2009 Juno Award Nominees

02/03/09 1:24pm

Nickelback are back.

For better or worse, the Vancouver rockers lead the way with five Juno Award nominations: the fan choice prize, best group, producer (with Joey Moi), single ("Gotta Be Somebody") and album (Dark Horse).

Other multiple award nominees include Sam Roberts with four, and Hedley and Celine Dion with three.

All of the 2009 nominees were revealed at a media conference at Toronto's Fairmont Royal York Hotel on Tuesday morning. Russell Peters, who'll host the CTV-aired show on March 29, was on hand to promote himself and the program. Sarah Slean and members of The Stills and Saint Alvia announced the nominees in 11 of the 39 categories.

Sarah McLachlan, who will receive the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award, was previously announced to perform. She'll be joined on the show by Nickelback, City And Colour and Simple Plan ("They're punk rockers, apparently," said CTV's Susanne Boyce in announcing their presence). More performers will be revealed in the coming weeks.

Check out video interviews with nominees Saint Alvia here and Cancer Bats here.

All of the nominees can be found on the Juno website, but here are the contenders in some of the categories you probably care about most:

Juno Fan Choice Award
Céline Dion
Feist
Hedley
Nickelback
The Lost Fingers

Single
Céline Dion — "Taking Chances"
Divine Brown — "Lay It On The Line"
Kardinal Offishall — "Dangerous"
Michael Bublé — "Lost"
Nickelback — "Gotta Be Somebody"

International Album
AC/DC — Black Ice
Coldplay — Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Guns N' Roses — Chinese Democracy
Jack Johnson — Sleep Through The Static
Metallica — Death Magnetic

Album
Hedley — Famous Last Words
Nickelback — Dark Horse
Simple Plan — Simple Plan
Sylvain Cossette — 70's Volume 2
The Lost Fingers — Lost In The 80's

Artist
Bryan Adams
City And Colour
K.D. Lang
Sam Roberts
Serena Ryder

Group
Great Big Sea
Nickelback
Simple Plan
The Trews
Tokyo Police Club

New Artist
Crystal Shawanda
Jessie Farrell
Kreesha Turner
Lights
Nikki Yanofsky

New Group
Beast
Cancer Bats
Crystal Castles
Plants And Animals
The Stills

Songwriter
Alanis Morissette — "Underneath," "Not As We," "In Praise Of The Vulnerable Man" from Flavors Of Entanglement (Alanis Morissette)
Dallas Green — "Waiting...," "Sleeping Sickness," "The Girl" from Bring Me Your Love (City And Colour)
Gordie Sampson — "When I Said I Would" (with Whitney Duncan and John Shanks) from When I Said I Would (Whitney Duncan); "Just A Dream" (with Hillary Lindsey and Steve McEwan) from Carnival Ride (Carrie Underwood); and "Davey Jones" (with Michael Logan) from For The Few And Far Between (Gordie Sampson)
Hedley — "Old School," "For The Nights I Can't Remember" (with Dave Genn),
"Never Too Late" (with Greig Nori) from Famous Last Words (Hedley)
Nathan Ferraro — "Never Again," "Change For You," "Unaware" (with Gavin Brown) from Holes (The Midway State)

Adult Alternative Album
Hawksley Workman — Between The Beautifuls
Kathleen Edwards — Asking For Flowers
Ron Sexsmith — Exit Strategy Of The Soul
Sarah Slean — The Baroness
Serena Ryder — Is It O.K.

Alternative Album
Black Mountain — In The Future
Chad VanGaalen — Soft Airplane
Fucked Up — The Chemistry Of Common Life
Plants And Animals — Parc Avenue
The Stills — Oceans Will Rise

Pop Album
Alanis Morissette — Flavors Of Entanglement
Creature — No Sleep At All
David Usher — Wake Up And Say Goodbye
Kreesha Turner — Passion
The Midway State — Holes

Rock Album
Matt Mays & El Torpedo — Terminal Romance
Protest The Hero — Fortress
Sam Roberts — Love At The End Of The World
Sloan — Parallel Play
The Trews — No Time For Later

Rap Recording
DL Incognito — A Captured Moment In Time
D-Sisive — The Book
Famous — I Rap Now
Kardinal Offishall — Not 4 Sale
Point Blank — Point Blank

Roots & Traditional Album: Group
Chic Gamine — Chic Gamine
The Duhks — Fast Paced World
Elliott Brood — Mountain Meadows
NQ Arbuckle — XOK
Twilight Hotel — Highway Prayer

Video
Anthony Seck — "Honey Honey" (Feist)
Wendy Morgan — "Going On" (Gnarls Barkley)
Davin Black — "Blond Kryptonite (Saint Alvia)
Dave Pawsey — "Detroit '67" (Sam Roberts)
Dave Pawsey — "Them Kids" (Sam Roberts)

Music DVD
Christopher Mills, Geoff Mclean — Blue Road (Blue Rodeo)
Joan Prowse, Gilles Paquin — A Multimedia Life (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
Jean Lamoureux, Julie Snyder — Live In Las Vegas — A New Day (Céline Dion)
Adam Vollick, Adam Samuels — Here Is What Is (Daniel Lanois)
Alex Liu, Greg Benedetto, Kenny Bridges, George Stroumboulopoulos — It All Started With A Red Stripe (Moneen)