List of 2015 albums explained

The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2015. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.

For additional information about bands formed, reformed, or disbanded, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2015 in music.

First quarter

January

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label
January 5	Låpsley	Understudy		XL	^[1]
January 6	Rae Sremmurd	SremmLife	Hip hop	Ear Drummer, Interscope
January 9	Meghan Trainor	Title	R&B, doo-wop, pop	Epic
	Panda Bear	Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper	Psychedelia, electropop	Domino
January 13	Dan Mangan	Club Meds	Indie folk, indie rock	Arts & Crafts
	Guster	Evermotion	Indie rock, alternative rock	Ocho Mule, Nettwerk
	Jazmine Sullivan	Reality Show	R&B	RCA
	Kat Dahlia	My Garden	Alternative R&B, hip hop	Epic, Vested in Culture
	Mark Ronson	Uptown Special	Funk, R&B	Columbia
	Palisades	Mind Games	Electronicore, EDM, post-hardcore	Rise
January 15	Future and Zaytoven	Beast Mode	Hip hop, trap	Freebandz
	Marilyn Manson	The Pale Emperor	Gothic metal, blues rock, hard rock	Hell, etc.
January 16	Mikky Ekko	Time	Pop	RCA
January 19	The Avener	The Wanderings of the Avener	Electronic	Capitol
	Belle and Sebastian	Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance	Indie pop	Matador
	Funeral for a Friend	Chapter and Verse	Post-hardcore, melodic hardcore	Distiller Records
	The Waterboys	Modern Blues		Harlequin and Clown
January 20	Björk	Vulnicura	Electronic, avant-garde, ambient	One Little Indian, Megaforce
	The Decemberists	What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World	Indie rock	Capitol
	Enter Shikari	The Mindsweep	Post-hardcore, alternative rock	Ambush Reality, Hopeless
	Fall Out Boy	American Beauty/American Psycho	Pop-punk, pop rock, arena rock	DCD2, Island
	Joey Badass	B4.Da.$$	East Coast hip hop, conscious hip hop	Cinematic Music
	Lupe Fiasco	Tetsuo & Youth	Hip hop	Atlantic, 1st & 15th Entertainment
	Sleater-Kinney	No Cities to Love	Punk rock, indie rock, post-punk	Sub Pop
	Terje Isungset	Meditation	Jazz	All Ice	^[2]
	Viet Cong	Viet Cong	Post-punk, art rock	Jagjaguwar
January 21	AKB48	Koko ga Rhodes da, Koko de Tobe!	J-pop	You! Be Cool, King Records
January 23	Napalm Death	Apex Predator – Easy Meat	Grindcore, deathgrind	Century Media
	Pond	Man It Feels Like Space Again	Psychedelic rock	Caroline
January 26	The Charlatans	Modern Nature	Indie rock	BMG
	Rae Morris	Unguarded		Atlantic
January 27	Natalie Prass	Natalie Prass	Indie pop, baroque pop	Spacebomb, Startime International, Caroline International
	Ne-Yo	Non-Fiction	R&B	Compound, Motown
	Papa Roach	F.E.A.R. (Face Everything and Rise)	Hard rock, alternative metal	Eleven Seven
	Periphery		Progressive metal	Sumerian
	Periphery		Progressive metal	Sumerian
	Punch Brothers	The Phosphorescent Blues	Progressive bluegrass	Nonesuch
	Young Ejecta	The Planet	Synth-pop	Driftless Recordings
January 30	Blind Guardian	Beyond the Red Mirror	Power metal progressive metal, symphonic metal	Nuclear Blast
	Callisto	Secret Youth			^[3]
	Fifth Harmony	Reflection	Pop, R&B, dance	Syco, Epic
	Kid Ink	Full Speed	Hip hop	Tha Alumni Music Group, 88 Classic, RCA
	Marius Neset	Pinball	Jazz	ACT
	Mopti & Bendik Baksaas	Bits & Pieces	Jazz	Jazzland	^[4]

February

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label
February 3	Bob Dylan	Shadows in the Night	Traditional pop	Columbia
	BridgeCity	Christ Be Glorified	Contemporary worship, electronic	Maranatha! Music
	Diana Krall	Wallflower	Jazz	Verve
	Hayley Kiyoko	This Side of Paradise	Pop	Steel Wool	^[5]
	Ivy Queen	Vendetta	Hip hop, bachata, salsa	Universal Music Latino
	Lodovica Comello	Mariposa	Pop, rock	Sony Music
	Mount Eerie	Sauna	Experimental, indie rock, ambient	P. W. Elverum & Sun
	Murder by Death	Big Dark Love	Rock	Bloodshot
	RuPaul	RuPaul Presents: CoverGurlz2	Dance	World of Wonder
	Title Fight	Hyperview	Shoegazing	Anti-
February 7	Jesika von Rabbit	Journey Mitchell	Pop, electro, electropop	Royal Order
February 9	Father John Misty	I Love You, Honeybear	Indie rock	Sub Pop
	Peace	Happy People	Indie rock	Columbia
February 10	Michelle Chamuel	Face the Fire	Pop	The End
	The Neal Morse Band	The Grand Experiment	Progressive rock	InsideOut, Metal Blade
	Ricky Martin	A Quien Quiera Escuchar	Latin pop	Sony Music Latin
	Stick to Your Guns	Disobedient	Melodic hardcore, metalcore	Sumerian
February 13	Drake	If You're Reading This It's Too Late	Hip hop	Cash Money, OVO Sound, Republic
	Elle King	Love Stuff	Alternative country, blues rock	RCA
February 14	Vision Eternel	Echoes from Forgotten Hearts		Abridged Pause Recordings	^[6]
February 15	Future Brown	Future Brown	Electronica	Warp
February 16	Carl Barât and the Jackals	Let It Reign	Rock	Cooking Vinyl
	Susanne Sundfør	Ten Love Songs	Art pop, electropop, baroque pop	Warner Music Norway
February 17	Estelle	True Romance	R&B	Established 1980 Records.
	Ibeyi	Ibeyi	Downtempo, neo soul, art pop	XL
	Imagine Dragons	Smoke + Mirrors	Pop rock, alternative rock	KIDinaKORNER, Interscope
	The Mavericks	Mono	Americana
	A Place to Bury Strangers	Transfixiation	Noise rock	Dead Oceans
	Raheem DeVaughn	Love Sex Passion	R&B	eOne Music
	Six Organs of Admittance	Hexadic		Drag City
February 20	Chris Brown & Tyga		R&B, West Coast hip hop	RCA
	Ensiferum	One Man Army	Folk metal, melodic death metal, viking metal	Metal Blade
	Scorpions	Return to Forever	Hard rock
February 23	Clare Maguire	Don't Mess Me Around	British soul, pop	Virgin EMI
	Public Service Broadcasting	The Race for Space	Alternative, electronic, indie rock	Test Card Recordings
	UFO	A Conspiracy of Stars	Hard rock, heavy metal	SPV
February 24	All That Remains	The Order of Things		Razor & Tie
	BadBadNotGood & Ghostface Killah	Sour Soul	Hip hop, jazz fusion	Lex
	Big Sean	Dark Sky Paradise	Hip hop	GOOD Music, Def Jam
	The Black Ryder	The Door Behind the Door		The Anti-Machine Machine	^[7]
	Dan Deacon	Gliss Riffer	Indietronica	Domino
	Emile Haynie	We Fall	Indie rock	Interscope
	Falling in Reverse	Just Like You	Post-hardcore	Epitaph
	Future User	SteroidsOrHeroin	Progtronic, hip hop, punk rock	Middle Ring Partnership
	Gang of Four	What Happens Next	Industrial rock	Metropolis, Membran
	Kid Rock	First Kiss	Country rock	Warner Bros.
	Make Do and Mend	Don't Be Long		Rise	^[8]
	Marta Sánchez	21 Días		Entrearte	^[9]
	Oceans Ate Alaska	Lost Isles		Fearless
	Red	Of Beauty and Rage	Alternative rock, Christian rock	Essential
	Screaming Females	Rose Mountain	Indie rock, punk	Don Giovanni
February 25	Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds	Chasing Yesterday	Alternative rock	Sour Mash
February 27	AJR	Living Room		AJR Productions, Warner Bros.
	Jack Ü	Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü	EDM	Owsla, Mad Decent, Atlantic
	Kelly Clarkson	Piece by Piece	Electropop, orchestral pop, power pop	19, RCA
	Nena	Oldschool		Laugh and Peas
	Purity Ring	Another Eternity	Electronic	4AD
	Steven Wilson	Hand. Cannot. Erase.	Progressive rock	Kscope

