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Overview of the events of 2015 in music
Overview of the events of 2015 in music
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2015 Billboard Music Awards
Artist of the Year: Taylor Swift – New Artist of the Year: Sam Smith – Top Hot 100 Song: All About That Bass – Top Billboard 200 Album: 1989
57th Japan Record Awards
Grand Prix : "Unfair World" (ja ) by Sandaime J Soul Brothers from Exile Tribe • Best Singer : Seiko Matsuda • Best New Artist : Magnolia Factory • Best Song : several
2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards
Artist of the Year : Big Bang • Album of the Year : Exodus Exo • Song of the Year : "Bang Bang Bang " by Big Bang • Best Music Video : Bae Bae Big Bang
MTV Video Music Awards
Video of the Year: Bad Blood – Best Male Video: Uptown Funk – Best Female Video: Blank Space – Artist to Watch: Fetty Wap
MTV Europe Music Awards
Best Song: Bad Blood – Best Video: Downtown – Best Female: Rihanna – Best Male: Justin Bieber
The 3rd V Chart Awards
Top Male Artist : Vision Wei with By Your Side • Top Female Artist : Jane Zhang with You Are Mine (我是我的) • Top Group : Top Combine with Large Pear (鸭梨大) • Top New Artist : Henry Huo
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Inductees: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band • Joan Jett & The Blackhearts • Green Day • Lou Reed • Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble • Bill Withers
Bands formed [ ] Soloist debuts [ ] Bands reformed [ ]
13th Floor Elevators The Academy Is... A-ha Aiden Alexisonfire Armor for Sleep At the Drive-In Bay City Rollers The Black Eyed Peas Black Grape The Bluetones Brooks & Dunn Busted The Corrs Daphne and Celeste Dashboard Confessional Digable Planets Disturbed Evanescence Faithless Good Charlotte LCD Soundsystem Lush The Matches Pist.On The Promise Ring Rainbow Royal Trux Savatage Simply Red The Starting Line Supertramp Symphony Number One Thrice A Tribe Called Quest Underoath Ween
Bands disbanded [ ] Deaths [ ] January [ ] February [ ] 12 – Steve Strange (55), British musician (Visage ).[4] 21 – Clark Terry (94), American jazz trumpeter.[5] 22 – Erik Amundsen (78), Norwegian jazz upright-bassist.[6] 23 – Ron Edgar (68), American rock drummer (The Music Machine )March [ ] April [ ] May [ ] 6 – Dottie Dillard (91), American pop singer (The Anita Kerr Quartet )14 – B.B. King (89), American blues guitarist.[12] 20 – Bob Belden (58), American jazz saxophonist.[13] 23 – Marcus Belgrave (78), American jazz trumpeter.[14] 31 – Slim Richey (77), American jazz guitarist.[15] June [ ] 11 – Ornette Coleman (85), American jazz saxophonist.[16] 12 – Monica Lewis (93), American singer and actress.[17] 21 – Gunther Schuller (89), American composer, conductor, and horn player.[18] 27 – Joe Bennett (75), American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist (Joe Bennett & the Sparkletones )July [ ] 1
13 – Eric Wrixon (68), British musician from Belfast, Northern Ireland (Them , Thin Lizzy ).[20] 22
Daron Norwood (49), American country music singerEddie Hardin (66), British singer-songwriter and pianist (The Spencer Davis Group and Axis Point ).31 – Pamela Brandt (68), American country-rock bassist, singer and songwriter (The Deadly Nightshade )August [ ] 1 – Cilla Black (72), British singer and presenter.12 – John Scott (59), British organist and choirmaster.[21] 14 – Jazz Summers (71), British music manager (Scissor Sisters , The Verve , Snow Patrol ), (lung cancer)[22] 20 – Laurent Rossi (67), French singer, songwriter, and record producer (Bimbo Jet )September [ ] 4 – Hal Willis (82), Canadian country music singer29 – Phil Woods (83), American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer[23] October [ ] 9 – Larry Rosen (75), American drummer, entrepreneur, and music producer.[24] 22 – Mark Murphy (83), American singer.[25] November [ ] December [ ]
