Looking Ahead: A Release Calendar of New & Upcoming Canadian Albums In 2026

Canadian artists have moved into 2026 with some big releases on the horizon.

Some have begun their album cycles, others have confirmed release dates and some have just teased that their records will be out this year. It has been a growing industry trend for major name artists to put out new music with little or even no advance notice, so coming out with a definitive and iron-clad release schedule is an ongoing process. That's why we will now be updating this calendar throughout the year. Check back each week to see the new additions.

Here is our current list of upcoming albums with some of the most highly anticipated singled out. Here, in chronological order, are our Billboard Canada picks, followed by the full calendar of new and upcoming Canadian releases.

Albums to Look Forward to In 2026

Nickelback, Everything Under The Sun (Virgin Music Group) — Oct. 30

The masters of heartland meat and potatoes rock are back. On July 14, Nickelback announced Oct. 30 as the scheduled release date of their keenly-awaited new (and 11th) studio album, Everything Under The Sun. It has been a while since we've heard new music from the pride of Hanna, Alberta, as their previous album, Get Rollin', came out in 2022. It was accompanied by a world tour described as the highest-attended tour of their career, and this momentum continued with the release of a popular documentary on the band, Hate to Love: Nickelback. Earlier this year, the band's 2023 rock anthem ''Bones for the Crows'' gained new life and another chart topper on the Billboard Canada Airplay charts after being chosen as the theme song for Wrestlemania 42.

According to frontman Chad Kroeger, the new album's title reflects its variety. "This album has every side of the band on it. There are songs that hit as hard as anything we've ever done, songs that take chances, and songs that remind us why we've been doing this together for so long." Released along with the album announcement, ''Rattle The Cage'' is Nickelback at their big and beefy best, with pummelling riffs and huge hooks driving this call to action. The cut features hard rock guitar ace John 5 (Marilyn Manson, Motley Crue, Rod Zombie).

Of note: 2026 marks the 25th anniversary of the group's breakthrough third album, Silver Side Up, one including the mega-hit “How You Remind Me,” named the most-played song on U.S. radio (in any format) in the 2000s. In all, the rockers have sold over 50 million albums worldwide, with multiple Top 10 hits, four Grammy nominations and 12 Juno Awards. Everything Under The Sun has the potential to be the biggest rock record of the fall.

Hayden, The Recent Past (Hardwood Records)— Nov. 6

As is his customary approach, acclaimed Toronto singer-songwriter Hayden Desser has announced an upcoming new album with the minimum amount of fanfare. The Recent Past will come out on Nov. 6 on his own imprint, Hardwood Records, and this is a milestone in that it is his tenth studio album.

His recording career now dates back over three decades, and he remains relevant. Hayden was the subject of a major label bidding war in the '90s. He may not have achieved (or even pursued) huge commercial success, but his work has earned admirers such as Neil Young and The National and helped inspire younger Canadian singer-songwriters. The album retains his signature mellow and oft melancholy sound.

Hayden previewed the new material at three sold-out September shows at the Revue Cinema in Toronto. Also last month, he and his wife Christie Greyerbiehl each received a Meritorious Service Medal from the Governor General of Canada, in recognition for their work with Dream Serenade. This annual benefit concert celebrates the community of children with physical and/or developmental disabilities, and their caregivers and the always star-studded show returns to Massey Hall on Oct. 24. Past performers have included Gord Downie, Feist, City and Colour, members of The National, Gowan, Jim Cuddy, Barenaked Ladies, Billy Talent and Serena Ryder.

Land of Talk, LASTS (Next Door Records/Saddle Creek) — Nov. 13

Land of Talk, the acclaimed project of Montreal-based singer/songwriter Lizzie Powell, have announced the release of a sixth album, LASTS, coming out on Nov. 13. Given that Land of Talk has been around for two decades now, Powell is not the most prolific of artists, but their quality has been consistently high.

