2019 in Canadian music

The following musical events and releases happened in 2019 in Canada.

Events

 * March – Juno Awards of 2019
 * April – East Coast Music Awards
 * May – Prism Prize
 * June – Preliminary longlist for the 2019 Polaris Music Prize was announced
 * July – SOCAN Songwriting Prize
 * July – Shortlist for the Polaris Music Prize was announced
 * September – Haviah Mighty won the Polaris Music Prize for her album 13th Floor

A

 * Absolutely Free, Geneva Freeport
 * Alaskan Tapes, Millions
 * Alaskan Tapes, Views from Sixteen Stories
 * Altameda, Time Hasn't Changed You
 * Anemone, Beat My Distance - February 15

B

 * Badge Époque Ensemble, Badge Époque Ensemble
 * Tim Baker, Forever Overhead - April 19
 * Bedouin Soundclash, MASS - October 4
 * Begonia, Fear
 * Beppie, Song Soup
 * Bibi Club, Bibi Club
 * Big Brave, A Gaze Among Them
 * Bleu Jeans Bleu, Perfecto
 * Blue Moon Marquee, Bare Knuckles & Brawn
 * Jacob Brodovsky, Sixteen Years
 * Dean Brody, Black Sheep - April 26
 * Chad Brownlee, Back in the Game - June 21
 * Broken Social Scene, Let’s Try the After Vol. 1 - February 15
 * Broken Social Scene, Let’s Try the After Vol. 2 - April 12
 * Jon Bryant, Cult Classic - May 17
 * Louise Burns, Portraits - November 8
 * Burnstick, Kîyânaw
 * Spencer Burton, The Mountain Man

C

 * Daniel Caesar, Case Study 01 - June 28
 * Alessia Cara, This Summer - September 6
 * Celeigh Cardinal, Stories from a Downtown Apartment
 * Lou-Adriane Cassidy, C'est la fin du monde à tous les jours
 * Tanika Charles, The Gumption - May 10
 * Clairmont the Second, Do You Drive? - January 31
 * City and Colour, A Pill for Loneliness - October 4
 * Bruce Cockburn, Crowing Ignites - September 20
 * Leonard Cohen, Thanks for the Dance - November 22
 * Charlotte Cornfield, The Shape of Your Name
 * Corridor, Junior
 * Les Cowboys Fringants, Les Antipodes
 * Amelia Curran, Live at Massey Hall
 * Isabelle Cyr, Brûle sur mes lèvres

D

 * Mac DeMarco, Here Comes the Cowboy - May 10
 * Del Barber, Easy Keeper
 * Devours, Iconoclast
 * Le Diable à Cinq, Debout!
 * Digawolf, Yellowstone
 * Céline Dion, Courage - November 15
 * Julie Doiron with Mount Eerie, Lost Wisdom pt. 2 - November 8
 * Drake, Care Package - August 2
 * Durham County Poets, Hand Me Down Blues

E

 * Efajemue, Motions and Methods
 * André Ethier, Croak in the Weeds

F

 * Lara Fabian, Papillon
 * Stephen Fearing, The Unconquerable Past
 * FET.NAT, Le Mal
 * Dominique Fils-Aimé, Stay Tuned!
 * Flore Laurentienne, Volume 1
 * Florian Hoefner Trio, First Spring
 * Flying Hórses, Reverie
 * FouKi, ZayZay
 * The Franklin Electric, In Your Head EP - August 2
 * Debby Friday, Death Drive

G

 * Hannah Georgas, Imprints
 * Leela Gilday, North Star Calling
 * The Glorious Sons, A War on Everything - September 13
 * The Golden Seals, Something Isn't Happening
 * Aaron Goodvin, V
 * Jenn Grant, Love, Inevitable - May 31
 * Great Lake Swimmers, The Waves, the Wake (Acoustic) - November 8

H

 * Half Moon Run, A Blemish in the Great Light – November 1
 * Haviah Mighty, 13th Floor
 * Joshua Haulli, Aqqut
 * Headstones, PeopleSkills – October 25
 * Hey Major, The Station
 * Hollerado, Retaliation Vacation
 * Hunter Brothers, State of Mind – January 25
 * Nate Husser, 23+
 * Andrew Hyatt, Abel

I

 * Iamtheliving, In This Thing Called Life
 * Ice Cream, Fed Up
 * iskwē, acākosīk - November 8, 2019

J

 * James Barker Band, Singles Only - May 24
 * Yves Jarvis, The Same but by Different Means
 * JayWood, Time
 * Carly Rae Jepsen, Dedicated - May 17
 * Lyndon John X, The Warning Track
 * Julian Taylor Band, Avalanche - March 29
 * Just John x Dom Dias, Don III (April); PROJECT (November)

