This topic covers notable events and articles related to music in 2015.
Specific locations
Specific genres
Albums released List of 2015 albums
Awards
2015 Billboard Music Awards Artist of the Year: Taylor Swift – New Artist of the Year: Sam Smith – Top Hot 100 Song: All About That Bass – Top Billboard 200 Album: 1989 57th Japan Record Awards 2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards MTV Video Music Awards Video of the Year: Bad Blood – Best Male Video: Uptown Funk – Best Female Video: Blank Space – Artist to Watch: Fetty Wap MTV Europe Music Awards Best Song: Bad Blood – Best Video: Downtown – Best Female: Rihanna – Best Male: Justin Bieber The 3rd V Chart Awards Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Seoul Music Awards
Bands formed
3776 1Punch 100 gecs Akishibu Project April Atarashii Gakko! Bad Omens The Band Camino Bastarz Beach Bunny Beach Weather Big Brain Billie Idle Bish Burning Witches Bursters Camellia Factory Camp Cope CLC Day6 Dead & Company DIA Dogleg Drug Restaurant Earphones Ebisu Muscats Empath Fate Gear GFriend Glass Beach Her's Hollywood Vampires The Hoopers iamnot Idol Renaissance Iginari Tohoku San iKon Kolme King Gnu La PomPon Ladybaby The Lemon Twigs lol Magnolia Factory Mammoth MAP6 Meet Me at the Altar MeloMance Mint Green Monsta X Mrs. Green Apple The Murder Capital MyB Myth & Roid N.Flying Official Hige Dandism Oh My Girl Okilly Dokilly OxT Pasocom Music Club The Peggies Pentagon Playback Pretty Brown POP Porridge Radio The Regrettes Romeo Rubber Soul Seventeen Slow Pulp Snail Mail Snuper Sora tob sakana Starcrawler Suchmos Tacoyaki Rainbow Tautumeitas Tokimeki Sendenbu TrySail Twice Unicorn UP10TION Vanishing Twin VAV VIXX LR Wednesday Campanella Whiteeeen Ziferblat
Soloist debuts
Aimyon Alina Baraz Alessia Cara Alex Gonzaga Amber Anly Anne-Marie Aurora Baek Yerin Bea Miller Charlie Puth Choa Daoko Daya Dean Declan McKenna Dua Lipa Elo Elsie Halsey Horan Faouzia Ferlyn G G2 Gaeko G.Soul Goo Hara Hailee Steinfeld Iñigo Pascual Jacob Benedicto Jang Hyun-seung Jeremy Zucker Julien Baker Jung Yong-hwa Junoflo Jonghyun Julian Trono Kehlani Kiiara Lee Hongki Lizzy Mabel Marlo Mortel Matteo Guidicelli Melanie Martinez Morissette Minah Miwoo Niel Park Jimin Patrick Brasca Poppy Post Malone Reol Reese Lansangan Rita De Guzman RM Sabrina Carpenter Sakura Fujiwara Shaun Taeyeon Wuno Lee Tae-il Ugly Duck Yassi Pressman Yezi
Bands reformed
The 13th Floor Elevators The Academy Is... A-ha Aiden Alexisonfire Armor for Sleep As One At the Drive-In Bay City Rollers The Black Eyed Peas Black Grape The Bluetones Brooks & Dunn Busted The Corrs Daphne and Celeste Dashboard Confessional Digable Planets Disturbed Evanescence Faithless Good Charlotte LCD Soundsystem Lush Matchbook Romance The Matches Pist.On The Promise Ring Rainbow Royal Trux Savatage Simply Red The Starting Line Supertramp Symphony Number One Thrice A Tribe Called Quest Underoath Ween
Bands disbanded
3 Inches of Blood Avi Buffalo The Black Crowes Bloodhound Gang Burzum California Breed Cali Swag District CBS Orchestra Cobra Starship Device Eastern Conference Champions Erase Errata Flesh for Lulu Framing Hanley Funeral For a Friend Goodbye to Gravity G.R.L. I, the Breather James Last Orchestra Kill Hannah Klaxons Maybeshewill Mean Creek MellowHype Mötley Crüe Motörhead Neutral Milk Hotel Noah and the Whale Obits Odd Future The Replacements Rise to Remain The Rosso Sisters Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts Sleeper Agent Stereo Kicks Texas in July The Weakerthans
Deaths January 1 – Matthew Cogley (30), British musician and songwriter (Failsafe). 6 – Lance Percival (81), British actor and singer. 13 Ronnie Ronalde (91), British siffleur and yodeller. Trevor Ward-Davies (70), English bassist (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich) 19 – Ward Swingle (87), American jazz singer (The Swingle Singers). 22 – Joan Hinde (81), British trumpet player 25 – Demis Roussos (68), Greek singer and musician 27 – Margot Moir (55), Scottish-born Australian singer (The Moir Sisters). 29 – Danny McCulloch (69), British bassist (Eric Burdon & The Animals).
