Pitchfork The 100 Best Tracks of 2015

Info: "Presenting our selections for The 100 Best Tracks of 2015, as voted by our writers and editors. Any track that was released in 2015 or had its greatest impact in the U.S. during this year was eligible". On Pitchfork, each track comes with a short review. 

Source: Pitchfork
Date of publication: 14th december 2015
Spotify playlist latest update: 16th december 2015
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1. Kendrick Lamar - Alright
2. Drake - Hotline Bling
3. Jamie xx feat. Young Thug & Popcaan - I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)
4. Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
5. Tame Impala - Let It Happen
6. Young Thug feat. Birdman - Constantly Hating
7. Grimes - Flesh Without Blood
8. D'Angelo - Really Love
9. Courtney Barnett - Depreston
10. Vince Staples - Lift Me Up
11. Sufjan Stevens - Should Have Known Better
12. The Weeknd - Can't Feel My Face
13. Rihanna - Bitch Better Have My Money
14. Miguel - Coffee
15. Adele - Hello
16. Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - Sunday Candy
17. Grimes - REALiTi
18. Jamie xx - Gosh
19. Vince Staples - Norf Norf
20. Fetty Wap - Trap Queen
21. Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker the Berry
22. Drake - Know Yourself
23. Future - March Madness
24. Erykah Badu - Cel U Lar Device
25. D'Angelo - Sugah Daddy
26. Tame Impala - Eventually
27. Thundercat - Them Changes
28. Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away with Me
29. Julia Holter - Feel You
30. Missy Elliott feat. Pharrell - WTF (Where They From)
31. Kamasi Washington - The Rhythm Changes
32. Alessia Cara - Here
33. Panda Bear - Tropic of Cancer
34. D.R.A.M. - Cha Cha
35. Drake - Energy
36. Jamie xx feat. Romy - Loud Places
37. Janet Jackson - No Sleeep
38. Jack Ü feat. Justin Bieber - Where Are Ü Now
39. Grimes - Kill V. Maim
40. Kanye West feat. Allan Kingdom, Theophilus London & Paul McCartney - All Day
41. Sleater-Kinney - A New Wave
42. Future - I Serve the Base
43. Rich Homie Quan - Flex
44. Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best
45. Joanna Newsom - Leaving the City
46. Oneohtrix Point Never - Sticky Drama
47. Dr. Dre feat. Kendrick Lamar, Marsha Ambrosius & Candice Pillay - Genocide
48. Kelela - Rewind
49. Beach House - Sparks
50. Kurt Vile - Pretty Pimpin
51. David Bowie - Blackstar
52. FKA twigs - in time
53. ANOHNI - 4 Degrees
54. Jeremih - Oui
55. Nao - Inhale Exhale
56. Earl Sweatshirt - Grief
57. Destroyer - Dream Lover
58. Nicolas Jaar - Fight (Nymphs IV)
59. Janelle Monáe / Wondaland Records - Hell You Talmbout
60. Neon Indian - Annie
61. G.L.O.S.S. - G.L.O.S.S. (We're from the Future)
62. Blood Orange - Sandra's Smile
63. Chromatics - Shadow
64. Chance the Rapper feat. Saba - Angels
65. Deerhunter - Living My Life
66. Jazmine Sullivan feat. Meek Mill - Dumb
67. Rae Sremmurd - This Could Be Us
68. Björk - Lionsong
69. Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July
70. DJ Rashad / DJ Spinn feat. Danny Brown - Dubby
71. Father John Misty - The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apartment
72. Hudson Mohawke - Ryderz
73. Rick Ross - Foreclosures
74. Frank Ocean - (At Your Best) You Are Love (Aaliyah/The Isley Brothers cover)
75. Lana Del Rey - High by the Beach
76. Empress Of - Standard
77. Majical Cloudz - Downtown
78. iLoveMakonnen feat. Migos & Rich the Kid - Whip It (Remix)
79. YG - Twist My Fingaz
80. Dej Loaf feat. Lil Wayne - Me U & Hennessy
81. Jenny Hval - That Battle Is Over
82. Chairlift - Ch-Ching
83. Moses Sumney - Seeds
84. Titus Andronicus - Dimed Out
85. Lower Dens - To Die in L.A.
86. Savages - The Answer
87. Tate Kobang - Bank Rolls (Remix)
88. Shamir - Demon
89. Natalie Prass - My Baby Don't Understand Me
90. Ty Dolla $ign feat. Future & Rae Sremmurd - Blasé
91. Kamaiyah - How Does It Feel
92. Cool Uncle feat. Jessie Ware - Break Away
93. Bully - I Remember
94. DJ Koze - XTC
95. WOKE feat. George Clinton - The Lavishments of Light Looking
96. Isaiah Rashad - Nelly
97. Frankie Cosmos - Young
98. Protomartyr - Dope Cloud
99. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Can't Keep Checking My Phone
100. Dâm-Funk - Free

