The Weeknd is now the second most-decorated individual on the Juno Awards, the Canadian equal of the Grammys. At this 12 months’s award ceremony, the Weeknd picked up 4 wins at their pre-show Opening Evening Awards on Saturday — Artist Of The Yr, Single Of The Yr, Songwriter Of The Yr, and Album Of The Yr — which had him surpassing Celine Dion and tying with Bryan Adams with 21 wins. And on the correct Juno Awards ceremony on Monday night time, he picked up an award for Album Of The Yr for final 12 months’s DAWN FM.
He nonetheless hasn’t crushed Anne Murray, the Canadian singer who has 25 whole wins, although her most up-to-date win got here in 1986 for Nation Feminine Vocalist Of The Yr. She was additionally inducted into the Canadian Music Corridor Of Fame in 1993. Murray’s most up-to-date nominations have been in 2008.
The Weeknd was nominated for and received his first Juno Awards in 2013, when he was named Breakthrough Artist Of The Yr and his Trilogy compendium picked up R&B/Soul Recording Of The Yr. He has 41 whole nominations.
