones’ “Full Of Regret”
2. Avenged Sevenfold’s “Nightmare”
The That Rocked Award (Sweet Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Canadian rock
2. YouTube
The That Sucked Award (Stinky Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Justin Bieber’s Sense Of Self-Worth
2. Auto-Tune
2009
The Golden Toque Award (Best Canadian Album):
1. Tegan And Sara — Sainthood
2. Sebastien Lefevbre — You Are Here
The International Golden Toque Award (Best International Album):
1. Franz Ferdinand — Blood
2. The XX — XX
The Blissful Noise Award (Best Song):
1. LIGHTS’ “Saviour”
2. Tegan And Sara’s “Hell”
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Male (Sexiest Canadian Man):
1. Lucas Silveira (The Cliks)
2. Deryck Whibley (Sum 41)
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Female (Sexiest Canadian Woman):
1. Avril Lavigne
2. LIGHTS
The Lord Mullet Of Stanley Award (Best Haircut):
1. Avril Lavigne
2. Tegan And Sara
The Follow The Herd Award (Stupidest Trend):
1. Sparkling vampires
2. Swine flu hysteria
The Thank You Much—Ly Award (Best Video):
1. LIGHTS’ “Ice”
2. Tegan and Sara’s “Hell”
The That Rocked Award (Sweet Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Sloan’s grey hair
2. Avril and Deryck’s breakup happening for year
The That Sucked Award (Stinky Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Avril and Deryck’s breakup happening for real
2. Miley Cyrus mania
2008
The Golden Toque Award (Best Canadian Album):
1. Simple Plan — Simple Plan
2. David Usher — Wake Up And Say Goodbye
The International Golden Toque Award (Best International Album):
1. Fall Out Boy — Folie A Deux
2. My Chemical Romance — The Black Parade Is Dead!
The Blissful Noise Award (Best Song):
1. Simple Plan’s “Save You”
2. Fall Out Boy’s “I Don’t Care”
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Male (Sexiest Canadian Man):
1. Pierre Bouvier (Simple Plan)
2. Jacob Hoggard (Hedley)
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Female (Sexiest Canadian Woman):
1. Tegan And Sara
2. Avril Lavigne
The Lord Mullet Of Stanley Award (Best Haircut):
1. David Desrosiers (Simple Plan)
2. Pierre Bouvier (Simple Plan)
The Follow The Herd Award (Stupidest Trend):
1. Croc shoes
2. MTV’s The Hills
The Thank You Much—Ly Award (Best Video):
1. Simple Plan’s “Save You”
2 Kid Rock’s “All Summer Long”
The That Rocked Award (Sweet Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Canadian rock
2. Panic At The Disco drop the !
The That Sucked Award (Stinky Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Britney Spears’ comeback
2. Panic At The Disco drop the !
2007
The Golden Toque Award (Best Canadian Album):
1. Silverstein — Arrivals & Departures
2. Sum 41 — Underclass Hero
The International Golden Toque Award (Best International Album):
1. Linkin Park — Minutes To Midnight
2. Fall Out Boy — Infinity On High
The Blissful Noise Award (Best Song):
1. Alexisonfire’s “Rough Hands”
2. Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend”
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Male (Sexiest Canadian Man):
1. Shane Told (Silverstein)
2. Deryck Whibley (Sum 41)
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Female (Sexiest Canadian Woman):
1. Avril Lavigne
2. Tegan And Sara
The Lord Mullet Of Stanley Award (Best Haircut):
1. Tegan And Sara
2. Avril Lavigne
The Follow The Herd Award (Stupidest Trend):
1. Crocs shoes
2. MTV’s The Hills
The Thank You Much—Ly Award (Best Video):
1. The Reason’s “So Beyond This”
2. Sum 41′s “Walking Disaster”
The That Rocked Award (Sweet Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Guitar Hero
2. Canadian rock
The That Sucked Award (Stinky Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Britney Spears’ return
2. Being emo
2006
The Golden Toque Award (Best Canadian Album):
1. Sloan — Never Hear The End Of It
2. Rex Goudie — Under The Lights
The International Golden Toque Award (Best International Album):
