Canadians at the 2012 Grammy Awards

Canada has scored 12 Grammy nominations this year.  The contingent is led by Drake with 3, as has Deadmau5.  Melanie Fiona followed with 2, while Sum 41, Vincent Morisset, Levon Helm and,yes, Justin Bieber each garnered 1 nomination.

The categories are:

Deadmau5

Best Dance Recording – “Raise Your Weapon”

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Best Dance/Electronica Album – “4×4=12”

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Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical – “Rope”

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Drake

Best Rap Performance – Moment 4 Life (With Nicki Minaj)

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Best Rap/Sung Collaboration – What’s My Name? (Rihanna & Drake)

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Best Rap/Sung Collaboration – I’m On One (DJ Khaled, Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne)

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Melanie Fiona

Best Traditional R&B Performance – Fool For You – Cee Lo Green & Melanie Fiona

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Best R&B Song – Fool for You

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Sum 41

Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance – Sum 41 – Track from: Screaming Bloody Murder

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Vincent Morisset

Best Recording Package – Scenes From The Suburbs – Vincent Morisset, art director (Arcade Fire)

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Justin Bieber

Best Song Written for Visual Media – Born to Be Somebody

 

Born to be Somebody

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Levon Helm

Best Americana Album – Ramble At The Ryman

 

Best of luck to all nominees, although there can only be one winner in each group.

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