100 Greatest Albums of 2015

  1. To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
  2. 25 - Adele
  3. Carrie & Lowell - Sufjan Stevens
  4. Hamilton: Original Broadway Cast Recording - Lin-Manuel Miranda and cast
  5. Art Angels - Grimes
  6. Beauty Behind the Madness - The Weeknd
  7. Sound and Color - Alabama Shakes
  8. Emotion - Carly Rae Jepsen
  9. Traveller - Chris Stapleton
10. Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit - Courtney Barnett
11. Currents - Tame Impala
12. B'lieve I'm Goin' Down - Kurt Vile
13. Summertime '06 - Vince Staples
14. Wildheart - Miguel
15. In Color - Jamie XX
16. Vulnicura - Björk
17. Coming Home - Leon Bridges
18. I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside - Earl Sweatshirt
19. Something More Than Free - Jason Isbell
20. No Cities to Love - Sleater-Kinney
21. Blurryface - Twenty One Pilots
22. I Love You, Honeybear - Father John Misty
23. If You're Reading This It's Too Late - Drake
24. Have You In My Wilderness - Julia Holter
25. The Magic Whip - Blur
26. Surf - Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment
27. Star Wars - Wilco
28. Every Open Eye - Chvrches
29. Divers - Joanna Newsom
30. That's the Spirit - Bring Me the Horizon
31. A Head Full of Dreams - Coldplay
32. At.Long.Last.A$AP - A$AP Rocky
33. Painted Shut - Hop Along
34. Reality Show - Jazmine Sullivan
35. Depression Cherry - Beach House
36. DS2 - Future
37. Tomorrow is My Turn - Rhiannon Giddens
38. Uptown Special - Mark Ronson
39. The Most Lamentable Tragedy - Titus Andronicus
40. Pentatonix - Pentatonix
41. Compton - Dr. Dre
42. FFS - FFS
43. What a Time to Be Alive - Drake & Future
44. Unbreakable - Janet Jackson
45. Honeymoon - Lana Del Rey
46. Ego Death - The Internet
47. Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance - Belle and Sebastian
48. Purpose - Justin Bieber
49. Rose Mountain - Screaming Females
50. Blackheart - Dawn Richard
51. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful - Florence + The Machine
52. Jack U - Skrillex & Diplo
53. Kintsugi - Death Cab for Cutie
54. Eat Pray Thug - Heems
55. Before This World - James Taylor
56. Cherry Bomb - Tyler the Creator
57. Short Movie - Laura Marling
58. The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us - Beach Slang
59. La Di Da Di - Battles
60. Wilder Mind - Mumford & Sons
61. Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper - Panda Bear
62. Foil Deer - Speedy Ortiz
63. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
64. American Beauty/American Psycho - Fall Out Boy
65. New Bermuda - Deafheaven
66. A Fool to Care - Boz Scaggs
67. The Waterfall - My Morning Jacket
68. Ivy Tripp - Waxahatchee
69. Ten Love Songs - Susanne Sundfor
70. What Went Down - Foals
71. Ratchet - Shamir
72. On Your Own Love Again - Jessica Pratt
73. Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap
74. Drones - Muse
75. Tetsuo & Youth - Lupe Fiasco
76. Fading Frontier - Deerhunter
77. Smoke & Mirrors - Imagine Dragons
78. Born Under Saturn - Django Django
79. Sprinter - Torres
80. Mutilator Defeated at Last - Thee Oh Sees
81. Sol Invictus - Faith No More
82. Get to Heaven - Everything Everything
83. Zipper Down - Eagles of Death Metal
84. Pale Horses - mewithoutYou
85. Made in the A.M. - One Direction
86. Beat the Champ - The Mountain Goats
87. Better Nature - Silversun Pickups
88. Multi-Love - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
89. Chasing Yesterday - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
90. Yours. Dreamily - The Arcs
91. Full Communisim - Downtown Boys
92. Another Eternity - Purity Ring
93. Silver Bullets - The Chills
94. Apex Predator - Easy Meat - Napalm Death
95. What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World - The Decemberists
96. Still - Richard Thompson
97. Sounds Good Feels Good - 5 Seconds of Summer
98. Thank Your Lucky Stars - Beach House
99. The Pale Emperor - Marilyn Manson
100. Music Complete - New Order