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Juno Award for Francophone Album of the Year
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The Juno Award for Francophone Album of the Year is an annual award presented by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) for the best French-language album in Canada. Wanting to add a more inclusive Canadian content to the Award show, Isba Music's Larry Mancini lobbied CARAS to add this award to its roster. It was awarded as the Best Selling Francophone Album, based entirely on album sales, but is now chosen by a jury vote.[1]
The award faced some controversy in 1993 when Mitsou initially received a nomination for her mixed English-French EP Heading West,[2] which was then rescinded on the grounds that the album didn't meet the criteria of being at least 80 per cent francophone.[3] The award committee claimed that the album's failure to qualify in the category had "slipped through the cracks" due to a last-minute submission, but Mitsou herself dismissed the controversy as an unimportant "tempest in a thimble".[3]
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Recipients
Best Selling Francophone Album (1992–2002)
Francophone Album of the Year (2003–present)
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References
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