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2012 in Canadian music

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Events

  • February 13 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation launches CBC Music, a digital music service which offers streaming audio broadcasts of 40 different music genre channels, in addition to the existing CBC Radio 2 and CBC Radio 3 services, on both the Internet and iOS devices.
  • April 1 – Juno Awards of 2012
  • June 14 - Prelimimary longlist for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize is announced.
  • July 17 - Shortlist for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize is announced.
  • September 24 - Feist's album Metals is announced as the winner of the Polaris Music Prize.

    • Bands on hiatus

  • Karkwa

    • A

  • Amos the Transparent, Goodnight My Dear, I'm Falling Apart (February 14)
  • Apollo Ghosts, Landmark
  • Marie-Pierre Arthur, Aux alentours
  • Azari & III, Azari & III

    • B

  • Baby Eagle and the Proud Mothers, Bone Soldier (March 6)
  • Bahamas, Barchords (February 7)
  • Del Barber, Headwaters
  • Bidiniband, In the Rock Hall (January 24)
  • Justin Bieber, Believe
  • Billy Talent, Dead Silence, September 9, 2012
  • Boxer the Horse, French Residency
  • Brasstronaut, Mean Sun (May 15)

    • C

  • Cadence Weapon, Hope in Dirt City (May 29)
  • Cancer Bats, Dead Set on Living
  • Caracol, Shiver
  • Paul Cargnello, Papa Paul
  • Change of Heart, There You Go '82 - '97 (September 18, 2012)
  • Tim Chaisson, The Other Side (September 25)
  • The City Streets, White Lightning (spring)
  • The City Streets, Sawdust & Rum (spring)
  • Leonard Cohen, Old Ideas (January 31)
  • Cold Specks, I Predict a Graceful Expulsion (May 21)
  • Cookie Duster, When Flying Was Easy (June)
  • Rose Cousins, We Have Made a Spark
  • Cuff the Duke, In Our Time (April 12)
  • Cuff the Duke, Union (October 2)
  • Amelia Curran, Spectators (October 2)

    • D

  • Daphni, Jiaolong
  • Diamond Rings, Free Dimensional
  • Céline Dion, Sans attendre
  • Julie Doiron, So Many Days (October 23)
  • Dumas, L'Heure et l'endroit
  • Dusted, Dusted

    • E

  • Kathleen Edwards, Voyageur (January 17)
  • The Elwins, And I Thank You (February 21)
  • Quique Escamilla, Quique Escamilla
  • Esthero, Everything Is Expensive (October 30)
  • Evening Hymns, Spectral Dusk

    • F

  • Jeremy Fisher, Mint Juleps
  • Front Line Assembly, AirMech (November 13)
  • Nelly Furtado, The Spirit Indestructible (September 18)

    • G

  • Gentleman Reg, Leisure Life
  • Hannah Georgas, Hannah Georgas
  • Jenn Grant, The Beautiful Wild (September 25)
  • Great Lake Swimmers, New Wild Everywhere (April 3)
  • Grimes, Visions (February 21)
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor, 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (October 1)

    • H

  • Hot Panda, Go Outside
  • Joshua Hyslop, Where the Mountain Meets the Valley

    • I

  • Islands, A Sleep & a Forgetting (February 14)

    • J

  • JBM, Stray Ashes
  • Japandroids, Celebration Rock
  • Carly Rae Jepsen, Curiosity
  • Carly Rae Jepsen, Kiss

    • K

  • Karkwa, Karkwa Live
  • Peter Katz, Still Mind Still
  • Mo Kenney, Mo Kenney
  • Kid Koala, 12 Bit Blues, (September 18)
  • K'naan, Country, God or the Girl, (October 16)
  • K'naan, More Beautiful Than Silence (January 31)
  • Kristina Maria, Tell the World

    • L

  • Zachary Lucky, Saskatchewan

    • M

  • Madison Violet, The Good in Goodbye
  • Maestro Fresh Wes, Black Tuxedo EP (September 18)
  • Carolyn Mark, The Queen of Vancouver Island
  • Masia One, Bootleg Culture (June 19)
  • Matt Mays, Coyote
  • Eamon McGrath, Young Canadians
  • Loreena McKennitt, Troubadours on the Rhine
  • Memoryhouse, The Slideshow Effect (February 28)
  • Metric, Synthetica (June 12)
  • METZ, METZ
  • Ariane Moffatt, MA
  • Mother Mother, The Sticks

    • O

  • Mike O'Neill, Wild Lines
  • Octoberman, Waiting in the Well
  • Ohbijou, Metal Meets
  • Karim Ouellet, Fox

    • P

  • Doug Paisley, Golden Embers
  • Parlovr, Kook Soul
  • Pascale Picard Band, Trauma: Chansons de la série télé Saison 3
  • Plants and Animals, The End of That (February 28)
  • Joel Plaskett, Scrappy Happiness (March 27)
  • PS I Love You, Death Dreams
  • Purity Ring, Shrines

    • R

  • Radio Radio, Havre de Grace (April 17)
  • Rah Rah, The Poet's Dead
  • Johnny Reid, Fire It Up
  • Rush, Clockwork Angels

    • S

  • Said the Whale, Little Mountain (March 6)
  • John K. Samson, Provincial (January 24)
  • Saukrates, Season One (April 24)
  • Shout Out Out Out Out, Spanish Moss and Total Loss (June 19)
  • Skydiggers, Northern Shore (April 17)
  • The Slakadeliqs, The Other Side of Tomorrow
  • Rae Spoon, I Can't Keep All of Our Secrets (January 10)
  • Stars, The North
  • Jeffery Straker, Vagabond - October 2

    • T

  • The Tragically Hip, Now for Plan A
  • A Tribe Called Red, A Tribe Called Red

    • V

  • Chad VanGaalen, The Green Corridor
  • Various Artists, Have Not Been the Same - November 13

    • W

  • Martha Wainwright, Come Home to Mama
  • Rufus Wainwright, Out of the Game
  • Patrick Watson, Adventures in Your Own Backyard (April 17)
  • Wax Mannequin, No Safe Home
  • Whitehorse, The Fate of the World Depends on This Kiss
  • Wintersleep, Hello Hum
  • Royal Wood, We Were Born to Glory
  • The Wooden Sky, Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun (February 28)
  • Woodpigeon, For Paolo
  • Wool on Wolves, Measures of Progress

    • Y

  • Neil Young, Americana
  • Yukon Blonde, Tiger Talk - March 20

    • Z

  • Zeus, Busting Visions

    • Top hits on record

    The lists are updated weekly through Jam! and Nielsen Soundscan.

    Contents

    Deaths

  • January 2 - Ian Bargh, jazz pianist
  • January 25 - Andrew MacNaughtan, photographer and music video director
  • February 21 - Christopher Reimer, rock guitarist (Women)
  • April 23 - Billy Bryans, percussionist and record producer (Parachute Club)
  • September 23 - Sam Sniderman, founder of the Sam the Record Man chain

    • References

    2012 in Canadian music Wikipedia
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