This album was entirely written and produced by Powell and recorded with trusted collaborators Michael Feuerstack (bass, pedal steel, additional vocals, engineering and mixing) and Michael Belyea (drums) in a cabin in rural Harrington, Quebec. Their first album since 2023’s Performances, it finds Powell digging deeply, reflecting on both global crises and the advancing age of their parents. “Life can become so unbearable, and music is where I go to metabolize it,” they explain. “I know the music was the only thing that was going to help me.”

Recently released is a double single of new tracks, ''Dogs + Cats.'' ''Dogs’’ cites The Cure as a reference point, while ‘’Cats’’ is more playful musically.

There will be special release/listening events in Montreal (at 180g on Nov. 11) and Orillia (Couchiching Brewery on Nov. 13).

Writing by Kerry Doole

Here is the full list of upcoming Canadian albums with confirmed release dates.

2026 Calendar of New and Upcoming Canadian Albums

January

January 30:

• Softcult, When A Flower Doesn’t Grow (Easy Life Records)

• Gab Bouchard, Encore

• New Saint, Santo

• Luca Fogale, Challenger (Nettwerk Music Group)

• Geneviève Racette, Golden (Deluxe)

• Triples, Every Good Story (Bleak Enterprise)

• Lights, A6EXTENDED

• The Sling Sisters, What I Hope to Find

• Miarlequin, The Fool

February

February 6:

• Beverly Glenn-Copeland & Elizabeth Copeland, Laughter In Summer (Transgressive)

• Nick Schofield, Blue Hour (Backward Music)

• Daphni, Butterfly (Jiaolong)

• Mars Aspen, Baby Teeth (Twin Fang)

• Aquakulture, 1783

• Mike Van Eyes, Ain’t That Loving You, Baby

• Boy Golden, Best of Our Possible Lives (Six Shooter Records)

• Pony, Clearly Cursed

• Larkk, Cinders

• Lauren Spencer Smith, The Art of Being A Mess (Deluxe) (Universal Music Canada)

• Colin Stetson, Greg Fox, Trevor Dunn, Nethering (Envision)

February 20:

• NYSSA, Cursebreaker (Six Shooter)

• Peaches, No Lube So Rude (Kill Rock Stars)

• Dominique Fils-Aimé, My World Is The Sun (Ensoul)

• CVCHE, Get Fluffy

• John and Roy, I Can Dream

February 27:

• Bibi Club, Amaro (Secret City)

• Gord Downie, The Sadies, and The Conquering Sun, Live At 6 O'Clock (Arts & Crafts)

• The Sheepdogs, Keep Out Of The Storm

• Garrett T. Willie, Bill's Cafe

• Donovan Woods, Squander Your Gifts EP (Warner Music Canada)

• Julianna Riolino, Echo In The Dust (Deluxe) (Moonwhistle Records)

• School House, Homeland

• The Sarandons, Long Way Home

• Elyse Aeryn, Everybody Loves You (Symphonic Distribution)

• Grievous Angels, Revolution

• Donovan Woods, Squander Your Gifts

March

March 6:

• Motorists, Never Sing Alone (We Are Time)

• Jenn Grant, Queen of the Strait

• Tanya Tagaq, Saputjiji (Six Shooter)

• Status Non-Status, Big Changes (You'e Changed)

• Odd Marshall, Seconds

• Pinebarren, Arbutus

• Mise en Scene, Drive-Thru Confessional

• Ndidi O, It's About Time

March 13:

• Marie Celeste, Tout ce qui brille

• Various Artists, Covered - A Tribute to Nash the Slash (We Are Busy Bodies)

• Suzie Ungerleider, Among the Evergreens (Deluxe) (MVKA)

• Cat Clyde, Mud Blood Bone (Concord)

• Pick a Piper, Dandelion (Halocline Trance)

• Marie Céleste, Tout ce qui brille (Bravo musique)

• PUP, Megacity Madness (The Official Live Recordings) vinyl only

• City Builders, Healing Revenge

• Aman Dhesi, The Restless Night (Zedd Records)

• The Darcys, Rendering Feelings (GOODTIME Edition)

• Rush, Grace Under Pressure (40th Anniversary edition) (Anthem)

March 19:

• Gnarwhal, Lucid Machine

March 20:

• Edwin Raphael, I Know A Garden

• Ariel Posen, Bannatyne (Dine Alone)

• Cinzia & The Eclipse, The Wax

• MIINA, Where The Light Goes

• Jessica Rhaye and The Ramshackle Parade, Foolish Heart

• Bossanova Frankenstein, Heavy Relic

March 27:

• Wintersleep, Wishing Moon (Dine Alone)

• Gentiane MG, Can You Hear the Birds?

