Hello everyone!

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:

• 2026 Juno nominees (cbc.ca)
• 2026 Polaris Album Prize Winner & Short List
• The top 100 Canadian songs of 2025 (cbc.ca)

What we've done in previous years:

• https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2025-04-10_lemmyvision-2025
• https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2024-04-08_lemmyvision-2024

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!