2015 in Canadian music
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Events
- March 10 - Rapper Shad is announced as the new host of CBC Radio One's daily arts and culture magazine show Q
- March 15 – Juno Awards of 2015
- March 29 - Chad VanGaalen wins the Prism Prize for his music video for Timber Timbre's song "Beat the Drum Slowly".[1]
- April - East Coast Music Awards
- April 12 - Kevin Bazinet wins the third season of La Voix.
- June 16 - Prelimimary longlist for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize is announced.
- July 9 - Dear Rouge (English) and Antoine Corriveau (French) are announced as the winners of the 2015 SOCAN Songwriting Prize.
- July 16 - Shortlist for the Polaris Music Prize is announced.
- September 21 - Buffy Sainte-Marie wins the Polaris Music Prize for her album Power in the Blood.
- November 8 - 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Bands formed
Albums released
A
- The Acorn, Vieux Loup - May 19
- Bryan Adams, Get Up! - October 16
- Bernard Adamus, Sorel Soviet So What
- Marie-Pierre Arthur, Si l'aurore - February[2]
B
- BADBADNOTGOOD with Ghostface Killah, Sour Soul - February 17[3]
- Barenaked Ladies, Silverball - June 2
- Justin Bieber, Purpose
- Braids, Deep in the Iris - April 28
- Will Butler, Policy - March 10[4]
C
- Kathryn Calder, Kathryn Calder
- Cancer Bats, Searching for Zero - March 10[3]
- Alessia Cara, Four Pink Walls - August 28
- Annabelle Chvostek, Be the Media - April 30
- City and Colour, If I Should Go Before You - October 9
- Tom Cochrane, Take It Home - February 10
- Cœur de pirate, Roses - August 28
- Louis-Jean Cormier, Les Grandes artères - March 23
D
- Danko Jones, Fire Music - February 6[5]
- Thomas D'Arcy, Fooled You Twice
- Dear Rouge, Black to Gold[4]
- The Dears, Times Infinity Volume One - September 25
- Mac DeMarco, Demos Volume One - January 20
- Destroyer, Poison Season - August 28[4]
- Alan Doyle, So Let's Go
- Drake, If You're Reading This It's Too Late - February 14
E
- Eccodek, Remixing in Tongues
- The Elwins, Play for Keeps - February 24[4]
- Exco Levi, Country Man - March 17
F
- Michael Feuerstack, The Forgettable Truth - February 17[5]
- Foxtrott, A Taller Us
- Lily Frost, Too Hot for Words
G
- Galaxie, Zulu - February 24[2]
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress - March 31
- The Golden Dogs, 3 1/2 - February 17[5]
- Grand Analog, Roll Dub Soul Rap - October 8
- Great Lake Swimmers, A Forest of Arms - April 21[6]
- Grimes, Art Angels[4]
H
- Half Moon Run, Sun Leads Me On - October 23
- Ron Hawkins and the Do Good Assassins, Garden Songs - February 3[5]
- Hayden, Hey Love - March 24
- Hedley, Hello
- Hello, Blue Roses, WZO - February
- The High Dials, In the AM Wilds - February 3[5]
- Hilotrons, To Trip with Terpsichore[5]
- Hollerado, 111 Songs - March 24[5]
J
- Tobias Jesso Jr., Goon - March 17
- Carly Rae Jepsen, E•MO•TION - August 21
K
- k-os, Can't Fly Without Gravity - September 4
- Andy Kim, It's Decided - February 24[7]
- The King Khan & BBQ Show, Bad News Boys
- Diana Krall, Wallflower - February 2
L
- Jean Leloup, À Paradis City
- Limblifter, Pacific Milk - April 7[5]
M
- Majical Cloudz, Are You Alone?
