2015 End-of-Year Music Polls & Critics' Lists

My best crit list find: DJ Sotofett. Vinyl duly ordered from Honest Jon's.

Bringing in a heap of musicians and friends, DJ Sotofett has engineered a melting pot of sounds that brings in all sorts of rhythms and flavours, be it the balearic guitars for the intro track (named Ibiza Dub, of course), the super-fluid and euphoric drum jam on the D-Side alongside Parisian peer Gilb’R, or the authentic african vocal (Shouts to the Kambo Super Sound fam!) on what is probably the hottest riddim of them all: ‘Nondo’

hmmmm, maybe

See what you think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyiR9b2um2I

the largest poll of 2015 tracks, starts January 26th on Triple J midday (less than 5 Hours time)

triple j's Hottest 100 2015 teasers
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/musicnews/s4393239.htm

After six weeks of steady voting, and a massive swell of traffic to the triple j website on the final day of voting on Friday, it's time to say: Happy Hottest 100 Eve!

With only one sleep to go until the world's biggest music poll kicks off for 2015, excitement levels are off the hook.

After spending the weekend crunching numbers and making sure every last one of your votes was counted, we can tell you that there were over 2 million votes cast this year.

2,094,350 votes, to be precise, pouring in from 172 countries around the world, from locations as far flung as Suriname, Zimbabwe, Bahrain, Serbia, and of course, in our own backyard.

There's already been plenty of debate over which of your favourite songs of 2015 are going to make it into the countdown. And to keep you guessing, we've put together some teaser stats. Can you pick the results from these lil' tidbits?

• More than 16,000 songs were voted for.
• 54 songs are Australian (which is 54%, slightly down from last year's record of 59).
• There's 26 Hottest 100 debutantes this year.
• It's an upbeat year! The average BPM of the Hottest 100 is 123 (compared to 121 last year and 116 in 2013)

correction, that will be on tuesday not monday.

Tuesday our time so probably monday yours.

Don't expect much from the list but there is talk that a black artist (i.e. kendrick) might be in with a shot of winning this year which is...progress for the notoriously whitebread list

Headphone Commute's Readers Poll
http://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2016/01/24/best-of-2015-readers-poll/

Great list, and thanks for the pointer to that site. I hope other ILM voters took note the Max Richter, which does what it says on the tin. Will be investigating the Irisarri.

results are in

Triple J Hottest 100 2015
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/15/countdown/

wikipedia with more data / analysis
Triple J Hottest 100, 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_J_Hottest_100,_2015

The Wombats!

Lol fuck them!

http://m.nashvillescene.com/nashville/results-of-the-2015-nashville-scene-country-music-critics-poll/Content?oid=6325160

For the Scene's 16th Annual Country Music Critics' Poll, we surveyed more than 80 music writers across the country to determine 2015's top country albums, singles, performers and more. See the results of our poll below.

Albums:

1. Chris Stapleton, Traveller (Mercury Nashville)

2. Jason Isbell, Something More Than Free (Southeastern/Thirty Tigers)

3. Ashley Monroe, The Blade (Warner Nashville)

4. Kacey Musgraves, Pageant Material (Mercury Nashville)

5. Eric Church, Mr. Misunderstood (EMI Nashville)

6. Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, Django and Jimmie (Legacy)

7. Rhiannon Giddens, Tomorrow Is My Turn (Nonesuch)

8. James McMurtry, Complicated Game (Complicated Game)

9. The Mavericks, Mono (Valory)

10. Maddie & Tae, Start Here (Dot)

11. Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, The Traveling Kind (Nonesuch)

12. Dwight Yoakam, Second Hand Heart (Warner Bros.)

13. Cam, Untamed (Arista Nashville)

14. Don Henley, Cass County (Capitol)

15. Turnpike Troubadours, The Turnpike Troubadours (Bossier City)

16. John Moreland, High on Tulsa Heat (Old Omens)

17. Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen, Hold My Beer Vol. 1 (Lil' Buddy Toons)

18. Corb Lund, Things That Can't Be Undone (New West)

19. Alan Jackson, Angels and Alcohol (Alan's Country/EMI Nashville)

20. Joe Ely, Panhandle Rambler (Rack 'Em)

21. Asleep at the Wheel, Still the King: Celebrating the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys (Proper)

22. Dave Rawlings Machine, Nashville Obsolete (Acony)

23. Sam Outlaw, Angeleno (Six Shooter/Thirty Tigers)

24. Andrew Combs, All These Dreams (Coin)

25. Allison Moorer, Down to Believing (eOne Nashville)

26. George Strait, Cold Beer Conversation (MCA Nashville)

27. Lindi Ortega, Faded Gloryville (Grand Tour)

28. Steve Earle, Terraplane (New West)

29. The Bottle Rockets, South Broadway Athletic Club (Bloodshot)

30. Brandi Carlile, The Firewatcher's Daughter (ATO)

Singles:

1. Little Big Town, "Girl Crush" (Capitol Nashville)

2. Jason Isbell, "24 Frames" (Southeastern/Thirty Tigers)

3. Cam, "Burning House" (Arista Nashville)

4. Ashley Monroe, "The Blade" (Warner Nashville)

5. Chris Stapleton, "Tennessee Whiskey" (Mercury Nashville)

6. Eric Church, "Mr. Misunderstood" (EMI Nashville)

7. Miranda Lambert, "Little Red Wagon" (RCA)

8. Chris Stapleton, "Traveller" (Mercury Nashville)

9. Thomas Rhett, "Crash and Burn" (Valory)

10. Eric Church, "Like a Wrecking Ball" (EMI Nashville)

11. Dierks Bentley, "Riser" (Capitol Nashville)

12. Keith Urban, "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16" (Capitol Nashville)

13. Kacey Musgraves, "Dime Store Cowgirl" (Mercury Nashville)

14. Carrie Underwood, "Smoke Break" (Arista Nashville)

15. Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard with Jamey Johnson, "It's All Going to Pot" (Legacy)

16. Maddie & Tae, "Shut Up and Fish" (Dot)

17. Brothers Osborne, "Stay a Little Longer" (EMI Nashville)

18. Lee Ann Womack, "Send It On Down" (Sugar Hill)

19. Lee Ann Womack, "Chances Are" (Sugar Hill)

20. Cam, "My Mistake" (Arista Nashville)

21. Chris Janson, "Buy Me a Boat" (Warner Nashville)

22. Charles Kelley, Dierks Bentley and Eric Paslay, "The Driver" (Capitol Nashville)

23. Kacey Musgraves, "Biscuits" (Mercury Nashville)

24. Ashley Monroe, "On to Something Good" (Warner Music Nashville)

25. The Mavericks, "All Night Long" (Valory)

Miranda Lambert's "Little Red Wagon" is an aural war crime

Not into it, either. Bathroom Sink would have been such a better single. (Her only solo writing credit on the album, incidentally.)

http://www.toneglow.net/features/2016/1/31/2015-in-review

For some reason I only like every other Isbell album. Better luck next time I guess.

http://beehy.pe/best-of-2015/brazil-3/

A best of Brazilian album list with rock, artsy samba and some funky stuff (tho I don't think any carioca favela funk)

In retrospect this is probably my favorite year of albums of the past decade or so.

It's up there. Mine is probably 2018, but yeah this one has a lot of stone cold classics across so many genres.

Most years I would struggle to name 15 albums that I consistently enjoy, but this year has at least 25.

Gimme an E

E!

Gimme a MO

MO!

Gimme a TION

TION!

(I realized it looked like I might be cheering for an emo album.)