This is a list of the top-selling albums in New Zealand for 2015 from the Official New Zealand Music Chart's end-of-year chart, compiled by Recorded Music NZ. The chart includes 12 albums by New Zealand artists, including two albums by popera trio Sol3 Mio. The chart also includes 12 albums that featured in the New Zealand top 50 albums of 2014.
Chart
Key – Album of New Zealand origin
Rank Artist Title 1 Adele 25 2 Ed Sheeran x 3 Sam Smith In the Lonely Hour 4 Six60 Six60 5 Taylor Swift 1989 6 Sol3 Mio On Another Note 7 Meghan Trainor Title 8 The Script No Sound Without Silence 9 Cilla Black The Very Best of Cilla Black 10 Hozier Hozier 11 Michael Bublé Christmas 12 Justin Bieber Purpose 13 George Ezra Wanted on Voyage 14 Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful 15 Sol3 Mio Sol3 Mio 16 Dennis Marsh Lest We Forget 17 Eagles Selected Works: 1972–1999 18 Josh Groban Stages 19 Mumford & Sons Wilder Mind 20 Various artists Fifty Shades of Grey: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 21 Maroon 5 V 22 Ed Sheeran + 23 Gin Wigmore Blood to Bone 24 James Bay Chaos and the Calm 25 Fleetwood Mac 25 Years – The Chain 26 Fat Freddy's Drop Bays 27 Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly 28 One Direction Made in the A.M. 29 The Quin Tikis The Quin Tikis: New Zealand's Premier Maori Showband 30 Various artists Frozen: The Songs 31 Foster and Allen After All These Years: The Very Best of Foster and Allen 32 Mark Knopfler Tracker 33 Stan Walker Truth & Soul 34 Imagine Dragons Smoke + Mirrors 35 Dr. Dre Compton 36 Diana Krall Wallflower 37 Broods Evergreen 38 Neil Diamond All-Time Greatest Hits 39 David Gilmour Rattle That Lock 40 Devilskin We Rise 41 Various artists Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 42 Adele 21 43 Various artists Furious 7: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 44 The Beatles 1 45 Muse Drones 46 The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness 47 Howard Morrison How Great Thou Art: The Very Best of Howard Morrison 48 Disturbed Immortalized 49 Avalanche City We are for the Wild Places 50 AC/DC Rock or Bust
Top 20 albums of 2015 by New Zealand artists
Rank Artist Title 1 Six60 Six60 2 Sol3 Mio On Another Note 3 Sol3 Mio Sol3 Mio 4 Dennis Marsh Lest We Forget 5 Gin Wigmore Blood to Bone 6 Fat Freddy's Drop Bays 7 The Quin Tikis The Quin Tikis: New Zealand's Premier Maori Showband 8 Stan Walker Truth & Soul 9 Broods Evergreen 10 Devilskin We Rise 11 Howard Morrison How Great Thou Art: The Very Best of Howard Morrison 12 Avalanche City We Are For the Wild Places 13 Lorde Pure Heroine 14 Marlon Williams Marlon Williams 15 Six60 Six60 16 Beau Monga Beau Monga 17 Don McGlashan Lucky Stars 18 John Hore Grenell Welcome to my World: The Very Best of John Hore Grenell 19 Dennis Marsh Maori Songbook 2 20 Stan Walker The Platinum Collection
References
External links The Official NZ Music Chart - albums