The competition panel is composed of 10 experts on the Canadian music scene, who nominate the songs they believe are the most creative and artistic from the past year. The finalists are then announced, and the public votes for the winner over the course of a month.[2] The winners (one anglophone and one francophone) are each awarded a $5,000 cash prize.
Year |
Anglophone |
Francophone |
2006 |
Propagandhi, "A Speculative Fiction" (Christopher Hannah, Todd Kowalski, Jordan Samolesky)
- Laura Barrett, "Deception Island Optimists Club" (Laura Barrett)
- Final Fantasy, "This Lamb Sells Condos" (Owen Pallett)
- The Stills, "Destroyer" (Olivier Corbeil, Timothy Fletcher, David Hamelin, Liam O'Neil)
- Wolf Parade, "You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son" (Hadji Bakara, Dan Boeckner, Spencer Krug, Arlen Thompson)
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Ève Cournoyer, "Tout arrive" (Ève Cournoyer)
- Thomas Hellman, "Foutez-moi la paix" (Thomas Hellman)
- Karkwa, "Le coup d'état" (Louis-Jean Cormier, Michel Gagnon)
- Malajube, "La Monogamie" (Thomas Augustin, Mathieu Cournoyer, Francis Mineau, Julien Mineau)
- Malajube, "Pâte Filo" (Thomas Augustin, Mathieu Cournoyer, Francis Mineau, Julien Mineau)
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2007 |
Abdominal, "Pedal Pusher" (Andrew Bernstein, Rodney Pleasant)
- The Besnard Lakes, "Devastation" (Stephen Raegele, Nicole Lizee, Jeremiah Bullied, Jonathan Cummins, Olga Goreas, Kevin Laing, Jace Lasek)
- Feuermusik, "Doppelspiel" (Jeremy Strachan, Gus Weinkauf)
- Nathan, "Scarecrow" (Keri Latimer)
- Chad VanGaalen, "Graveyard" (Chad VanGaalen)
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2008 |
The Weakerthans, "Night Windows" (Stephen Carroll, John K. Samson, Greg Smith, Jason Tait)
- Veda Hille, "Lucklucky" (Veda Hille)
- Sandro Perri, "Double Suicide" (Sandro Perri)
- Socalled, "You Are Never Alone" (Josh Dolgin, Doris Glaspie, Waleed Shabazz, Katie Moore)
- Wintersleep, "Weighty Ghost" (Loel Campbell, Tim D'Eon, Paul Murphy, Jud Haynes)
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Karkwa, "Oublie pas" (François Lafontaine, Louis-Jean Cormier)
- Bonjour Brumaire, "Argèles" (Youri Zaragoza, Nathan Howard, Jordan Larocque, François Lessard)
- El Motor, "Alinéa" (Alexis Dufresne, Pascal Gingras, Fred Filo, Pierre Bouchard, Guillaume Duclos)
- Gatineau, "The Christ is Right ? Mange ta ville" (Éric Brousseau, Jean Cyr, Dominique Hamel, Jean Nicol)
- Samian and Loco Locass, "La Paix des braves" (Samian, Biz, Chafiik, Batlam)
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2009 |
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Bernard Adamus, "La question à 100 piasses" (Bernard Adamus)
- Marie-Pierre Arthur, "Pourquoi" (Marie-Pierre Fournier, François Lafontaine, Gaële Tavernier)
- Malajube, "Porté disparu" (Thomas Augustin, Mathieu Cournoyer, Francis Mineau, Julien Mineau)
- Paul Cargnello and the Frontline, "Bras coupé" (Paul Cargnello)
- Yann Perreau, "Beau comme on s'aime" (Yann Perreau)
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2010 |
Brasstronaut, "Hearts Trompet" (Edo Van Breeman, Bryan Davies, Brennan Saul, John Walsh)
- The Besnard Lakes, "Albatross" (Olga Goreas, Kevin Laing, Jace Lasek, Richard White)
- Caribou, "Odessa" (Daniel Snaith)
- Crystal Castles, "Celestica" (Ethan Kath, Alice Glass)
- Young Galaxy, "Destroyer" (Catherine McCandless, Stephen Ramsay)
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2011 |
