2015 in music

This topic covers notable events and articles related to music in 2015.

Specific locations

Specific genres

Albums released

• List of 2015 albums

Awards

Bands formed

• 3776
• 1Punch
• 100 gecs
• Akishibu Project
• April
• Atarashii Gakko!
• Bad Omens
• The Band Camino
• Bastarz
• Beach Bunny
• Beach Weather
• Big Brain
• Billie Idle
• Bish
• Burning Witches
• Bursters
• Camellia Factory
• Camp Cope
• CLC
• Day6
• Dead & Company
• DIA
• Dogleg
• Drug Restaurant
• Earphones
• Ebisu Muscats
• Empath
• Fate Gear
• GFriend
• Glass Beach
• Her's
• Hollywood Vampires
• The Hoopers
• iamnot
• Idol Renaissance
• Iginari Tohoku San
• iKon
• Kolme
• King Gnu
• La PomPon
• Ladybaby
• The Lemon Twigs
• lol
• Magnolia Factory
• Mammoth
• MAP6
• Meet Me at the Altar
• MeloMance
• Mint Green
• Monsta X
• Mrs. Green Apple
• The Murder Capital
• MyB
• Myth & Roid
• N.Flying
• Official Hige Dandism
• Oh My Girl
• Okilly Dokilly
• OxT
• Pasocom Music Club
• The Peggies
• Pentagon
• Playback
• Pretty Brown
• POP
• Porridge Radio
• The Regrettes
• Romeo
• Rubber Soul
• Seventeen
• Slow Pulp
• Snail Mail
• Snuper
• Sora tob sakana
• Starcrawler
• Suchmos
• Tacoyaki Rainbow
• Tautumeitas
• Tokimeki Sendenbu
• TrySail
• Twice
• Unicorn
• UP10TION
• Vanishing Twin
• VAV
• VIXX LR
• Wednesday Campanella
• Whiteeeen
• Ziferblat

Soloist debuts

• Aimyon
• Alina Baraz
• Alessia Cara
• Alex Gonzaga
• Amber
• Anly
• Anne-Marie
• Aurora
• Baek Yerin
• Bea Miller
• Charlie Puth
• Choa
• Daoko
• Daya
• Dean
• Declan McKenna
• Dua Lipa
• Elo
• Elsie
• Halsey
• Horan
• Faouzia
• Ferlyn G
• G2
• Gaeko
• G.Soul
• Goo Hara
• Hailee Steinfeld
• Iñigo Pascual
• Jacob Benedicto
• Jang Hyun-seung
• Jeremy Zucker
• Julien Baker
• Jung Yong-hwa
• Junoflo
• Jonghyun
• Julian Trono
• Kehlani
• Kiiara
• Lee Hongki
• Lizzy
• Mabel
• Marlo Mortel
• Matteo Guidicelli
• Melanie Martinez
• Morissette
• Minah
• Miwoo
• Niel
• Park Jimin
• Patrick Brasca
• Poppy
• Post Malone
• Reol
• Reese Lansangan
• Rita De Guzman
• RM
• Sabrina Carpenter
• Sakura Fujiwara
• Shaun
• Taeyeon
• Wuno
• Lee Tae-il
• Ugly Duck
• Yassi Pressman
• Yezi

Bands reformed

• The 13th Floor Elevators
• The Academy Is...
• A-ha
• Aiden
• Alexisonfire
• Armor for Sleep
• As One
• At the Drive-In
• Bay City Rollers
• The Black Eyed Peas
• Black Grape
• The Bluetones
• Brooks & Dunn
• Busted
• The Corrs
• Daphne and Celeste
• Dashboard Confessional
• Digable Planets
• Disturbed
• Evanescence
• Faithless
• Good Charlotte
• LCD Soundsystem
• Lush
• Matchbook Romance
• The Matches
• Pist.On
• The Promise Ring
• Rainbow
• Royal Trux
• Savatage
• Simply Red
• The Starting Line
• Supertramp
• Symphony Number One
• Thrice
• A Tribe Called Quest
• Underoath
• Ween

Bands disbanded

• 3 Inches of Blood
• Avi Buffalo
• The Black Crowes
• Bloodhound Gang
• Burzum
• California Breed
• Cali Swag District
• CBS Orchestra
• Cobra Starship
• Device
• Eastern Conference Champions
• Erase Errata
• Flesh for Lulu
• Framing Hanley
• Funeral For a Friend
• Goodbye to Gravity
• G.R.L.
• I, the Breather
• James Last Orchestra
• Kill Hannah
• Klaxons
• Maybeshewill
• Mean Creek
• MellowHype
• Mötley Crüe
• Motörhead
• Neutral Milk Hotel
• Noah and the Whale
• Obits
• Odd Future
• The Replacements
• Rise to Remain
• The Rosso Sisters
• Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts
• Sleeper Agent
• Stereo Kicks
• Texas in July
• The Weakerthans