1. Clay Aiken — A Thousand Different Ways
2. Snow Patrol — Open Your Eyes
The Blissful Noise Award (Best Song):
1. Rex Goudie’s “You Got To Me”
2. Neverending White Lights’ “Angels And Saints”
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Male (Sexiest Canadian Man):
1. Kalan Porter
2. Rex Goudie
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Female (Sexiest Canadian Woman):
1. Damhnait Doyle
2. Nelly Furtado
The Lord Mullet Of Stanley Award (Best Haircut):
1. Kalan Porter
2. Lukas Rossi
The Follow The Herd Award (Stupidest Trend):
1. Crocs shoes
2. Actors-turned-musicians
The Thank You Much—Ly Award (Best Video):
1. U2 And Green Day’s “The Saints Are Coming”
2. Nickelback’s “Savin’ Me”
The That Rocked Award (Sweet Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Canadian rock
2. iPods
The That Sucked Award (Stinky Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Paris Hilton’s singing
2. Kevin Federline’s rap career
2005
The Golden Toque Award (Best Canadian Album):
1. Simple Plan — MTV Hard Rock Live
2. Alanis Morissette — Jagged Little Pill Acoustic
The International Golden Toque Award (Best International Album):
1. Green Day — American Idiot
2. Coldplay — X&Y
The Blissful Noise Award (Best Song):
1. INXS’ “Pretty Vegas”
2. Simple Plan’s “Crazy”
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Male (Sexiest Canadian Man):
1. J.D. Fortune (INXS)
2. Kalan Porter
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Female (Sexiest Canadian Woman):
1. Avril Lavigne
2. Shania Twain
The Lord Mullet Of Stanley Award (Best Haircut):
1. Kalan Porter
2. David Desrosiers
The Follow The Herd Award (Stupidest Trend):
1. “Bananas” the catchphrase
2. Actors-turned-musicians
The Thank You Much—Ly Award (Best Video):
1. INXS’ “Pretty Vegas”
2. Simple Plan’s “Crazy”
The That Rocked Award (Sweet Happenings In Music This Year):
1. J.D. Fortune joining INXS
2. Live 8
The That Sucked Award (Stinky Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Ashlee Simpson’s new album
2. Avril and Deryck, supercouple
2004
The Golden Toque Award (Best Canadian Album):
1. Keshia Chante — Keshia Chante
2. Billy Talent — Billy Talent
The International Golden Toque Award (Best International Album):
1. Green Day — American Idiot
2. U2 — How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
The Blissful Noise Award (Best Song):
Kalan Porter’s “Awake In A Dream”
Jay-Z’s “99 Problems”
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Male (Sexiest Canadian Man):
1. Kalan Porter
2. Sam Roberts
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Female (Sexiest Canadian Woman):
1. Keshia Chante
2. Chantal Kreviazuk
The Lord Mullet Of Stanley Award (Best Haircut):
1. Kalan Porter
2. Jeff Martin (The Tea Party)
The Follow The Herd Award (Stupidest Trend):
1. Canadian Idol
2. Donald Trump’s catchphrase, “You’re fired”
The Thank You Much—Ly Award (Best Video):
1. Linkin Park’s “Breaking The Habit”
2. The Tea Party’s “Writing’s On The Wall”
The That Rocked Award (Sweet Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Can-rock
2. iPods
The That Sucked Award (Stinky Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Ashlee Simpson’s lip synching
2. William Hung
2003
The Golden Toque Award (Best Canadian Album):
1, Our Lady Peace — Gravity
2. Matthew Good — Avalanche
The International Golden Toque Award (Best International Album):
1. Radiohead — Hail To The Thief
2. Coldplay — A Rush Of Blood To The Head
The Blissful Noise Award (Best Song):
1. Johnny Cash’s “Hurt”
2. David Usher’s “Time Of Our Lives”
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Male (Sexiest Canadian Man):
1. Raine Maida (Our Lady Peace)
2. Sam Roberts
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Female (Sexiest Canadian Woman):
1. Shania Twain
2. Chantal Kreviazuk
The Lord Mullet Of Stanley Award (Best Haircut):
1. David Usher
2. Sam Roberts
The Follow The Herd Award (Stupidest Trend):
