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The Music 2015 Writers Poll: Brad Summers

Brad Summers

album of the year

  1. Joey Bada$$ — B4.DA.$$
  2. City & Colour —  If I Should Go Before You
  3. Shlohmo — Dark Red
  4. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Paper Mache Dream Balloon
  5. Baro — 17/18
  6. A$AP Rocky — AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP
  7. The Dead Weather — Dodge and Burn
  8. Marlon Williams — Marlon Williams
  9. Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp a Butterfly 
  10. Jamie xx — In Colour

song of the year

  1. Chet Faker & Marcus Marr — The Trouble With Us
  2. Daniel Johns —  Aerial Love
  3. Joey Bada$$ —  No.99
  4. Jamie xx — SeeSaw
  5. Kendrick Lamar — Alright

Artist of the year

  1. Shlohmo
  2. Marlon Williams
  3. Joey Bada$$
  4. Jamie xx
  5. Kendrick Lamar 

international artist performance

  1. Earl Sweatshirt 
  2. Joey Bada$$
  3. The California Honeydrops 
  4.  Shlohmo
  5.  Death Cab for Cutie 

australian artist performance

  1. Flight Facilities
  2. Chet Faker
  3. Jenny Broke The Window
  4. Flamingo Jones
  5. Diet

top tv show

  1. Arrow
  2. The Flash
  3. Jessica Jones
  4. Daredevil
  5. Glitch

top movie

  1. Straight Outta Compton
  2. Southpaw
  3. Jurassic World
  4. Mad Max: Fury Road 
  5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

top website 

  1. Facebook
  2. IGN
  3. The Music
  4. imgur
  5. Reddit

2015 highlight of the year

The amount of amazing albums that were released this year.

prediction for 2016

Frank Ocean's new album… (maybe).