February 12 – Steve Strange (55), British musician (Visage). 16 – Lesley Gore (68), American singer 21 – Clark Terry (94), American jazz trumpeter. 22 – Erik Amundsen (78), Norwegian jazz upright-bassist. 23 – Ron Edgar (68), American rock drummer (The Music Machine)
March 21 – Jørgen Ingmann, (89), Danish guitarist.
April 1 Dave Ball (65), British musician (Procol Harum). Sandy Mason (75), American country music singer-songwriter 3 – Andrew Porter (86), British organist, music critic, and opera director 10 – Ronald Hambleton (97), English-born Canadian broadcaster and music critic (Toronto Star). 13 – Ronnie Carroll (80), Northern Irish singer 14 – Percy Sledge (74), American soul, gospel and R&B singer 17 – Brian Couzens (86), British music industry executive (Chandos Records). 18 – Ben E. King (76), American soul and R&B singer
May 6 Errol Brown (71), British-Jamaican singer (Hot Chocolate) Dottie Dillard (91), American pop singer (The Anita Kerr Quartet) 14 – B.B. King (89), American blues guitarist. 20 – Bob Belden (58), American jazz saxophonist. 23 – Marcus Belgrave (78), American jazz trumpeter. 31 – Slim Richey (77), American jazz guitarist.
June 11 – Ornette Coleman (85), American jazz saxophonist. 12 – Monica Lewis (93), American singer and actress. 21 – Gunther Schuller (89), American composer, conductor, and horn player. 27 – Joe Bennett (75), American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist (Joe Bennett & the Sparkletones)
July 1 Val Doonican (88), Irish-born singer. Edward Greenfield (86), British music critic and broadcaster. 13 – Eric Wrixon (68), British musician from Belfast, Northern Ireland (Them, Thin Lizzy). 22 Daron Norwood (49), American country music singer Eddie Hardin (66), British singer-songwriter and pianist (The Spencer Davis Group and Axis Point). 30 – Lynn Anderson (67), American country singer 31 – Pamela Brandt (68), American country-rock bassist, singer and songwriter (The Deadly Nightshade)
August 1 – Cilla Black (72), British singer and presenter. 12 – John Scott (59), British organist and choirmaster. 14 – Jazz Summers (71), British music manager (Scissor Sisters, The Verve, Snow Patrol), (lung cancer) 20 – Laurent Rossi (67), French singer, songwriter, and record producer (Bimbo Jet)
September 4 – Hal Willis (82), Canadian country music singer 13 – Gary Richrath (65), American guitarist (REO Speedwagon) 29 – Phil Woods (83), American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer
October 8 – Jim Diamond, Scottish singer (Ph.D.) 9 – Larry Rosen (75), American drummer, entrepreneur, and music producer. 10 – Steve Mackay (66) American Saxophonist (The Stooges) 11 – Carey Lander, Scottish keyboardist (Camera Obscura) 20 – Cory Wells (74), American singer (Three Dog Night) 22 – Mark Murphy (83), American singer. 28 – Diane Charlemagne (51), English dance singer (52nd Street, Urban Cookie Collective)
November 5 – Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (92). 25 – Svein Christiansen, Norwegian drummer (74).
December
3 – Scott Weiland (48), American musician, singer and songwriter (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver and Art of Anarchy) 28 Guru Josh (51), acid house DJ Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister (70), English musician, singer and songwriter (Motörhead, Hawkwind, The Rockin' Vickers) 30 – Zjef Vanuytsel (70), Belgian folk singer. 31 – Natalie Cole (65), American singer, songwriter, and actress (congestive heart failure).
See also Once Upon a Time in Shaolin Timeline of musical events Women in music
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