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The following is a list of notable events and releases that happen in 2015 in music in the United States.

Events

January

• 12 — Lady Antebellum performed the National Anthem at the first ever College Football Playoff National Championship Game.
• 30 — The Offspring set record for longest time between #1 singles on the Mainstream Rock charts with Coming for You. First since Gone Away in 1997.

February

• 1 — Idina Menzel performed the National Anthem^[1] and Katy Perry performed at the halftime show during Super Bowl XLIX on February 1, making it the most watched, most rated, and most tweeted per second halftime show.^[2]
• 8 — The 57th Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. British singer Sam Smith won the most awards with four including; Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best New Artist. Beck's Morning Phase won Album of the Year.

March

• 4 — Shania Twain announced that she will be going on her first tour in eleven years. The Rock This Country Tour began on June 5, 2015, and is billed as her farewell tour. She also plans on releasing her first studio album in thirteen years later in the year.^[3]
• 29 — The 2nd iHeartRadio Music Awards took place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake were among the winners.^[4]

April

• 19 — The 50th ACM Awards were held at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

May

• 12 – Joey Alexander releases his debut jazz instrumental album, My Favorite Things, which led him to a double grammy nomination at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards. Becoming the year's youngest Grammy nominee.
• 13 — Nick Fradiani was named winner of the fifteenth season of American Idol. Clark Beckham was named winner runner-up.
• 17 — The 2015 Billboard Music Awards were held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.^[5]
• 19 — Sawyer Fredericks was named winner of the eighth season of The Voice. Meghan Linsey was named runner-up.

June

• 8 — The music video for "Dark Horse" by Katy Perry reached 1 billion views on Vevo, making it the first music video by a female artist to do so and the third music video overall to do so. It was the third most-viewed YouTube video of all time, and the most-watched video by a female artist until "Blank Space" by Taylor Swift took both records a month later.^[6]
• 16 — Hilary Duff released her first album Breathe In. Breathe Out. in seven years. It hit number 5 in the US.

July

• 10 — Starting on this day albums will now be released on Fridays instead of Tuesdays in America. Some reasons for the change is to help prevent illegal downloads and "In the digital world, you can't make consumers wait".^[7]
• 30 — The reunited Savatage played their first show in thirteen years at Wacken Open Air in Germany, which took place from July 30 to August 1.^[8]

August

• 21 — Canadian pop star Carly Rae Jepsen released her third album, Emotion. It had universal acclaim and was included on several year-end lists from publications such as NPR, NME, Complex, and The Village Voice.
• 30 — The 2015 MTV Video Music Awards were held at the Microsoft Theater at L.A. Live in Los Angeles. Taylor Swift was the big winner of the night with four awards, including Video of the Year for "Bad Blood".

September

• 16-18 - Daniel Kyre of Cyndago attempts suicide, but fails. He dies on September 18 of irreversible brain damage, thus ending Cyndago.
• 18–19 — The 2015 iHeartRadio Music Festival took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

October

• 2 — Janet Jackson releases Unbreakable her first album since 2008's Discipline to widespread critical acclaim. The album goes on to top the Billboard 200 chart.
• 23 — The music video for Adele's "Hello" broke the Vevo Record for the most views within a 24-hour span with 27.7 million views, beating out the previous record held by Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood".^[9] It also broke the record for shortest time to attain 100 million Vevo views, previously held by Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball".^[10]

November

• 2 — Adele's comeback single "Hello" became the first song with over a million digital sales in a week.^[11]
• 7 — the 49th Country Music Association Awards was held at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.^[12]
• 22 — The 2015 American Music Awards was held at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles.
• 28 — Billboard reported Adele's 25 sold 3.38 million in pure album sales in its first week of release, according to Nielsen Music. That’s the largest single sales week for an album since Nielsen began tracking point-of-sale music purchases in 1991, surpassing the previous single-week sales record, held by NSYNC's No Strings Attached (2.42 million sold in the week ending March 26, 2000).^[13]

December

• 3 — Former Stone Temple Pilots & Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland is found dead on his tour bus at the age of 48.
• 8 — Nominations for the 58th Annual Grammy Awards were announced, with Kendrick Lamar leading the list.^[14]
• 15 — Jordan Smith was named winner of the ninth season of the The Voice. Emily Ann Roberts was named runner-up.
• 28 - Lemmy Kilminster dies of cancer at the age of 70.

Bands formed

• Dead & Company
• Saint Asonia
• DNCE

Bands reformed

Bands on hiatus

• Fireworks
• fun.^[17]
• The Gaslight Anthem ^[18]
• The Ghost Inside
• Guns N' Roses
• Pinback
• Staind
• Teenage Bottlerocket
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Bands disbanded

Albums released in 2015

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Top hits on record

Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 Hits

• "Blank Space" - Taylor Swift (5 weeks in 2014, 2 weeks in 2015)
• "Uptown Funk" - Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars (14 weeks)
• "See You Again" - Wiz Khalifa feat. Charlie Puth (12 weeks)
• "Bad Blood" - Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar (1 week)
• "Cheerleader" - OMI (6 weeks)
• "Can't Feel My Face" - The Weeknd (3 weeks)
• "What Do You Mean?" - Justin Bieber (1 week)
• "The Hills" - The Weeknd (6 weeks)
• "Hello" - Adele (7 weeks)

Billboard Hot 100 Hits – Singles which have ranked within Top 20

Deaths

See also

• 2010s in music
• 2015 in music

References