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| Dave’s Music Database:Top Albums of 2015 |
Based on a combination of year-end lists and overall status in Dave’s Music Database, these are the top 25 albums of 2015:
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First posted 1/8/2021. |
| Dave’s Music Database:Top Albums of 2015 |
Based on a combination of year-end lists and overall status in Dave’s Music Database, these are the top 25 albums of 2015:
Resources and Related Links:
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| Dave’s Music Database:Top 50 Songs of 2015 |
These are the top 50 songs of the year based on their overall performance in Dave’s Music Database, which is determined by combining chart data, sales figures, streaming, video views, and aggregates from year-end lists. Check out “Top Songs and Albums of the Year” lists here.
DMDB Top 1%:
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First posted 12/26/2021; last updated 1/17/2023. |
| Honor Roll of Hits:Top 300 Songs |
In the 2015 edition of Joel Whitburn’s Top Pop Singles 1955-2015, 300 songs are noted and ranked for awards and list appearances: ASCAP, BMI, Country Music Association Awards, Grammys, the Grammy Hall of Fame, Kennedy Center Honors, National Recording Registry, NPR, Oscars, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, RIAA/NEA, and Rolling Stone. Click here to see other lists from publications and/or organizations. 2. Otis Redding “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” (1968) 3. Roy Orbison “(Oh) Pretty Woman” (1964) 4. Bobby Darin “Mack the Knife” (1959) 5. Tina Turner “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” (1984) 6. Al Green “Let’s Stay Together” (1971) 7. Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes” (1956) 8. The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965) 9. The Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” (1965) 10. The Temptations “My Girl” (1964)
11. Simon and Garfunkel “The Sounds of Silence” (1965)
21. The Miracles “The Tracks of My Tears” (1965)
31. Roberta Flack “Killing Me Softly with His Song” (1973)
41. Billy Joel “Piano Man” (1974)
51. Johnny Cash “I Walk the Line” (1956)
61. B.B. King “The Thrill Is Gone” (1969)
71. The Shirelles “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” (1960)
81. Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
91. Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers “Why Do Fools Fall in Love?” (1956) 101. The Isley Brothers “Shout (Parts 1 and 2)” (1959) 102. Creedence Clearwater Revival “Fortunate Son” (1969) 103. Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven” (1971) 104. Bob Dylan “The Times They Are A-Changin’” (1964) 105. The Everly Brothers “All I Have to Do Is Dream” (1958) 106. The Platters “The Great Pretender” (1955) 107. Dion “Runaround Sue” (1961) 108. Blondie “Heart of Glass” (1978) 109. Little Eva “The Loco-Motion” (1962) 110. The Byrds “Mr. Tambourine Man” (1965)
111. The Beach Boys “California Girls” (1965)
121. The Champs “Tequila” (1958)
131. Run-D.M.C. with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler & Joe Perry “Walk This Way” (1986)
141. John Lee Hooker “Boogie Chillen'“ (1949)
151. Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive” (1977)
161. The Beatles “Help!” (1964)
171. Little Richard “Long Tall Sally” (1956)
181. The Everly Brothers “Wake Up Little Susie” (1957)
191. The Miracles “Shop Around” (1960) 201. Bobby Fuller Four “I Fought the Law” (1966) 202. Ben E. King “Spanish Harlem” (1960) 203. The Animals “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” (1965) 204. The Byrds “Eight Miles High” (1966) 205. Lou Reed “Walk on the Wild Side” (1973) 206. Johnny Cash “Ring of Fire” (1963) 207. Tony Bennett “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” (1962) 208. Otis Redding “I've Been Loving You Too Long” (1965) 209. Otis Redding “Try a Little Tenderness” (1966) 210. Glen Campbell “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” (1967)
211. John Lee Hooker “Boom Boom” (1962)
221. The Turtles “Happy Together” (1967)
231. Gnarls Barkley “Crazy” (2006)
241. Jimmy Cliff “Many Rivers to Cross” (1969)
251. Lee Ann Womack & Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance” (2000)
261. B.J. Thomas “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” (1969)
271. Roger Miller “Dang Me” (1964)
281. Bo Diddley “I'm a Man” (1955)
291. Ray Charles “I Gotta Woman” (1955) Resources/Related Links:
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| Day TripperThe Beatles |
Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney (see lyrics here) Released: December 3, 1965 First Charted: December 11, 1965 Peak: 5 US, 10 CB, 12 HR, 2 CL, 15 UK, 17 AU (Click for codes to singles charts.) Sales (in millions): -- US, -- UK, -- world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 15.2 video, -- streaming |
Awards:Click on award for more details. |
About the Song:In the UK, “We Can Work It Out” and “Day Tripper” were released as a double-A-sided, stand-alone single in the UK, where it hit #1. In the United States, the songs were treated separately. John Lennon wanted his song, “Day Tripper,” to be the A-side, but “We Can Work It Out” was pegged as “the safer, friendlier song” SG with more commercial appeal. The former was a chart-topper in the U.S., but “Day Tripper” fared just fine, reaching #5. Both songs were then released on the U.S.-only album Yesterday…and Today in June 1966. As was often the case, Paul McCartney wrote “We Can Work It Out” with more focus on the melody while “the Lennon-written ripper ‘Day Tripper’” SG is an example of what John called “straight, shouting rock ‘n’ roll.” FB The song “rocks harder, playing around with the ferocity that the Beatles’ new competitors the Rolling Stones were bringing” SG although there’s still “there’s a neatness, a pertness about this band on this record.” FT In addition to the “big, heavy riff” SG the song also represented one of the band’s “creative attempts to smuggle drugs and sex into their songs…’She’s a big teaser, she’s a day tripper,’ subtle stuff there lads! The song’s a frustrated goodbye, but who’d really blame a girl for having fun with boys whose eagerness to please is so apparent?” FT While John wrote the song, it was sung jointly by him and Paul. The “arrangement is a homage to Stax Records.” KL Interestingly, Otis Redding covered that song as well as the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” telling friends (falsely) that he wrote both songs. KL Resources:
Related Links:First posted 6/23/2022. |
| We Can Work It OutThe Beatles |
Writer(s): John Lennon, Paul McCartney (see lyrics here) Released: December 3, 1965 First Charted: December 9, 1965 Peak: 13 US, 14 CB, 12 HR, 1 CL, 15 UK, 11 CN, 17 AU (Click for codes to singles charts.) Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, 1.42 UK Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 2.0 radio, 114.5 video, -- streaming |
Awards:Click on award for more details. |
About the Song:“We Can Work It Out” was recorded during the sessions for the Rubber Soul era and released in the UK as a stand-alone single in December 1965. In the U.S., the song appeared on the album Yesterday…and Today, sort of a hodge-podge of singles and album cuts which hadn’t been released stateside in album form. The song, backed by John Lennon’s “Day Tripper,” soared to #1 on December 18 in the UK and January 8 in the United States. The song was inspired by an argument Paul McCartney had with his then-girlfriend Jane Asher. He offers “passive-aggressively, pleading for his significant other to see things from his perspective in the same breath as he threatens to bolt out the door.” SG However, the song also showcases Paul’s typically “upbeat, optimistic verses” KL about how “we can work it out.” As John Lennon said, “You could say that he provided a lightness, an optimism, while I would always go for the sadness.” FB Indeed, John “crashes in with the bitter-sweet middle eight which gives the song its bite.” KL He contributes lines here such as “Life is very short / And there’s no time / For fussing and fighting, my friend.” As John explained, “I’d be the one to figure out where to go with a song – a story that Paul would start. In a lot of the songs, my stuff is the ‘middle eight,’ the bridge.’” FB Producer George Martin affirms that the two “never really collaborated. They were never Rodgers and Hart. They were songwriters who helped each other out with little bits and pieces.” FB Recorded at the beginning of their more experimental phase, the song showcased how the Beatles could “take a simple-enough tune about a romantic disagreement and use it as a way to futz around with organ sounds and time signatures – to keep things interesting for themselves, or maybe to let their audience grow with them.” SG Resources:
Related Links:First posted 6/23/2022. |
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Singer born Francis Albert Sinatra on 12/12/1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Died 5/14/1998. “Ol’ Blue Eyes” is one of the premiere pop crooners and traditional pop artists of all time. His personal life was tabloid fodder thanks to several high-profile marriages and divorces and his alleged association with the Mafia.