1. Bennifer
2. Ashton Kutcher
The Thank You Much—Ly Award (Best Video):
1. Johnny Cash’s “Hurt”
2. Radiohead’s “There, There”
The That Rocked Award (Sweet Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Canadian rock
2. Clay Aiken’s face
The That Sucked Award (Stinky Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Madonna/Britney/Christina kiss
2. Clay Aiken
2002
The Golden Toque Award (Best Canadian Album):
1. Our Lady Peace — Gravity
2. Great Big Sea — Of No Cares
The International Golden Toque Award (Best International Album):
1. Coldplay — A Rush Of Blood To The Head
2. Weezer — Maladroit
The Blissful Noise Award (Best Song):
1. Matthew Good’s “Weapon”
2. Our Lady Peace’s “Somewhere Out There”
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Male (Sexiest Canadian Man):
1. Raine Maida
2. Todd Kerns (Static In Stereo)
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Female (Sexiest Canadian Woman):
1. Avril Lavigne
2. Chantal Kreviazuk
The Lord Mullet Of Stanley Award (Best Haircut):
1. Todd Kerns (Static In Stereo)
2. Raine Maida (Our Lady Peace)
The Follow The Herd Award (Stupidest Trend):
1. Girls wearing ties with tank tops
2. Dressing like a slut
The Thank You Much—Ly Award (Best Video):
1. Weezer’s “Keep Fishin’”
2. Coldplay’s “The Scientist”
The That Rocked Award (Sweet Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Canadian rock
2. Nirvana’s new song
The That Sucked Award (Stinky Happenings In Music This Year):
1. American Idol
2. Canadian Idol
2001
The Golden Toque Award (Best Canadian Album):
1. Matthew Good Band — The Audio Of Being
2. The Tea Party — Interzone Mantras
The International Golden Toque Award (Best International Album):
1. Linkin Park — Hybrid Theory
2. Weezer — Weezer (The Green Album)
The Blissful Noise Award (Best Song):
1. Matthew Good Band’s “Carmelina”
2. Static In Stereo’s “Before My Time”
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Male (Sexiest Canadian Man):
1. Todd Kerns (Static In Stereo)
2. Scott Moffatt (The Moffatts)
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Female (Sexiest Canadian Woman):
1. Tara Sloane
2. Bif Naked
The Lord Mullet Of Stanley Award (Best Haircut):
1. Todd Kerns
2. Scott Moffatt
The Follow The Herd Award (Stupidest Trend):
1. Reality TV
2. People owning cellphones who don’t need them
The Thank You Much—Ly Award (Best Video):
1. Matthew Good Band’s “Carmelina”
2. Alien Ant Farm’s “Smooth Criminal”
The That Rocked Award (Sweet Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Canadian music
2. Matt Good’s new record
The That Sucked Award (Stinky Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Limp Bizkit are still popular
2. Celine Dion singing “God Bless America”
2000
The Golden Toque Award (Best Canadian Album):
1. Matthew Good Band — Beautiful Midnight
2. Mike O’Neill — What Happens Now?
The International Golden Toque Award (Best International Album):
1. Radiohead — Kid A
2. Supergrass — Supergrass
The Blissful Noise Award (Best Song):
1. Matthew Good Band’s “Strange Days”
2. Richard Ashcroft’s “A Song For The Lovers”
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Male (Sexiest Canadian Man):
1. Trevor Tuminski (Jet Set Satellite)
2. Chris Murphy (Sloan)
The Throw Your Underwear Award: Female (Sexiest Canadian Woman):
1. Bif Naked
2. Kinnie Starr
The Lord Mullet Of Stanley Award (Best Haircut):
1. Chris Murphy
2. Rich Beddoe (Finger Eleven)
The Follow The Herd Award (Stupidest Trend):
1. Scooters
2. “Whaazzzzzzuppppp?”
The Thank You Much—Ly Award (Best Video):
1. Matthew Good Band’s “Strange Days”
2. Richard Ashcroft’s “A Song For The Lovers”
The That Rocked Award (Sweet Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Independent music
2. Canadian music
The That Sucked Award (Stinky Happenings In Music This Year):
1. Boy bands
2. Matthew Good Band’s new record
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