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Alanis Morissette Will Accept the Icon Award at Billboard Canada Women in Music 2024

One of the most successful and influential artists in Canadian history, Alanis will return to her home country to accept the Icon Award at the first expansion of Billboard Women in Music to Canada on September 7, 2024, in Toronto.

Alanis Morissette

Alanis Morissette

Shervin Lainez

One of the most legendary artists of the last three decades of music is coming to Toronto to celebrate as the guest of honour at Billboard Canada Women in Music.

Alanis Morissette will be honoured with the Icon Award at the first Billboard Canada Women in Music event, which will take place on September 7, 2024 at DPRTMNT in partnership with INK Entertainment.


Tickets are now available here.

The Icon Award is given to a female artist of extraordinary accomplishment, who has made historic contributions to the industry and artistry. It’s been given to some absolute legends, including Kylie Minogue, Jennifer Lopez, Shania Twain – and Alanis herself, who first won the honour in 2019.

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There’s no better choice for the Icon Award in the first expansion of Billboard Women in Music to Canada. There are few musicians who can truly be called generational, but it fits Alanis to a tee. Her 1995 album, Jagged Little Pill, was a juggernaut – vulnerable, confrontational, funny and poetic in equal measures.

With that album (now also a hit Broadway musical), she became the first artist to sell over 2 million copies in Canada. She hasn’t slowed since then, with her 10 studio albums and three live albums selling more than 75 million worldwide. She’s also a renowned speaker, activist and wholeness advocate.

Though she was often pigeonholed as an angry songwriter in the ‘90s, she’s now fully celebrated as a multidimensional artist who has showed the unlimited nature of representing femininity in music, opening the doors to multiple generations of musicians who continue to rediscover her.

“I was loved and ignored and adored and hated,” she said at Billboard Women in Music 2019, while joking that it’s hard for a polite Canadian to accept such an honour. “Then I was considered really hip and then totally irrelevant and then totally relevant again… These roles and archetypes are within all of us, all the women in the room and all the women I’ve worked with.”

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She’s especially beloved in her native Canada, where she’s been a mainstay on screens, radio and playlists even well before her jagged little breakthrough – from her teen years on You Can’t Do That on Television to her now undeniable icon status. Artists from Avril Lavigne to Olivia Rodrigo have cited her as a major inspiration.

Alanis Morissette is just one of many influential and trailblazing members of the music industry who will be celebrated at Billboard Canada Women in Music 2024. Some awards have already been announced in Billboard Canada’s spotlight series in collaboration with iHeartRadio Canada.

The Beaches won Group of the Year and played a beautiful stripped-down performance. Grammy award-winning artist Allison Russell accepted the award for Breakthrough Artist of the Year after a major year that stood as a highlight in the singer-songwriter’s already storied career. Pop artist LU KALA took home the Rising Star award before playing an empowering acoustic live set.

Awards, interviews and performances will continue to roll out throughout the summer, with all of those honourees and more celebrated on September 7 at the star-studded Billboard Canada Women In Music event.

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Get your tickets here, and stay tuned for more big announcements in the weeks ahead.

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