He began professionally singing as a teenager. Worked with the Hoboken Four (35-39), the Harry James’ Orchestra (39), and Tommy Dorsey’s Orchestra (39-42) before going solo on 9/3/42. On 6/1/43, he signed with Columbia Records and on 3/13/53 to Capitol Records, where he recorded a series of critically acclaimed and commercially successful themed albums. He was a residency performer with the Rat Pack in Las Vegas in the early 1950s and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in From Here to Eternity. Formed his own record label, Reprise Records, in 1960 and sold it to Warner Brothers in 1963.
“I’ll Never Smile Again,” which featured Sinatra on lead vocals with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, is featured in the DMDB book The Top 100 Songs of the Pre-Rock Era, 1890-1953.
For a complete list of this act’s songs and albums honored by the DMDB, check out the DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia entry.
Notes: TD = Tommy Dorsey’s Orchestra. Sinatra landed 40 songs at #1 on various charts, including the U.S. pre-Billboard pop charts (US), Hit Parade (HP), adult contemporary charts (AC), the UK charts (UK), the Canadian charts (CN), and the Australian charts (AU).
DMDB Top 1%:
1. I’ll Never Smile Again (w/ TD & the Pied Pipers, 1940) #1 US, HP
2. All or Nothing at All (w/ Harry James’ Orchestra, 1939) #1 US, HP
3. Strangers in the Night (1966) #1 US, AC, UK, AU
4. There Are Such Things (w/ TD & the Pied Pipers (1942) #1 US, HP
5. My Way (1969)
DMDB Top 5%:
6. Five Minutes More (1946) #1 US, HP, AU
7. Somethin’ Stupid (w/ Nancy Sinatra, 1967) #1 US, AC, UK, CN, AU
8. You’ll Never Walk Alone (w/ the Ken Lane Singers, 1945)
9. Theme from ‘New York, New York’ (1980)
10. One for My Baby and One for the Road (1949)
11. White Christmas (w/ the Bobby Tucker Singers, 1949)
12. In the Blue of the Evening (w/ TD, 1942) #1 US
13. Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night of the Week (1944)
14. They Say It’s Wonderful (1946) #1 HP
15. Stardust (w/ TD & the Pied Pipers, 1940)
16. Learnin’ the Blues (1955) #1 US, HP, AU
17. Young at Heart (1954) #1 HP, AU
18. Night and Day (w/ Axel Stordahl’s Orchestra, 1942)
19. I’ve Got You Under My Skin (1956)
20. Oh! What It Seemed to Be (1946) #1 US, HP
21. I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night (w/ the Bobby Tucker Singers, 1944) #1 HP
22. Oh, Look at Me Now (w/ TD, Connie Haines, & the Pied Pipers, 1941)
23. All the Way (1957)
24. I’ll Be Seeing You (w/ TD, 1940) #1 HP
25. How About You? (w/ TD, 1942)
26. Almost Like Being in Love (1947)
27. Autumn in New York (1949)
28. Love and Marriage (1955)
29. But Beautiful (1948)
30. I’ve Got a Crush on You (w/ Bobby Hackett, 1948)
31. A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening (w/ the Bobby Tucker Singers, 1944) #1 AU
32. Goodnight Irene (w/ the Mitch Miller Singers, 1950) #1 HP, UK
33. Mam’selle (1947) #1 US, HP, AU
34. Some Enchanted Evening (1949) #1 HP
35. Time after Time (1947)
36. People Will Say We’re in Love (w/ the Bobby Tucker Singers, 1943) #1 HP
