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This is an ordered list of Entertainment Weekly's highest rated albums of 2015. Check out
Entertainment Weekly's Year End List
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Prince - HITNRUN Phase One
September 7, 2015
Contemporary R&B
,
Dance-Pop
Score
100
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2
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Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
July 17, 2015
Singer-Songwriter
,
Americana
Score
100
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3
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Fall Out Boy - American Beauty / American Psycho
January 20, 2015
Pop Rock
Score
100
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4
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Modest Mouse - Strangers to Ourselves
March 17, 2015
Indie Rock
Score
100
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Music
Spotify
5
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Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
January 20, 2015
Indie Rock
Score
100
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6
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Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
March 15, 2015
Conscious Hip Hop
,
Jazz Rap
,
West Coast Hip Hop
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
7
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Adele - 25
November 20, 2015
Pop Soul
,
Adult Contemporary
Score
91
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Amazon
Music
Spotify
8
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Ty Dolla $ign - Free TC
November 13, 2015
Contemporary R&B
,
Pop Rap
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
9
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Carrie Underwood - Storyteller
October 23, 2015
Country
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
10
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Joanna Newsom - Divers
October 23, 2015
Singer-Songwriter
,
Chamber Folk
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
11
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Ryan Adams - 1989
September 21, 2015
Pop Rock
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
12
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Gary Clark Jr. - The Story of Sonny Boy Slim
September 11, 2015
Blues Rock
Score
91
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Spotify
13
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The Arcs - Yours, Dreamily
September 4, 2015
Garage Rock
,
Psychedelic Soul
,
Psychedelic Rock
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
14
.
Thunderbitch - Thunderbitch
August 29, 2015
Blues Rock
,
Southern Rock
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
15
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Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color
April 21, 2015
Blues Rock
,
Psychedelic Soul
,
Southern Rock
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
16
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Miley Cyrus - Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz
August 30, 2015
Psychedelic Pop
,
Neo-Psychedelia
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
17
.
Destroyer - Poison Season
August 28, 2015
Chamber Pop
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
18
.
Foals - What Went Down
August 28, 2015
Indie Rock
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
19
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Beach House - Depression Cherry
August 28, 2015
Dream Pop
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
20
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Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION
August 21, 2015
Synthpop
,
Dance-Pop
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
21
.
Wilco - Star Wars
July 16, 2015
Indie Rock
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
22
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Tame Impala - Currents
July 17, 2015
Neo-Psychedelia
,
Psychedelic Pop
,
Synthpop
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
23
.
Miguel - Wildheart
June 30, 2015
Alternative R&B
,
Contemporary R&B
,
Psychedelic Pop
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
24
.
Meghan Trainor - Title
January 13, 2015
Bubblegum Pop
,
Pop Soul
,
Pop
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
25
.
Marina & the Diamonds - Froot
March 13, 2015
Synthpop
,
Pop Rock
Score
91
Source →
Amazon
Music
Spotify
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NOTE:
This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings Entertainment Weekly awarded albums throughout 2015.
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