Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2015
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp A Butterfly
- Adele — 25
- Drake — If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
- D’Angelo and The Vanguard — Black Messiah
- The Weeknd — Beauty Behind the Madness
- Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
- Jason Isbell — Something More Than Free
- Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Original Broadway Cast — Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
- The Arcs — Yours, Dreamily
- Blur — The Magic Whip
- Sleater-Kinney — No Cities To Love
- Lana Del Rey — Honeymoon
- Tame Impala — Currents
- Wilco — Star Wars
- Father John Misty — I Love You, Honeybear
- Skrillex & Diplo — Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü
- Keith Richards — Crosseyed Heart
- Boz Scaggs — A Fool To Care
- Kurt Vile — B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
- Don Henley — Cass County
- Chris Stapleton — Traveller
- Florence + The Machine — How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
- Mark Knopfler — Tracker
- Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment — Surf
- Darlene Love — Introducing Darlene Love
- Future — DS2
- Eric Church — Mr. Misunderstood
- Miguel — Wildheart
- Joanna Newsom — Divers
- Car Seat Headrest — Teens of Style
- Leon Bridges — Coming Home
- Jazmine Sullivan — Reality Show
- Beach House — Depression Cherry
- Marilyn Manson — The Pale Emperor
- Vince Staples — Summertime ’06
- Hop Along — Painted Shut
- Alabama Shakes — Sound & Color
- Ashley Monroe — The Blade
- Muse — Drones
- Songhoy Blues — Music In Exile
- Kamasi Washington — The Epic
- Björk — Vulnicura
- Selena Gomez — Revival
- Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife
- Madonna — Rebel Heart
- Rhiannon Giddens — Tomorrow Is My Turn
- James Taylor — Before This World
- Carly Rae Jepsen — E•MO•TION
- Bob Dylan — Shadows In The Night
- Bomba Estéreo — Amanecer