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2015 Music

Billboard: 25 Best Albums of 2015

15 December 2015

To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

Billboard: 25 Best Albums of 2015 (as voted by Billboard staff)

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  1. To Pimp A Butterfly
    Kendrick Lamar
  2. Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
    Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Original Broadway Cast
  3. Art Angels
    Grimes
  4. Summertime ’06
    Vince Staples
  5. 25
    Adele
  6. In Colour
    Jamie xx
  7. Sound & Color
    Alabama Shakes
  8. Black Messiah
    D’Angelo and The Vanguard
  9. I Love You, Honeybear
    Father John Misty
  10. Something More Than Free
    Jason Isbell
  11. DS2
    Future
  12. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
    Drake
  13. Traveller
    Chris Stapleton
  14. No Cities To Love
    Sleater-Kinney
  15. Dark Sky Paradise
    Big Sean
  16. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
    Courtney Barnett
  17. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
    Florence + The Machine
  18. Beauty Behind the Madness
    The Weeknd
  19. Amanecer
    Bomba Estéreo
  20. Days Gone By
    Bob Moses
  21. Honeymoon
    Lana Del Rey
  22. Surf
    Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment
  23. Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü
    Skrillex & Diplo
  24. E•MO•TION
    Carly Rae Jepsen
  25. Hasta la Raíz
    Natalia Lafourcade

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