K

 * Kanen, Kanen
 * Kaytranada, Bubba - December 13
 * Kid Koala, Music To Draw To: Io - January 25
 * Patrick Krief, Dovetale - June 7

L

 * Laurence-Anne, Première apparition
 * Avril Lavigne, Head Above Water - February 15
 * Lee Harvey Osmond, Mohawk
 * Jean Leloup, L'Étrange pays - May 24
 * Murray Lightburn, Hear Me Out - February 22
 * Lightning Dust, Spectre
 * Loud, Tout ça pour ça - May 24
 * The Lowest of the Low, Agitpop - May 31

M

 * Ryan MacGrath, That Woods
 * Maestro Fresh Wes, Champagne Campaign - March 8
 * Alexandria Maillot, Benevolence - November 22
 * Manila Grey, No Saints Loading
 * Mappe Of, The Isle of Ailynn - November 1
 * Marianas Trench, Phantoms - March 1
 * Mauno, Really Well
 * Memphis, Leave With Me - February 8
 * Millimetrik, Make It Last Forever
 * Monsune, Tradition
 * Mounties, Heavy Meta - April 26

N

 * nêhiyawak, nipiy
 * The New Pornographers, In the Morse Code of Brake Lights - September 27
 * Eliza Niemi, Vinegar
 * Safia Nolin, xX3m0 $0ng$ 2 $!nG @L0nG 2Xx

O

 * OBUXUM, Re-Birth
 * Ocie Elliott, We Fall In
 * Okan, Sombras
 * Ouri, We Share Our Blood

P

 * Partner, Saturday the 14th
 * Orville Peck, Pony
 * Philémon Cimon, Pays
 * Planet Giza, Added Sugar
 * poolblood, Yummy
 * PUP, Morbid Stuff - April 5
 * Pvrx, 3.14 - July 26

R

 * Billy Raffoul, Running Wild
 * The Reklaws, Freshman Year - August 27
 * Reuben and the Dark, un love - October 25
 * Amanda Rheaume, The Skin I'm In
 * Rheostatics, Here Come the Wolves - September 6
 * Riit, Ataataga - October 25
 * John River, The Academy - January 25
 * Benjamin Dakota Rogers, Better by Now
 * Royal Canoe, Waver
 * Ruth B, Maybe I'll Find You Again - March 22
 * Justin Rutledge, Passages - May 31

S

 * Said the Whale, Cascadia
 * Saint Asonia, Flawed Design
 * Sarahmée, Irréversible
 * Jacques Kuba Séguin, Migrations
 * Joseph Shabason, Anne EP - May 10
 * Shay Lia, Dangerous
 * Silverstein, Redux: The First Ten Years - April 12
 * Siskiyou, Not Somewhere - May 17
 * Dallas Smith, The Fall - March 13
 * Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Trapline
 * SonReal, The Aaron LP - May 10
 * Rae Spoon, Mental Health
 * The Strumbellas, Rattlesnake - March 29
 * Sum 41, Order in Decline - July 19
 * Super Duty Tough Work, Studies in Grey

T

 * Tariq, Telegrams - March 29
 * Tegan and Sara, Hey, I'm Just Like You - September 27
 * Devin Townsend, Empath
 * Tobi, STILL - May 3
 * Tre Mission, Orphan Black - July 26

V

 * Vile Creature, Preservation Rituals (2015-2018)
 * Leif Vollebekk, New Ways - November 1

W

 * Ruby Waters, Almost Naked
 * Dawn Tyler Watson, Mad Love
 * Patrick Watson, Wave - October 18
 * We Are the City, RIP
 * Whitehorse, The Northern South, Vol. 2 - January 18
 * WHOOP-Szo, Warrior Down
 * JJ Wilde, Wilde Eyes, Steady Hands
 * Wintersleep, In the Land Of - March 29
 * Donovan Woods, The Other Way
 * Hawksley Workman, Median Age Wasteland - March 1

Deaths

 * January 16 - Jean Chatillon, composer
 * January 16 - Alfred Kunz, composer
 * February 9 - Phil Western, electronic/industrial musician
 * February 23 - Johnnie Lovesin, rock singer
 * February 28 - Ed Bickert, jazz guitarist
 * March 6 - Charlie Panigoniak, singer-songwriter
 * March 22 - Joe Hall, singer-songwriter
 * April 1 - Vladimir Orloff, cellist
 * April 20 - David Zafer, violinist
 * May 20 - Dave Bookman, musician (The Bookmen) and radio personality (CFNY-FM, CIND-FM)
 * June 16 - Adam Litovitz, rock musician and film composer
 * November 20 - John Mann, singer and guitarist (Spirit of the West)
 * December 5 - Leon Cole, organist, composer and classical music radio host
 * December 15 - Monique Leyrac, singer
 * December 24 - Kelly Fraser, singer