March

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label
March 2	Clarence Clarity	No Now		Bella Union
	of Montreal	Aureate Gloom	Glam rock	Polyvinyl
	RuPaul	Realness	Dance, deep house	RuCo Inc.
March 3	Brandi Carlile	The Firewatcher's Daughter		ATO
	Rixton	Let the Road	Pop, R&B	School Boy, Giant Little Man, Mad Love, Interscope
	Shania Twain			Mercury Nashville
March 6	Ace of Base	Hidden Gems	Pop	Playground
	Blue	Colours	Pop, soul	Sony Music
	Madonna	Rebel Heart	Pop	Live Nation
March 9	Fawn Spots	From Safer Place	Hardcore punk, post-punk	Critical Heights	^[10]
March 10	The Bright Light Social Hour	Space Is Still the Place	Psychedelic rock, indie rock	Frenchkiss, MapleMusic
	Donna Lewis	Brand New Day		Palmetto	^[11]
	Enslaved	In Times	Progressive metal, black metal	Nuclear Blast
	Kevin Max	Broken Temples	Christian	Motion Records
	Will Butler	Policy	Indie rock, garage rock, indie pop	Merge
March 13	Damien Leith	Songs from Ireland	Folk	Sony Music Australia
	Lee Kernaghan	Spirit of the Anzacs	Country	ABC Music
	Marina and the Diamonds	Froot	Synth-pop, pop	Atlantic, Neon Gold
March 15	Kendrick Lamar	To Pimp a Butterfly	Conscious hip hop	Top Dawg, Aftermath, Interscope
March 16	Allison Moorer	Down to Believing	Country, folk	eOne Music, Proper
	Mark Knopfler	Tracker	Rock, folk
	Taizé Community	Taizé - Music of Unity and Peace	Christian	Deutsche Grammophon
March 17	Awolnation	Run	Alternative rock, electronic rock	Red Bull
	Bad News Boys	Bad News Boys		In the Red	^[12]
	Hawk Nelson	Diamonds	Contemporary Christian music, Christian rock	Fair Trade Services
	Modest Mouse	Strangers to Ourselves	Indie rock	Epic
	Sleeping with Sirens	Madness	Post-hardcore, pop rock	Epitaph
	Tobias Jesso Jr.	Goon	Indie rock	True Panther Sounds
March 20	Big Data	2.0	Indie rock	Warner Bros.
	Courtney Barnett	Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit	Indie rock	Mom + Pop
	The Cribs	For All My Sisters	Indie rock	Sonic Blew, Sony RED UK
	Mathias Eick	Midwest	Jazz	ECM
	Morissette	Morissette	Pop	Star Music	^[13]
	Toto	Toto XIV	Hard rock, pop rock	Frontiers
March 21	Future	56 Nights	Hip hop, trap	Freebandz	^[14]
March 23	Action Bronson	Mr. Wonderful	Hip hop	Vice, Atlantic
	Earl Sweatshirt	I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside	Hip hop	Tan Cressida, Columbia
	The Gentle Storm	The Diary	Symphonic metal	Inside Out
	James Bay	Chaos and the Calm	Indie	Virgin, Republic
	Laura Marling	Short Movie	Folk music, folk rock, alternative	Virgin
	Oceano	Ascendants	Deathcore	Earache
	Seasick Steve	Sonic Soul Surfer	Rock, blues	Caroline International, Bronze Rat
	The Staves	If I Was		Atlantic	^[15]
March 24	Hayden	Hey Love	Indie rock, acoustic music, alternative country	Arts & Crafts
	Jam City	Dream a Garden		Night Slugs
	Smallpools	Lovetap!	Indie pop	RCA
	Strung Out	Transmission.Alpha.Delta	Punk rock, post-hardcore, alternative metal	Fat Wreck Chords
March 25	Nightwish	Endless Forms Most Beautiful	Symphonic power metal	Nuclear Blast
March 26	Selah Sue	Reason	Soul, R&B	Because Music
March 27	Madeon	Adventure		Columbia
March 30	Circa Waves	Young Chasers	Indie rock	Virgin EMI
	The Prodigy	The Day Is My Enemy	Big beat, dance-punk, techno	Take Me to the Hospital, Cooking Vinyl
March 31	Darius Rucker	Southern Style	Country	Capitol Nashville	^[16]
	Death Cab for Cutie	Kintsugi	Alternative rock	Atlantic
	Death Grips	The Powers That B	Experimental hip hop	Third Worlds, Harvest
	Godspeed You! Black Emperor	Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress	Post-rock, drone	Constellation
	Hollywood Undead	Day of the Dead	Rap rock, nu metal, alternative rock	Interscope
	Lower Dens	Escape from Evil	Indie rock, indie pop, dream pop	Ribbon Music
	Ludacris	Ludaversal	Hip hop	Disturbing tha Peace, Def Jam
	The Maine	American Candy	Pop rock	8123 Records
	Prong	Songs from the Black Hole	Groove metal, thrash metal	Steamhammer/SPV
	Ringo Starr	Postcards from Paradise	Rock	UM^e
	Ron Sexsmith	Carousel One	Rock	Compass
	Ryley Walker	Primrose Green	Psychedelic folk, folk rock	Dead Oceans
	Sufjan Stevens	Carrie & Lowell	Indie folk	Asthmatic Kitty
	Three Days Grace	Human	Alternative metal, hard rock	RCA
	Wale	The Album About Nothing	Hip hop	Atlantic

