Here are the top five Juno Award-winner predictions​on March 26, 2025 at 6:00 pm

The Juno Awards take place in Vancouver on March 30 at Rogers Arena. The annual honours for the best in Canadian music includes nominees in several categories.

Along with such hotly contested areas as album and single of the year, the ceremony includes such special awards as singer Anne Murray receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award and pop/punk band Sum 41 being inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

Industry driven awards are often criticized for being predictable, but the Junos have been full of surprises over the years.

A case in point was Surrey singer Karan Aujla winning the TikTok Juno Fan Choice Award in 2024 over megastars such as The Weeknd and chart-toppers such as Charlotte Cardin and Tate McRae. The new South Asian Music Recording of the Year category at this year’s awards reflects the global appeal of artists such as Aujla and others.

Three of the five 2025 nominees in the category are from B.C. including Vancouver Island’s A.P. Dhillon and Surrey’s Aujla, Jazzy B, Chani Nattan and Inderpal Moga.

Here are our top five Juno win predictions, including who will win, who should win, and why:

Who will win: Tate McRae exes

Who should win: Tate McRae exes

Why: McRae’s breakout single has all the elements of an enduring pop hit that still strikes chords years down the road. That can’t be said for any of the other nominees in the category save Josh Ross’s Single Again. That tune lacks the booty blast of McRae‘s track and is also so heaped with Red State references that there is nothing Canadian about the song save its singer.