Formerly presented for a single song, in its contemporary form the award is presented for two or three songs by the same songwriter; as long as the songwriter is Canadian, they may be nominated for songs that were recorded or performed by non-Canadian artists. Songwriting collaborators share in the nomination if they are both Canadian and common to all of the nominated songs; collaborators will be acknowledged, but not formally included in the nomination, if they did not share credit on all of the nominated songs or if they are not Canadians.
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| 2003 | Chad Kroeger and Nickelback | "Hero", "Too Bad", "How You Remind Me" |
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| 2004 | Sarah McLachlan | "World on Fire", "Fallen", "Stupid" | - Kathleen Edwards — "Six O'clock News", "Hockey Skates", "Mercury"
- Nelly Furtado — "Saturdays", "Powerless (Say What You Want)", "Childhood Dreams"
- Ron Sexsmith — "You Were There", "On a Whim", "Someway Somehow"
- Hawksley Workman — "Anger As Beauty", "We Will Still Need a Song", "Smoke Baby"
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| 2005 | Ron Sexsmith | "Whatever It Takes", "Not About to Lose", "Hard Bargain" | - Buck 65 — "Wicked and Weird", "463", "Sore"
- Marc Jordan — "Let's Waste Some Time", "Shot Down My Heart", "Tears of Hercules"
- Avril Lavigne — "Don't Tell Me", "My Happy Ending", "Nobody's Home"
- Gordie Sampson — "Sunburn", "Paris", "You (Or Somebody Like You)"
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| 2006 | Arcade Fire | "Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)", "Rebellion (Lies)", "Wake Up" |
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| 2007 | Gordie Sampson | "Jesus, Take the Wheel", "Words Get in the Way", "Crybaby" | - Sarah Harmer — "I Am Aglow", "Oleander", "Escarpment Blues"
- k-os — "Sunday Morning", "The Rain", "Flypaper"
- Nickelback — "Far Away", "If Everyone Cared", "Rockstar"
- Ron Sexsmith — "All in Good Time", "Never Give Up", "Hands of Time"
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| 2008 | Feist | "My Moon My Man", "1234", "I Feel It All" | - Daniel Bélanger — "La Fin de l'homme", "Television", "Sports et loisirs"
- Avril Lavigne — "Girlfriend", "Keep Holding On", "When You're Gone"
- Joel Plaskett — "Fashionable People", "Nothing More to Say", "Face of the Earth"
- Rufus Wainwright — "Going to a Town", "Release the Stars", "Do I Disappoint You"
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| 2009 | Dallas Green | "Waiting...", "Sleeping Sickness", "The Girl" | - Nathan Ferraro — "Never Again", "Change For You", "Unaware"
- Hedley — "Old School", "For the Nights I Can’t Remember", "Never Too Late"
- Alanis Morissette — "Underneath", "Not As We", "In Praise of the Vulnerable Man"
- Gordie Sampson — "When I Said I Would", "Just a Dream", "Davey Jones"
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| 2010 | K'naan | "Wavin' Flag", "Take A Minute", "If Rap Gets Jealous" | - Michael Bublé – "Haven’t Met You Yet", "Hold On"
- Emily Haines, James Shaw – "Gimme Sympathy", "Sick Muse", "Help I’m Alive"
- Carly Rae Jepsen, Ryan Stewart – "Tug of War", "Bucket", "Money and the Ego"
- Joel Plaskett – "Through & Through & Through", "Deny, Deny, Deny", "All the Way Down the Line"
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| 2011 | Arcade Fire | "Ready to Start", "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)", "We Used To Wait" | - Drake – "Fireworks", "Over", "Show Me a Good Time"
- Hannah Georgas – "Chit Chat", "The Deep End", "Lovers Breakdown"
- Sarah McLachlan – "Forgiveness", "Illusions of Bliss", "Loving You Is Easy"
- Royal Wood – "On Top of Your Love", "Tonight I Will Be Your Guide", "Waiting"
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| 2012 | Dallas Green | "Fragile Bird", "We Found Each Other", "Weightless" | - Jim Cuddy – "Everyone Watched the Wedding", "Skyscraper Soul", "Watch Yourself Go Down"
- Feist – "How Come You Never Go There", "Graveyard", "The Circle Married the Line"
- Dan Mangan – "About as Helpful As You Can Be Without Being Any Help at All", "Post-War Blues", "Oh Fortune"
- Ron Sexsmith – "Get in Line", "Believe it When I See It", "Middle of Love"
