AwardsWatch’s Top 20 Albums of 2015
AwardsWatch member Doug Johnson has compiled the best songs of 2015 according to AW members. In all, 123 albums received votes to make up the Top 20.
All art and graphics by AW member Kelley Rand. Enjoy!
Honorable Mentions:
21 Miami Horror, All Possible Futures
22 Hamilton, Original Broadway Cast
23 Florence + the Machine, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
24 Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment, Surf
25 Hot Chip, Why Make Sense?
Selena Gomez
Revival
Father John Misty
I Love You, Honeybear
Janet Jackson
Unbreakable
CHVRCHES
Open Every Eye
Kacey Musgraves
Pageant Material
Years & Years
Communion
Shamir
Ratchet
Troye Sivan
Blue Neighbourhood
Alabama Shakes
Sound & Color
Jamie xx
In Colour
Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.
He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.
He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.
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