Mojo Top 50 Albums of 2015

Info: One of the greatest magazines in the world devoted to classic & modern rock, Mojo is a British monthly launched in 1993. Its 2015 albums chart awards Julia Holter as #1, Kendrick Lamar as #2 and New Order as #3. 

Source: Mojo 266 magazine
Date of publication: Mojo 266 - January 2016 issue
Spotify playlist latest update: 21st november 2015
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01. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
02. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
03. New Order - Music Complete
04. Tame Impala - Currents
05. Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs
06. Bill Ryder-Jones - West Kirby County Primary
07. Songhoy Blues - Music In Exile
08. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
09. Sleaford Mods - Key Markets
10. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
11. Bob Dylan - Shadows In The Night
12. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit
13. Low - Ones An Sixes
14. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love
15. Richard Dawson - Nothing Important
16. D'Angelo - Black Messiah
17. Hooton Tennis Club - Highest Point In Cliff Town
18. Blur - The Magic Whip
19. Joanna Newsom - Divers
20. Dungen - Allas Sak
21. Richard Thompson - Still
22. Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too
23. John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
24. Gaz Coombes - Matador
25. Paul Weller - Saturns Pattern
26. Wilco - Star Wars
27. Leon Bridges - Coming Home
28. Matthew E. White - Fresh Blood
29. Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
30. Bill Fay - Who Is The Sender?
31. Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People
32. Jamie XX - In Colour
33. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday
34. Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
35. The Libertines - Anthems For Doomed Youth
36. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear
37. Promised Land Sound - For Use And Delight
38. Lonelady - Hinterland
39. Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart
40. Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
41. Kasami Washington - The Epic
42. Boz Scaggs - A Fool To Care
43. Mark Ronson - Uptown Special
44. Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
45. The Weeknd - Beauty Behind The Madness
46. Tobias Jesso Jr. - Goon
47. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
48. David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock
49. Ibeyi - Ibeyi
50. Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Going Down

Rough Trade Top 100 Albums of 2015

Info: Rough Trade record shops website is the usual opener of the end-of-year charts season. Its list of Top 100 albums of 2015 awards Björk (#1), Father John Misty (#2) and Courtney Barnett (#3).

Source: Rough Trade
Date of publication: 16th November 2015
Spotify playlist latest update: 16th November 2015
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1. Björk - Vulnicura

2. Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear

3. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

4. Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People

5. Max Richter - From Sleep

6. Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool

7. Kamasi Washington - The Epic

8. Royal Headache - High

9. Romare - Projections

10. Jamie XX - In Colour

11. John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure

12. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell

13. Tame Impala - Currents

14. Nadine Shah - Fast Food

15. Wand - Golem

16. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

17. Django Django - Born Under Saturn

18. Tobias Jesso Jr - Goon

19. Georgia - Georgia

20. Palma Violets - Danger in the Club

21. Calexico - Edge of the Sun

22. Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass

23. FFS - FFS

24. Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space

25. Floating Points - Elaenia

26. Bop English - Constant Bop

27. Ryley Walker - Primrose Green

28. Beach House - Depression Cherry

29. Sleaford Mods - Key Markets

30. Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness

31. Alabama Shakes - Sound and Color

32. Trevor Jackson - Format

33. Joanna Gruesome - Peanut Butter

34. Shopping - Why Choose

35. Songhoy Blues - Music in Exile

36. Mac Demarco - Another One

37. Richard Hawley - Hollow Meadows

38. Foals - What Went Down

39. New Order - Music Complete

40. Viet Cong - Viet Cong

41. Ultimate Painting - Green Lanes

42. Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs

43. Ibeyi - Ibeyi

44. Matthew E. White - Fresh Blood

45. Fuzz - II

46. Liam Hayes - Slurrup

47. Death and Vanilla - To Where the Wild Things Are

48. Colleen - Captain of None

49. Girl Band - Holdings Hands With Jamie

50. Deerhunter - Fading Frontier

51. The Orb - Moonbuilding 2703 AD

52. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress

53. Lianne La Havas - Blood

54. Public Enemy - Man Plans God Laughs

55. Mercury Rev - The Light In You

56. Adele - 25

57. Joanna Newsom - Divers

58. Ghost Culture - Ghost Culture

59. Leftfield - Alternative Light Source

60. Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love

61. Mark Ronson - Uptown Special

62. Sarah Cracknell - Red Kite

63. Fraser A. Gorman - Slow Gum

64. C Duncan - Architect

65. The Districts - A Flourish and a Spoil

66. The Unthanks - Mount the Air

67. Damaged Bug - Cold Hot Plumbs

68. Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Goin Down...

69. Stealing Sheep - Not Real

70. Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa

71. Public Image Limited - What the World Needs Now

72. Drenge - Undertow

73. Holly Herndon - Platform

74. Follakzoid - III

75. Death Grips - The Powers That B

76. Metz - II

77. Shit and Shine - Everybody's a Fuckin Expert

78. Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon

79. Destroyer - Poison Season

80. Andrew Combs - All These Dreams

81. Hills - Frid

82. Grimes - Art Angels

83. Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp

84. Jenny Hval - Apocalypse, Girl

85. Shamir - Ratchet

86. Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free

87. Ought - Sun Coming Down

88. Sauna Youth - Distractions

89. Nils Frahm - Solo

90. The Fireworks - Switch Me On

91. Leon Bridges - Coming Home

92. Bully - Feels Like

93. Low - Ones and Sixes

94. Arca - Mutant

95. Girlpool - Before the World Was Big

96. Laura Marling - Short Movie

97. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love

98. Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again

99. Ryan Adams - 1989

100. Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect

Nick Hornby's 31 Songs

Info: "31 Songs (Songbook in the US) is a 2002 collection of 26 essays by English writer Nick Hornby about songs and (more often) the particular emotional resonance they carry for him".

Source: Wikipedia
Date of publication: 2002
Spotify playlist latest update: 1st October 2015
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Teenage Fanclub – Your Love Is the Place Where I Come From
Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road
Nelly Furtado – I'm Like a Bird
Led Zeppelin – Heartbreaker
Rufus Wainwright – One Man Guy
Santana – Samba Pa Ti
Rod Stewart – Mama, You Been on My Mind
Bob Dylan – Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
The Beatles – Rain
Ani DiFranco – You Had Time
Aimee Mann – I've Had It
Paul Westerberg – Born for Me
Suicide – Frankie Teardrop
Teenage Fanclub – Ain't That Enough
The J. Geils Band – First I Look at the Purse
Ben Folds Five – Smoke
Badly Drawn Boy – A Minor Incident
The Bible – Glorybound
Van Morrison – Caravan
Butch Hancock and Marce LaCouture – So I'll Run
Gregory Isaacs – Puff, the Magic Dragon
Ian Dury and the Blockheads – Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3
Richard and Linda Thompson – Calvary Cross
Jackson Browne – Late for the Sky
Mark Mulcahy – Hey Self-Defeater
The Velvelettes – Needle in a Haystack
O.V. Wright – Let's Straighten It Out
Röyksopp – Röyksopp's Night Out
The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist
Soulwax – No Fun/Push It
Patti Smith Group – Pissing in a River

Targhe Tenco 2015 Nominations (Italian Awards)

Info: The Targa Tenco is an Italian music award assigned every year since 1984 by the Club Tenco (named after the singer/songwriter Luigi Tenco). Winners are elected by a large panel of over 200 Italian music journalists, in five different categories: Best Italian Album of the Year, Best Album Mainly in Dialect, Best Debut Album, Best Cover Album and Best Song. Club Tenco just released the nomination lists of the 2015 edition, that I spotified in the following playlists.

