2025 Polaris Music Prize

The 2025 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize will be presented on September 16, 2025 at Massey Hall.^[1]

2025 Polaris Music Prize
Date	September 16, 2025 (2025-09-16)
Location	Massey Hall
Country	Canada
Website	polarismusicprize.ca
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The prize for the winning album will be reduced to $30,000, rather than the $50,000 awarded to recent winners, but will be supplemented with a new $10,000 SOCAN Polaris Song Prize to honour individual songs.^[2] This new award replaces the SOCAN Songwriting Prize, which has been dormant since 2023.^[3]

The prize committee is also launching the Polaris Festival, a series of musical events highlighting the nominees in the weeks leading up to the award ceremony, with further details to be announced at a later date.^[2]

Albums

Shortlist

The shortlist for albums was announced on July 10.^[4]

• Bibi Club, Feu de garde
• Lou-Adriane Cassidy, Journal d’un Loup-Garou
• Marie Davidson, City of Clowns
• Saya Gray, Saya
• Yves Jarvis, All Cylinders
• Mustafa, Dunya
• Nemahsis, Verbathim
• The OBGMs, Sorry, It's Over
• Population II, Maintenant Jamais
• Ribbon Skirt, Bite Down

Longlist

The longlist for albums was announced on June 10.^[2]

• Art d'Ecco, Serene Demon
• Backxwash, Only Dust Remains
• Quinton Barnes, Code Noir
• Basia Bulat, Basia's Palace
• Caribou, Honey
• Choses Sauvages, Choses Sauvages III
• Cold Specks, Light for the Midnight
• Antoine Corriveau, Oiseau de Nuit
• Destroyer, Dan's Boogie
• Myriam Gendron, Mayday
• Gloin, all of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)
• Hildegard (Ouri and Helena Deland), Jour 1596
• Kaia Kater, Strange Medicine
• Bells Larsen, Blurring Time
• Richard Laviolette, All Wild Things Are Shy
• Wyatt C. Louis, Chandler
• Kelly McMichael, After the Sting of It
• Men I Trust, Equus Asinus
• N Nao, Nouveau langage
• Eliza Niemi, Progress Bakery
• Dorothea Paas, Think of Mist
• Klô Pelgag, Abracadabra
• Ariane Roy, Dogue
• Mike Shabb, Sewaside III
• Sister Ray, Believer
• Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Red Future
• The Weather Station, Humanhood
• Rick White and The Sadies, Rick White and The Sadies
• Donovan Woods, Things Were Never Good If They're Not Good Now
• Yoo Doo Right, From the Heights of Our Pastureland

Songs

Shortlist

The shortlist for songs was announced on July 29.^[5]

• Lou-Adriane Cassidy, "Dis-moi dis-moi dis-moi"
• Saya Gray, "Shell (Of a Man)"
• Yves Jarvis, "Gold Filagree"
• Mustafa, "Gaza Is Calling"
• Ribbon Skirt, "Wrong Planet"

Longlist

The longlist for songs was announced on June 24.^[6]

• Art d'Ecco, "The Traveller"
• Backxwash, "History of Violence"
• Backxwash, "9th Heaven"
• Caribou, "Honey"
• Lou-Adriane Cassidy, "Dis-moi dis-moi dis-moi"
• Marie Davidson, "Fun Times"
• Saya Gray, "Shell (Of a Man)"
• Yves Jarvis, "Gold Filagree"
• Kaytranada and Lou Phelps, "Call U Up"
• Richard Laviolette, "Constant Love"
• Mustafa, "Gaza Is Calling"
• The OBGMs, "Changes" (feat. SATE)
• Klô Pelgag, "Le goût des mangues"
• Propagandhi, "At Peace"
• Reuben and the Bullhorn Singers, "Powerful"
• Ribbon Skirt, "Wrong Planet"
• Snotty Nose Rez Kids, "FREE" (feat. Aysanabee, Drezus, Rueben George)
• Colin Stetson, "The love it took to leave you"
• The Weather Station, "Neon Signs"
• Rick White and the Sadies, "Fly Away"

Polaris Heritage Prize

Nominees for the Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize, an award to honour classic Canadian albums released before the creation of the Polaris Prize, will be announced at the main Polaris Prize ceremony, with the final award announcement scheduled for October.