2009 Polaris Music Prize

The 2009 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 21, 2009 in Toronto[1] at the Masonic Temple and broadcast live online for the first time in its short history.

[2] Initial coverage of the award's shortlist noted that six of the ten finalists were repeat nominees.

Toronto hardcore punk band Fucked Up won with their second album, The Chemistry of Common Life, which despite being controversial, received a great deal of acclaim when it was released in October 2008.

[5] The Polaris Music Prize blog began announcing the 2009 jurors one by one in late June 2009.

Announced jurors included Corus Entertainment radio programmer Alan Cross, music blogger Bryan Acker (Herohill) and newspaper music critics Sue Carter Flinn (The Coast), Peter Hemminger (FFWD), Serge Paradis (Ici), Stuart Derdeyn (Vancouver Province) and Brendan Murphy (Hour).