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
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Akishibu Project
April
Atarashii Gakko! Bastarz Big Brain Billie Idle Bish Bursters Camellia Factory CLC Day6 DIA Earphones Ebisu Muscats Fate Gear GFriend The Hoopers iamnot Idol Renaissance Iginari Tohoku San iKon JJY Band Kolme La PomPon Ladybaby lol Magnolia Factory MAP6 MeloMance Monsta X Mrs. Green Apple MyB Myth & Roid N.Flying Official Hige Dandism Oh My Girl OxT Pasocom Music Club The Peggies Pentagon Playback Pretty Brown POP Romeo Rubber Soul Seventeen Snuper Srv.Vinci Sora tob sakana Suchmos Tacoyaki Rainbow Tokimeki Sendenbu TrySail Twice Unicorn UP10TION VAV VIXX LR Wednesday Campanella Whiteeeen
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
Morissette
Minah
Miwoo
Niel
Park Jimin
Patrick Brasca
Poppy
Post Malone
Reol
Reese Lansangan
Rita De Guzman
RM
Sakura Fujiwara
Shaun
Taeyeon
Wuno
Lee Tae-il
Ugly Duck
Yassi Pressman
Yezi
Bands reformed
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 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. 19 – Ward Swingle (87), American jazz singer (The Swingle Singers). 22 – Joan Hinde (81), British trumpet player. 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). 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. 17 – Brian Couzens (86), British music industry executive (Chandos Records).
May
6 – 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.