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 + List of albums released in January 2015 Release date Artist Album Genre Label January4 Death Grips Fashion Week Instrumental hip-hop, industrial, IDM Third Worlds January5 Låpsley Understudy XL January6 Rae Sremmurd SremmLife Hip-hop Ear Drummer, Interscope January9 Meghan Trainor Title R&B, doo-wop, pop Epic Panda Bear Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper Psychedelia, electropop Domino January12 Sylosis Dormant Heart Nuclear Blast January13 Dan Mangan Club Meds Indie folk, indie rock Arts & Crafts DMX Redemption of the Beast East Coast hip-hop, hardcore hip-hop Seven Arts Music, Fontana Guster Evermotion Indie rock, alternative rock Ocho Mule, Nettwerk Jazmine Sullivan Reality Show R&B RCA Justin Townes Earle Absent Fathers Country Vagrant, Loose 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 January15 Future and Zaytoven Beast Mode Hip-hop, trap Freebandz Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor Gothic metal, blues rock, hard rock Hell, etc. January16 Mikky Ekko Time Pop RCA January19 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 January20 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 Viet Cong Viet Cong Post-punk, art rock Jagjaguwar January21 AKB48 Koko ga Rhodes da, Koko de Tobe! J-pop You! Be Cool, King Records January23 Hardwell United We Are Revealed, Sony, Ultra Napalm Death Apex Predator – Easy Meat Grindcore, deathgrind Century Media Pond Man It Feels Like Space Again Psychedelic rock Caroline January26 The Charlatans Modern Nature Indie rock BMG Rae Morris Unguarded Atlantic January27 Jessica Pratt On Your Own Love Again Drag City 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 Juggernaut: Alpha Progressive metal Sumerian Periphery Juggernaut: Omega Progressive metal Sumerian Punch Brothers The Phosphorescent Blues Progressive bluegrass Nonesuch Young Ejecta The Planet Synth-pop Driftless Recordings January30 Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror Power metal progressive metal, symphonic metal Nuclear Blast Callisto Secret Youth 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
February + List of albums released in February 2015 Release date Artist Album Genre Label February2 Cornershop Hold On It's Easy Ample Play Records February3 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 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 Shoegaze Anti- February7 Jesika von Rabbit Journey Mitchell Pop, electro, electropop Royal Order February9 Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear Indie rock Sub Pop Kodaline Coming Up for Air Alternative rock, indie rock, indie pop B-Unique, SME Peace Happy People Indie rock Columbia The Unthanks Mount the Air Folk Rabble Rouser February10 Brandon Heath No Turning Back Contemporary Christian music Reunion, Monomode Records Caught on Tape Full Bleed Free improvisation, noise, black metal Northern Spy 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 Vijay Iyer Trio Break Stuff Jazz ECM February11 One Ok Rock 35xxxv Alternative rock A-Sketch February13 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 A Night in Texas The God Delusion Skulls and Bones February14 Vision Eternel Echoes from Forgotten Hearts Abridged Pause Recordings February15 Future Brown Future Brown Electronica Warp February16 Carl Barât and the Jackals Let It Reign Rock Cooking Vinyl Susanne Sundfør Ten Love Songs Art pop, electropop, baroque pop Warner Music Norway February17 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 Sumac The Deal Post-metal, sludge metal Profound Lore, SIGE Records Tigran Hamasyan Mockroot Nonesuch February20 Chris Brown & Tyga Fan of a Fan: The Album 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 February23 Clare Maguire Don't Mess Me Around British soul, pop Virgin EMI Public Service Broadcasting The Race for Space Alternative rock, electronic, indie rock Test Card Recordings UFO A Conspiracy of Stars Hard rock, heavy metal SPV February24 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 Dan Deacon Gliss Riffer Indietronica Domino Eartheater Metalepsis Electroacoustic, freak folk Hausu Mountain Emile Haynie We Fall Indie rock Interscope Falling in Reverse Just Like You Post-hardcore Epitaph Fashawn The Ecology Hip-hop Mass Appeal, Sony Music, RED Future User SteroidsOrHeroin Prog, tronic, hip-hop, punk rock Middle Ring Partnership Gang of Four What Happens Next Industrial rock Metropolis, Membran James McMurtry Complicated Game Americana Complicated Game Records JJ Grey & Mofro Ol' Glory Provogue Kid Rock First Kiss Country rock Warner Bros. Make Do and Mend Don't Be Long Rise Marta Sánchez 21 Días Entrearte MisterWives Our Own House Pop rock Photo Finish Oceans Ate Alaska Lost Isles Fearless Pelican The Cliff Post-metal Southern Lord Red Of Beauty and Rage Alternative rock, Christian rock Essential Screaming Females Rose Mountain Indie rock, punk Don Giovanni February25 Angelmaker Dissentient Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Chasing Yesterday Alternative rock Sour Mash February27 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 Moon Duo Shadow of the Sun Psychedelic rock, garage rock, krautrock Sacred Bones Nena Oldschool Laugh and Peas Purity Ring Another Eternity Electronic 4AD Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase. Progressive rock Kscope
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