Second quarter

April

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label
April 3	All Time Low	Future Hearts	Pop-punk, pop rock, power pop	Hopeless
	Turbowolf	Two Hands	Hard rock	Search and Destroy Records
April 6	East India Youth	Culture of Volume	Indietronica, synth-pop, experimental	XL
	Young Fathers	White Men Are Black Men Too	Alternative hip hop, indie rock, pop	Big Dada
April 7	Brian Wilson	No Pier Pressure	Soft rock	Capitol
	David Sanborn	Time and the River	Jazz, blues	Okeh	^[17]
	Duda Brack	É	Alternative rock	Duda Brack
	Flo Rida	My House	Pop rap	Poe Boy, Atlantic
	Matt and Kim	New Glow	Indie pop, electronic
	The Mountain Goats	Beat the Champ	Indie rock, indie folk	Merge
	Secrets	Renditions	Acoustic	Rise
	Toro y Moi	What For?	Indie rock, psychedelic rock, indie pop	Carpark
	Trickfinger	Trickfinger	Acid house	Acid Test
	Waters	What's Real		Vagrant	^[18]
	Waxahatchee	Ivy Tripp	Indie rock	Merge, Wichita
April 8	Ayumi Hamasaki	A One	J-pop	Avex Trax
	Paper Aeroplanes	Joy			^[19]
April 10	Halestorm	Into the Wild Life	Hard rock	Atlantic
	Mel Parsons	Drylands	Folk-pop, indie folk	Cape Road Recordings, Border Music
April 12	Shayne Ward	Closer	Pop	MPG
April 13	Beth Hart	Better Than Home	Blues rock, blues, soul	Provogue, Mascot
	Calexico	Edge of the Sun	Alternative rock, indie folk, Americana	Anti-
	Tyler, the Creator	Cherry Bomb	Hip hop	Odd Future
	The Wombats	Glitterbug	Indie rock, alternative dance, post-punk	14th Floor
April 14	Dance Gavin Dance	Instant Gratification	Post-hardcore, experimental rock	Rise
	Dwight Yoakam	Second Hand Heart	Country	Warner Bros. Nashville
	Eels	Live at Royal Albert Hall	Indie rock	E Works, PIAS
	Hidden in Plain View	Animal	Emo, pop punk, post-hardcore	Rise
	Matanza	Pior Cenário Possível	Cowpunk, psychobilly	Deckdisc
	Reba McEntire	Love Somebody	Country	Nash Icon
	Sabrina Carpenter	Eyes Wide Open	Pop	Hollywood
	Shawn Mendes	Handwritten	Pop rock	Island
	Various artists		Tropical	Universal Music
April 15	Ayaka	Rainbow Road		A Station	^[20]
April 16	Young Thug	Barter 6	Hip hop	300 Entertainment, Atlantic, Rich Gang
April 17	Alabama Shakes	Sound & Color	Blues rock, roots rock, soul, Southern rock	ATO, MapleMusic, Rough Trade
	Apocalyptica	Shadowmaker	Cello rock	Better Noise, Eleven Seven
	The Black Sorrows	Endless Sleep Chapter 46	Blues rock, soul	Head Records
	The Black Sorrows	Endless Sleep Chapter 47	Blues rock, soul	Head Records
	Duplex	Én	Jazz	NorCD	^[21]
	Kiske/Somerville	City of Heroes	Heavy metal, hard rock	Frontiers
	Stan Walker	Truth & Soul	Pop	Sony Music Australia
April 18	Built to Spill	Untethered Moon	Indie rock	Warner Bros.
April 20	Passenger	Whispers II	Indie pop, indie folk	Black Crow Records
	Squarepusher	Damogen Furies	Drum and bass, IDM, drill 'n' bass	Warp
April 21	10 Years	From Birth to Burial	Alternative metal	Palehorse Records
	Alesana	Confessions	Metalcore, post-hardcore	Revival Recordings
	Dustin Kensrue	Carry the Fire	Indie rock	Vagrant
	Great Lake Swimmers	A Forest of Arms	Folk rock	Nettwerk
	Mew	+ -	Alternative rock	PIAS
	Passion Pit	Kindred	Synth-pop, indie pop, alternative	Columbia
	San Fermin	Jackrabbit		Downtown	^[22]
	Tom DeLonge	To the Stars... Demos, Odds and Ends	Punk rock, alternative rock	To the Stars
	Yelawolf	Love Story	Hip hop	Slumerican, Shady, Interscope
April 27	Blur	The Magic Whip	Alternative rock, indie rock	Parlophone
	The Brian Jonestown Massacre	Musique de Film Imaginé	Neo-psychedelia	A Records
	From First to Last	Dead Trees	Post-hardcore	Sumerian	^[23]
April 28	Raekwon	Fly International Luxurious Art	Hip hop	Ice H2O, Caroline
	Theory of a Deadman	Angel Acoustic EP	Acoustic	Roadrunner, 604
	Tyler Farr	Suffer in Peace	Country	Columbia Nashville
	Zac Brown Band	Jekyll + Hyde	Southern rock	Big Machine, Republic
April 29	BTS	The Most Beautiful Moment In Life, Part 1	Hip hop, dance-pop, R&B	Big Hit
	Gülşen	Bangır Bangır	Dance, pop	Doğan Music Company
	Whitesnake	The Purple Album	Hard rock, blues rock	Frontiers

May

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label
May 1	Best Coast	California Nights	Indie pop, alternative rock	Harvest
	Ciara	Jackie	R&B	Epic
	Hiatus Kaiyote	Choose Your Weapon	Neo soul, alternative R&B	Flying Buddha Records
	In Hearts Wake	Skydancer	Metalcore	UNFD
May 4	Tech N9ne	Special Effects	Hip hop	Strange Music
	Metz	II	Noise rock	Sub Pop
	Mumford & Sons	Wilder Mind	Alternative rock, indie rock, post-punk	Gentlemen of the Road, Island
	My Morning Jacket	The Waterfall	Indie rock, psychedelic rock	ATO
	Nosaj Thing	Fated	Electronic, hip hop	Innovative Leisure, Timetable Records
May 5	Chris Stapleton	Traveller	Country	Mercury Nashville
	Fireflight	Innova	Christian alternative rock, electropop, indie rock
	Kamasi Washington	The Epic	Jazz	Brainfeeder
	Kamelot	Haven	Power metal, progressive metal, symphonic metal	Napalm, Universal, Warner Music
	Korpiklaani	Noita	Folk metal	Nuclear Blast
	Rose Windows	Rose Windows		Sub Pop	^[24]
May 8	Róisín Murphy	Hairless Toys	Electronic, deep house	PIAS
May 9	Per Mathisen Trio	Ospitalita Generosa		Alessa	^[25]
May 12	BoA	Kiss My Lips	K-pop, ballad, dance	SM, KT Music
	The Early November	Imbue	Alternative rock, pop punk, emo	Rise
	Hinder	When the Smoke Clears	Hard rock, post-grunge	The End
	King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard	Quarters!	Psychedelic pop, psychedelic rock, jazz-rock	Heavenly, Flightless
	Patrick Watson	Love Songs for Robots		Domino, Secret City
	Prurient	Frozen Niagara Falls	Noise, industrial, power electronics	Profound Lore
	Snoop Dogg	Bush	West Coast hip hop	i Am Other, Columbia
	Sóley	Ask the Deep		Morr Music	^[26]
	Steve Aoki	Neon Future II	EDM	Ultra Music, Dim Mak
	The Tallest Man on Earth	Dark Bird Is Home	Folk	Dead Oceans
May 15	Ana & Milton Popović	Blue Room	Blues, soul	ArtisteXclusive records
	Brandon Flowers	The Desired Effect	Pop, electropop	Island
	Conchita Wurst	Conchita	Pop, baroque pop	Sony Music
	Hermitude	Dark Night Sweet Light		Elefant Traks	^[27]
	Jamie Foxx		R&B	RCA
	Zedd	True Colors	Progressive house, complextro, electro house	Interscope
May 17	Twenty One Pilots	Blurryface	Alternative hip hop, electropop, hip hop	Fueled by Ramen
May 18	Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!	Get Lost, Find Yourself	Pop punk	Fearless
	Haste the Day	Coward	Metalcore, Christian metal, hard rock	Solid State
	Hot Chip	Why Make Sense?	Synth-pop	Domino
	Mariah Carey	1 to Infinity	R&B, pop, gospel	Epic, Columbia, Legacy
	Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds	The Weather Below	Rock, alternative	Party Fowl Records, Thirty Tigers
May 19	Coal Chamber	Rivals		Napalm
	Faith No More	Sol Invictus	Alternative rock	Reclamation Records, Ipecac
	Holly Herndon	Platform	Electronic, experimental pop	4AD
	Shamir	Ratchet		XL
	Silverstein	I Am Alive in Everything I Touch	Post-hardcore	Rise
	The Story So Far	The Story So Far	Pop punk	Pure Noise
May 22	Alesso	Forever	Progressive house, electro house	Def Jam
	Colleen Hewett	Black & White		Bilarm Music Pty Ltd
	Daniel Johns	Talk	Neo soul	Eleven
May 25	Ash	Kablammo!	Alternative rock	earMUSIC
	Modestep	London Road	Alternative rock, drum and bass, dubstep	INgrooves
	Nocturnal Sunshine	Nocturnal Sunshine			^[28]
	Peatbog Faeries	Blackhouse	Celtic fusion, experimental	Peatbog Records
	The Vaccines	English Graffiti	Indie rock, pop rock	Columbia
	Will Young	85% Proof		Island
May 26	A$AP Rocky	At. Long. Last. A$AP	Hip hop	RCA
	Cory Marks	This Man	Country, country rock	Big Star Recordings
	Kara	In Love	Dance-pop	DSP
	Lifehouse	Out of the Wasteland	Alternative rock, pop rock, power pop	Ironworks
	Unknown Mortal Orchestra	Multi-Love	Indie rock, indie pop, psychedelic rock	Jagjaguwar
May 27	The Darkness	Last of Our Kind	Hard rock	Canary Dwarf
May 28	CLC	Question	K-pop, dance-pop	Cube
	Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment	Surf	Hip hop, neo soul, R&B
May 29	Florence + The Machine	How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful	Indie pop, art rock, alternative pop	Island
	Heather Nova	The Way It Feels	Alternative rock, indie rock	Embassy of Music
	Helloween	My God-Given Right	Power metal	Nuclear Blast
	Jamie xx	In Colour	Electronica, house	Young Turks
	Jason Derulo	Everything Is 4	R&B, dance, pop	Beluga Heights, Atlantic
	Paulini	Come Alive	Pop	Fortitude Group, Ambition, Decca
	Seventeen	17 Carat	Dance-pop	Pledis

