The following lists the top 25 albums of 2015 in Australia from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) end-of-year albums chart.[1]
Adele’s album 25 was named the highest selling album in Australia in 2015. The album was released in November and spent six weeks at number one. Ed Sheeran’s album x was number 1 and Taylor Swift’s 1989 was number 2 in 2014; they’re both one spot lower in 2015. Sam Smith’s In the Lonely Hour is the sixth-best-selling album for the second year in a row and Michael Bublé's Christmas appeared in the top 10 end-of-year chart for the fifth consecutive year. There were 35 Australian artist releases in the top 100, with Lee Kernaghan’s Spirit of the Anzacs being the best selling Australian album in 2015.[2]
| No. | Title | Artist | Highest pos. reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 1 | ||
| 2 | x | Ed Sheeran | 1 | |
| 3 | 1989 | 1 | ||
| 4 | Purpose | Justin Bieber | 1 | |
| 5 | Title | Meghan Trainor | 1 | |
| 6 | In the Lonely Hour | 1 | ||
| 7 | Christmas | Michael Bublé | 1 | |
| 8 | Spirit of the Anzacs | Lee Kernaghan | 1 | |
| 9 | Made in the A.M. | 2 | ||
| 10 | How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 1 | ||
| 11 | If I Can Dream | Elvis Presley with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | 1 | |
| 12 | Hozier | Hozier | 3 | |
| 13 | Fifty Shades of Grey | soundtrack | 1 | |
| 14 | 1000 Forms of Fear | Sia | 1 | |
| 15 | Beauty Behind the Madness | 1 | ||
| 16 | Dream Your Life Away | Vance Joy | 1 | |
| 17 | Chaos and the Calm | James Bay | 3 | |
| 18 | Wilder Mind | Mumford & Sons | 1 | |
| 19 | Frozen (soundtrack) | 1 | ||
| 20 | The Very Best of Richie | The Twelfth Man | 4 | |
| 21 | Compton | Dr. Dre | 1 | |
| 22 | A Head Full Of Dreams | Coldplay | 2 | |
| 23 | To Pimp a Butterfly | Kendrick Lamar | 1 | |
| 24 | Triple J’s Like a Version 11 | various artists | 1 | |
| 25 | Walking Under Stars | Hilltop Hoods | 1 |