Arcade Fire won two huge awards at the recent CBC Music Awards, which are chosen by fans – the Montreal indie band continues on its steady stream of accolades.
Arcade Fire earned the most votes in the Earworm of the Year Award category for best song and Best Reason to Buy a Concert Ticket Award for best live show.
The CBC Music Awards are fans’ choice awards, where tens of thousands of nominations come in from listeners and are used to create a long list of 20 artists in each of the 10 categories, a list that is then voted down to a short list of five, with subsequent voting deciding the eventual winners. The categories are intended to reflect the fan’s musical experience, looking not only at great music, but great concerts and also ways musicians make extra effort like the Most Likely to Follow You Back Award for best fan engagement, which was won by Michael Bublé, and the Heart of Gold Award for charitable work, won by Jim Cuddy.
Fans named Celine Dion as artist of the year (Top of the Class Award), who had a monster year of touring and releasing a live album and a popular studio album, and Serge Fiori, best known as a member of the hugely influential Quebec band Harmonium, won the “I Left Home to Buy This” Award for album of the year by a huge margin for his first solo release in 28 years.