• Sunglaciers, Spiritual Content (Mothland)

• Charlotte Cornfield, Hurts Like Hell (Next Door Records/Merge)

• Arielle Soucy, Passages (Bonbonbon)

• The New Pornographers, The Former Site Of (Merge Records)

April

April 1:

• Amanda Rheaume, The Truth We Hold (deluxe edition) (Ishkōdé Records)

April 3:

• Malinowski, Under A Landslide of Stars (Dine Alone)

• Population II, Gimmicks (Bonsound)

• Good Kid, Can We Hang Out Sometime?

• Beatrice Deer, Inuit Legend

• Jon Mullane, The Road

• Jennifer Foster, Powerline

April. 9:

• Terry Gomes, 2 Open 3 Closed

April 10:

• Les Louanges, Alouette! (Bonsound)

• Aysanabee, Timelines (Ishkōdé Records)

• The Fugitives, The Fugitives (Rhea Records)

• Kaeley Jade, The Great Unknown

• Flore Laurentienne, Volume 111 (Secret City)

• Rae Spoon, Assigned Country Singer At Birth (Coax Records)

• Maude Audet, May Your Light

• Nick Fraser, Areas (Elastic Recordings)

• Hiroki Tanaka, Isan (Errant Records)

• Loviet, Debutante

• Tenille Townes, The Acrobat

April 15:

• Brass Camel, Brass Camel

April 17:

• Tiga, Hot Life (Turbo Recordings / Secret City)

• Bandcalledmax, Live At The Cameron House (Victory Pool Records)

• LØLØ, god forbid a girl spits out her feelings! (Fearless Records)

• Arkells, Between Us (Universal Music Canada/Virgin Music Group)

• Chief State, Keep Your Friends Closer (Mutant League Records)

• The Devin Cuddy Band, Livin' Hard Ain't Easy

• Caroline Wiles , Just Be You

• Daniel Isaiah, Western Medicine

• Dallas Good & Richard Reed Parry, Were The Watchtowers (Yep Roc Records)

• Kyp Harness, Lovely

• Elyssia Biro, Running From Nothing (Universal Music Canada)

• Atsuko Chiba, Atsuko Chiba (Mothland)

• Metric, Romanticize the Dive (Metric Music International/Thirty Tigers)

• Kelly Clipperton, I Am Your Distraction

• Cadence Weapon, Forager (Six Shooter)

• Pastel Blank, Unmade In Minutes (Paper Bag Records)

• Sea of Lettuce, Open Doors

• Bobby Dove, Fortune Teller

• Simon Boisseau, Les fausses illusions

• John Shambles, Cabin Fever

• Whipped Cream, Home Was Always Me (Monstercat)

May

May 1:

• Eden FM, Ataxia (Cursus Audio)

• Shub, Heritage (Part Two)

• Aaron Wylder, Brand New TV

• Geordie Gordon, River Round (Victory Pool)

• Jessica Pearson and the East Wind, Wilding Part One

• Faber Drive, Seven Second Surgery (19 ¼ Anniversary Edition) (604 Records)

• Ellen Froese, Solitary Songs (Victory Pool)

• Shub, Heritage (Part Two)

• Broken Social Scene, Remember The Humans (Arts & Crafts)

• Abigail Lapell, Shadow Child (Outside Music)

• Ellen Froese, Solitary Songs (Victory Pool)

• Whitehorse, All I Want Is All of It (Six Shooter)

• Leeroy Stagger, Pilgrimage (Cordova Bay)

• General Chaos, Can’t Please ’Em All ( Stomp Records)