Katie Moore, "Wake Up Like This" (Katie Moore)
- Arcade Fire, "We Used to Wait" (Edwin Butler, William Butler, Régine Chassagne, Jeremy Gara, Tim Kingsbury, Richard Parry)
- Austra, "The Beat and the Pulse" (Katie Stelmanis)
- Handsome Furs, "When I Get Back" (Dan Boeckner, Alexei Perry)
- PS I Love You, "2012" (Ben Nelson, Paul Saulnier)
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Galaxie, "Piste 1" (Olivier Langevin)
- Jimmy Hunt, "Ça va de soi" (Jimmy Hunt)
- Philippe B, "Petite leçon des ténèbres" (Philippe Bergeron)
- Jérôme Minière, "Le Vrai le faux" (Jérôme Minière)
- Géraldine, "Et les brochettes du buffet" (Géraldine Bureau, Jean-Philippe Fréchette)
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2012 |
Kathleen Edwards, "A Soft Place to Land" (Kathleen Edwards, John Roderick)[4]
- Japandroids, "The House That Heaven Built" (Brian King, David Prowse)
- Dan Mangan, "Post-War Blues" (Gordon Grdina, Kent Loewen, Dan Mangan, John Walsh)
- John K. Samson, "When I Write My Master's Thesis" (John K. Samson)
- Sloan, "Unkind" (Chris Murphy, Patrick Pentland, Jay Ferguson, Andrew Scott)
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Koriass, "St-Eustache" (Emmanuel Dubois)
- Avec pas d'casque, "Intuition #1" (Mathieu Charbonneau, Stéphane Lafleur, Nicolas Moussette, Joël Vaudreuil)
- Lisa LeBlanc, "Lignes d'hydro" (Joël Vaudreuil)
- Marie-Pierre Arthur, "Si tu savais" (Marie-Pierre Fournier, François Lafontaine, Gaële Tavernier)
- Salomé Leclerc, "Dans la prairie" (Philippe Bergeron, Salomé Leclerc)
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2013 |
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2014 |
Alejandra Ribera, "I Want" (Alejandra Ribera)[6]
- Louise Burns, "Emeralds Shatter" (Louise Burns)
- July Talk, "Having You Around" (Peter Dreimanis, Leah Goldstein, Eamon McGrath, Daniel Miles, Josh Warburton)
- Pup, "Reservoir" (Stefan Babcock, Nestor Chumack, Zachary Mykula, Steven Sladkowski)
- Wake Owl, "Gold" (Colyn Cameron)
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2015 |
Dear Rouge, "I Heard I Had" (Andrew McTaggart, Danielle McTaggart)[7]
- Cold Specks, "Old Knives" (James Anderson, Cold Specks)
- Kiesza, "Hideaway" (Rami Afuni, Kiesza)
- Samantha Savage Smith, "It's a Burn" (Samantha Savage Smith)
- Alvvays, "Archie, Marry Me" (Alec O'Hanley, Molly Rankin)
- Shi Wisdom, "Young Gunner" (Joel Chambers, Nevon Sinclair, Renee Wisdom)
- Del Bel, "In My Solitude" (Laura Bates, Tyler Belluz, Aaron Brooks, Lisa Conway, Karen Ng, Chris Sandes, Ira Zingraff)
- Lowell, "The Bells" (Lowell, Justin Broad, Paul Herman)
- Lisa Leblanc, "You Look Like Trouble (But I Guess I Do Too)" (Lisa Leblanc)
- 2nd Son feat. Allie, "Private Island" (Daniel Jacques, Allie Ho-Sang)
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Antoine Corriveau, "Le Nouveau vocabulaire" (Antoine Corriveau)[7]
- Pierre Kwenders, "Mardi Gras" (Alexandre Bilodeau, Jacques Alphonse Doucet, Pierre Kwenders)
- Fanny Bloom, "Piscine" (Fanny Grosjean, Étienne Dupuis Cloutier)
- Julien Sagot, "Ficelle" (Julien Sagot, Antoine Binette Mercier)
- Les Hay Babies, "Néguac and Back" (Julie Aubé, Katrine Noel)
- Eman & Vlooper, "Publi sac" (Louis-Nicolas Imbeau, Emmanuel Blouin Lajoie)
- Tire le Coyote, "Jolie Anne" (Benoît Pinette)
- Bernhari, "Kryuchkova" (Alexandre Bernier Leclerc)
- Salomé Leclerc, "Arlon" (Salomé Leclerc, Philippe Brault)
- Guillaume Beauregard, "De pluie et de cendres" (Guillaume Beauregard)
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