- Dan Mangan + Blacksmith, Club Meds - January 13[4]
- Michelle McAdorey, Into Her Future - October 30[8]
- Linda McRae, Shadow Trails
- Shawn Mendes, Handwritten
- Metric, Pagans in Vegas - September 18
- METZ, METZ II[3]
- Ariane Moffatt, 22h22[2]
- Moka Only, Voice of the Misfits - December 31
- The Most Serene Republic, Mediac - November 13
N
- Safia Nolin, Limoilou
O
- Lindi Ortega, Faded Gloryville - August 7
P
- Joel Plaskett, The Park Avenue Sobriety Test - March 3[4]
- Purity Ring, Another Eternity - March 3[5]
R
- Rah Rah, Vessels - March[4]
- Sam Roberts Band, Counting the Days - April 18
S
- Buffy Sainte-Marie, Power in the Blood - May 12[9]
- Natasha St-Pier, Mon Acadie - October 2[10]
- Samantha Savage Smith, Fine Lines - January 27[4]
- Ivana Santilli, Late Night Light - March 10
- Saint Asonia, Saint Asonia (album) - June 31
- Lorraine Segato, Invincible Decency
- Ron Sexsmith, Carousel One - March 31
- Siskiyou, Nervous - January 20[3]
- Slim Twig, Thank You for Sticking with Twig - August 7[5]
- Les Sœurs Boulay, 4488 de l'amour
T
- Three Days Grace, Human - March 31
- Al Tuck, Fair Country[5]
V
- Chad VanGaalen and Seth Smith, Seed of Dorzon - September 18[11]
- Viet Cong, Viet Cong - January 20[4]
W
- The Wainwright Sisters (Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche), Songs in the Dark - November 13[12]
- Patrick Watson, Love Songs for Robots
- The Weather Station, Loyalty - May 5
- The Weeknd, Beauty Behind the Madness - August 28
- The Wet Secrets, Tyranny of Objects[5]
- Whitehorse, Leave No Bridge Unburned - February 17[4]
- Hawksley Workman, Old Cheetah
Y
- Yoan, Yoan - March 25[13]
- Yukon Blonde, On Blonde - June 16
Top hits on record
The lists are updated weekly through Nielsen Soundscan.
Albums
| Rank | Artist | Album | Peak position |
Sales | Certification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yoan | Yoan | 1 | 90,000[14][15][16] | Gold[17] |
| 2 | Mumford & Sons | Wilder Mind | 1 | 40,000[18] | TBA |
| 3 | Drake | If You're Reading This It's Too Late | 1 | 37,000[19] | TBA |
| 4 | Various Artists | Fifty Shades of Grey: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 1 | 26,200[19][20] | Gold[21] |
| 5 | Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp a Butterfly | 1 | 21,000[22] | TBA |
| 6 | Jean Leloup | À Paradis City | 1 | 21,000[23] | Gold[24] |
| 7 | Madonna | Rebel Heart | 1 | 20,400[14][25] | TBA |
| 8 | Florence + The Machine | How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 1 | 19,000[26] | TBA |
| 9 | Of Monsters and Men | Beneath the Skin | 1 | 16,000[27] |
TBA |
| 10 | Various Artists | La Voix III | 1 | 15,300[28] | TBA |
Singles
| Rank | Artist | Song | Album | Peak position |
Sales | Certification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth | "See You Again" | Furious 7: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 1 | 117,000[18][28][29][30] | 3× Platinum[31] |
| 2 | Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney | "FourFiveSeconds" | TBA | 3 | 34,000[19] | TBA |
| 3 | Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar | "Bad Blood" | 1989 | 1 | 24,000[32] | TBA |
| 4 | Mumford & Sons | "Believe" | Wilder Mind | 11 | 19,000[33] | TBA |
| 5 | David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj, Afrojack & Bebe Rexha | "Hey Mama" | Listen | 9 | TBA | Platinum[34] |
| 6 | Deorro feat. Chris Brown | "Five More Hours" | TBA | 57 | TBA | Platinum[35] |
| 7 | Maroon 5 | "Sugar" | V | 3 | TBA | Platinum[36] |
| 8 | Carly Rae Jepsen | "I Really Like You" | Emotion | 14 | TBA | Gold[37] |
| 9 | Ed Sheeran | "Photograph" | x | 38 | TBA | Gold[38] |
| 10 | Ellie Goulding | "Love Me like You Do" | Fifty Shades of Grey: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 3 | TBA | Gold[39] |
Deaths
- June 8 - Archie Alleyne, 82, jazz drummer
- November 19 - Ron Hynes, 64, singer-songwriter
References
- ↑ "Chad VanGaalen Wins 2015 Prism Prize for Timber Timbre Video". Exclaim!, March 29, 2015.
- 1 2 3 "Dix albums québécois qu’on attend en 2015". BRBR, January 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 "Exclaim!'s 2014 in Lists: Top 20 Most Anticipated Albums of 2015". Exclaim!, January 2, 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "The 15 most anticipated Canadian indie albums of 2015". CBC Music, December 15, 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "2015 Canadian indie album release list". CBC Music, January 5, 2015.
- ↑ Song Premiere: Great Lake Swimmers - "Zero In The City". Paste, February 2, 2015.
- ↑ "Andy Kim - "Longest Time" (audio) (Premiere)". PopMatters, January 26, 2015.
- ↑ "Crash Vegas' Michelle McAdorey Returns with New Solo Album". Exclaim!, September 16, 2015.
- ↑ "Buffy Sainte-Marie Returns with 'Power in the Blood'". Exclaim!, March 17, 2015.
- ↑ "Acadian Singer Natasha St-Pier Criticized over Depiction of First Nations Culture". Exclaim!, September 15, 2015.
- ↑ "Chad VanGaalen and Seth Smith Make "Experimental Techno" on 'Seed of Dorzon'". Exclaim!, September 2, 2015.
- ↑ "Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche Deliver 'Songs in the Dark' as the Wainwright Sisters". Exclaim!, September 15, 2015.
- ↑ "Un album comme un portrait pour Yoan Garneau". La Presse, March 25, 2015.
- 1 2 Cross, Alan (April 3, 2015). "Weekly Music Sales Report and Analysis: 01 April 2015". Retrieved April 4, 2015.
- ↑ Cross, Alan (April 9, 2015). "Weekly Music Sales Report and Analysis: 08 April 2015". Retrieved April 11, 2015.
- ↑ Kelly, Brendan (May 11, 2015). "Quebec's love affair with Yoan deepens". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
- ↑ "Canadian album certifications – Yoan – Yoan". Music Canada.
- 1 2 Cross, Alan (May 14, 2015). "Weekly Music Sales Report and Analysis: 13 May 2015". Retrieved June 2, 2015.
- 1 2 3 Cross, Alan (February 18, 2015). "Weekly Music Sales Report and Analysis: 18 February 2015". Retrieved February 20, 2015.
- ↑ Cross, Alan (March 4, 2015). "Weekly Music Sales Report and Analysis: 04 March 2015". Retrieved March 6, 2015.
- ↑ "Canadian album certifications – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Fifty Shades of Grey". Music Canada.
- ↑ Cross, Alan (March 26, 2015). "Weekly Music Sales Report and Analysis: 26 March 2015". Retrieved March 29, 2015.
- ↑ Cross, Alan (February 13, 2015). "Weekly Music Sales Report and Analysis: 13 February 2013". Retrieved February 15, 2015.
- ↑ "Canadian album certifications – Jean Leloup – A Paradis City". Music Canada.
- ↑ Cross, Alan (March 21, 2015). "Weekly Music Sales Report and Analysis: 18 March 2015". Retrieved March 29, 2015.
- ↑ Cross, Alan (June 10, 2015). "Weekly Music Sales Report and Analysis: 10 June 2015". Retrieved June 11, 2015.
- ↑ http://ajournalofmusicalthings.com/weekly-music-sales-report-and-analysis-17-june-2015/
- 1 2 Cross, Alan (May 21, 2015). "Weekly Music Sales Report and Analysis: 20 May 2015". Retrieved June 2, 2015.
- ↑ Cross, Alan (April 25, 2015). "Weekly Music Sales Report and Analysis: 22 April 2015". Retrieved April 30, 2015.
- ↑ Cross, Alan (May 6, 2015). "Weekly Music Sales Report and Analysis: 06 May 2015". Retrieved May 10, 2015.
- ↑ "Canadian digital download certifications – Wiz Khalifa – See You Again (Feat. Charlie Puth)". Music Canada.
- ↑ Cross, Alan (June 4, 2015). "Weekly Music Sales Report and Analysis: 04 June 2015". Retrieved June 4, 2015.
- ↑ Tuch, Paul (March 18, 2015). "MADONNA SCORES NUMBER ONE TOP ALBUM DEBUT" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 19, 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
- ↑ "Canadian digital download certifications – David Guetta – Hey Mama". Music Canada.
- ↑ "Canadian single certifications – Deorro – Five Hours/five More Hours (Ft. Chris Brown)". Music Canada.
- ↑ "Canadian single certifications – Maroon 5 – Sugar". Music Canada.
- ↑ "Canadian digital download certifications – Carly Rae Jepsen – I Really Like You". Music Canada.
- ↑ "Canadian single certifications – Ed Sheeran – Photograph". Music Canada.
- ↑ "Canadian single certifications – Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do". Music Canada.
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Canadian music 2015 |
Succeeded by 2016 in Canadian music |
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