37. You’ll Never Know (w/ the Bobby Tucker Singers, 1943) #1 HP
38. This Love of Mine (w/ TD & the Pied Pipers, 1941)
39. Nancy with the Laughing Face (1945)
40. Call Me Irresponsible (1963)
41. Love Is the Tender Trap (1955)
42. It Was a Very Good Year (1965) #1 AC
43. Stardust (1962)
44. Begin the Beguine (1946)
DMDB Top 10%:
45. Oh, What a Beautiful Morning (w/ the Bobby Tucker Singers, 1943)
46. Everything Happens to Me (w/ TD, 1941)
47. High Hopes (w/ A Bunch O Kids, 1959)
48. September Song (1946)
49. Sunday, Monday or Always (w/ the Bobby Tucker Singers, 1943) #1 HP, AU
50. Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) #1 HP, UK, AU
51. Imagination (w/ TD, 1940) #1 HP
52. Polka Dots and Moonbeams (w/ TD, 1940)
53. It’s Always You (w/ TD, 1943)
54. I Get a Kick Out of You (1953)
55. Witchcraft (1957)
56. Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread (w/ TD, 1940) #1 HP
57. Summer Wind (1966) #1 AC
58. My Funny Valentine (1954)
59. Here’s That Rainy Day (1959)
60. It Started All Over Again (w/ TD, 1943)
61. Dream (When You’re Feeling Blue) (1945) #1 HP
62. That’s Life (1966) #1 AC
63. Come Fly with Me (1958)
64. Nature Boy (1948) #1 HP
65. If I Loved You (1945)
66. Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time) (w/ the Ken Lane Singers, 1945)
67. I’ve Got the World on a String (1953)
68. We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me) (w/ TD, 1940) #1 HP
69. The Second Time Around (1961)
70. It Only Happens When I Dance with You (1948)
71. I’m Walking Behind You (1953) #1 HP, AU
72. Just As Though You Were Here (w/ TD, 1942)
73. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (1955)
74. Day by Day (1946)
75. The Way You Look Tonight (1964)
76. Take Me (w/ TD, 1942)
77. Nice ‘N’ Easy (1960)
78. I Only Have Eyes for You (1949)
79. Chicago (That Toddlin’ Town) (1957)
80. All of Me (1948)
81. I’m a Fool to Want You (1951)
82. Fly Me to the Moon (1964)
83. They Can’t Take That Away from Me (1954)
84. Nevertheless I’m in Love with You (1950) #1 HP
85. Granada (1961)
86. Do I Worry? (w/ TD, 1941)
87. You and I (w/ TD, 1941)
88. Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol’ Me) (1958)
89. New York, New York (w/ Gene Kelly, 1949)
90. Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy (1950) #1 HP
DMDB Top 20%:
91. I’ve Got You Under My Skin (w/ Bono, 1993)
92. Dolores (w/ TD, 1941) #1 US
93. I’ll Be Seeing You (re-recording w/ TD, 1961)
94. All Through the Day (1946) #1 HP
95. Be Careful, It’s My Heart (w/ TD, 1942)
96. What’ll I Do? (1948)
97. Say It Over and Over Again (w/ TD, 1940)
98. Me and My Shadow (w/ Sammy Davis, Jr., 1962)
99. The Birth of the Blues (1952)
100. Our Love Affair (w/ TD, 1940)
![]() | Love YourselfJustin Bieber |
Writer(s): Ed Sheeran, Benny Blanco, Justin Bieber (see lyrics here) Released: November 9, 2015 First Charted: November 20, 2015 Peak: 12 US, 14 RR, 18 AC, 15 A40, 16 UK, 12 CN, 17 AU (Click for codes to singles charts.) Sales (in millions): 2.85 US, 2.06 UK, 11.7 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 2207.1 video, 1758.15 streaming |
Awards:Click on award for more details. |