June

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label
June 1	Jaga Jazzist	Starfire	Post-rock, progressive rock, future jazz	Ninja Tune
	Major Lazer	Peace Is the Mission	EDM, dancehall	Mad Decent
	Paradise Lost	The Plague Within	Death-doom, gothic metal	Century Media
	Slaves	Are You Satisfied?	Punk rock	Virgin EMI
June 2	Four Year Strong	Four Year Strong	Pop punk	Pure Noise
	I the Mighty	Connector	Progressive rock, post-hardcore, alternative rock	Equal Vision
	Sun Kil Moon	Universal Themes	Folk rock, indie folk, indie rock	Caldo Verde
	Zella Day	Kicker	Indie pop, pop	Pinetop, Hollywood
June 3	House of Lords	Indestructible		Frontiers	^[29]
	Måns Zelmerlöw	Perfectly Damaged	Pop	Warner Music Sweden
June 4	Tremonti	Cauterize	Thrash metal, post-grunge	FRET12
June 5	Muse	Drones	Alternative rock, hard rock, progressive rock	Warner Bros., Helium-3
June 6	Pseudo Echo	Live at the Viper Room	Synth-pop, electronic	Brian Canham
June 8	FFS	FFS	Indie rock, art rock, dance-rock	Domino
	Galantis	Pharmacy	Electro house, dance-pop, progressive house	Big Beat, Atlantic
	Of Monsters and Men	Beneath the Skin	Indie pop, indie folk	Republic
	Young Guns	Ones and Zeros	Alternative rock	Virgin EMI
June 9	honeyhoney	3	Americana, indie rock, country	Rounder
	Montgomery Gentry	Folks Like Us	Country	Blaster Records
	Tamia	Love Life	R&B, pop	Def Jam
June 12	Adam Lambert	The Original High	Synth-pop	Warner Bros.
	Burning Point	Burning Point		AFM	^[30]
	Giorgio Moroder	Déjà Vu	Disco, pop, EDM	RCA
	Hilary Duff	Breathe In. Breathe Out.	Folk-pop, dance-pop	RCA
	Savage Garden	The Singles	Pop	JWM, Universal
June 15	James Taylor	Before This World	Soft rock, folk	Concord
	Mika	No Place in Heaven	Pop	Casablanca
	Sarah Cracknell	Red Kite	Pop, baroque pop	Cherry Red
June 16	Active Child	Mercy		Vagrant	^[31]
	Hudson Mohawke	Lantern	Electronic	Warp
	Lukas Graham	Lukas Graham	Pop	Copenhagen, Warner Bros.
	MewithoutYou	Pale Horses	Indie rock, art rock	Run for Cover, Big Scary Monsters, Cooking Vinyl
	Nate Ruess	Grand Romantic	Pop	Fueled by Ramen
	Our Last Night	Younger Dreams			^[32]
	Ryn Weaver	The Fool	Indie pop	Interscope, Mad Love
	Third Eye Blind	Dopamine	Alternative rock, power pop, pop rock	Mega Collider
June 19	Borealis	Purgatory	Power metal, progressive metal	AFM
	Christine Anu	ReStylin' Up 20 Years	Jazz, soul, pop	Social Family
	Demet Akalın	Pırlanta	Pop	Doğan Music Company
	Graveworm	Ascending Hate		Nuclear Blast	^[33]
June 21	Four Tet	Morning/Evening		Text
June 22	AOA	Heart Attack	K-pop, electropop, dance-pop	FNC Entertainment
	The Ethical Debating Society	New Sense		Odd Box	^[34]
	Everything Everything	Get to Heaven	Art pop, art rock, progressive pop	RCA
	Wolf Alice	My Love Is Cool	Alternative rock	Dirty Hit
June 23	Breaking Benjamin	Dark Before Dawn	Alternative metal, post-grunge	Hollywood
	Elijah Blake	Shadows & Diamonds		ARTium, Def Jam	^[35]
	Kacey Musgraves	Pageant Material	Neotraditional country	Mercury Nashville
	Lindemann	Skills in Pills	Industrial metal	Warner Music
	Son Lux	Bones	Post-rock	Glassnote
	Tori Kelly	Unbreakable Smile	Pop, R&B	Capitol, Schoolboy
	Tyga		Hip hop	Last Kings
June 24	Carly Rae Jepsen	E·MO·TION	Pop, dance-pop	604, School Boy, Interscope
June 26	Unleash the Archers	Time Stands Still		Napalm	^[36]
June 28	Wavves and Cloud Nothings	No Life for Me	Post-punk, pop punk, indie rock	Ghost Ramp
June 29	August Burns Red	Found in Far Away Places	Metalcore	Fearless
	Meek Mill	Dreams Worth More Than Money	Hip hop	Maybach, Atlantic
	Miguel	Wildheart	R&B, rock	ByStorm, RCA
	Neil Young	The Monsanto Years	Rock	Reprise
June 30	Bilal	In Another Life	Neo soul	eOne Music
	Bonnie McKee	Bombastic	Pop	Bonnie McKee Music
	Failure	The Heart Is a Monster	Alternative rock	INgrooves Music Group
	Man Overboard	Heavy Love	Pop punk	Rise
	Senses Fail	Pull the Thorns from Your Heart	Metalcore	Pure Noise
	Vince Staples	Summertime '06	Hip hop	ARTium, Def Jam

Third quarter

July

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label
July 1	Big Bang	D	Electronic rock, pop punk, pop	YG Entertainment
July 3	The V	Now or Never			^[37]
July 4	Lil Wayne	Free Weezy Album	Hip hop	Young Money
July 10	Between the Buried and Me	Coma Ecliptic	Progressive metal	Metal Blade
	Cody Simpson	Free	Rock, folk	Coast House Records, Banana Beat Records
	Cradle of Filth	Hammer of the Witches	Extreme metal	Nuclear Blast
	Ghostface Killah	Twelve Reasons to Die II	Hip hop	Linear Labs
	Little Boots	Working Girl	Synth-pop, disco	On Repeat, Dim Mak
	Owl City	Mobile Orchestra	Electropop, synth-pop, EDM	Republic
	Phinehas	Till the End	Metalcore	Artery
	R5	Sometime Last Night	Pop rock	Hollywood
	Samantha Fish	Wild Heart		Ruf	^[38]
	Tyrese	Black Rose	R&B	Voltron, Caroline
	Veruca Salt	Ghost Notes	Alternative rock	El Camino Records
	Years & Years	Communion	Synth-pop, dance-pop	Polydor
July 16	Public Enemy	Man Plans God Laughs	Hip hop	Spitdigital
	Wilco	Star Wars	Alternative rock, indie rock	dBpm
July 17	Blinddog Smokin'	High Steppin		Silver Talon Records	^[39]
	The Chemical Brothers	Born in the Echoes	Electronica, trip hop, house	Astralwerks, Virgin EMI
	Future	DS2	Hip hop, trap	Freebandz, Epic, A1
	Galactic	Into the Deep	Jazz-funk	Provogue
	Iron & Wine & Ben Bridwell	Sing into My Mouth	World	Black Cricket, Brown
	Jason Isbell	Something More Than Free	Alternative country	Southeastern Records
	MS MR	How Does It Feel	Indie pop, alternative rock	Columbia
	Pitbull	Dale	Latin	Mr. 305, RCA
	Ratatat	Magnifique	Alternative rock	Because Music
	Tame Impala	Currents	Psychedelic pop	Modular, Interscope
July 23	Prince Royce	Double Vision	Pop	RCA
	We Lost The Sea	Departure Songs		Translation Loss Records	^[40]
July 24	Ashley Monroe	The Blade	Neotraditional country	Warner Bros. Nashville
	Bea Miller	Not an Apology	Pop punk	Hollywood
	The Bunny the Bear	A Liar Wrote This	Post-hardcore, experimental rock	Victory
	Holy Holy	When the Storms Would Come		Wonderlick
	Hopsin	Pound Syndrome	Hip hop	Funk Volume
	Jill Scott	Woman	Neo soul, funk	Blue Babe, Atlantic
	Joe Satriani	Shockwave Supernova	Instrumental rock	Sony Music
	Lamb of God		Groove metal, thrash metal	Epic, Nuclear Blast
	Nervo	Collateral	Dance, EDM	Ultra Music
	Sleaford Mods	Key Markets		Harbinger Sound
	Symphony X	Underworld	Progressive metal, neoclassical metal	Nuclear Blast
	Watkins Family Hour	Watkins Family Hour		Family Hour Records, Thirty Tigers	^[41]
	We Came as Romans	We Came as Romans	Alternative rock	Equal Vision, Spinefarm, Caroline Australia
July 28	Omar Souleyman	Bahdeni Nami		Monkeytown	^[42]
	Titus Andronicus	The Most Lamentable Tragedy	Punk rock, indie rock	Merge
July 30	Krallice	Ygg huur	Black metal, technical death metal, avant-garde metal	Hathenter, Gilead Media, Avantgarde Music
July 31	Finger Eleven	Five Crooked Lines	Hard rock, alternative metal, post-grunge	The Bicycle Music Company
	Joss Stone	Water for Your Soul	Soul, reggae, world	S-Curve, Stone'd
	Kataklysm	Of Ghosts and Gods	Death metal	Nuclear Blast
	Knuckle Puck	Copacetic	Pop punk	Rise
	Lianne La Havas	Blood	Neo soul	Warner Bros.
		Marks to Prove It	Art rock, indie rock	Fiction, Communion
		Yung Rich Nation	Trap	300, Quality Control
	Natalie Imbruglia	Male		Portrait
	Saint Asonia	Saint Asonia	Hard rock	RCA
	Teenage Time Killers	Teenage Time Killers: Greatest Hits Vol. 1		Rise	^[43]
	Xandria	Fire & Ashes	Symphonic metal, power metal	Napalm