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| 2013 | Leonard Cohen | "Amen", "Going Home", "Show Me the Place" | - Arkells – "Michigan Left", "On Paper", "Whistleblower"
- Kathleen Edwards – "A Soft Place to Land", "Chameleon/Comedian", "Change the Sheets"
- Hannah Georgas – "Enemies", "Robotic", "Somebody"
- Afie Jurvanen – "Be My Witness", "Caught Me Thinkin", "Lost in the Light"
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| 2014 | Serena Ryder | "Stompa", "What I Wouldn't Do", "When You Know" | - Arcade Fire – "Afterlife", "Here Comes the Night Time", "Reflektor"
- Henry "Cirkut" Walter – "Roar", "Timber", "Wrecking Ball"
- Ron Sexsmith – "Deepens with Time", "Nowhere to Go", "Snake Road"
- Tegan and Sara Quin – "Closer", "I Was a Fool", "Now I'm All Messed Up"
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| 2015 | Afie Jurvanen | "All the Time", "Bitter Memories", "Stronger Than That" | - Catherine MacLellan - "Jack's Song", "Tell Me Luella", "The Raven's Sun"
- Henry "Cirkut" Walter - "Birthday", "Dark Horse", "Wild Wild Love"
- Jenn Grant - "Bring Me a Rose", "No One's Gonna Love You (Quite Like I Do)", "Trailer Park"
- Magic! - "Don't Kill the Magic", "Let Your Hair Down", "Rude"
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| 2016 | Abel Tesfaye | "Can't Feel My Face", "In the Night", "The Hills" | - Béatrice Martin - "Carry On", "Crier tout bas", "Oceans Brawl"
- Dallas Green - "Blood", "Lover Come Back", "Wasted Love"
- Tobias Jesso Jr. - "When We Were Young", "Alive", "Without You"
- Buffy Sainte-Marie - "Farm in the Middle of Nowhere", "Ke Sakihitin Awasis (I Love You Baby)", "Love Charms (Mojo Bijoux)"
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| 2017 | Gord Downie | "The Stranger", "The Only Place To Be", "Son" | - Ruth Berhe - "Lost Boy", "Superficial Love", "2 Poor Kids"
- Leonard Cohen - "You Want It Darker", "It Seemed the Better Way", "Traveling Light"
- Tegan Quin and Sara Quin - "Boyfriend", "100x", "Stop Desire"
- Donovan Woods - "Leaving Nashville", "What Kind of Love Is That", "They Don't Make Anything in That Town"
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| 2018 | Gord Downie, Kevin Drew | "A Natural", "Introduce Yerself", "The North" |
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| 2019 | | "Lost in Japan", "Youth", "In My Blood" |
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| 2020 | Alessia Cara | "Growing Pains", "Out of Love", "Rooting for You" | - Tim Baker - "All Hands", "Dance", "The Eighteenth Hole"
- Bülow - "Boys Will Be Boys", "Sweet Little Lies", "Two Punks in Love"
- Tenille Townes - "I Kept the Roses", "Jersey on the Wall (I'm Just Asking)", "White Horse"
- Patrick Watson - "Broken", "Dream for Dreaming", "Here Comes the River"
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| 2021 | Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason "DaHeala" Quenneville | "After Hours", "Blinding Lights", "Save Your Tears" | - Alanis Morissette — "Ablaze", "Reasons I Drink", "Smiling"
- Alessia Cara — "Hell and High Water", "I Choose", "Welcome Back"
- Jessie Reyez — "Coffin", "Far Away", "No One's in the Room"
- JP Saxe — "A Little Bit Yours", "Golf on TV", "If the World was Ending"
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| 2022 | Abel Tesfaye | "Hurricane", "Moth to a Flame", "Take My Breath" |
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| 2023 | Abel Tesfaye | "Less Than Zero", "Out of Time", "Sacrifice" | - Faouzia — "Anybody Else", "Puppet", "RIP, Love"
- Tate McRae — "Chaotic", "Feel Like Shit", "She's All I Wanna Be"
- Tenille Townes — "The Last Time", "When You Need It", "When's It Gonna Happen"
- Tobi — "Before We Panic", "Flowers", "Move"
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| 2024 | Aysanabee | "Alone", "Here and Now", "Somebody Else" | - Charlotte Cardin, Jason Brando, Lubalin — "Confetti", "Daddy's a Psycho", "Jim Carrey"
- Nicholas Durocher, Connor Riddell — "Afraid of the Dark", "A Little Bit Happy", "Wasteland"
- William Prince — "Broken Heart of Mine", "Easier and Harder", "When You Miss Someone"
- Allison Russell — "Eve Was Black", "Stay Right Here", "The Returner"
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