New Zealand top 50 albums of 2015

This is a list of the top-selling albums in New Zealand for 2015 from the Official New Zealand Music Chart's end-of-year chart, compiled by Recorded Music NZ.[1] The chart includes 12 albums by New Zealand artists, including two albums by popera trio Sol3 Mio. The chart also includes 12 albums that featured in the New Zealand top 50 albums of 2014.[2]

Chart

Key
 ‡  – Album of New Zealand origin
Rank Artist Title
1 Adele 25
2 Ed Sheeran x
3 Sam Smith In the Lonely Hour
4 Six60 Six60‡
5 Taylor Swift 1989
6 Sol3 Mio On Another Note‡
7 Meghan Trainor Title
8 The Script No Sound Without Silence
9 Cilla Black The Very Best of Cilla Black
10 Hozier Hozier
11 Michael Bublé Christmas
12 Justin Bieber Purpose
13 George Ezra Wanted on Voyage
14 Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
15 Sol3 Mio Sol3 Mio‡
16 Dennis Marsh Lest We Forget‡
17 Eagles Selected Works: 1972–1999
18 Josh Groban Stages
19 Mumford & Sons Wilder Mind
20 Various artists Fifty Shades of Grey: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
21 Maroon 5 V
22 Ed Sheeran +
23 Gin Wigmore Blood to Bone‡
24 James Bay Chaos and the Calm
25 Fleetwood Mac 25 Years – The Chain
26 Fat Freddy's Drop Bays‡
27 Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly
28 One Direction Made in the A.M.
29 The Quin Tikis The Quin Tikis: New Zealand's Premier Maori Showband‡
30 Various artists Frozen: The Songs
31 Foster and Allen After All These Years: The Very Best of Foster and Allen
32 Mark Knopfler Tracker
33 Stan Walker Truth & Soul‡
34 Imagine Dragons Smoke + Mirrors
35 Dr. Dre Compton
36 Diana Krall Wallflower
37 Broods Evergreen‡
38 Neil Diamond All-Time Greatest Hits
39 David Gilmour Rattle That Lock
40 Devilskin We Rise‡
41 Various artists Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
42 Adele 21
43 Various artists Furious 7: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
44 The Beatles 1
45 Muse Drones
46 The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness
47 Howard Morrison How Great Thou Art: The Very Best of Howard Morrison‡
48 Disturbed Immortalized
49 Avalanche City We are for the Wild Places‡
50 AC/DC Rock or Bust

Top 20 albums of 2015 by New Zealand artists

Rank Artist Title
1 Six60 Six60
2 Sol3 Mio On Another Note
3 Sol3 Mio Sol3 Mio
4 Dennis Marsh Lest We Forget
5 Gin Wigmore Blood to Bone
6 Fat Freddy's Drop Bays
7 The Quin Tikis The Quin Tikis: New Zealand's Premier Maori Showband
8 Stan Walker Truth & Soul
9 Broods Evergreen
10 Devilskin We Rise
11 Howard Morrison How Great Thou Art: The Very Best of Howard Morrison
12 Avalanche City We Are For the Wild Places
13 Lorde Pure Heroine
14 Marlon Williams Marlon Williams
15 Six60 Six60
16 Beau Monga Beau Monga
17 Don McGlashan Lucky Stars
18 John Hore Grenell Welcome to my World: The Very Best of John Hore Grenell
19 Dennis Marsh Maori Songbook 2
20 Stan Walker The Platinum Collection

References

  1. ^ "END OF YEAR CHARTS 2015". NZ Music Charts. RMNZ. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  2. ^ "And the biggest selling New Zealand album of 2015 is..?". One News. TVNZ. Retrieved 7 January 2016.