PopMatters The 90 Best Songs of 2015

Info: "from electronic to americana... from r&b to country... from hip-hop to rockin' and poppin' indie... 2015 had something great for everyone". On the PopMatters website, each song comes with a short review. 

Source: PopMatters

Date of publication: 4th december 2015

Spotify playlist latest update: 17th december 2015

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(end-of-2015 playlist series)

Full list

Strikethrough songs (7/90) are not available on Spotify. Some songs may be not available in all countries.

1. Kendrick Lamar - Alright
2. Jamie xx feat. Young Thug - I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)
3. Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best
4. Chris Stapleton - Tennessee Whiskey
5. Chvrches - Leave a Trace
6. Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar - Bad Blood
7. The Weeknd - Can’t Feel My Face
8. Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me
9. Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
10. Alabama Shakes - Gimme All Your Love
11. Tame Impala - Let It Happen
12. Rudimental - We the Generation feat. Mahalia
13. Oneohtrix Point Never - Mutant Standard
14. BØRNS - Electric Love
15. Titus Andronicus - Dimed Out
16. FKA Twigs - Glass & Patron
17. Joanna Newsom - Sapokanikan
18. Grimes - Realiti
19. Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment - Sunday Candy
20. Battles - The Yabba
21. The Mountain Goats - The Legend of Chavo Guerrero
22. Rabit - Snow Leopard
23. Leon Bridges - Coming Home
24. Autre Ne Veut - World War Pt. 2
25. Belle and Sebastian - Nobody's Empire
26, Dâm-Funk - Missing U
27. And So I Watch You From Afar - Animal Ghosts
28. Skylar Spence - Can't You See
29. Chelsea Wolfe - Carrion Flowers
30. Kacey Musgraves - Biscuits
31. Fetty Wap - Trap Queen
32. Jason Isbell - If It Takes a Lifetime
33. Rival Consoles - Looming
34. Death Grips - On GP
35. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Piss Crowns Are Trebled
36. Julia Holter - Feel You
37. Elle King - Ex’s & Oh’s
38. Everything Everything - Distant Past
39. Freddie Gibbs - Fuckin’ Up the Count
40. FKA Twigs - Figure 8
41. Majical Cloudz - Downtown
42. Protomartyr - Why Does It Shake?
43. Rizzla feat. Odie Myrtil - Iron Cages
44. Travis Scott feat. Kanye West - Piss On Your Grave
45. Jill Scott - Closure
46. Natalie Prass - My Baby Don’t Understand Me
47. Run the Jewels - Rubble Kings Theme (Dynamite)
48. The Tallest Man on Earth - Sagres
49. Sun Kil Moon - Garden of Lavender
50. Fleur East - Sax
51. The Dead Weather - I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)
52. Tobias Jesso, Jr. - How Could You Babe
53. Joanna Newsom - Time, As a Symptom
54. Quiet Company - Understand the Problem
55. Cam - My Mistake
56. Hot Chip - Need You Now
57. John Moreland - Sad Baptist Rain
58. Algiers - Blood
59. Drake - Know Yourself
60. Ashley Monroe - On to Something Good
61. Swervedriver - Autodidact
62. Deafheaven - Brought to the Water
63. Ruby Amanfu - Cathedrals
64. Alessia Cara - Here
65. Young Thug - Check
66. Holly Herndon - An Exit
67. Miranda Lambert - Little Red Wagon
68. Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July
69. The Go! Team - What’d You Say
70. U.S. Girls - Damn that Valley
71. Lera Lynn - SONG
72. Jake Xerxes Fussell - Raggy Levy
73. Father John Misty - The Ideal Husband
74. Bully - Six
75. Braids - Taste
76. Blood Orange - Sandra's Smile
77. Bjork - Stonemilker
78. Charli XCX feat. Rita Ora - Doing It
79. Death - Look at Your Life
80. Christopher Paul Stelling - Scarecrow
81. Delta Rae - Run
82. Blur - Go Out
83. Hiatus Kaiyote - Breathing Underwater
84. Sleater-Kinney - A New Wave
85. Viet Cong - March of Progress
86. Speedy Ortiz - Raising the Skate
87. Gary Clark Jr. - The Healing
88. Murder by Death - Send Me Home
89. Shigeto - Pulse
90. Panda Bear - No Mans Land