The Music 2015 Writers Poll: Melissa Borg

album of the year

1. Art Of Sleeping — Shake Shiver
2. Tame Impala — Currents
3. Florence + The Machine — How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
4. Holy Holy — When The Storms Would Come
5. The Rubens — Hoops
6. My Own Pet Radio — Goodlum
7. City & Colour — If I Should Go Before You
8. Boy & Bear — Limit of Love
9. Bring Me The Horizon — That's The Spirit

song of the year

1. Major Lazer — Lean On 
2. Chet Faker & Marcus Marr — The Trouble With Us
3. Violent Soho — Like Soda
4. Miike Snow — Heart Is Full
5. The Wombats — Give Me A Try

artist of the year

1. Tame Impala
2. MO
3. Courtney Barnett
4. Meg Mac
5. The Rubens

international artist performance

1. Banks
2. Glass Animals
3. MO 
4. Highasakite
5. Bastille

australian artist performance

1. The Preatures
2. Timberwolf
3. Seth Sentry
4. The Rubens
5. Gang Of Youths

top tv show

1. Please Like Me
2. Masters Of Sex
3. Orange Is The New Black 
4. Homeland
5. The Beautiful Lie

top movie

1. He Named Me Malala
2. Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck
3. Freeheld
4. Inside Out
5. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2

top website ​

1. Herself
2. Daily Life
3. The Music
4. FasterLouder
5. Buzzfeed 

2015 highlight of the year

ARIAs 2015: It was the first time in years they actually pertained relevance to both the music industry and those in it. People deserving of the awards actually won, not just mainstream artists, and the performances were mostly from Australian artists. 

prediction for 2016

Australian music in general is being recognised on an international scale and I see it continuing along that trajectory with the help of those who are already big overseas i.e. Courtney Barnett, Tame Impala etc. Also the continuing popularity of EDM music, with it primarily making up what's in the charts.