The Music 2015 Writers' Poll: Sally-Anne Hurley

album of the year

1. Florence + The Machine — How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
2. Disclosure — Caracal
3. Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp A Butterfly
4. The Internet — Ego Death
5. Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
6. The Weeknd — Beauty Behind The Madness
7. Mark Ronson — Uptown Special
8. Tame Impala — Currents
9. Miguel — Wildheart
10. Jamie xx — In Colour

song of the year

1. Drake — Hotline Bling
2. Florence + The Machine — St Jude
3. Duke Dumont — Ocean Drive
4. Kendrick Lamar — King Kunta
5. Little Simz — Dead Body

artist of the year

1. Florence + The Machine
2. Courtney Barnett
3. Vance Joy
4. Taylor Swift
5. Tame Impala

international artist performance

1. FKA twigs
2. Drake
3. Azealia Banks
4. Mark Ronson
5. Bilal

australian artist performance

1. Oscar Key Sung
2. Tkay Maidza
3. Ivan Ooze
4. Hiatus Kaiyote
5. SAFIA

top tv show

1. The Walking Dead
2. American Horror Story: Hotel
3. The Vampire Diaries
4. Orange Is The New Black
5. Judge Judy

top movie

1. Amy
2. Inside Out
3. He Named Me Malala
4. Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck
5. Entourage

top website 

1. Twitter
2. The Music
3. The Good Men Project
4. The Huffington Post
5. Bustle

2015 highlight of the year

Sport and music combining for awesomeness: Missy Elliott nailing the Super Bowl and Drake decked out in a Wallabies jersey in Sydney. 

prediction for 2016

The Weeknd will get his butt to Australia.