They say true works of art are timeless. Well done Bjork.

OK list: Bjork, number one, agreed, heartily: she's a genius! I also agree with The Decemberists: What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World. Thanks for having one of the few lists to have the guts to do the right thing and put The Decemberists on it, though I most certainly cannot agree that The King is Dead is lackluster. It too was magnificent. You are missing a few: these are the few, imho, John Grant: Grey Tickles, Black Pressures; The Wainwright Sisters: Songs in the Dark; Nellie McKay: My Weekly Reader; The Decemberists: florasongs EP; and Duncan Sheik: Legerdemain

Bjork! Really?? Number one ahead of Adele? Who wrote this drivel???

Not a single hard rock/metal act on here at all. Let's just ignore one of the few genres of music that the music industry cannot go and force to sound politically correct or be influenced to change their sound. Parkway Drive's Ire is a masterpiece of environmental anger, hope, and a call to action. Not to mention the music itself, which marks a return to classic rock style beats and chord arrangements in a Metalcore/Melodic Death Metal shell. It really is pathetic that no one at this company will touch on the success they have had. Pansies.

Most of today's music is just boring, across all genres. Music was good until about 2000, then went downhill from there. Music used to have a lot of great sound quality from the instruments, not just the singing. Especially 80's music which had power, great melodies, and innovation. Now the guitars, drums, synthesizers, or whatever are just boring background noise. Just listen to Adele's hit song and you'll see what I mean. It's just sad.

What happened to Lamb of God's VII: Sturm und Drang? C'mon, people.....

Huh, guess jenner didn't release an album, or ABC would have it at number one.

Best album(s) of the year was/are the remastered by Jimmy Page rerelease of all of Zeppelin's studio albums! Heck even the 'extras and new material he added are better than any of the crud listed here!
SNAP!

Baroness & Ghost are missing. Fix this please. Thanks

Bjork has the best album of the year?! I think that you are just Bjorkin' us around!

The top 5 of this list is pretty bad. Says a lot about the state of music in 2015.

Pure vomitorium.
Since 1990 the music industry has produced a lot of prolific garbage.

Barely reached the top thirty.

Elle King and Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats should be on this list.

Ask ten people..........get 10 different answers.

tl;dr

You kids and your hip rap. Meh!

Hello from the other side! I must have called a thousand times to tell you I'm sorry...

I love love love this CD!

I have to say, when I saw Grimes and Kendrick Lamar being way too low on this list, imo, I had no faith in what the #1 would be. But what a surprise! Bjork's album is fantastic, and is definitely in my top 10 for the year.

I like pop as much as the next guy, but I don't know about this list. Other than Failure, who's album was just astounding, in my humble opinion most of the others are fairly mundane pop. This is not to say that there aren't a few good songs spread around among them, there certainly are. But the art of album creation has mostly fallen to the side, replaced by easily consumable 3 minute songs that can be streamed and listened to on very low quality ear buds without losing anything.

But hey, I'm old and notice that every year I'm sounding more and more like my dad and grandfather.
ST

"But I am old, and dying.

And wish only to convey and remind all of what we truly cherish in life, and what we must do to assure its continuity.

And while the flames of youthful passion may have diminished within my soul, the burning desire of a freedom for all, as embodied by the lives and deaths of our founding fathers, can never be extinguished.

How fruitless the desire for arbitrary power, for cruelty, for domination.

And how rewarding the accomplishment of freedom, and justice, and compassion, and the warmth of a hand held within our own.

Please, do not learn the lessons of life as most all of us have, when it is far too late.

Instead embrace the knowledge and promise of freedom and compassion, as soon as you may grasp it."
SearingTruth

Alabama Shakes at 50? Brittany - that girl can put it down

It's official. I am getting old. Most these performers are talented but boring and not original. Only time will tell if they will ever be remembered like the orignals performers in the past who set the direction. Sometimes every song has been written.....Nothing new. Just about the money.

Traveler isn't even on your list? Well that proves you don't know squat about music.

Album...?

I thought they're extinct.

There's a lot of albums better than "25" but BJork isn't one of them.

Nice list! Great to see Bjork at #1. Janet Jackson's "Unbreakable" should have been much, much higher on the list.