As the year draws to a close it’s time to think back to what 2015 brought us in music. It was the year that Justin Bieber turned haters into Beliebers with song after song from his Purpose album hitting the chart. It was the year X-Factor failed to hit Christmas Number 1 (nor number 1 at all) as Louisa Johnson (who was clearly the right winner) peaked at number 9 in the chart with the single Forever Young.
It was also the year for big comebacks as Jeff Lynn brought back ELO, New Order returned, Duran Duran returned too.
Here’s my favourite 40 songs of the year
1 Years & Years – King
2 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Lock All The Doors
3 Walk The Moon – Shut Up And Dance
4 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Ballad Of The Mighty I
5 Axwell & Ingrosso – Something New
6 MNEK & Zara Larsson – Never Forget You
7 Jess Glynne – Hold My Hand
8 Ella Eyre – Together
9 Ed Sheeran – Bloodstream [Rudimental Remix]
10 Ne-Yo – Coming With You
11 Alex Adair – Make Me Feel Better [Don Diablo & CID Edit]
12 Rudimental & Ed Sheeran – Lay It All On Me
13 OMI – Cheerleader [Felix Jaehn Remix]
14 Ellie Goulding – On My Mind
15 Justin Bieber – Sorry
16 Maroon 5 – This Summer’s Gonna Hurt
17 MIKA – Talk About You
18 Nick Jonas – Jealous
19 Sigala – Easy Love
20 Weeknd – Can’t Feel My Face
21 Usher & Juicy J – I Don’t Mind
22 David Gilmour – Rattle That Lock
23 Galantis – Peanut Butter Jelly
24 Nick Brewer & Bibi Bourelly – Talk To Me
25 Brandon Flowers – Lonely Town
26 Philip George & Anton Powers – Alone No More
27 Jason Derulo – Want To Want Me
28 Florence & The Machine – Ship To Wreck
29 Grace & G-Eazy – You Don’t Own Me
30 KDA, Tinie Tempah & Katy B – Turn The Music Louder (Rumble)
31 Keith Richards – Trouble
32 Olly Murs – Kiss Me
33 Fleur East – Sax
34 New Order – Restless (5:19)
35 Marlon Roudette – Everybody Feeling Something [Original Mix]
36 OMI – Hula Hoop
37 Rita Ora – Poison
38 Rudimental – Never Let You Go
39 Years & Years – Shine
40 Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do