Deaths

January

• 1 – Matthew Cogley (30), British musician and songwriter (Failsafe).
• 6 – Lance Percival (81), British actor and singer.
• 13
• Ronnie Ronalde (91), British siffleur and yodeller.
• Trevor Ward-Davies (70), English bassist (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)
• 19 – Ward Swingle (87), American jazz singer (The Swingle Singers).
• 22 – Joan Hinde (81), British trumpet player
• 25 – Demis Roussos (68), Greek singer and musician
• 27 – Margot Moir (55), Scottish-born Australian singer (The Moir Sisters).
• 29 – Danny McCulloch (69), British bassist (Eric Burdon & The Animals).

February

• 12 – Steve Strange (55), British musician (Visage).
• 16 – Lesley Gore (68), American singer
• 21 – Clark Terry (94), American jazz trumpeter.
• 22 – Erik Amundsen (78), Norwegian jazz upright-bassist.
• 23 – Ron Edgar (68), American rock drummer (The Music Machine)

March

• 21 – Jørgen Ingmann, (89), Danish guitarist.

April

• 1
• Dave Ball (65), British musician (Procol Harum).
• Sandy Mason (75), American country music singer-songwriter
• 3 – Andrew Porter (86), British organist, music critic, and opera director
• 10 – Ronald Hambleton (97), English-born Canadian broadcaster and music critic (Toronto Star).
• 13 – Ronnie Carroll (80), Northern Irish singer
• 14 – Percy Sledge (74), American soul, gospel and R&B singer
• 17 – Brian Couzens (86), British music industry executive (Chandos Records).
• 18 – Ben E. King (76), American soul and R&B singer

May

• 6
• Errol Brown (71), British-Jamaican singer (Hot Chocolate)
• Dottie Dillard (91), American pop singer (The Anita Kerr Quartet)
• 14 – B.B. King (89), American blues guitarist.
• 20 – Bob Belden (58), American jazz saxophonist.
• 23 – Marcus Belgrave (78), American jazz trumpeter.
• 31 – Slim Richey (77), American jazz guitarist.

June

• 11 – Ornette Coleman (85), American jazz saxophonist.
• 12 – Monica Lewis (93), American singer and actress.
• 21 – Gunther Schuller (89), American composer, conductor, and horn player.
• 27 – Joe Bennett (75), American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist (Joe Bennett & the Sparkletones)

July

• 1
• Val Doonican (88), Irish-born singer.
• Edward Greenfield (86), British music critic and broadcaster.
• 13 – Eric Wrixon (68), British musician from Belfast, Northern Ireland (Them, Thin Lizzy).
• 22
• Daron Norwood (49), American country music singer
• Eddie Hardin (66), British singer-songwriter and pianist (The Spencer Davis Group and Axis Point).
• 30 – Lynn Anderson (67), American country singer
• 31 – Pamela Brandt (68), American country-rock bassist, singer and songwriter (The Deadly Nightshade)

August

• 1 – Cilla Black (72), British singer and presenter.
• 12 – John Scott (59), British organist and choirmaster.
• 14 – Jazz Summers (71), British music manager (Scissor Sisters, The Verve, Snow Patrol), (lung cancer)
• 20 – Laurent Rossi (67), French singer, songwriter, and record producer (Bimbo Jet)

September

• 4 – Hal Willis (82), Canadian country music singer
• 13 – Gary Richrath (65), American guitarist (REO Speedwagon)
• 29 – Phil Woods (83), American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer

October

• 8 – Jim Diamond, Scottish singer (Ph.D.)
• 9 – Larry Rosen (75), American drummer, entrepreneur, and music producer.
• 10 – Steve Mackay (66) American Saxophonist (The Stooges)
• 11 – Carey Lander, Scottish keyboardist (Camera Obscura)
• 20 – Cory Wells (74), American singer (Three Dog Night)
• 22 – Mark Murphy (83), American singer.
• 28 – Diane Charlemagne (51), English dance singer (52nd Street, Urban Cookie Collective)

November

• 5 – Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (92).
• 25 – Svein Christiansen, Norwegian drummer (74).

December

• 3 – Scott Weiland (48), American musician, singer and songwriter (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver and Art of Anarchy)
• 28
• Guru Josh (51), acid house DJ
• Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister (70), English musician, singer and songwriter (Motörhead, Hawkwind, The Rockin' Vickers)
• 30 – Zjef Vanuytsel (70), Belgian folk singer.
• 31 – Natalie Cole (65), American singer, songwriter, and actress (congestive heart failure).

See also

• Once Upon a Time in Shaolin
• Timeline of musical events
• Women in music

References