The Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year, administered by Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS), has been awarded since 2005 to recognize the best album in the adult alternative genre by a Canadian artist.

Winners and nominees

Year	Winner(s)	Album	Nominees^[1]	Ref.
2005	Sarah Harmer	All of Our Names	Sarah Slean, Day One Matt Mays, Matt Mays Ron Sexsmith, Retriever Rufus Wainwright, Want Two
2006	Neil Young	Prairie Wind	Blue Rodeo, Are You Ready Luke Doucet, Broken (and other rogue states) Kathleen Edwards, Back to Me Low Millions, Ex-Girlfriends
2007	Jim Cuddy	The Light That Guides You Home	Sarah Harmer, I'm a Mountain Matt Mays, When the Angels Make Contact Ron Sexsmith, Time Being Neil Young, Living with War
2008	Blue Rodeo	Small Miracles	Tom Cochrane, No Stranger Jeremy Fisher, Goodbye Blue Monday Rufus Wainwright, Release the Stars Neil Young, Chrome Dreams II
2009	Serena Ryder	Is It O.K.	Kathleen Edwards, Asking for Flowers Ron Sexsmith, Exit Strategy of the Soul Sarah Slean, The Baroness Hawksley Workman, Between the Beautifuls
2010	Joel Plaskett	Three	Howie Beck, How to Fall Down in Public Cuff the Duke, Way Down Here Amy Millan, Masters of the Burial 1977, Nineteen Seventy-Seven
2011	Neil Young	Le Noise	Black Dub, Black Dub Luke Doucet and the White Falcon, Steel City Trawler Sarah Harmer, Oh Little Fire Justin Nozuka, You I Wind Land and Sea
2012	Feist	Metals	Jim Cuddy, Skyscraper Soul Cuff the Duke, Morning Comes Jenn Grant, Honeymoon Punch Ron Sexsmith, Long Player Late Bloomer
2013	Serena Ryder	Harmony	Bahamas, Barchords The Barr Brothers, The Barr Brothers Kathleen Edwards, Voyageur Royal Wood, We Were Born to Glory
2014	Ron Sexsmith	Forever Endeavour	A. C. Newman, Shut Down the Streets Basia Bulat, Tall Tall Shadow Hayden, Us Alone The Sadies, Internal Sounds
2015	Bahamas	Bahamas Is Afie	The Barr Brothers, Sleeping Operator Leonard Cohen, Popular Problems Jeremy Fisher, The Lemon Squeeze Jenn Grant, Compostela
2016	Whitehorse	Leave No Bridge Unburned	Tobias Jesso Jr., Goon Mo Kenney, In My Dreams Joel Plaskett, The Park Avenue Sobriety Test Daniel Romano, If I've Only One Time Askin'
2017	Gord Downie	Secret Path	Basia Bulat, Good Advice Wintersleep, The Great Detachment Leonard Cohen, You Want It Darker Andy Shauf, The Party
2018	Gord Downie	Introduce Yerself	Leif Vollebekk, Twin Solitude Terra Lightfoot, New Mistakes Timber Timbre, Sincerely, Future Pollution Whitehorse, Panther in the Dollhouse	^[2]
2019	Bahamas	Earthtones	The Barr Brothers, Queens of the Breakers Dan Mangan, More or Less Rhye, Blood Gabrielle Shonk, Gabrielle Shonk	^[3]
2020	Half Moon Run	A Blemish in the Great Light	City and Colour, A Pill for Loneliness Leonard Cohen, Thanks for the Dance iskwē, acākosīk Patrick Watson, Wave	^[4]
2021	Bahamas	Sad Hunk	Begonia, Fear Basia Bulat, Are You in Love? Sarah Harmer, Are You Gone Rufus Wainwright, Unfollow the Rules	^[5]
2022	Half Moon Run	Inwards & Onwards	Bahamas, Live to Tape, Vol. 1 Hannah Georgas, All That Emotion Andy Shauf, Wilds The Weather Station, Ignorance	^[6]
2023	The Sadies	Colder Streams	Altameda, Born Losers Basia Bulat, The Garden Dan Mangan, Being Somewhere The Weather Station, How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars	^[7]
2024	TBA		Begonia, Powder Blue Jeremy Dutcher, Motewolonuwok Feist, Multitudes Hayden, Are We Good Shawnee Kish, Revolution	^[8]

References

^ "Juno Awards Alternative Album of the Year". junoawards.ca. Archived from the original on 28 April 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
^ "Arcade Fire and Daniel Caesar lead 2018 Juno Award nominations". CBC Music, February 6, 2018.
^ "Shawn Mendes and the Weeknd lead the 2019 Juno nominations". CBC Music, January 29, 2019.
^ Melody Lau, "Alessia Cara and Tory Lanez lead the 2020 Juno nominations". CBC Music, January 28, 2019.
^ Holly Gordon and Andrea Warner, "Here are the 2021 Juno Award winners". CBC Music, June 4, 2021.
^ Holly Gordon, "Here are all the 2022 Juno Award winners". CBC Music, May 14, 2022.
^ Jenna Benchetrit and Arti Patel, "The Weeknd picks up 4 wins on Junos 2023 opening night". CBC News, March 11, 2023.
^ "Here are all the 2024 Juno nominees". CBC Music, February 6, 2024.

v t e Juno Awards
Awards to individuals	Artist of the Year Fan Choice Group of the Year Breakthrough Artist of the Year Breakthrough Group of the Year Producer Recording Engineer Songwriter
Awards for recordings	Album of the Year Adult Alternative Adult Contemporary Alternative Blues Children's Comedy Classical – Large Ensemble Classical – Solo or Chamber Ensemble Classical – Vocal or Choral Performance Classical Composition CCM/Gospel Contemporary Indigenous Artist Contemporary R&B/Soul Contemporary Roots Country Dance Electronic Francophone Global Music Heavy Metal Instrumental International Jazz – Solo Jazz – Group Jazz – Vocal Pop Rap Album/EP Rap Single Reggae Rock Single of the Year Traditional Indigenous Artist Traditional R&B/Soul Traditional Roots Underground Dance
Awards for technicality	Music DVD Recording Package Video
Discontinued categories	Indigenous Artist or Group (1994–2021) Best Jazz Album (1977–1993) Jazz – Contemporary (1994–2014) Jazz – Traditional (1994–2014) Rap (1991–2021) R&B/Soul (1985–2020) Best Roots and Traditional Album (1989–1995) Roots & Traditional Album – Solo (1996–2015) Roots & Traditional Album – Group (1996–2015)
Special awards	Canadian Music Hall of Fame Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award Juno Humanitarian Award
Years	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1989¹ 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Leadership	Walt Grealis Stan Klees Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
Notes	¹ Due to the rescheduling of the ceremony from late fall to early spring, no ceremony was held in 1988.
See also Music of Canada Polaris Music Prize Much Music Video Awards Félix Awards East Coast Music Awards Western Canadian Music Awards