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The 40 albums on the 2026 Polaris Music Prize long list, presented by Canada Council for the Arts, have been revealed, with albums from the Beaches, Angine de Poitrine and more making the cut.<\/p>\n
The Polaris Music Prize is awarded to the best Canadian album of the year, regardless of genre or album sales. It has been handed out every year since 2006 to past winners such as Jeremy Dutcher, Kaytranada, Feist, Arcade Fire and more.<\/p>\n
This year’s longlisted\u00a0albums were selected from 202 records by 205 Canadian jurors (including several CBC Music producers). The winning artist will receive a $30, 000 cash prize courtesy of the Slaight Family Foundation.<\/p>\n
Among the nominees are previous winners Tanya Tagaq and Kaytranada, who won in 2014 and 2016 respectively. Caribou who won in 2008, is nominated this year under his alter-ego Daphni. Peaches, who previously won the \u2060Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize in 2015, and Beverly Glenn-Copeland, who won it in 2020, are also on this year’s long list. <\/p>\n
Several artists have landed on the list for the first time, including Baby Nova, No Joy, Angine de Poitrine, Foxwarren, Julianna Riolino, Catherine Leduc, Pony, Nadah El Shazly, Slash Need, Boy Golden, Katie Tupper, Ora Cogan and Cootie Catcher.<\/p>\n
Ten albums will be selected by the jury for the Polaris short list, which will be announced on July 9. Then, the winning album will be announced at a gala at Toronto’s Massey Hall on Sept. 22.<\/p>\n
See the full list below:<\/p>\n
Angine de Poitrine, Vol. II<\/em>
Aquakultre, 1783<\/em>
Baby Nova, Shhugar<\/em>
The Beaches, No Hard Feelings<\/em>
Begonia, Fantasy Life<\/em>
Bibi Club, Amaro<\/em>
Boy Golden, Best of Our Possible Lives<\/em>
Mariel Buckley, Strange Trip Ahead<\/em>
Lou-Adriane Cassidy, Triste Animal<\/em>
Ora Cogan, Hard Hearted Woman<\/em>
Cootie Catcher, Something We All Got<\/em>
Charlotte Cornfield, Hurts Like Hell<\/em>
Daphni, Butterfly<\/em>
Nadah El Shazly, Laini Tani<\/em>
Dominique Fils-Aim\u00e9, My World Is The Sun<\/em>
Foxwarren, 2<\/em>
Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Laughter In Summer<\/em>
Holy F–k, Event Beat<\/em>
Home Front, Watch It Die<\/em>
JayWood, Leo Negro<\/em>
Rochelle Jordan, Through the Wall<\/em>
Kaytranada, Ain’t No Damn Way!<\/em>
Catherine Leduc, Les jours o\u00f9 il neige \u00e0 tous les postes<\/em>
Les Louanges, Alouette!<\/em>
Men I Trust, Equus Caballus<\/em>
Tami Neilson, Neon Cowgirl<\/em>
No Joy, Bugland<\/em>
Ouri, Daisy Cutter<\/em>
Peaches, No Lube So Rude<\/em>
Pony, Clearly Cursed<\/em>
Propagandhi, At Peace<\/em>
Pup, Who Will Look After the Dogs?<\/em>
Julianna Riolino, Echo in the Dust<\/em>
Shad, Start Anew<\/em>
Slash Need, Sit & Grin<\/em>
Arielle Soucy, Passages<\/em>
Tanya Tagaq, Saputjiji<\/em>
Tobi, For Good Measure (at Dreamhouse Studios)<\/em>
Katie Tupper, Greyhound<\/em>
Charlotte Day Wilson, Patchwork<\/em> <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.cbc.ca \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The 40 albums on the 2026 Polaris Music Prize long list, presented by Canada Council for the Arts, have been revealed, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2455376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-Polaris-Music-Prize-long-list-Angine-de-Poitrine-the.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455377,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455375\/revisions\/2455377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2455376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}