• Alaskan Tapes, Blank Slate, Open Space

• The Flatliners, Cold World

• Laura Roy, Late Bloomer Season

• Wolf Parade, Apologies to the Queen Mary (vinyl deluxe reissue) (Sub Pop)

• Spencer Krug, Same Fangs (Pronounced Kroog)

• Alex Henry Foster, A Nightfall Ritual (Hopeful Tragedy Records)

• Skydiggers, West Montrose

• Desiree Dorion, Pieces of Me

• Jont, Walk Right Through

• Noah Derksen, Mercy on the Skyline (AWAL)

• Tim Hicks, Going Somewhere (Open Road)

• Chantal Kreviazuk, In My Own Voice (Wax Records)

• Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar, A Beautiful Buzz

• Jia, Technicolour (Light Organ)

• Alex Hughes, Take Me Home (Phase Entertainment Group)

• Hillsboro, A Party In Your Name (Play Dead)

June

June 2:

• cherry pick, 3 (Light Organ Records)

June 5:

• Bye Parula, Something Out Of Nothing (Secret City Records)

• Sherri Harding, Storyland (Instant Replay Music/Fontana North)

• Friendly Rich, A Bruised Sunset

June 12:

• La Sécurité, Bingo (Bella Union/Mothland)

• Picastro, Double On Time (We Are Busy Bodies)

• Billianne, Heart So Open

• Pharis & Jason Romero, These Are The Days That Turn Into Years

• The Get Alongs, Second To None (Having Fun/We Are Busy Bodies

• ZOON, Happy Thought School

• Dean Brody, The Tenth Album

• Truck Violence, The weathervane is my body (Mothland)

July

July 8:

• Cam Kahin, CHUG (Deluxe Edition) (Dine Alone)

July 10:

• Jacob Brodovsky, Tell The Kids We Tried

• Magi Merlin, Power House (Bonsound)

• sundayclub, sundayclub (Paper Bag Records)

• Allison Russell, In The Hour of Chaos (Fantasy Records)

• Michael Cloud Duguay, Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go

July 17

• N Nao, Nouveaux Language (Mothland)

July 24:

• Shania Twain, Little Miss Twain (Universal Music Canada)

• John Muirhead, The Nomad & The Never Ending Road

August

August 7:

• Corb Lund, Dark Horses (New West)

• Cancer Bats, Give Me Dirt (Bat Skull/New Damage)

• Ada Lea, the end is a wave (Next Door)

• The Tragically Hip, Live July 22 – August 20, 2016 (Universal Music)

• Eldritch Priest, Too, So Like Nothing (Halocline Trance)

• Robyn Ottolini, A Safe Place To Land (ONErpm)

• Echoes Of..., Last Days (Aakuluk Music)

August 28:

• Basia Bulat, Bouquet (Secret City)

• Elephant Stone, ASHA (Little Cloud Records/Elephants On Parade)

• Jonathan Personne, Répertoire (Bonsound)

• Le Ren, Don't Be Funny Without Me (Royal Mountain)

• Mimi O’Bonsawin, Evoke

• summersets, Pine Trees In A Perfect Row

• Sarah Davachi, The Will Of Tongues

• Harry Manx, Falling Upwards

September

September 4:

• Céline Dion, Live à Paris (Sony) (double vinyl)

• Dottie Andersson, Andersson Funeral Home (Royal Mountain Records)

• Mind Bath, Aqueous (Lighter Than Air)

• Theory Of A Deadman, Part 1: Funeral Songs (ONErpm)

• Melissa Auf der Maur, BASS WOMB ROOM: My ‘90s 4-Track Demos x Field Recordings

• Mama’s Broke, Reunion (Free Dirt Records and Forward Music Group)

• Mikey Jose, CHASING / STILL
  
  
• Irish Millie, Can You See Me?
  
