From The Magazine Readers Poll 2015: The Results

We asked about your favourites from 2015, and you responded in droves.

We opened voting on this year’s Readers Poll last month, and the results are in. It’s time to reflect on the very best of the last twelve months, and the stars who’ve defined this bonkers and often brilliant year.

(Spoiler alert: you guys really like Wolf Alice)

Band of the Year

1 Wolf Alice
2 Foals
3 Bring Me The Horizon

Read the July cover feature with Wolf Alice (and lots and lots of glitter - we’re still finding it in the office six months on).

Best Album

1 Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool
2 Foals - What Went Down
3 Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
4 Tame Impala - Currents
5 Bring Me the Horizon - That’s the Spirit
6 Swim Deep - Mothers
7 Peace - Happy People
8 Jamie xx - In Colour
9 Drenge - Undertow
10 Gengahr - A Dream Outside

Best Song

1 Wolf Alice - Giant Peach
2 Wolf Alice - You’re A Germ
3 The 1975 - Love Me
4 Foals - What Went Down
5 Chvrches - Clearest Blue
6 Major Lazer ft. MØ - Lean On
7 Drenge - Running Wild
8 Bring Me The Horizon - Happy Song
9 Jamie xx - Loud Places
10 The Maccabees - Marks to Prove It

Breakthrough Band of the Year

1 Years & Years
2 Gengahr
3 Bully

Best Live Act

1 Foals
2 Wolf Alice
3 Drenge

New Band Most Likely To Be Amazing in 2016

1 Rat Boy
2 The Japanese House
3 VANT

Well, that’s good given our picks for 2016, isn’t it? Read our Class of 2016 features with each artist by clicking on their names.

Artist most likely to ‘headline’ a so-called ‘festival in the near future

1 Foals
2 Wolf Alice
3 Bring Me The Horizon

Artist who most needs to ‘get a bloody move on!’

1 Frank Ocean
2 Haim
3 Arctic Monkeys

Best Person in (or outside of) a band

1. Ellie Rowsell (Wolf Alice)
2. Harry Koisser (Peace)
3. Halsey

Best Comeback

1 Sleater-Kinney
2 Blur
3 Adele

We liked the return of Sleater-Kinney so much we put them on the cover of the February issue. Catch up with that feature over here.

Best Festival (or ‘festival-like event’)

1 Reading & Leeds
2 Glastonbury
3 Latitude

Best Cover Version

1 Chvrches - What Do You Mean? (Justin Bieber)
2 Wolf Alice - Steal My Girl (One Direction)
3 Slaves - Shutdown (Skepta)

Best TV Appearance

1 Drenge on Letterman
2 Wolf Alice on Jools
3 Foals on Jools

Best ‘Collab’

1 Skrillex, Diplo & Justin Bieber
2 Wavves x Cloud Nothings
3 FFS (Franz Ferdinand & Sparks)

Most WTF Lyric

1 “Caught up in fashion, Karcrashian panache and a bag of hash for passion.” (The 1975, ‘Love Me’)
2 “It’s alright to feel like a fat child in a pushchair.” (Everything Everything, ‘No Reptiles’)
3 “Do I make you feel like cheating? I said no, not really.” (OMI, ‘Cheerleader’)

Best Video

1 Wolf Alice - You’re a Germ
2 Grimes - Flesh Without Blood / Life in the Vivid Dream
3 Bring Me The Horizon - True Friends

Sauciest Warbler

1 Harry Koisser (Peace)
2 Sam Smith
3 Brendon Urie (Panic! At The Disco)

Indie Dreamboat of the Year

1 Harry Koisser (Peace)
2 Zachary Robinson (Swim Deep)
3 Joel Amey (Wolf Alice)

Prat of the Year

1 David Cameron
2 Matt Healy (The 1975)
3 Rat Boy

THE WOODEN SPOON AWARD FOR BEST DIY READERS POLL VOTES

1 “Yer nan” (Sauciest Warbler)
2 “Miley, what’s good?!” (Best Comeback)
3 “Theo and Joel’s friendship” (Best Collab)
4 “Chris Pratt” (Prat of the Year)

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