Best Album Graphics

• Ian Tamblyn - Ian Tamblyn
• April Wine - The World's Goin' Crazy
• Sweet Blindness - Sweet Blindness
• Andre Gagnon - Neiges
• Lynx - Missing Lynx
• Ray Materick - Midnight Matinee
• Frank Mills - Look at Me Real
• Aut Chose - Le Cauchemar Americain
• Klaatu - Klaatu
• June Wallack - June Wallack
• Toulouse - Toulouse

Best Classical Album of the Year

• Anton Kuerti - Beethoven - Vols. 1, 2, &3
• Gisela Depkat - Franz Schubert & Johannes Brahms
• Hidetaro Suziki - Zeyda Ruga-Suzuki - Franck and Ravel
• Liona Boyd - Liona
• Pierre Grandmaison - Plays J.S. Bach

Best Jazz Album

• Nimmons 'N Nine Plus Six - The Atlantic Suite - Phil Nimmons
• Joel Shulman - Nowhere But Here
• Moe Koffman - Jingle Man
• Moe Koffman - Jingle Man
• Oscar Peterson - Travellin' On
• Rob McConnell & Thee Boss Brass - The Jazz Album

Best Selling Album

• Andre Gagnon - Neiges
• Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Best of B.T.O.
• Backhman-Turner Overdrive - Head On
• Gordon Lightfoot - Summertime Dream
• Heart - Dreamboat Annie Lyrics

Best Selling International Album

• Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
• Charley Pride - Charley's Best
• Chicago - Chicago IX - Greatest Hits
• Nazareth - Greatest Hits
• Wings - Wings Over America

Best Selling International Single

• Tina Charles - I Love to Love
• Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night
• K.c. And The Sunshine Band - That's The Way (i Like It) Lyrics
• Rick Dees - Disco Duck
• Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band - A Fifth of Beethoven

Best Selling Single

• Sweeney Todd - Roxy Roller
• Andre Gagnon - Wow
• Burton Cummings - Stand Tall
• Patsy Gallant - From NY to LA
• T.H.P. Orchestra - Themes from SWAT

Composer of the Year

• Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald
• Andre Gagnon - Wow
• Paul Anka - Happier
• Sweeney Todd - Roxy Roller
• Burton Cummings - Stand Tall
• Andre Gagnon - Surprise
• Hagood Hardy - The Homecoming
• Trooper - Two for the Show
• Patsy Gallant - From NY to LA

Country Female Vocalist of the Year

• Carroll Baker
• Colleen Peterson
• Chris Nielsen
• Anne Murray Lyrics
• Marilyn Jones

Country Group or Duo of the Year

• Good Brothers
• The Emeralds
• Canadian Zephyr
• The Mercey Brothers
• Carlton Showband

Country Male Vocalist of the Year

• Murray McLauchlan
• Stompin' Tom Connors Lyrics
• R. Harlan Smith
• Wilf Carter
• Ted Wesley

Female Vocalist of the Year

• Patsy Gallant
• Joni Mitchell Lyrics
• Charity Brown
• Anne Murray Lyrics
• Carroll Baker

Folksinger of the Year

• Gordon Lightfoot Lyrics
• Valdy
• Murray McLauchlan
• Stompin' Tom Connors Lyrics
• Dan Hill Lyrics

Group of the Year

• Heart Lyrics
• Rush Lyrics
• April Wine Lyrics
• Stampeders
• Bachman - Turner Overdrive Lyrics

Instrumental Artist(s) of the Year

• Hagood Hardy
• Andre Gagnon
• Francois Dompierre
• T.H.P. Orchestra
• Al Cherney

Male Vocalist of the Year

• Burton Cummings
• Gordon Lightfoot Lyrics
• Valdy
• Paul Anka Lyrics
• Gino Vannelli Lyrics

Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year

• Colleen Peterson
• Gail Dahms
• Denise McCann
• Chris Nielsen
• Patricia Anne McKinnon

Most Promising Group of the Year

• T.H.P. Orchestra
• Sweeney Todd
• Moxy
• Garfield Lyrics
• Trooper

Most Promising Male Vocalist of the Year

• Burton Cummings
• Danny Hooper
• Wayne St. John
• Roger Doucet
• Neston Pistor

Producer of the Year

• Heart - Dreamboat Annie Lyrics
• Andre Gagnon - Neiges
• Sweeney Todd - Roxy Roller
• T.H.P. Orchestra - Theme from S.W.A.T.
• Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Best of B.T.O.
• Patsy Gallant - From NY to LA
• Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Head On