Year-End Lists

Polaris Music Prize: 2015 Award

Winner (rescinded 2025)

• Buffy Sainte-Marie
  Power in the Blood

Shortlist

• Alvvays
  Alvvays
• BadBadNotGood & Ghostface Killah
  Sour Soul
• Braids
  Deep in the Iris
• Caribou
  Our Love
• Drake
  If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
• Jennifer Castle
  Pink City
• The New Pornographers
  Brill Bruisers
• Tobias Jesso Jr.
  Goon
• Viet Cong
  Viet Cong

Longlist

• Absolutely Free
  Absolutely Free.
• Arkells
  High Noon
• B.A. Johnston
  Shit Sucks
• Bahamas
  Bahamas Is Afie
• Cold Specks
  Neuroplasticity
• Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld
  Never Were the Way She Was
• Death from Above 1979
  The Physical World
• Elizabeth Shepherd
  The Signal
• Frazey Ford
  Indian Ocean
• Jazz Cartier
  Marauding in Paradise
• Jean Leloup
  À Paradis City
• Joel Plaskett
  The Park Avenue Sobriety Test
• Lee Harvey Osmond
  Beautiful Scars
• Louis-Jean Cormier
  Les grandes artères
• Lydia Ainsworth
  Right from Real
• METZ
  II
• Milk & Bone
  Little Mourning
• Patrick Watson
  Love Songs for Robots
• Pierre Kwenders
  Le dernier empereur bantou
• Rich Aucoin
  Ephemeral
• Siskiyou
  Nervous
• Steph Cameron
  Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady
• The Acorn
  Vieux Loup
• The Barr Brothers
  Sleeping Operator
• The Weather Station
  Loyalty
• Tre Mission
  Stigmata
• various artists
  Native North America, Vol. 1: Aboriginal Folk, Rock, and Country 1966–1985
• White Lung
  Deep Fantasy
• Whitehorse
  Leave No Bridge Unburned
• Young Guv
  Ripe 4 Luv