2015 in music

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This topic covers notable events and articles related to music in 2015.

Specific locations

  • African music
  • American music
  • Australian music
  • Brazilian music
  • British music
  • Canadian music
  • Chinese music
  • Danish music
  • European music (Continental Europe)
  • Finnish music
  • French music
  • German music
  • Icelandic music
  • Indian music
  • Irish music
  • Japanese music
  • Malaysian music
  • Mongolian music
  • North Korean music
  • Norwegian music
  • Philippine music
  • Polynesian music
  • South Korean music
  • Swedish music
  • Taiwanese music
  • Vietnamese music
  • World music

Specific genres

  • Classical
  • Country
  • Electronic
  • Heavy metal
  • Hip hop
  • House
  • Jazz
  • Latin
  • Opera
  • Pop
  • Rock
  • K-pop
  • J-pop

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
Grand Prix: "Unfair World" (ja) by Sandaime J Soul Brothers from Exile Tribe • Best Singer: Seiko Matsuda • Best New Artist: Magnolia Factory • Best Song: several
2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards
Artist of the Year: Big Bang • Album of the Year: Exodus by Exo • Song of the Year: "Bang Bang Bang" by Big Bang • Best Music Video: Bae Bae by Big Bang
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
Top Male Artist : Vision Wei with By Your Side • Top Female Artist: Jane Zhang with You Are Mine (我是我的) • Top Group: Top Combine with Large Pear (鸭梨大) • Top New Artist: Henry Huo
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Inductees: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band • Joan Jett & The Blackhearts • Green Day • Lou Reed • Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble • Bill Withers
25th Seoul Music Awards
Grand Prize: Exo • Best Album: Time by Beast • Best Song: "Some" by Soyou & Lil Boi • Best New Artist: Red Velvet, Got7, Eddy Kim

Bands formed

  • 3776
  • 1Punch
  • Akishibu Project
  • April
  • Atarashii Gakko!
  • Bastarz
  • Big Brain
  • Billie Idle
  • Bish
  • Burning Witches
  • Bursters
  • Camellia Factory
  • CLC
  • Day6
  • DIA
  • Earphones
  • Ebisu Muscats
  • Fate Gear
  • GFriend
  • The Hoopers
  • iamnot
  • Idol Renaissance
  • Iginari Tohoku San
  • iKon
  • JJY Band
  • Kolme
  • La PomPon
  • Ladybaby
  • lol
  • Magnolia Factory
  • MAP6
  • Meet Me at the Altar
  • MeloMance
  • Monsta X
  • Mrs. Green Apple
  • MyB
  • Myth & Roid
  • N.Flying
  • Official Hige Dandism
  • Oh My Girl
  • OxT
  • Pasocom Music Club
  • The Peggies
  • Pentagon
  • Playback
  • Pretty Brown
  • POP
  • Romeo
  • Rubber Soul
  • Seventeen
  • Snuper
  • Srv.Vinci
  • Sora tob sakana
  • Suchmos
  • Tacoyaki Rainbow
  • Tautumeitas
  • Tokimeki Sendenbu
  • TrySail
  • Twice
  • Unicorn
  • UP10TION
  • 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).[1]
  • 6 – Lance Percival (81), British actor and singer.[2]
  • 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).[3]
  • 29 – Danny McCulloch (69), British bassist (Eric Burdon & The Animals).

February

  • 12 – Steve Strange (55), British musician (Visage).[4]
  • 16 – Lesley Gore (68), American singer
  • 21 – Clark Terry (94), American jazz trumpeter.[5]
  • 22 – Erik Amundsen (78), Norwegian jazz upright-bassist.[6]
  • 23 – Ron Edgar (68), American rock drummer (The Music Machine)

March

  • 21 – Jørgen Ingmann, (89), Danish guitarist.[7]

April

  • 1
    • Dave Ball (65), British musician (Procol Harum).[8]
    • Sandy Mason (75), American country music singer-songwriter
  • 3 – Andrew Porter (86), British organist, music critic, and opera director[9]
  • 10 – Ronald Hambleton (97), English-born Canadian broadcaster and music critic (Toronto Star).[10]
  • 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).[11]
  • 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.[12]
  • 20 – Bob Belden (58), American jazz saxophonist.[13]
  • 23 – Marcus Belgrave (78), American jazz trumpeter.[14]
  • 31 – Slim Richey (77), American jazz guitarist.[15]

June

  • 11 – Ornette Coleman (85), American jazz saxophonist.[16]
  • 12 – Monica Lewis (93), American singer and actress.[17]
  • 21 – Gunther Schuller (89), American composer, conductor, and horn player.[18]
  • 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.[19]
  • 13 – Eric Wrixon (68), British musician from Belfast, Northern Ireland (Them, Thin Lizzy).[20]
  • 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.[21]
  • 14 – Jazz Summers (71), British music manager (Scissor Sisters, The Verve, Snow Patrol), (lung cancer)[22]
  • 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[23]

