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2015 in Canadian music

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Instrumental repertoires
  
Canadian fiddle

Ethnic music
  
Overview Aboriginal Blackfoot Dene Innu Inuit Iroquois Kwakwaka'wakw Métis Celtic French

Music awards
  
Junos Polaris Félixes Hall of Fame ECMAs Atlantis WCMAs CASBYs CRMAs CCMAs MMVAs CUMAs CFMAs

Music charts
  
Canadian Hot 100 Singles Chart (Jam!) Chart Attack Exclaim! The Radio 2 Top 20

Music festivals
  
Many notables Canadian Music Week Quebec City Summer Festival Montreal International Jazz Festival Les FrancoFolies de Montréal Ottawa Bluesfest Big Valley Jamboree Celtic Colours

Music media
  
Print media La Scena Musicale CM ChartAttack Exclaim! The Record RPM The Coast Music television ATN B4U Music aux.tv bpm:tv CMT MuchLoud MuchMore MuchMoreRetro MuchMusic MuchVibe MusiMax MusiquePlus PunchMuch

Events

  • March 10 - Rapper Shad is announced as the new host of CBC Radio One's daily arts and culture magazine show Q
  • March 15 – Juno Awards of 2015
  • March 29 - Chad VanGaalen wins the Prism Prize for his music video for Timber Timbre's song "Beat the Drum Slowly".
  • April - East Coast Music Awards
  • April 12 - Kevin Bazinet wins the third season of La Voix.
  • June 16 - Prelimimary longlist for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize is announced.
  • July 9 - Dear Rouge (English) and Antoine Corriveau (French) are announced as the winners of the 2015 SOCAN Songwriting Prize.
  • July 16 - Shortlist for the Polaris Music Prize is announced.
  • September 21 - Buffy Sainte-Marie wins the Polaris Music Prize for her album Power in the Blood.
  • November 8 - 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards

    • Bands formed

  • Saint Asonia

    • A

  • The Acorn, Vieux Loup - May 19
  • Bryan Adams, Get Up! - October 16
  • Bernard Adamus, Sorel Soviet So What
  • Marie-Pierre Arthur, Si l'aurore - February

    • B

  • BADBADNOTGOOD with Ghostface Killah, Sour Soul - February 17
  • Barenaked Ladies, Silverball - June 2
  • Justin Bieber, Purpose
  • Braids, Deep in the Iris - April 28
  • Will Butler, Policy - March 10

    • C

  • Kathryn Calder, Kathryn Calder
  • Cancer Bats, Searching for Zero - March 10
  • Alessia Cara, Four Pink Walls - August 28
  • Annabelle Chvostek, Be the Media - April 30
  • City and Colour, If I Should Go Before You - October 9
  • Tom Cochrane, Take It Home - February 10
  • Cœur de pirate, Roses - August 28
  • Louis-Jean Cormier, Les Grandes artères - March 23

    • D

  • Danko Jones, Fire Music - February 6
  • Thomas D'Arcy, Fooled You Twice
  • Dear Rouge, Black to Gold
  • The Dears, Times Infinity Volume One - September 25
  • Mac DeMarco, Demos Volume One - January 20
  • Destroyer, Poison Season - August 28
  • Alan Doyle, So Let's Go
  • Drake, If You're Reading This It's Too Late - February 14

    • E

  • Eccodek, Remixing in Tongues
  • The Elwins, Play for Keeps - February 24
  • Exco Levi, Country Man - March 17

    • F

  • Michael Feuerstack, The Forgettable Truth - February 17
  • Foxtrott, A Taller Us
  • Lily Frost, Too Hot for Words

    • G

  • Galaxie, Zulu - February 24
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress - March 31
  • The Golden Dogs, 3 1/2 - February 17
  • Grand Analog, Roll Dub Soul Rap - October 8
  • Great Lake Swimmers, A Forest of Arms - April 21
  • Grimes, Art Angels

    • H

  • Half Moon Run, Sun Leads Me On - October 23
  • Ron Hawkins and the Do Good Assassins, Garden Songs - February 3
  • Hayden, Hey Love - March 24
  • Hedley, Hello
  • Hello, Blue Roses, WZO - February
  • The High Dials, In the AM Wilds - February 3
  • Hilotrons, To Trip with Terpsichore
  • Hollerado, 111 Songs - March 24

    • J

  • Tobias Jesso Jr., Goon - March 17
  • Carly Rae Jepsen, E•MO•TION - August 21

    • K

  • k-os, Can't Fly Without Gravity - September 4
  • Andy Kim, It's Decided - February 24
  • The King Khan & BBQ Show, Bad News Boys
  • Diana Krall, Wallflower - February 2

    • L

  • Jean Leloup, À Paradis City
  • Limblifter, Pacific Milk - April 7

    • M

  • Majical Cloudz, Are You Alone?
  • Dan Mangan + Blacksmith, Club Meds - January 13
  • Michelle McAdorey, Into Her Future - October 30
  • Linda McRae, Shadow Trails
  • Shawn Mendes, Handwritten
  • Metric, Pagans in Vegas - September 18
  • METZ, METZ II
  • Ariane Moffatt, 22h22
  • Moka Only, Voice of the Misfits - December 31
  • The Most Serene Republic, Mediac - November 13

    • N

  • Safia Nolin, Limoilou

    • O

  • Lindi Ortega, Faded Gloryville - August 7

    • P

  • Joel Plaskett, The Park Avenue Sobriety Test - March 3
  • Purity Ring, Another Eternity - March 3

    • R

  • Rah Rah, Vessels - March
  • Sam Roberts Band, Counting the Days - April 18

    • S

  • Buffy Sainte-Marie, Power in the Blood - May 12
  • Natasha St-Pier, Mon Acadie - October 2
  • Samantha Savage Smith, Fine Lines - January 27
  • Ivana Santilli, Late Night Light - March 10
  • Saint Asonia, Saint Asonia (album) - June 31
  • Lorraine Segato, Invincible Decency
  • Ron Sexsmith, Carousel One - March 31
  • Siskiyou, Nervous - January 20
  • Slim Twig, Thank You for Sticking with Twig - August 7
  • Les Sœurs Boulay, 4488 de l'amour

    • T

  • Three Days Grace, Human - March 31
  • Al Tuck, Fair Country

    • V

  • Chad VanGaalen and Seth Smith, Seed of Dorzon - September 18
  • Viet Cong, Viet Cong - January 20

    • W

  • The Wainwright Sisters (Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche), Songs in the Dark - November 13
  • Patrick Watson, Love Songs for Robots
  • The Weather Station, Loyalty - May 5
  • The Weeknd, Beauty Behind the Madness - August 28
  • The Wet Secrets, Tyranny of Objects
  • Whitehorse, Leave No Bridge Unburned - February 17
  • Hawksley Workman, Old Cheetah

    • Y

  • Yoan, Yoan - March 25
  • Yukon Blonde, On Blonde - June 16

    • Top hits on record

    The lists are updated weekly through Nielsen Soundscan.

    Contents

    Deaths

  • June 8 - Archie Alleyne, 82, jazz drummer
  • November 19 - Ron Hynes, 64, singer-songwriter

    • References

    2015 in Canadian music Wikipedia
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