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:

  1.  Billy Joel – 117 plays (+8)
  2.  P!nk – 102 plays (+4)
  3.  Zac Brown Band – 91 plays (+2)
  4.  Tom Petty – 83 plays (+8)
  5.  Billy Currington – 82 plays (-2)
  6.  Train – 64 plays (+1)
  7.  Kenny Chesney – 51 plays (+10)
  8.  Jim Croce – 43 plays (NR)
  9.  Johnny Cash – 41 plays (-8)
  10. The Beatles – 36 plays (NR)
  11.  Roger Miller – 36 plays (-6)
  12.  Keith Urban – 36 plays (NR)
  13.  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