This is the nomination thread for Canada's submission to Lemmyvision 3! Lemmyvision is an annual song contest held on the threadiverse, where regional communities / instances submit local songs to the global competition.

Timeline:

You can nominate songs for our submission until Saturday April 25th 2026 in this thread.
Afterwards, we create a poll with the valid nominations, and we will have 1 week to select our submissions, ending on Saturday May 2nd. Our team will then send our submissions to the wider contest.
The Lemmyvision 3 contest voting runs from May 4th - 11th 2026

Nominating songs

Please comment your nominations in this thread for them to be considered. This post will be pinned to the instance briefly, but you can continue nominating songs until Saturday April 25th 2026. You will be able to find this post in !canada@lemmy.ca

When you make a nomination, please include the following information:

The name of the song
The name of the artist
Which language category the nomination will be placed under (ex. 'English', 'French', 'Inuktitut', etc.). We are able to submit multiple songs, one from each language category. However, it must be one of the official, Indigenous, or regional languages of Canada.
(optional) A link to "prove" that the song was released after January 1st 2025, especially if it is not clear or near the cut off.

Requirements:

The song must have been released after January 1st 2025
The song must not be an international hit
The song must be "Canadian". You are allowed to make a case for your song as appropriate

About Lemmyvision

Please see this post for official information: https://jlai.lu/post/35451902

local link 1: https://lemmy.ca/post/62723163
local link 2: https://piefed.ca/c/lemmyvision/p/634784

Resources

Song Lists:

What we've done in previous years:

If you have a helpful resource, such as a compilation of Canadian artists in the past year, let me know and I can edit it into this post.

Looking forward to all the submissions!

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[–] Grizzlybur@piefed.ca 3 points 1 week ago

My nominations for French language:

Fabienk by Angine de Poitrine.

It is quite the upcoming and popular band, and they are something entirely unique and Quebecois. Although, arguably there is no French being spoken in the music persay, but they are from Saguenay Quebec. If they don't count as an international hit already, this is absolutely my top choice.

Stable by oui merci.

This song is rather unlike their other music, and for the better in my opinion. This is really catchy and distinct from other music and is pleasant to listen to.

Dogue by Ariane Roy

Very slow but methodic, and sung with a rather beautiful voice.

Anarcolique by Jérôme 50

Jérôme is an absolutely wonderful artist and I would struggle to imagine someone more fit to represent Quebec in music than the artist who made the iconic Tokébakicitte. He is clearly proud of being from Quebec and keeps his music rooted in that. This would be my second top nomination.

I really want to nominate P'tit Belliveau, but he has not released any songs in 2025 or sooner :(

I'll post some more nominations for the English language category, as well as some for the first nations languages. I found and know of a couple of artists who might fit that description -- I feel like im awfully uncertified to judge their music though since its so culturally different to what I know and I do not understand the language even a bit. Feels wrong to just rank it purely based on how it sounds without knowing the content and cultural context, y'know?