Scott Weiland on stage—2009-07
3 – Scott Weiland (48), American musician, singer and songwriter (Stone Temple Pilots , Velvet Revolver and Art of Anarchy )28 – Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister (70), English musician, singer and songwriter (Motörhead , Hawkwind , The Rockin' Vickers )30 – Zjef Vanuytsel (70), Belgian folk singer.31 – Natalie Cole (65), American singer, songwriter, and actress (congestive heart failure).[28] See also [ ] Once Upon a Time in Shaolin Timeline of musical events Women in music References [ ]
^ Livesey, Jon (January 3, 2015). "Musician whose band starred in The Inbetweeners dies on New Year's Day" . Mirror.co.uk . ^ "Percival – Deaths Announcements – Telegraph Announcements" . Announcements.telegraph.co.uk .^ "R.I.P Margot Moir Of The Moir Sisters 1959–2015" . Noise11.com .^ "New Romantic pioneer Steve Strange dies" . The Guardian . Retrieved 2017-04-10 .^ Keepnews, Peter (2015-02-22). "Clark Terry, Master of Jazz Trumpet, Dies at 94" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2016-02-26 . ^ Stendahl, Bjørn (2015-03-04). "Nekrolog: Erik Amundsen" . Aftenposten . Retrieved 2016-02-26 . ^ Escudero, Victor M. (2015-03-22). "Eurovision winner Jørgen Ingmann died" . Eurovision . Retrieved 2016-04-16 . ^ "Dave Ball passed away" . Dmme.net .^ "Multifaceted Music Critic Andrew Porter Dies At 86" . Npr.org .^ "Veteran writer Ronald Hambleton dies at 97 – Toronto Star" . Thestar.com .^ "Brian Couzens: Businessman who founded the Chandos record label and" . Independent.co.uk . 26 April 2015.^ Leopold, Todd (2015-05-16). "Blues legend B.B. King dies at age 89" . CNN . Retrieved 2016-04-15 . ^ Stutz, Colin (2015-05-20). "Bob Belden, Jazz Saxophonist & Renaissance Man, Dead at 58" . Billboard . Retrieved 2016-04-11 . ^ Stedman, Alex (2015-05-24). "Marcus Belgrave, Famed Detroit Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 78" . Variety . Retrieved 2016-04-11 . ^ Curtin, Kevin (2015-06-01). "Slim Richey 1938–2015: Austin's jazz maverick peaces out" . CNN . Retrieved 2016-04-15 . ^ Ratliff, Ben (2015-06-11). "Ornette Coleman, Saxophonist Who Rewrote the Language of Jazz, Dies at 85" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2016-02-26 . ^ "Monica Lewis, Actress Who Sang in Chiquita Banana Cartoons, Dies at 93" . Variety . Retrieved 2016-04-15 .^ Kozinn, Allan (2015-06-21). "Gunther Schuller Dies at 89; Composer Synthesized Classical and Jazz" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2016-04-15 . ^ McKie, David; Bowen, Meirion (2 July 2015). "Edward Greenfield obituary" . The Guardian ^ "RIP Eric Wrixon – Music – News – Hot Press" . Hotpress.com .^ "News – About – Saint Thomas Church" . Saintthomaschurch.org . Archived from the original on 2015-08-15. Retrieved 2017-02-01 .^ "Music industry manager Jazz Summers dies" . Digitalspy.co.uk . 15 August 2015.^ La Rosa, David (2015-09-29). "Alto Sax Legend Phil Woods Has Died At 83" . TheJazzLine.com . Retrieved 2016-04-15 . ^ Gans, Charles J. (2015-10-10). "Larry Rosen, music producer and label founder, dies at 75" . The Washington Post . Retrieved 2016-04-15 . ^ Tamarkin, Jeff (2015-10-23). "Vocalist Mark Murphy dies at 83" . JazzTimes . Retrieved 2016-04-15 . ^ Hustad, Helge Voll (2015-11-06). "Norwegians mourn Brockstedt's death" . NewsInEnglish.no . Retrieved 2016-02-26 . ^ Andersen, Arild; Stendahl, Bjørn (2015-03-04). "Nekrolog: Svein Christiansen" . Aftenposten . Retrieved 2016-02-26 . ^ Cohen, Sandy; Fekadu, Mesfin (2016-01-01). "Natalie Cole, Grammy winning singer, has died" . Associated Press the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2016-03-15 .
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