2015 in Canadian music

This is a summary of the year 2015 in the Canadian music industry.

Events

• March 10 – Rapper Shad is announced as the new host of CBC Radio One's daily arts and culture magazine show Q
• March 15 – Juno Awards of 2015
• March 29 – Chad VanGaalen wins the Prism Prize for his music video for Timber Timbre's song "Beat the Drum Slowly".
• April – East Coast Music Awards
• April 12 – Kevin Bazinet wins the third season of La Voix.
• June 16 – Prelimimary longlist for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize is announced.
• July 9 – Dear Rouge (English) and Antoine Corriveau (French) are announced as the winners of the 2015 SOCAN Songwriting Prize.
• July 16 – Shortlist for the Polaris Music Prize is announced.
• September 21 – Buffy Sainte-Marie wins the Polaris Music Prize for her album Power in the Blood.
• November 8 – 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards

Bands formed

• Saint Asonia

Albums released

#

• 2Frères, Nous autres

A

• The Acorn, Vieux Loup – May 19
• Bryan Adams, Get Up! – October 16
• Bernard Adamus, Sorel Soviet So What
• a l l i e, Moonlust
• Marie-Pierre Arthur, Si l'aurore – February
• Astral Swans, All My Favorite Singers Are Willie Nelson

B

• BADBADNOTGOOD with Ghostface Killah, Sour Soul – February 17
• Barenaked Ladies, Silverball – June 2
• Alexis Baro, Guilty Pleasure
• Eric Bearclaw, Strains
• Justin Bieber, Purpose
• Big Brave, Au De La
• The Blue Stones, Black Holes - October 20
• Philippe Brach, Portraits de famine
• Braids, Deep in the Iris – April 28
• Dean Brody, Gypsy Road – April 21
• Michael Jerome Browne, Sliding Delta
• Burnstick, Dream Big, Little One / Fais de beaux rêves, petit ange
• Spencer Burton, Some That Were, Some That Are and Some That Will Be

C

• Kathryn Calder, Kathryn Calder
• Cancer Bats, Searching for Zero – March 10
• Cannon Bros., Dream City
• Alessia Cara, Four Pink Walls – August 28
• Casper Skulls, Lips & Skull
• Chic Gamine, Light a Match
• Ramon Chicharron, Uepaje
• Annabelle Chvostek, Be the Media – April 30
• Cindy Lee, Act of Tenderness
• Cindy Lee, Malenkost
• City and Colour, If I Should Go Before You – October 9
• Tom Cochrane, Take It Home – February 10
• Cœur de pirate, Roses – August 28
• Concealer, feted:fetid
• Louis-Jean Cormier, Les Grandes artères – March 23
• Corridor, Le Voyage Éternel

D

• Danko Jones, Fire Music – February 6
• Thomas D'Arcy, Fooled You Twice
• Dear Rouge, Black to Gold
• The Dears, Times Infinity Volume One – September 25
• Mac DeMarco, Demos Volume One – January 20
• Destroyer, Poison Season – August 28
• Devours, Avalon
• Digawolf, Great Northern Man
• Dilly Dally, Sore
• Alan Doyle, So Let's Go
• Drake, If You're Reading This It's Too Late – February 14

E

• Eccodek, Remixing in Tongues
• The Elwins, Play for Keeps – February 24
• Exco Levi, Country Man – March 17

F

• Michael Feuerstack, The Forgettable Truth – February 17
• Flying Hórses, Tölt
• Foxtrott, A Taller Us
• Jeanick Fournier, Mes coups de cœur
• Fresh Snow, WON
• Lily Frost, Too Hot for Words

G

• Galaxie, Zulu – February 24
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress – March 31
• The Golden Dogs, 3 1/2 – February 17
• Grand Analog, Roll Dub Soul Rap – October 8
• Great Lake Swimmers, A Forest of Arms – April 21
• Grimes, Art Angels

H

• Half Moon Run, Sun Leads Me On – October 23
• Harrison, Colors
• Ron Hawkins and the Do Good Assassins, Garden Songs – February 3
• Hayden, Hey Love – March 24
• Hedley, Hello
• Hello, Blue Roses, WZO – February
• The High Dials, In the AM Wilds – February 3
• Hilotrons, To Trip with Terpsichore
• Hollerado, 111 Songs – March 24
• Andrew Hyatt, Never Back Down