Source: Club Tenco
Date of publication: september 2015
Spotify playlist latest update: 18th September 2015


Targhe Tenco 2015 Nominations
BEST ALBUM
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Africa Unite - Il punto di partenza
Alessandro Grazian - L'età più forte
Andrea Chimenti - Yuri
Antonio Pascuzzo - Pascouche
Appino - Grande raccordo animale
Bardamù - Le notti bianche
Bobo Rondelli - Come i Carnevali
Carmen Consoli - L'abitudine di tornare
Cesare Basile - Tu prenditi l'amore che vuoi
Colapesce - Egomostro
Cristina Donà - Così vicini
Dellera - Star bene è pericoloso
Dimartino - Un paese ci vuole
Edda - Stavolta come mi ammazzerai?
Fabi Silvestri Gazzé - Il padrone della festa
Fausto Mesolella - Canto Stefano
Favonio - Parole in primo piano
Filippo Andreani - La prima volta
Flavio Giurato - La scomparsa di Majorana
Francesco De Gregori - Vivavoce
Gang - Sangue e cenere
Giovanni Truppi - Giovanni Truppi
Giuliano Dottori - L'arte della guerra Volume 2
Iosonouncane - Die
Joe Barbieri - Cosmonauta da appartamento
John De Leo - Il grande Abarasse
Levante - Abbi cura di te
Luca Madonia - La monotonia dei giorni
Marco Rovelli - Tutto inizia sempre
Marian Trapassi - Bellavita (l'arancia e altri viaggi)
Mario Venuti - Il tramonto dell'Occidente
Massimo Donno - Partenze
Mauro Ermanno Giovanardi - Il mio stile
Max Manfredi - Dremong
Paletti - Qui e ora
Pallante - Ufficialmente pazzi
Paola Turci - Io sono
Paolo Benvegnù - Earth Hotel
Paolo Conte - Snob
Paolo Tocco - Il mio modo di ballare
Piero Sidoti - La la la
Pino Marino - Capolavoro
Post-CSI - Breviario partigiano
Sergio Cammariere - Mano nella mano
Servillo/Girotto/Mangalavite - Parientes
Subsonica - Una nave in una foresta
Umberto Maria Giardini - Protestantesima
Verdena - Endkadenz Vol. 1
Zibba e Almalibre - Muoviti svelto


Targhe Tenco 2015 Nominations
BEST ALBUM MAINLY IN DIALECT
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Aldo Rossi - Ta cove da Strie
Alessio Bondì - Sfardo
Amemanera - Bèica 'n po'
Armando Bolivar - Nustran & a la man
Blu L’azard - Enfestar
Cantodiscanto - Todo il mundo a cantar
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino - Quaranta
Cesare Basile - Tu prenditi l'amore che vuoi e non chiederlo più
Clementino - Miracolo
Enzo Gragnaniello - Misteriosamente
FLK - Adieu Monsieur Federicò
Giuseppe Moffa - Terribilmente demodé
Grenz & Friends - Desche la neif d'aisciuda
Kalàscima - Psychedelic trance tarantella
Lamorivostri - Rosabella
Le Malmaritate - Ognuno havi 'n sigretu
Meditamburi - Antichi viaggiatori
Nando Citarella - Mozart a sud di Napoli
Officine Popolari Lucane di Pietro Cirillo - Officine Popolari Lucane
Pepp-oh - Sono un cantante di rap
Re Niliu - In a cosmic ear
Rino Pisani - Anima Libera
Rosapaeda - Rosapaeda Inna Different Stylee
Salvo Ruolo - Canciari patruni ‘un è l’bittà
Senzaterra - Sulu 'na strada
Talèh - Mistera
Trelilu - El cico latino
Tueff - My raplosophy


Targhe Tenco 2015 Nominations
BEST DEBUT ALBUM
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Alessio Bondì - Sfardo
Alfonso Moscato - La Malacarne
Alia - Asteroidi
Andrea Maestrelli - È arrivato Remo
Carolina Da Siena - Klotho
Cristina Nico - Mandibole
Dada Circus - Lato del cerchio
Edoardo Chiesa - Canzoni sull'Alternativa
Elena Sanchi - Cuore migrante
Eugenio in Via di Gioia - Lorenzo Federici
Fiorino -Il masochismo provoca dipendenza
Francesco Pannofino - Io vendo emozioni
Franco Giordani - Incuintretimp
Gianluca Secco - Immobile
Giusy Zaccagnini - Scusate se non mi sento all’altezza
Il Fieno - I vivi
Il Quarto Imprevisto - Resti
Il Rumore della Tregua - Una trincea nel mare
La Scapigliatura - La Scapigliatura
Le Folli Arie - Le folli arie
Lucio Corsi - Altalena Boy/Vetulonia Dakar
Maldestro - Non trovo le parole
Margherita Vicario - Minimal Musical
Massimiliano Ambrosino - AmbrOsino
Michela Giuliano - Anechoic Chamber
Nico (Nicola Faimali) - Ciao ciao bell'amore mio
Noais - Lanterne
Non Giovanni - Ho deciso di restare in Italia
NonostanteClizia - La stagione animale
Obliquido - Se mi dai del lei morirò prima
Øen Zero Estensioni Neuronali - La porta stretta
PCP (Piano Che Piove) - In viaggio con Alice
Pecori Greg - Merry Krishna Hare Christmas
Perimetro Cubo - L'ultima ovvietà
Piergiorgio Faraglia - L'uomo nero
Salamone - Il palliativo
Santa Margaret - Il suono analogico cova la sua vendetta
Saverio Pepe - Canto male il jazz
Scarda - I piedi sul cruscotto
Simona Norato - La fine del mondo
Simone Mi Odia - Saturno
Valentina Soster - Sarebbe meglio
Vinsanto - Qualche giorno di vantaggio


