100 Greatest Albums of 2015

  1. To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
  2. 25 - Adele
  3. Hamilton: Original Broadway Cast Recording - Lin-Manuel Miranda and cast
  4. Currents - Tame Impala
  5. Carrie & Lowell - Sufjan Stevens
  6. Traveller - Chris Stapleton
  7. Purpose - Justin Bieber
  8. Beauty Behind the Madness - The Weeknd
  9. DS2 - Future
10. Blurryface - Twenty One Pilots
11. Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit - Courtney Barnett
12. In Color - Jamie XX
13. Emotion - Carly Rae Jepsen
14. If You're Reading This It's Too Late - Drake
15. Barter 6 - Young Thug
16. Summertime '06 - Vince Staples
17. The Epic - Kamasi Washington
18. I Love You, Honeybear - Father John Misty
19. Trapsoul - Bryson Tiller
20. Sound and Color - Alabama Shakes
21. Rodeo - Travis Scott
22. Art Angels - Grimes
23. B'lieve I'm Goin' Down - Kurt Vile
24. Wildheart - Miguel
25. Coming Home - Leon Bridges
26. Vulnicura - Björk
27. Divers - Joanna Newsom
28. No Cities to Love - Sleater-Kinney
29. I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside - Earl Sweatshirt
30. Have You In My Wilderness - Julia Holter
31. Depression Cherry - Beach House
32. Something More Than Free - Jason Isbell
33. Painted Shut - Hop Along
34. Badlands - Halsey
35. The Magic Whip - Blur
36. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful - Florence + The Machine
37. The Most Lamentable Tragedy - Titus Andronicus
38. Fading Frontier - Deerhunter
39. What Went Down - Foals
40. Ego Death - The Internet
41. New Bermuda - Deafheaven
42. Every Open Eye - Chvrches
43. Star Wars - Wilco
44. Short Movie - Laura Marling
45. Honeymoon - Lana Del Rey
46. What a Time to Be Alive - Drake & Future
47. Get to Heaven - Everything Everything
48. Surf - Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment
49. FFS - FFS
50. Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap
51. Tomorrow is My Turn - Rhiannon Giddens
52. Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance - Belle and Sebastian
53. Unbreakable - Janet Jackson
54. Kintsugi - Death Cab for Cutie
55. Ten Love Songs - Susanne Sundfor
56. My Love is Cool - Wolf Alice
57. At.Long.Last.A$AP - A$AP Rocky
58. Ivy Tripp - Waxahatchee
59. Apocalypse, Girl - Jenny Hval
60. Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper - Panda Bear
61. Foil Deer - Speedy Ortiz
62. On Your Own Love Again - Jessica Pratt
63. Mr. Misunderstood - Eric Church
64. Sprained Ankle - Julien Baker
65. Reality Show - Jazmine Sullivan
66. The Waterfall - My Morning Jacket
67. Ratchet - Shamir
68. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
69. Blackheart - Dawn Richard
70. SremmLife - Rae Sremmurd
71. Compton - Dr. Dre
72. Sol Invictus - Faith No More
73. Made in the A.M. - One Direction
74. Mutilator Defeated at Last - Thee Oh Sees
75. Beat the Champ - The Mountain Goats
76. Thank Your Lucky Stars - Beach House
77. A Head Full of Dreams - Coldplay
78. Born Under Saturn - Django Django
79. Rose Mountain - Screaming Females
80. Jack U - Skrillex & Diplo
81. Eat Pray Thug - Heems
82. Before the World Was Big - Girlpool
83. Chaos and the Calm - James Bay
84. Peace is the Mission - Major Lazer
85. Meliora - Ghost
86. The Age Intellect - Protomartyr
87. Cherry Bomb - Tyler the Creator
88. Viet Cong - Preoccupations
89. Cry Baby - Melanie Martinez
90. Paper Mâché Dream Balloon - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
91. Purple - Baroness
92. Ones and Sixes - Low
93. Multi-Love - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
94. Chasing Yesterday - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
95. Wilder Mind - Mumford & Sons
96. That's the Spirit - Bring Me the Horizon
97. Jekyll and Hyde - Zac Brown Band
98. Uptown Special - Mark Ronson
99. Pentatonix - Pentatonix
100. La Di Da Di - Battles