J

• Tobias Jesso Jr., Goon – March 17
• Carly Rae Jepsen, E•MO•TION – August 21
• Lyndon John X, Escape from the Mongoose Gang

K

• k-os, Can't Fly Without Gravity – September 4
• Andy Kim, It's Decided – February 24
• The King Khan & BBQ Show, Bad News Boys
• Brett Kissel, Pick Me Up – September 11
• Koriass, Petit love
• Diana Krall, Wallflower – February 2
• Nicholas Krgovich, On Cahuenga

L

• Jean Leloup, À Paradis City
• Library Voices, Lovish
• Limblifter, Pacific Milk – April 7

M

• Majical Cloudz, Are You Alone?
• Catherine Major, La maison du monde
• Dan Mangan + Blacksmith, Club Meds – January 13
• Cory Marks, This Man – May 26
• Kalle Mattson, Avalanche
• Mauno, Rough Master
• Michelle McAdorey, Into Her Future – October 30
• Linda McRae, Shadow Trails
• Shawn Mendes, Handwritten
• Metric, Pagans in Vegas – September 18
• METZ, METZ II
• Ariane Moffatt, 22h22
• The Most Serene Republic, Mediac – November 13

N

• Laura Niquay, Waratanak
• Safia Nolin, Limoilou

O

• Lindi Ortega, Faded Gloryville – August 7

P

• Dorothea Paas, Calm Your Body Down
• Philémon Cimon, Les femmes comme des montagnes
• Joel Plaskett, The Park Avenue Sobriety Test – March 3
• William Prince, Earthly Days
• Purity Ring, Another Eternity – March 3

R

• Rah Rah, Vessels – March
• Rattlesnake Choir, The Prospector's Curse
• Lee Reed, The Butcher, the Banker, the Bitumen Tanker
• Sam Roberts Band, Counting the Days – April 18
• Benjamin Dakota Rogers, Strong Man's Address to the Circus Crowd

S

• Buffy Sainte-Marie, Power in the Blood – May 12
• Natasha St-Pier, Mon Acadie – October 2
• Samantha Savage Smith, Fine Lines – January 27
• Ivana Santilli, Late Night Light – March 10
• Saint Asonia, Saint Asonia (album) – June 31
• Sarahmée, Légitime
• Lorraine Segato, Invincible Decency
• Ron Sexsmith, Carousel One – March 31
• Silverstein, I Am Alive in Everything I Touch - May 19
• Siskiyou, Nervous – January 20
• Zal Sissokho, Marcus Viana and Ibrahima Gaye, Famalé
• Slim Twig, Thank You for Sticking with Twig – August 7
• Les Sœurs Boulay, 4488 de l'amour
• Jeffery Straker, North Star Falling

T

• Three Days Grace, Human – March 31
• Tire le coyote, Panorama
• Al Tuck, Fair Country
• Twin Flames, Jaaji and Chelsey June

V

• Rosie Valland, Partir avant
• Chad VanGaalen and Seth Smith, Seed of Dorzon – September 18
• Jennie Vee, Spying – October 15
• Viet Cong, Viet Cong – January 20
• Vile Creature, A Steady Descent Into the Soil
• Vision Eternel, Echoes from Forgotten Hearts – February 14

W

• The Wainwright Sisters (Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche), Songs in the Dark – November 13
• Patrick Watson, Love Songs for Robots
• The Weather Station, Loyalty – May 5
• The Weeknd, Beauty Behind the Madness – August 28
• The Wet Secrets, Tyranny of Objects
• Whitehorse, Leave No Bridge Unburned – February 17
• Hawksley Workman, Old Cheetah

Y

• Yoan, Yoan – March 25
• Yukon Blonde, On Blonde – June 16

Top hits on record

The lists are updated weekly through Nielsen Soundscan.

Albums

Singles

Canadian Hot 100 Year-End List

Deaths

• June 8 – Archie Alleyne, 82, jazz drummer
• November 19 – Ron Hynes, 64, singer-songwriter

References