August

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label
August 3	On Bodies	Unremarkably Mortal	Hardcore	Irish VooDoo Records	^[44]
August 5	Big Bang	E	Hip hop	YG Entertainment
August 7	Cattle Decapitation	The Anthropocene Extinction	Deathgrind, progressive death metal	Metal Blade
	Chelsea Wolfe	Abyss	Doom metal, noise rock	Sargent House
	Dr. Dre	Compton	West Coast hip hop	Aftermath, Interscope
	Fear Factory	Genexus	Industrial metal, groove metal, thrash metal	Nuclear Blast
	Frank Turner	Positive Songs for Negative People	Folk punk, folk rock	Xtra Mile
	Ivy Levan	No Good	Pop, smooth soul	Interscope, Cherrytree
	Langhorne Slim	The Spirit Moves		Dualtone	^[45]
	Luke Bryan	Kill the Lights	Country	Capitol Nashville
	Mac DeMarco	Another One	Indie rock	Captured Tracks
	Miss May I	Deathless	Metalcore	Rise
	Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique	Love Is Free	Dance	Konichiwa, Cherrytree, Interscope
	The Rubens	Hoops	Alternative, pop, rock	Ivy League
August 13	FKA Twigs	M3LL155X		Young Turks
August 14	Atticus Ross	Music from Love and Mercy	Ambient, mashup	Capitol
	B.o.B.	Psycadelik Thoughtz	Hip hop	Grand Hustle, Atlantic, Rebel Rock
	Bullet for My Valentine	Venom	Metalcore, thrash metal	RCA
	The Good Life	Everybody's Coming Down	Indie rock	Saddle Creek
	Grace Potter	Midnight	Pop, dance-pop	Hollywood
	Julieta Venegas	Algo Sucede	Folk rock, indie pop, pop rock	Ohanian S.	^[46]
	Melanie Martinez	Cry Baby	Electropop	Atlantic
	Neck Deep	Life's Not out to Get You	Pop punk	Hopeless
	New Politics	Vikings	Alternative rock	Warner Bros., DCD2
	Soulfly	Archangel	Thrash metal, groove metal	Nuclear Blast
August 21	Bon Jovi	Burning Bridges		Mercury
	Butcher Babies	Take It Like a Man	Thrash metal	Century Media
	David Campbell	The Essential David Campbell	Pop	Sony Music Australia
	Disturbed	Immortalized	Heavy metal, alternative metal	Reprise
	The Fratellis	Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied	Alternative rock	Cooking Vinyl
	Ghost	Meliora	Heavy metal, doom metal, progressive rock	Loma Vista
	Imperial State Electric	Honk Machine		Psychout	^[47]
	Jess Glynne	I Cry When I Laugh	Pop, R&B	Atlantic
	JoJo	III.	Electro, R&B	Atlantic
	Jordin Sparks	Right Here Right Now	R&B, pop	19, Louder Than Life, RAL
	Kip Moore	Wild Ones	Country pop, country rock, heartland rock	MCA Nashville
	Method Man	The Meth Lab	Hip hop	Hanz On Music, Tommy Boy
		The Awakening	Alternative metal, Christian metal, nu metal	Universal, T-Boy
	Pop Evil	Up	Hard rock, rock	eOne Music
	The Sword	High Country	Stoner rock, hard rock	Razor & Tie
August 26	The Gazette	Dogma	Rock	Sony Music Japan
August 28	Atlas Genius	Inanimate Objects	Alternative rock, indietronica, synth-pop	Warner Bros.
	Beach House	Depression Cherry	Dream pop	Sub Pop
	Crazy Town	The Brimstone Sluggers	Rap rock	Membran Records
	Destroyer	Poison Season		Merge, Dead Oceans
	Ella Eyre	Feline		Virgin EMI
	Foals	What Went Down	Indie rock	Transgressive
	Halsey	Badlands	Electropop, synth-pop	Astralwerks, Capitol
	Holly Golightly	Slowtown Now!		Damaged Goods	^[48]
	Hooton Tennis Club	Highest Point in Cliff Town			^[49]
	Last Dinosaurs	Wellness	Indie rock, synth-pop	Dew Process, Universal Music Australia
	Motörhead	Bad Magic	Heavy metal, hard rock	UDR GmbH
	The Paper Kites	Twelvefour	Indie rock, folk rock	Wonderlick, Sony Music Australia, Nettwerk
	Titãs	Nheengatu ao Vivo	Punk rock, rock	Som Livre
	The Weeknd	Beauty Behind the Madness	Alternative R&B, R&B, pop	Republic, XO
	Yo La Tengo	Stuff Like That There	Indie rock	Matador
August 30	Miley Cyrus	Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz	Experimental, psychedelic	Smiley Miley

