Year-End Lists

Polaris Music Prize: 2022 Award

Winner

• Pierre Kwenders
  José Louis and the Paradox of Love

Shortlist

• Charlotte Day Wilson
  Alpha
• Destroyer
  Labyrinthitis
• Hubert Lenoir
  PICTURA DE IPSE: Musique directe
• Kelly McMichael
  Waves
• Lisa LeBlanc
  Chiac Disco
• Ombiigizi
  Sewn Back Together
• Ouri
  Frame of a Fauna
• Shad
  Tao
• Snotty Nose Rez Kids
  Life After

Longlist

• Ada Lea
  one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden
• Adria Kain
  When Flowers Bloom
• AHI
  Prospect
• Arcade Fire
  We
• Backxwash
  I Lie Here Buried with My Rings and My Dresses
• BadBadNotGood
  Talk Memory
• Basia Bulat
  The Garden
• Cedric Noel
  Hang Time
• Chiiild
  Hope for Sale
• Haviah Mighty
  Stock Exchange
• Jean-Michel Blais
  Aubades
• Joyful Joyful
  Joyful Joyful
• Julie Doiron
  I Thought of You
• Les Louanges
  Crash
• LOONY
  soft thing
• Luna Li
  Duality
• Lydia Képinski
  Depuis
• Men I Trust
  Untourable Album
• Myst Milano
  Shapeshyfter
• Orville Peck
  Bronco
• P'tit Belliveau
  Un homme et son piano
• PUP
  The Unraveling of PUPTheBand
• SATE
  The Fool
• Sister Ray
  Communion
• Stars
  From Capelton Hill
• Tanika Charles
  Papillon de Nuit: The Night Butterfly
• Tanya Tagaq
  Tongues
• The Garrys
  Get Thee to a Nunnery
• The Halluci Nation
  One More Saturday Night
• The Weeknd
  Dawn FM