Targhe Tenco 2015 Nominations
BEST COVER ALBUM
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Alice - Weekend
Andrea Mora - Essenzialmente Mora
Ardecore - Vecchia Roma
Chiara Buratti - L'ultimo giorno di sole
Chiara Santagiuliana & Vocal Sisters - Italian Boogie
Diodato - A ritrovar bellezza
Federico Fiumani - Un ricordo che vale dieci lire
Gianna Nannini - Hitalia
I Cancelli della Memoria - I Cancelli della Memoria (live, tributo anni 70 a Franco Battiato)
Lara Puglia - Heart and mind / Joni Mitchell project
Lucina Lanzara - Lucina racconta De André
Mafalda Minnozzi e Paul Ricci - eMPathia Jazz Duo
Mariangela D'Abbraccio - E chi mo’ canta appriesso a me?
Mauro Ottolini Sousaphonix - Musica per una società senza pensieri vol.1
Modena City Ramblers - Tracce clandestine
Musica Nuda - Little Wonder
Petrina - Roses of the day
Pietra Montecorvino - Pietra a metà
Quintorigo & Roberto Gatto - Around Zappa
Raffaella Misiti e Le Romane - Quanno te vojio bbene
Roberta Alloisio - Xena Tango
Rusties - Dalla polvere e dal fuoco
Teka P - Quatar malnat
Têtes de Bois - Extra
Tosca - Il suono della voce
Voci di Corridoio - Speciale per Lelio


Targhe Tenco 2015 Nominations
BEST ALBUM
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A Toys Orchestra - Alwayas I'm wrong
Africa Unite - L'esercito con gli occhiali a specchio
Africa Unite - Riflessioni
Alessio Bondì - Vucciria
Andrea Chimenti - Il canto di Aede
Antonio Pascuzzo - Fado del partigiano
Bersani/Pacifico/Guccini - Le storie che non conosci
Bianco - Filo d'erba
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino - Solo andata
Carlo Mercadante - Sono come nessuno
Carmen Consoli - La signora del quinto piano
Carmen Consoli - Esercito silente
Carmen Consoli - L’abitudine di tornare
Carmen Consoli - Sintonia imperfetta
Cesare Basile - Tu prenditi l’amore che vuoi
Colapesce - Dopo il diluvio
Colapesce - L’altra guancia
Colapesce - Reale
Cristina Donà - Il senso delle cose
Cristina Nico - Mandibole
Daniele Celona - Amantide
Favonio - Parole
Filippo Andreani - Gigi Meroni
Flavio Giurato - La scomparsa di Majorana
Gang - Mia figlia ha le ali leggere
Giuliano Dottori - Il pavimento del mattino
Iacampo - Palafitta
Iosonouncane - Stormi
Le Canzoni da Marciapiede - Nove metri (la trapezista)
Levante - Le lacrime non macchiano
Marco Rovelli - Il tempo che resta
Max Manfredi - Il negro
Nadar Solo - Cara madre
Paletti - Avere te
Paola Turci - Io sono
Paolo Benvegnù - Orlando
Paolo Benvegnù - Avenida Silencio
Paolo Benvegnù - Una nuova innocenza
Pino Marino - Dimenticare il pane
Pino Marino - Io so
Tosca - Il suono della voce
Umberto Maria Giardini - Il vaso di Pandora
Vasco Rossi - Dannate nuvole
Verdena - Alieni fra di noi
Verdena - Un po' esageri
Vincenzo Di Silvestro - Domani è domenica
Vincenzo Fasano - La mia vita al contrario
Zibba e Almalibre - Farsi male