October

  • 8 – Jim Diamond, Scottish singer (Ph.D.)
  • 9 – Larry Rosen (75), American drummer, entrepreneur, and music producer.[24]
  • 20 – Cory Wells (74), American singer (Three Dog Night)
  • 22 – Mark Murphy (83), American singer.[25]
  • 28 – Diane Charlemagne (51), English dance singer (52nd Stree, Urban Cookie Collective)

November

  • 5 – Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (92).[26]
  • 25 – Svein Christiansen, Norwegian drummer (74).[27]

December

Scott Weiland on stage—2009-07
  • 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).[28]

See also

  • Once Upon a Time in Shaolin
  • Timeline of musical events
  • Women in music

References

  1. ↑ Livesey, Jon (January 3, 2015). "Musician whose band starred in The Inbetweeners dies on New Year's Day". Mirror.co.uk.
  2. ↑ "Percival – Deaths Announcements – Telegraph Announcements". Announcements.telegraph.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2015-01-09. Retrieved 2017-02-01.
  3. ↑ "R.I.P Margot Moir Of The Moir Sisters 1959–2015". Noise11.com. 26 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "New Romantic pioneer Steve Strange dies". The Guardian. 2015-02-12. Retrieved 2017-04-10.
  5. ↑ Keepnews, Peter (2015-02-22). "Clark Terry, Master of Jazz Trumpet, Dies at 94". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  6. ↑ Stendahl, Bjørn (2015-03-04). "Nekrolog: Erik Amundsen". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  7. ↑ Escudero, Victor M. (2015-03-22). "Eurovision winner Jørgen Ingmann died". Eurovision. Retrieved 2016-04-16.
  8. ↑ "Dave Ball passed away". Dmme.net.
  9. ↑ Huizenga, Tom (3 April 2015). "Multifaceted Music Critic Andrew Porter Dies At 86". Npr.org.
  10. ↑ "Veteran writer Ronald Hambleton dies at 97 – Toronto Star". Thestar.com. 16 April 2015.
  11. ↑ "Brian Couzens: Businessman who founded the Chandos record label and". Independent.co.uk. 26 April 2015. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01.
  12. ↑ Leopold, Todd (2015-05-16). "Blues legend B.B. King dies at age 89". CNN. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  13. ↑ Stutz, Colin (2015-05-20). "Bob Belden, Jazz Saxophonist & Renaissance Man, Dead at 58". Billboard. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
  14. ↑ Stedman, Alex (2015-05-24). "Marcus Belgrave, Famed Detroit Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 78". Variety. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
  15. ↑ Curtin, Kevin (2015-06-01). "Slim Richey 1938–2015: Austin's jazz maverick peaces out". CNN. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  16. ↑ Ratliff, Ben (2015-06-11). "Ornette Coleman, Saxophonist Who Rewrote the Language of Jazz, Dies at 85". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  17. ↑ "Monica Lewis, Actress Who Sang in Chiquita Banana Cartoons, Dies at 93". Variety. 2015-06-12. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  18. ↑ Kozinn, Allan (2015-06-21). "Gunther Schuller Dies at 89; Composer Synthesized Classical and Jazz". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  19. ↑ McKie, David; Bowen, Meirion (2 July 2015). "Edward Greenfield obituary". The Guardian.
  20. ↑ "RIP Eric Wrixon – Music – News – Hot Press". Hotpress.com.
  21. ↑ "News – About – Saint Thomas Church". Saintthomaschurch.org. Archived from the original on 2015-08-15. Retrieved 2017-02-01.
  22. ↑ "Music industry manager Jazz Summers dies". Digitalspy.co.uk. 15 August 2015. Archived from the original on 16 August 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  23. ↑ La Rosa, David (2015-09-29). "Alto Sax Legend Phil Woods Has Died At 83". TheJazzLine.com. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  24. ↑ Gans, Charles J. (2015-10-10). "Larry Rosen, music producer and label founder, dies at 75". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  25. ↑ Tamarkin, Jeff (2015-10-23). "Vocalist Mark Murphy dies at 83". JazzTimes. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  26. ↑ Hustad, Helge Voll (2015-11-06). "Norwegians mourn Brockstedt's death". NewsInEnglish.no. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  27. ↑ Andersen, Arild; Stendahl, Bjørn (2015-03-04). "Nekrolog: Svein Christiansen". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  28. ↑ Cohen, Sandy; Fekadu, Mesfin (2016-01-01). "Natalie Cole, Grammy winning singer, has died". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
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