September

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label
September 4	a-ha	Cast in Steel	Alternative rock, pop rock	Universal
	Against Me!	23 Live Sex Acts	Punk rock	Total Treble Music
	Ane Brun	When I'm Free	Folk	Balloon Ranger Recordings
	The Arcs	Yours, Dreamily,	Garage rock, soul, rhythm and blues	Nonesuch
	The Dear Hunter		Progressive rock, indie rock	Equal Vision
	Five Finger Death Punch	Got Your Six	Hard rock, groove metal	Prospect Park
	Iron Maiden	The Book of Souls	Heavy metal	Parlophone
	k-os	Can't Fly Without Gravity	Alternative hip hop	Dine Alone
	Oh Wonder	Oh Wonder	Indie pop, electropop, alternative	Island, Republic, Caroline
	Public Image Ltd	What the World Needs Now...	Post-punk	PiL Official Ltd
		Love, Fear and the Time Machine	Progressive rock	Inside Out
	Scarface	Deeply Rooted	Hip hop	Facemob Music, BMG
	Travis Scott	Rodeo	Hip hop	Grand Hustle, Epic
	Troye Sivan	Wild	Electropop, dream pop	EMI Music Australia, Capitol
	The Wonder Years	No Closer to Heaven	Pop punk	Hopeless
September 7	Prince	Hit n Run Phase One	R&B, soul, electronic	NPG
September 11	Beirut	No No No	Indie folk, Balkan folk	4AD
	Ben Folds	So There	Chamber pop	New West
	Brett Eldredge	Illinois	Country	Atlantic Nashville
	Bring Me the Horizon	That's the Spirit	Alternative rock, electronic rock, pop rock	Sony Music, Columbia, RCA
	Colton Dixon	The Calm Before the Storm	CCM	Sparrow, Capitol CMG
	Duran Duran	Paper Gods	New wave, pop rock, pop	Warner Bros.
	The Hollywood Vampires	Hollywood Vampires	Rock	Republic, Universal Music
	Jarryd James	Thirty One	Indie pop	Dryden Street, Universal Australia
	Jay Rock	90059	West Coast hip hop	Top Dawg
	Jewel	Picking Up the Pieces	Country folk	Sugar Hill
	Kwabs	Love + War	Pop, R&B, soul	Atlantic
	Kylie and Garibay	Kylie and Garibay	Electronic	Parlophone, Warner Bros.
	Leona Lewis	I Am	R&B	Island, Def Jam
	The Libertines	Anthems for Doomed Youth	Garage rock revival, indie rock	Virgin EMI
	Low	Ones and Sixes		Sub Pop
	Nero	Between II Worlds	Electronic rock, dubstep, drum and bass,	MTA
	Slayer	Repentless	Thrash metal	Nuclear Blast
	Stereophonics	Keep the Village Alive	Rock	Stylus Records
	Stratovarius	Eternal		Edel
	T.I.	Da' Nic	Hip hop	King Inc., Grand Hustle, Empire
	Wisin	Los Vaqueros: La Trilogía		Sony Music Latin	^[50]
September 15	Toby Fox	Undertale Soundtrack	Chiptune, ambient, electronicore	Materia Collective
September 16	Tofubeats	Positive	J-pop	Unborde	^[51]
September 18	Ann Wilson	The Ann Wilson Thing! - #1			^[52]
	Atreyu	Long Live	Metalcore	Spinefarm
	Battles	La Di Da Di	Experimental rock, math rock, instrumental rock	Warp
	The Black Dahlia Murder	Abysmal	Melodic death metal	Metal Blade
	Blackalicious	Imani Vol. 1	Hip hop	OGM Recordings
	blessthefall	To Those Left Behind	Metalcore	Fearless
	Le Butcherettes	A Raw Youth	Punk rock, indie rock	Rodriguez Lopez Productions, Ipecac
	Chris Cornell	Higher Truth	Rock	Universal
	CocoRosie	Heartache City	Freak folk	Lost Girl Records
	Creeper	The Callous Heart	Horror punk, punk rock	Roadrunner
	David Cook	Digital Vein	Rock	Analog Heart
	David Gilmour	Rattle That Lock	Rock	Columbia
	The Front Bottoms	Back on Top	Indie rock	Fueled by Ramen
	Home Free	Country Evolution	A cappella, country	Columbia	^[53]
	Jon Stevens	Woman		Social Family
	Judy Collins	Strangers Again			^[54]
	Katharine McPhee	Hysteria	Pop	eOne
	Keith Richards	Crosseyed Heart	Rock, Rock and roll, blues	Republic
	Leigh Nash	The State I'm In	Country
	Lana Del Rey	Honeymoon	Baroque pop, dream pop, trip hop	Polydor, Interscope
	Mac Miller		Hip hop	Warner Bros., REMember
	Mercury Rev	The Light in You	Alternative rock, neo-psychedelia	Bella Union
	Metric	Pagans in Vegas	Indie rock, new wave	Metric Music International
	Mild High Club	Timeline	Psychedelic pop	Circle Star Records
	Motion City Soundtrack	Panic Stations	Pop punk, alternative rock, indie rock	Epitaph
	Pwr Bttm	Ugly Cherries	Queercore
	Reflections	The Color Clear	Progressive metalcore	eOne, Good Fight
	Rhodes	Wishes		Imports Records
	Robert DeLong	In the Cards		Glassnote	^[55]
	Shinedown	Threat to Survival	Hard rock	Atlantic
	Turnpike Troubadours	Turnpike Troubadours		Bossier City Records	^[56]
	Ugly Kid Joe	Uglier Than They Used ta Be	Rock, hard rock, heavy metal	Metalville, UKJ Records
September 20	Drake & Future	What a Time to Be Alive	Hip hop	Cash Money, Epic, Freebandz
September 25	Big Grams (Big Boi and Phantogram)	Big Grams	Alternative hip hop	Epic
	Caspian	Dust and Disquiet		Triple Crown	^[57]
	Chvrches	Every Open Eye	Synth-pop	Virgin EMI
	Darkstar	Foam Island		Warp	^[58]
	The Dead Weather	Dodge and Burn	Alternative rock, garage rock, hard rock	Third Man
	Anthony de Mare		Classical	ECM
	Disclosure	Caracal	House, UK garage	PMR, Island
	Fetty Wap	Fetty Wap	Hip hop, trap	RGF Productions, 300, Atlantic
	Gloryhammer		Symphonic power metal	Napalm
	Graveyard	Innocence & Decadence	Hard rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock	Nuclear Blast
	Julia Holter	Have You in My Wilderness	Baroque pop, dream pop	Domino
	Kaskade	Automatic	Dance, progressive house, deep house	Arkade, Warner Bros.
	Kurt Vile	B'lieve I'm Goin Down...	Indie rock	Matador
	Matthew Good	Chaotic Neutral	Alternative rock	Warner Music Canada
	Milo	So the Flies Don't Come	Hip hop	Ruby Yacht, The Order Label
	New Order	Music Complete	Dance-rock, electropop	Mute
	No Devotion	Permanence	Synth-pop, new wave	Collect
	Parkway Drive	Ire	Metalcore	Epitaph
	Peaches	Rub	Electropop	I U She
	Robin Schulz	Sugar	Deep house	TONSPIEL, Warner
	Silversun Pickups	Better Nature	Alternative rock, shoegazing	New Machine Records
	Thomas Rhett	Tangled Up	Country	Valory
	V V Brown	Glitch	Electronica, trip hop	YOY Records
	Il Volo	L'amore si muove	Pop, operatic pop	Sony Music
	The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die	Harmlessness	Indie rock, emo, post-rock	Epitaph
	Youth Lagoon	Savage Hills Ballroom	Dream pop	Fat Possum
September 30	Seth MacFarlane	No One Ever Tells You	Easy listening, traditional pop, vocal jazz	Republic, Fuzzy Door Productions

