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Here are 2014 JUNO Award nominees and Twitter reactions

by Tyler Munro

We’re just under a month away from the 2014 JUNO Awards, and earlier this morning the full list of nominees were unveiled. As expected, they’re a little bit all over the place. Arcade Fire unsurprisingly lead the pack with 6 nominations, including nods for group of the year and alternative album of the year for Reflektor.

Closing in them are Michael Bublé and Serana Ryder with 5 nominations each. Former JUNOs host Drake meanwhile grabbed 4 nominations, including Album of the Year for Nothing Was the Same. But because its a mainstream award there’s bound to be a few oddities, chief among them punk rockers The Flatliners—a great band by their own right—wedged in with Gorguts in the Metal/Hard Rock category. Bachman-Turner Overdrive will be inducted live into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, and Chantal Kreviazuk and Raine Maida will receive the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award.

“Blurred Lines” scuzzbucket Robin Thicke can potentially clean up (no pun intended) with nominations for Pop Album of the Year, Artist of the Year and the Fan Choice Award. He’ll also perform at the awards, which will broadcast live from Winnipeg on March 30th. There’s no host yet… Drake again? Please?

For the full list of nominees head to the JUNO Awards official website. Below, some Twitter reactions to the nominees: