What could be more ridiculous than trying to rank the thousands of singles and albums you’ve bought and heard over a lifetime? Here we go …
I have re-ranked both singles and albums in December 2024, and I have also included the original charts I wrote at the end of 2015.
| | Top albums of 2015 |
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| 1 | Blur | The Magic Whip |
| 2 | They Might Be Giants | Glean |
| 3 | Cornershop | Hold On It's Easy |
| 4 | Kosmischer Läufer | The Secret Cosmic Music of the East German Olympic Program 1972-83 |
| 5 | Public Service Broadcasting | The Race For Space |
| 6 | Tame Impala | Currents |
| 7 | Sleater-Kinney | No Cities To Love |
| 8 | Kate Pierson | Guitars and Microphones |
| 9 | Metric | Pagans In Vegas |
| 10 | Courtney Barnett | Sometimes I Sit And Think |
| 11 | FFS | FFS |
| 12 | Pop Will Eat Itself | Anti Nasty League |
| 13 | Sea Power | Sea Of Brass |
| 14 | Blindness | Wrapped In Plastic |
| 15 | Tenek | Smoke & Mirrors |
| 16 | Gwenno | Y Dydd Olaf |
| 17 | Charlatans | Modern Nature |
| 18 | Pond | Man It Feels Like Space Again |
| 19 | Spock's Beard | The Oblivion Particle |
| 20 | Paul Smith and the Intimations | Contradictions |
| 21 | The Echo And The Always | And After That The Dark ... |
| 22 | Steve Hackett | Wolflight |
| 23 | Prodigy | The Day Is My Enemy |
| 24 | Fireworks | Switch Me On |
| 25 | Venera 4 | Eidôlon |
| 26 | Pugwash | Play This Intimately (As If Among Friends) |
| 27 | Jennie Vee | Spying |
| 28 | Marc Almond | The Velvet Trail |
| 29 | Coldplay | A Head Full Of Dreams |
| 30 | Kaleidophone | Hero In Trouble |
| 31 | Girls Names | Arms Around A Vision |
| 32 | Florence and the Machine | How Big |
| 33 | Death Cab For Cutie | Kintsugi |
| 34 | Cut Ribbons | We Want To Watch Something We Loved Burn |
| 35 | Darlia | Petals |
| 36 | Kid Wave | Wonderlust |
| 37 | Lovely Eggs | This Is Our Nowhere |
| 38 | Pinkshinyultrablast | Everything Else Matters |
| 39 | Viet Cong | Viet Cong |
| 40 | Muse | Drones |
| 41 | Sarah Cracknell | Red Kite |
| 42 | Fever Dream | Moyamoya |
| 43 | Haiku Salut | Etch And Etch Deep |
| 44 | Rhonda and the Great Unknown | Rhonda and the Great Unknown |
| | Top tracks of 2015 |
| |
| 1 | Courtney Barnett | Pedestrian At Best |
| 2 | Public Service Broadcasting | Go! |
| 3 | Blur | Go Out |
| 4 | Gwenno | Fratolish Hiang Perpeshki |
| 5 | Sleater-Kinney | Bury Our Friends |
| 6 | They Might Be Giants | Underwater Woman |
| 7 | Estrons | Make A Man |
| 8 | Dråpe | My Friend The Scientist |
| 9 | Tame Impala | Let It Happen |
| 10 | Laura Marling | Gurdjieff's Daughter |
| 11 | They Might Be Giants | Erase |
| 12 | Public Service Broadcasting | Gagarin |
| 13 | Blur | I Broadcast |
| 14 | Kate Pierson | Bring Your Arms |
| 15 | Taffy | Suicidal Bunny |
| 16 | Everything Everything | Distant Past |
| 17 | Blur | Lonesome Street |
| 18 | Sleater-Kinney | Price Tag |
| 19 | Circa Waves | T-Shirt Weather |
| 20 | Blindness | Confessions |
| 21 | Courtney Barnett | Debbie Downer |
| 22 | Frank and Walters | Look At Us Now |
| 23 | Cribs | Wish I Knew You In The 90s |
| 24 | San Cisco | Run |
| 25 | Horse Party | Paydirt |
| 26 | Blossoms | Blown Rose |
| 27 | Garbanotas Bosistas | Places, Planes and Trains |
| 28 | Faerground Accidents | She Makes Me Want To Die |
| 29 | FFS | Johnny Delusional |
| 30 | Mighty Roars | Skin Of An Animal |
| 31 | Curxes | What You Want |
| 32 | Killatrix | Overcome |
| 33 | Pond | Man It Feels Like Space Again |
| 34 | Mystery Jets | Telomere |
| 35 | Charlatans | So Oh |
| 36 | All Tvvins | Thank You |
| 37 | Fight Like Apes | Pretty Keen On Centerfolds |
| 38 | Fireworks | Tightrope |
| 39 | Beatniks | Ball And Chain |
| 40 | M J Hibbett and the Validators | Roy Wood In The Blue Note |
| 41 | Sleaford Mods | Tarantula Deadly Cargo |
| 42 | Beck | Dreams |
| 43 | British IBM | Hey Hey 16K |
| 44 | Sulk | Queen Supreme |
| 45 | Beach Slang | Too Much Kissing |
| 46 | David Bowie | Blackstar |
| | Original chart - top tracks of 2015 |
| |
| 1 | Courtney Barnett | Pedestrian At Best |
| 2 | Blur | Go Out |
| 3 | Asylums | Joy In A Small Wage |
| 4 | Tame Impala | Let It Happen |
| 5 | Sleater-Kinney | Bury Our Friends |
| 6 | Killatrix | Overcome |
| 7 | Drape | My Friend The Scientist |
| 8 | Everything Everything | Distant Past |
| 9 | Garbanotas Bosistas | Places, Planes and Trains |
| 10 | Taffy | Suicidal Bunny |
| 11 | They Might Be Giants | Underwater Woman |
| 12 | Horse Party | Paydirt |
| 13 | Beck | Dreams |
| 14 | Laura Marling | Gurdjieff's Daughter |
| 15 | Cat Bear Tree | Adult |
| 16 | Blur | Lonesome Street |
| 17 | Kassassin Street | Radio Silence |
| 18 | Blossoms | Blown Rose |
| 19 | Kate Pierson | Bring Your Arms |
| 20 | Sans | Torquay |
| 21 | Cornershop | Jason Donovan Tessa Sanderson (version) |
| 22 | Public Service Broadcasting | Go! |
| 23 | Circa Waves | T-Shirt Weather |
| 24 | Metric | Lie Lie Lie |
| 25 | Wolf Alice | Freazy |
| 26 | Dingus Khan | Milk Of Every Mammal |
| 27 | Sarah Cracknell | On The Swings |
| 28 | Monochrome Set | Iceman |
| 29 | Stornoway | Get Low |
| 30 | Sleaford Mods | Tarantula Deadly Cargo |
| 31 | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | Riverman |
| 32 | Frank and Walters | Look At Us Now |
| 33 | Modest Mouse | Lampshades On Fire |
| 34 | Mighty Roars | Skin Of An Animal |
| 35 | Suede | Outsiders |
| 36 | Everything Everything | Regret |
| 37 | They Might Be Giants | Erase |
| 38 | Wow Signal | Glitch In The System |
| 39 | Sulk | Queen Supreme |
| 40 | Blur | Thought I Was A Spaceman |
| 41 | James Atkin | Corresponder |
| 42 | Surf Vietnam | Fallingwater |
| 43 | Fever Dream | Serotonin Hit |
| 44 | Pugwash | Hung Myself Out To Dry |
| 45 | Tara King th and Halasan Bazar | TK16 pt 1 |
| 46 | Kaiser Chiefs | Falling Awake |
| 47 | Wire | Joust and Jostle |
| 48 | Shiners | Karma (Is Coming To Get You) |
| 49 | Maccabees | Marks To Prove It |
| 50 | Horse Party | Animal |
| 51 | Beach Fatigue | Drunken Grrrls |
| 52 | Public Service Broadcasting | Kolarov |
| 53 | Tuff Love | Crocodile |
| 54 | Paul Smith and the Intimations | Break Me Down |
| 55 | Pop Will Eat Itself | They Can't Take (What You Won't Let 'Em Have) |
| 56 | Silversun Pickups | Nightlight |
| 57 | Black Casino and the Ghost | Veggie Tarantula |
| 58 | All Tvvins | Thank You |
| 59 | Wharves | Naz |
| 60 | Charlatans | In The Tall Grass |
| 61 | Tenek | What Kind Of Friend |
| 62 | Florence and the Machine | What Kind Of Man |
| 63 | Sleater-Kinney | Price Tag |
| 64 | Lo Fidelity All Stars | Fire Reigns |
| 65 | Rosie and the Goldbug | Hey You |
| 66 | Lovely Eggs | Magic Onion |
| 67 | Ringo Deathstarr | Guilt |
| 68 | Milk Teeth | Vitamins |
| 69 | Vryll Society | Air |
| 70 | School | All I Want From You Is Everything |
| 71 | Fireworks | Tightrope |
| 72 | Pretty Vicious | National Plastics |
| 73 | Everything Everything | Spring Summer Winter Dread |
| 74 | Pinkshinyultrablast | Umi |
| 75 | Hot Chip | Need You Now |
| 76 | Cribs | Wish I Knew You In The 90s |
| 77 | Faerground Accidents | She Makes Me Want To Die |
| 78 | My Cruel Goro | Glue Buzz |
| 79 | FFS | Johnny Delusional |
| 80 | Asylums | Missing Persons |
| 81 | Bloc Party | The Love Within |
| 82 | Splashh | Nobody Loves You Like I Do |
| 83 | DMAs | Lay Down |
| 84 | Metric | The Shade |
| 85 | Desperate Journalist | Perfect Health |
| 86 | Figures | Wigourney Seaver |
| 87 | Diablofurs | Black Mirror Girls 1973 |
| 88 | Mercury Rev | Are You Ready |
| 89 | Dazy Chain | Gunfire |
| 90 | Everglows | Two Minute Hero |
| 91 | Anchoress | Popular |
| 92 | Faerground Accidents | Woeful Small Town |
| 93 | Auction for the Promise Club | This May Hurt |
| 94 | Noir Noir | Claustrophobic Love |
| 95 | Lovely Eggs | Goofin' Around (In Lancashire) |
| 96 | Paul Orwell | Tell Me Tell Me |
| 97 | Bohicas | To Die For |
| 98 | Curxes | What You Want |
| 99 | David Bowie | Blackstar |
| 100 | Phantom Sound | Release Me |
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