The Top 50 Songs of 2015

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%: Adele “Hello” Wiz Khalifa with Charlie Puth “See You Again” The Weeknd “Can’t Feel My Face” Justin Bieber “Love Yourself” Justin Bieber “Sorry” The Weeknd “The Hills” Drake “Hotline Bling” Justin Bieber “What Do You Mean?” Lukas Graham “7 Years” Twenty One Pilots “Stressed Out” Silentó “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” DMDB Top 2%: Major Lazer with DJ Snake & MØ “Lean On” Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” Shawn Mendes “Stitches” Desiigner “Panda” Thomas Rhett “Die a Happy Man” Twenty One Pilots “Ride” DMDB Top 5%: Mike Posner “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” Disturbed “The Sound of Silence” X Ambassadors “Renegades” Jason Derulo “Want to Want Me” Little Big Town “Girl Crush” Rihanna with Kanye West & Paul McCartney “Four Five Seconds” Alan Walker “Faded” Coldplay with Beyoncé “Hymn for the Weekend” Chris Stapleton “Tennessee Whiskey” Rachel Platten “Fight Song” DNCE “Cake by the Ocean” Alessia Cara “Scars to Your Beautiful” Flo Rida “My House” Alessia Cara “Here” David Bowie “Lazarus” Adele “Send My Love to Your New Lover” The Chainsmokers with Rozes “Roses” Skrillex with Diplo & Justin Bieber “Where Are Ü Now” Kendrick Lamar “Alright” Coldplay “Adventure of a Lifetime” Calvin Harris & Disciples “How Deep Is Your Love” Beck “Dreams” G-Eazy with Bebe Rexha “Me, Myself & I” Charlie Puth & Meghan Trainor “Marvin Gaye” Selena Gomez with A$AP Rocky “Good for You” Mumford & Sons “Believe” David Bowie “Blackstar” Adele “When We Were Young” Andy Grammar “Honey I’m Good” Meghan Trainor & John Legend “Like I’m Gonna Lose You” Post Malone “White Iverson” Kendrick Lamar “King Kunta” Sam Hunt “Take Your Time” Resources/Related Links: Dave’s Music Database: Top Songs and Albums by Year lists Dave’s Music Database: Songs of the Year lists First posted 12/26/2021; last updated 1/17/2023.

In Concert: Mark Knopfler

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Venue: Midland Theater; Kansas City, MO
The Players: Mark Knopfler (vocals, guitar), Guy Fletcher (keyboards), Richard Bennett (guitar), Glenn Worf (bass), Jim Cox (piano, organ, accordion), Ian Thomas (drums), John McCusker (violin, Cittern), Michael McGoldrick (whistles, uilleann pipes), Nigel Hitchcock (saxophone)
Opening Act: none

The Set List:

1. Broken Bones ²⁵
2. Corned Beef City ²⁴
3. Privateering ²⁴
4. Father and Son ⁶
5. Hill Farmer’s Blues ¹⁹
6. Skydiver ²⁵
7. She’s Gone ¹⁶
8. Your Latest Trick ⁸
9. Romeo and Juliet ³
10. Sultans of Swing ¹
11. Haul Away ²⁴
12. Postcards from Paraguay ²⁰
13. Marbletown ¹⁹
14. Speedway at Nazareth ¹⁷
15. Telegraph Road ⁴

Encore:

16. So Far Away ⁸
17. Going Home (Theme from Local Hero) ⁵

Album Discography:

¹ Dire Straits (with Dire Straits, 1978)
² Communiqué (with Dire Straits, 1979)
³ Making Movies (with Dire Straits, 1980)
⁴ Love Over Gold (with Dire Straits, 1982)
⁵ Local Hero (soundtrack, 1983)
⁶ Cal (soundtrack, 1984)
⁷ Comfort and Joy (soundtrack,1984 )
⁸ Brothers in Arms (with Dire Straits, 1985)
⁹ The Princess Bride (soundtrack, 1987)
¹⁰ Last Exit to Brooklyn (soundtrack, 1989)
¹¹ Missing…Presumed Having a Good Time (with the Notting Hillbillies, 1990)
¹² Neck and Neck (with Chet Atkins, 1990)
¹³ On Every Street (with Dire Straits, 1991)
¹⁴ Golden Heart (1996)
¹⁵ Wag the Dog (soundtrack, 1998)
¹⁶ Metroland (soundtrack, 1999)
¹⁷ Sailing to Philadelphia (2000)
¹⁸ A Shot at Glory (soundtrack, 2002)
¹⁹ The Ragpicker’s Dream (2002)
²⁰ Shangri-La (2004)
²¹ All the Roadrunning (with Emmylou Harris, 2006)
²² Kill to Get Crimson (2007)
²³ Get Lucky (2009)
²⁴ Privateering (2012)
²⁵ Tracker (2015)

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