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!
[Français] Thick Glasses - ELIZA
[English] Headstones - AN EFFORT TO FORGET
[English] BRKN LOVE - Pulling Leeches
[English] The Free Label - Dancing on Your Own https://thefreelabel.bandcamp.com/track/dancing-on-your-own
Learned about them on Musora, they made a cover of Alice in Chains - Them Bones
No idea this band existed but holy shit are they good. Thanks for the suggestion.
Nomination for [English]
Song: burnouts
Artist: ilysm ft. sor uh
Released June 29th, 2025 as a part of the album burger world piece & the endless mediocrity
ilysm is from Edmonton, and sor uh has released music using the “Canada” tag on Bandcamp before, including here.
Never heard of Boy Golden, and only heard this song on the radio while driving a month or so ago. Thank goodness for our modern high tech radios, I noted the song info, and it is now in my regular offline backup MP3 collection.
This song is so big in my part of the country it’s hard to believe it’s not an international hit. Good nomination!
Thank you for the recommendation, first time I hear of Boy Golden (btw don’t search the other way around, some sort of anime smut). Suffer is solid, and the whole CD is great. Saving the link for bandcamp friday https://yaboygolden.bandcamp.com/album/best-of-our-possible-lives
I should’ve included Bandcamp links, it’s a good way to support the artists. Thanks!
DIminishing Returns - Dan Mangan (English)
From Dan Mangan’s Natural Light album, released in May 2025.
Dan Mangan is a longstanding favourite of mine, and I believe I nominated Call Me Up High last Lemmyvision. As such, here’s some bonus Dan Mangan tracks:
- Robots, live at Granville Island, probably his biggest song, performed live in his hometown, outdoors.
- Troubled Mind, one of my personal favourites.
- There’s A Tumour In the White House, no reason…
[English] Men I Trust - To Ease You (Equus Caballus)
Angine de Poitrine comes to mind, but I think they are an international hit…
You should recommend a song from them.
From what I could gather in the Lemmyvision post, they created this rule because Germany sent Rammstein one of the years. Angine de Poitrine is big, but not 10M views in a single song big.
*edit: this one is a banger https://anginedepoitrine.bandcamp.com/track/fabienk-2
They absolutely kick ass.



