Okay, so yesterday I posted the Chris Doelle’s Top Songs for 2015 and will follow-up now with the artists themselves. These are the Top Artists for 2015 according to me:
- Billy Joel – 117 plays (+8)
- P!nk – 102 plays (+4)
- Zac Brown Band – 91 plays (+2)
- Tom Petty – 83 plays (+8)
- Billy Currington – 82 plays (-2)
- Train – 64 plays (+1)
- Kenny Chesney – 51 plays (+10)
- Jim Croce – 43 plays (NR)
- Johnny Cash – 41 plays (-8)
- The Beatles – 36 plays (NR)
- Roger Miller – 36 plays (-6)
- Keith Urban – 36 plays (NR)
- Neil Diamond – 35 plays (NR)
13. Toby Keith – 35 plays (NR)
15. Harry Nilsson – 30 plays (NR)
16. Rod Stewart – 28 plays (-1)
16. Maroon 5 – 28 plays (NR)
18. Jack Johnson – 27 plays (NR)
19. Dierks Bentley – 26 plays (NR)
20. Darius Rucker – 25 plays (NR)
20. Luke Bryan – 25 plays (NR)
Interesting facts from 2015:
- Train is in for the fourth straight year (#1 for 2012 & 2013)
- Johnny Cash holds strong at #9 after coming in #1 last year.
- Last year’s #1 (Imagine Dragons) had 88 plays – that would have only been fourth place this year
- This year’s #20 tracks had 25 plays. They would not have qualified for the list last year as it took 31 plays to reach the list.
- 11 of the Top 20 were not in last year’s Top 20 and NONE of them are new artist. It appears it was a throwback year.
- The Beatles make the list for the first time because streaming music services finally have their music available. I’ve never been a crazy Beatles fan, but the fact that it was music previously unavailable through places like Spotify and Pandora made me listen to them on a recent long drive. It was enough to place them at #10 for the year.
- Half (10) of the chart is made up of Country artists – up from 9 last year.
- 2014 Top Artists
- 2013 Top Artists
- 2012 Top Artists
- 2011 Top Artists
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