  
• Harrison Kennedy, Old Fashioned Plain (Electro-fi)

• Shapeshifter, S/T (Lit Soc Records)

• Honeybear, The Cure

September 11:

• Colin Stetson & Brigidhe Chaimbeul, All The Light In The World (Envision Records)

• Mattmac, Smoke Signals

• The Damn Truth, The Damn Truth (Deluxe Edition)

• Isla Den, Heaven Can Wait ( Division (Courage)

September 18:

• Carly Rae Jepsen, Day and Night (Interscope)

• Blonde Diamond, Love Is A Shadow

• Orville Peck, Mule (Warner Records)

• Emma Worley, Forever Beginner (Acronym)

• Weatherell., Lonely Soul

• Thunder Queens, Deep Below (Victory Pool Records)

• Living Hour, Magnet (Paper Bag Records)

September 25:

• Daphni, Butterfly - Expanded version (Jiaolong)

• Jean-Michel Blais, Mirador (Arts & Crafts)

• Kardinal Offishall, Firestarter Vol. 2: Everyday, Sometimes,(Black Stone Colleagues)

• Jane’s Party, Avalanche

• Nate Haller, Can't Stay Here

• Damhnait Doyle, Bird in Flames

• Samantha Savage Smith, Little Place

• So Tired, Stop Me

• Emmett Morris, The Old Way

October

October 2:

• Gizmo, All Your Worships (Victory Pool Records)

• Teagan Johnston, Big Time

• FROTAE, Volume 2 (Halocline Trance)

• Crystal Shawanda, Homesick Indian Blues (New Sun Records)

• Patrick Krief, Automanic (deluxe reissue)

• Preston Pablo, All At Once

• Logan Staats, Peacemaker (Ishkode)

• Heather Russell, Tears from the Dive Bar!

• Polo Lewis, Who Is Polo Lewis?

October 9:

• K-Man & The 45s’, Heed The Call (Stomp Records)

• Zeus, Lost & Found (The Say Us Archives) (Arts & Crafts)

• Wayfinding, A Nest of Wrens

• Bruce Cockburn, The Blood of Others (Sunset Boulevard Records)

• Shantaia, One Trick Pony

• Allegories, By accident, On purpose

• Boy Golden, Best of Our Possible Lives - Deluxe Edition (Six Shooter)

• Jacques Greene: JG (LuckyMe)

• The Sheepdogs, Keep Out Of The Storm- Deluxe (Right On Records)

• Spencer Burton, S/T (Dine Alone Records)

• Jeremy Dutcher, Jeremy Dutcher Trio Live In Japan

October 23:

• Matt Lang, Ain't That Bad (River House Artists)

• Sam Drysdale, Purgatory Cove (ONErpm)

• Thompson Egbo-Egbo Just A Thought

• Tommy Lefroy The Precariat (Thirty Tigers)

• Kevin Hearn, Lettuce Rejoice! (Celery Music)

• Art d'Ecco, Scheele's Green (Paper Bag Records)

• Purity Ring, transmutations

• JP Saxe, Okay Piano Guy

• Alex Henry Foster, The Fragile Beauty (Of New Morning Hopes)

• Ghostkeeper, Balloon Moon (Victory Pool)

• Nickelback, Everything Under The Sun (Virgin Music Group)

• Shiv and the Carvers, Always Watching (Twin Fang Records)

• PISS, you made me / skin on linen' (Paper Bag Records + Sub Pop)

• Bros, Vol. 1 - Reissue (Right On Records)

• k-os, BLackneck

• Roch Voisine, The Lightfoot Sessions

November

November 6:

• Young Friend, New Entertainment (Nettwerk)

• Chris McKhool, Global Dance Party!

• Comeback Kid, Chosen Hell

• Young Friend, New Entertainment (Nettwerk)

• Hayden, The Recent Past (Hardwood Records)

• JoJo Worthington, BAPTIZED II

• Tennyson King, 100 Cities 百城

• Yoo Doo Right, Build and Rest by the Shepherd's Light (Mothland)

• Shaina Hayes, Take the Case of a Rose (Bonsound)

• Land of Talk, LASTS (Next Door Records/Saddle Creek)

• Crystal Eyes, Secret Oscillator

November 20:

• Matthew Barber, Find The Time (Outside Music)

• Various Artists, Heated Rivalry OST: The Stupid Canadian Wolf Bird Edition

January 2027

Jan. 29

• Lisa LeBlanc, Patchwork (Bonsound)