Fourth quarter

October

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label
October 2	Avicii	Stories	House, electronic dance	PRMD, Island
	Blitzen Trapper	All Across This Land	Alternative country	Vagrant, Lojinx
	Bryan Adams	Get Up	Rock	Polydor
	Bryson Tiller	Trapsoul	Alternative R&B, soul	RCA
	Children of Bodom	I Worship Chaos	Melodic death metal	Nuclear Blast
	Clutch	Psychic Warfare	Blues rock, stoner rock	Weathermaker
	Cold Chisel	The Perfect Crime	Rock	Cold Chisel Music
	Collective Soul	See What You Started by Continuing		Vanguard
	Deafheaven	New Bermuda	Blackgaze, post-metal	Anti-
	Eagles of Death Metal	Zipper Down	Garage rock	Downtown
	Editors	In Dream	Post-punk revival, dark wave, synth-pop	PIAS
	Janet Jackson	Unbreakable	R&B, pop	Rhythm Nation, BMG
	Malevolent Creation	Dead Man's Path	Death metal	Century Media
	New Years Day	Malevolence	Alternative metal, gothic metal, hard rock	Another Century
	Rudimental	We the Generation	Drum and bass, soul	Asylum, Atlantic, Black Butter
	Sevendust	Kill the Flaw	Alternative metal	Asylum, 7Bros.
	The Sheepdogs	Future Nostalgia	Rock, boogie rock, Southern rock	Warner
	The Shoes	Chemicals		Green United Music	^[59]
	Swim Deep	Mothers	Psychedelic pop	RCA
	Tamar Braxton	Calling All Lovers	R&B	Epic, Streamline Records
	Trivium	Silence in the Snow	Heavy metal	Roadrunner
	The Winery Dogs	Hot Streak	Hard rock, blues rock	Three Dog Music
October 9	Alesha Dixon	Do It for Love	R&B	Precious Stone Records
	Boy & Bear	Limit of Love	Indie rock, indie folk	Universal	^[60]
	City and Colour	If I Should Go Before You	Alternative rock	Dine Alone
	Faithless	Faithless 2.0	Trip hop, trance, dance	Nates Tunes, PIAS, Ultra
	The Game	The Documentary 2	West Coast hip hop	Blood Money, eOne Music
	Jamie Lawson	Jamie Lawson	Pop	Gingerbread Man Records
	John Grant	Grey Tickles, Black Pressure	Soft rock	Bella Union
	Hurts	Surrender	Synth-pop	Sony Music, Columbia
	Mayday Parade	Black Lines	Emo, pop punk	Fearless
	Protomartyr	The Agent Intellect	Post-punk, indie rock	Hardly Art
	R. City	What Dreams Are Made Of	Reggae fusion, hip hop	Kemosabe
	Reece Mastin	Change Colours	Pop rock	Social Family
	Selena Gomez	Revival	Pop	Interscope, Polydor
	St Germain	St Germain	Nu jazz	Warner Bros.
	Toby Keith	35 MPH Town	Country	Show Dog-Universal
	W.A.S.P.	Golgotha	Heavy metal	Napalm
October 16	Børns	Dopamine	Indie pop, alternative rock, synth-pop	Interscope
	Caravan Palace	(a.k.a. Robot Face)	Electro swing	Wagram
	Coheed and Cambria	The Color Before the Sun	Alternative rock, pop rock	300 Entertainment
	Deerhunter	Fading Frontier	Dream pop, experimental rock	4AD
	Demi Lovato	Confident	Pop	Hollywood, Island, Safehouse
	The Game	The Documentary 2.5	West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap	Blood Money, eOne Music
	Jean-Michel Jarre		Electronic	Columbia
	Joe Budden	All Love Lost	Hip hop	eOne
	Ludovico Einaudi	Elements		Decca
	Neon Indian	Vega Intl. Night School	Electronic, disco, neo-psychedelia	Mom + Pop, Transgressive
	Nothing But Thieves	Nothing but Thieves	Alternative rock	RCA
	Omi	Me 4 U	Tropical house, reggae	Ultra, Columbia
	Pentatonix	Pentatonix	A cappella	RCA
October 20	Twice	The Story Begins	K-pop, dance	JYP
October 22	Kari Rueslåtten	To the North			^[61]
October 23	5 Seconds of Summer	Sounds Good Feels Good	Pop rock, pop-punk	Hi or Hey, Capitol
	Carrie Underwood	Storyteller	Country	Arista Nashville, 19
	Chris Isaak	First Comes the Night	Roots rock	Vanguard
	Chris Tomlin		Worship, CCM	sixstepsrecords, Sparrow
	Dave Gahan & Soulsavers	Angels & Ghosts	Alternative rock, blues rock, acoustic music	Columbia
	Gazpacho	Molok			^[62]
	Joanna Newsom	Divers	Avant-garde, baroque pop	Drag City
	Josef Salvat	Night Swim	Pop, electropop	Columbia
	Julien Baker	Sprained Ankle	Folk	6131 Records
	Marianas Trench	Astoria	Pop rock	604
	Mogwai	Central Belters	Post-rock	Rock Action
	Pure Bathing Culture	Pray for Rain		Partisan	^[63]
	Rod Stewart	Another Country		Capitol
	RuPaul	Slay Belles	Christmas	RuCo Inc.
	Vanessa Carlton	Liberman	Pop	Dine Alone
October 27	f(x)	4 Walls	Electropop, house, synth-pop	SM, Genie Music
	Mark Kozelek and Nicolás Pauls	Dreams of Childhood	Spoken word	Caldo Verde
October 28	Il Divo	Amor & Pasión	Classical crossover, tango, bolero	Syco, Sony Music, Columbia
October 30	Amy Winehouse and Antônio Pinto	Amy	Jazz, soul, neo soul	Island
	Car Seat Headrest	Teens of Style	Indie rock	Matador
	Carnage	Papi Gordo	Big room house, trap	Ultra
	Def Leppard	Def Leppard	Hard rock	Bludgeon Riffola, earMUSIC, Mailboat
	Drive-By Truckers	It's Great to Be Alive!		ATO
	Escape the Fate	Hate Me	Post-hardcore	Eleven Seven
	James Morrison	Higher Than Here	Pop	Island
	Lalah Hathaway	Lalah Hathaway Live	R&B, soul, pop	eOne Music
	Mette Henriette	Mette Henriette	Jazz	ECM	^[64]
	The Neighbourhood	Wiped Out!	Alternative rock, R&B, post-rock	Columbia
	Puscifer	Money Shot	Alternative rock, post-industrial	Puscifer Entertainment
	Skindred	Volume	Nu metal	Napalm
	Steve Martin & Edie Brickell	So Familiar	Bluegrass	Rounder
	Tina Arena	Eleven	Pop, R&B, soul	Positive Dream, EMI Australia
October 31	Cassper Nyovest	Refiloe	Hip hop, motswako, house	Family Tree, Universal South Africa

November

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label
November 3	Eric Church	Mr. Misunderstood	Country, rock, blues	EMI Nashville
November 4	Puff Daddy & the Family	MMM (Money Making Mitch)	East Coast hip hop	Bad Boy, Epic
November 6	Anastacia	Ultimate Collection		Sony Music
	Angie Stone	Dream	Soul	Shanachie
	Billy Gibbons and the BFG's	Perfectamundo	Blues rock, Afro-Cuban	Concord
	Birds of Tokyo	Playlist	Alternative rock, indie rock	Birds of Tokyo, EMI Music Australia
	Björk	Vulnicura Strings	Chamber	One Little Indian
	CeeLo Green	Heart Blanche	Soul, neo soul	Atlantic
	Dawid Podsiadło	Annoyance and Disappointment		Sony Music	^[65]
	Ellie Goulding	Delirium	Synth-pop, dance	Polydor
	Extreme Noise Terror	Extreme Noise Terror		Willowtip Records
	Grimes	Art Angels	Synth-pop, dance, art pop	4AD
	Jamie Woon	Making Time	Electronica, trip hop, R&B	Polydor
	Joe Moore	A Thousand Lifetimes	Pop	Decca, Universal Australia
	Kate Boy	One		Iamsound
	Khruangbin	The Universe Smiles upon You		Night Time Stories
	Kode9	Nothing		Hyperdub	^[66]
	Lacrimosa	Hoffnung	Gothic metal, gothic rock	Hall of Sermon
	Laura Pausini	Simili	Latin pop	Warner Italy
	Little Mix	Get Weird	Synth-pop, dance-pop, R&B	Syco, Columbia
	Mylène Farmer	Interstellaires	Electronica, synth-pop	Universal
	Paulini	Merry Christmas	Christmas	Ambition	^[67]
	Sara Bareilles		Pop rock, soul	Epic
	Seal	7	Soul, R&B	Warner Bros.
	Steak Number Eight	Kosmokoma			^[68]
	Tim McGraw	Damn Country Music	Country	Big Machine
November 11	Nana Mizuki	Smashing Anthems	J-pop	King
November 13	Alessia Cara	Know-It-All	R&B, pop	Def Jam, UMG
	Anna von Hausswolff	The Miraculous	Folk metal, neoclassical, art pop	Pomperipossa Records, City Slang, Other Music
	Ben Haenow	Ben Haenow	Pop, pop rock	Syco, RCA
	Boots	Aquaria	Alternative R&B, experimental hip hop	Columbia
	Casting Crowns	A Live Worship Experience	Worship, CCM, Christian rock	Beach Street, Reunion
	Jeff Lynne's ELO	Alone in the Universe		Columbia
	A Great Big World	When the Morning Comes	Pop, pop rock	Epic, Black Magnetic
	Justin Bieber	Purpose	Pop	Def Jam, RBMG, Schoolboy
	Kerser	Next Step		Warner Australia	^[69]
	King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard	Paper Mâché Dream Balloon	Folk rock, psychedelic folk, psychedelic pop	Heavenly, ATO, Flightless
	Kurt Cobain		Grunge, field recordings	Universal
	Kylie Minogue	Kylie Christmas	Christmas, traditional pop	Parlophone, Warner Bros.
	Logic	The Incredible True Story	Hip hop	Def Jam, Visionary
	Moke	The Time Has Come			^[70]
	One Direction	Made in the A.M.	Rock, pop rock	Columbia, Syco
	Oneohtrix Point Never	Garden of Delete	Electronic, experimental	Warp
	Swallow the Sun	Songs from the North I, II & III	Death-doom, funeral doom	Century Media
	Train	Christmas in Tahoe	Christmas	Universal
	Ty Dolla Sign	Free TC	Hip hop, R&B	Atlantic
November 16	Redlight	X Colour		Lobster Boy	^[71]
November 20	Adele	25	Pop, soul, R&B	XL, Columbia
	Anggun	Toujours un ailleurs	Pop	TF1
	Carter Burwell	Carol: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack		Varèse Sarabande
	Enya	Dark Sky Island	New-age, Celtic	Warner Music, Reprise
	Freddie Gibbs	Shadow of a Doubt	Hip hop
	Newton Faulkner	Human Love	Folk rock	BMG
	Samantha Jade	Nine	Dance-pop, pop
	Tech N9ne	Strangeulation Vol. II	Hip hop	Strange Music
	Yellow Claw	Blood for Mercy
November 23	Foo Fighters	Saint Cecilia	Rock	RCA
November 25	Nick Carter	All American	Pop, pop rock, pop punk	Kaotic, Inc
November 27	Alyssa Reid	Phoenix		Wax Records	^[72]
	The Arcs	The Arcs vs. The Inventors Vol. 1		Nonesuch	^[73]
	The Corrs	White Light	Pop	East West
	Danzig	Skeletons		Evilive, Nuclear Blast
	Erykah Badu	But You Caint Use My Phone	R&B, soul, electronica	Motown, Control Freaq
	Parquet Courts	Monastic Living	Experimental rock	Rough Trade
	Pope Francis	Wake Up!	Christian, progressive rock	Believe Digital
	The Vamps	Wake Up	Pop	Mercury, Virgin EMI
November 30	BTS	The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2	Hip hop, dance-pop, R&B	Big Hit

December

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Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label
December 4	Babyface	Return of the Tender Lover	R&B	Def Jam
	Coldplay	A Head Full of Dreams	Alternative rock	Parlophone, Atlantic
	Fleur East	Love, Sax and Flashbacks	R&B, pop, hip hop	Syco
	G-Eazy	When It's Dark Out	Hip hop	RCA
	Ice Nine Kills	Every Trick in the Book	Metalcore, symphonic metal	Fearless
	Jeremih	Late Nights	R&B	Def Jam
	Kid Cudi	Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven	Alternative rock, avant-garde, lo-fi	Republic, Wicked Awesome
	Rick Ross	Black Market	Hip hop	Maybach, Slip-n-Slide, Def Jam
	Sarah Geronimo	The Great Unknown	Pop, R&B, dance	Viva
	Sigma	Life	Drum and bass	3Beat
	Troye Sivan	Blue Neighbourhood	Electropop, dream pop	EMI Music Australia, Capitol
December 11	Cam	Untamed	Country	Arista Nashville, RCA
	EMA	Horror: Original Score by EMA		Matador
	jennylee	right on!	New wave	Rough Trade
	Lizzo	Big Grrrl Small World	Hip hop	BGSW
	R. Kelly	The Buffet	R&B
	Secrets	Everything That Got Us Here	Post hardcore, melodic metalcore	Rise, Velocity Records
December 12	Prince	Hit n Run Phase Two	Funk, soul, pop	NPG, Universal
December 18	Ariana Grande	Christmas & Chill	Christmas, R&B	Republic
	Baroness	Purple	Alternative rock	Abraxan Hymns
	Bloodhound Gang	Hard-Off		Jimmy Franks Recording Company	^[74]
	Cage the Elephant	Tell Me I'm Pretty	Garage rock, indie rock	RCA
	Chris Brown	Royalty	R&B, alternative R&B	RCA
	JoJo	LoveJo2	Hip hop soul, R&B	Atlantic
	Monica	Code Red	R&B	RCA
	Pusha T		Hip hop	GOOD, Def Jam
	What So Not	Gemini		Owsla	^[75]
December 19	Tiwa Savage	R.E.D	Pop, Afro-pop, reggae	Mavin, 323 Entertainment
December 24	iKON	Welcome Back	Dance-pop, K-pop	YG
December 25	Kid Ink	Summer in the Winter	Hip hop	RCA

Notes and References

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6. Web site: Vision Eternel's Echoes from Forgotten Hearts: an in-depth journey through emotional landscapes of melogaze . Idioteq . February 6, 2024 . April 6, 2024.
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8. Web site: Stream Make Do And Mend's new album, 'Don't Be Long' . AltPress . February 16, 2015 . June 20, 2015.
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32. Web site: Our Last Night releasing new album, 'Younger Dreams,' in June . AltPress . May 19, 2015 . May 25, 2015.
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38. Web site: Samantha Fish: Wild Heart . Louder . July 1, 2015 . March 2, 2020 . West, David.
39. Web site: Grammy-Nominated Blues-Funk Outfit Blinddog Smokin' To Release New Album . Elmore Magazine . May 19, 2015 . August 25, 2015.
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41. Web site: Watkins Family Hour: Watkins Family Hour Review . Paste . July 24, 2015 . November 1, 2018 . Gleason, Holly.
42. Web site: Omar Souleyman Teams With Four Tet, Modeselektor, Black Lips for New Album Bahdeni Nami . Pitchfork.com . March 26, 2015 . April 3, 2015 . Minsker, Evan.
43. Web site: Teenage Time Killers – Greatest Hits Vol. 1 . Consequence of Sound . July 23, 2015 . March 2, 2020 . Buchanan, David.
44. Web site: On Bodies streaming their new EP Unremarkably Mortal . Idioteq . April 22, 2015 . May 18, 2023.
45. Web site: Langhorne Slim Announces New Album 'The Spirit Moves' . American Songwriter . May 7, 2015 . August 8, 2018 . McKenna, Brittney.
46. Web site: Listen to Julieta Venegas' New Single 'Ese Camino' . Billboard . May 11, 2015 . July 25, 2015 . Romero, Angie.
47. Web site: Album Review: Imperial State Electric - "Honk Machine" . Pure Rawk . October 2, 2015 . March 3, 2020 . Close, Andy.
48. Web site: Album Review: Holly Golightly 'Slowtown Now!' . The Daily Country . August 13, 2015 . March 3, 2020.
49. Web site: Hooton Tennis Club - Highest Point in Cliff Town . AllMusic . January 16, 2024 . Sendra, Tim.
50. Web site: Wisin presentó 'Los vaqueros' . Wisin presented 'The Cowboys' . Crítica.com.pa . Spanish . September 10, 2015 . March 9, 2020.
51. Web site: Tofubeats新曲「Positive」ボーカルにDream Ami、ラジオOAと配信も . Dream Ami on vocals for Tofubeats new song Positive, radio OA and distribution . Natalie . Japanese . August 6, 2015 . February 24, 2023.
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53. Web site: Country Evolution Home Free . Country Standard Time . April 9, 2022 . Yost, Greg.
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57. Web site: Caspian announces new album, Dust & Disquiet, shares "Sad Heart of Mine" . Consequence of Sound . June 26, 2015 . September 18, 2015 . Geslani, Michelle.
58. Web site: Darkstar Announce New Album 'Foam Island' . Clash . July 23, 2015 . July 29, 2015 . Murray, Robin.
59. Web site: The Shoes - Chemicals . musicOMH . November 17, 2015 . March 15, 2020 . Monk, Christopher.
60. Web site: Boy & Bear: Limit of Love review – crisp, risk-free folk-pop that will offend no one . The Guardian . October 19, 2015 . May 26, 2021 . Hennessy, Kate.
61. Web site: CD Review: Kari Rueslåtten - To the North (2015) . Rockerio . Spanish . January 2, 2016 . March 16, 2020.
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63. Web site: Pure Bathing Culture – Pray for Rain . Consequence of Sound . October 19, 2015 . March 16, 2020 . Flynn, Katherine.
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69. Web site: Album Review: Kerser – Next Step (2015 LP) . The AU Review . December 2, 2015 . August 22, 2015 . Day, Alexis.
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72. Web site: Review - Alyssa Reid . Canada Beats . November 27, 2015 . March 23, 2020 . Hather, Amanda.
73. Web site: The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach's the Arcs Launch "Inventors" Series With Dr. John / David Hidalgo 10" . Pitchfork . October 28, 2015 . August 30, 2019 . Minkser, Evan.
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