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The 2015 Popjustice Readers' Poll — THE RESULTS!

  • December 31, 2015
  • Popjustice

It's time, again, to look at what Popjustice readers have made out of everything pop threw their way in a twelve month period.

Who'll win the coveted Social Media Arsehole Of The Year title? Who was 2015's Total Hero, and who turned in the year's shoddiest video? How about impress­ive comebacks, song­writers of the year and so on? There's all that and more.

Hold tight!

Best single

1. Carly Rae Jepsen — Run Away With Me
2. Little Mix — Black Magic
3. Years & Years — King
4. Justin Bieber — Sorry
5. Demi Lovato — Cool For The Summer
6. Carly Rae Jepsen — Your Type
7. Marina & The Diamonds — Blue
8. Hailee Steinfeld — Love Myself
9. Adele — Hello
10. Madonna — Ghost Town

Best album

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1. Carly Rae Jepsen — E•MO•TION
2. Marina & The Diamonds — Froot
3. Madonna — Rebel Heart
4. CHVRCHES — Every Open Eye
5. Florence + The Machine — How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
6. Grimes — Art Angels
7. Lana Del Rey — Honeymoon
8. Little Mix — Get Weird
9. Years & Years — Communion
10. Adele — 25

Worst single

1. Charlie Puth & Meghan Trainor — Marvin Gaye
2. Sam Smith — Writing's On The Wall
3. Rihanna — American Oxygen
4. OMI — Cheerleader
5. Louisa Johnson — Forever Young
6. Britney & Iggy — Pretty Girls
7. Ariana Grande — Focus
8. Madonna — Bitch I'm Madonna
9. Halsey — New Americana
10. Drake — Hotline Bling

Worst album

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1. Demi Lovato — Confident
2. Meghan Trainor — Title
3. Ben Haenow — Ben Haenow
4. Madonna — Rebel Heart
5. Adele — 25
6. Justin Bieber — Purpose
7. Halsey — Badlands
8. Miley Cyrus — Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz
9. One Direction — Made In The AM
10. Ellie Goulding — Delirium

Best video

1. Marina & The Diamonds — Blue
2. Lana Del Rey — High By The Beach
3. Rihanna — Bitch Better Have My Money
4. Drake — Hotline Bling
5. Adele — Hello
6. Taylor Swift — Bad Blood
7. Years & Years — King
8. Madonna — Bitch I'm Madonna
9. Little Mix — Black Magic
10. Missy Elliot — WTF

Shoddiest video

1. Fleur East — Sax
2. Taylor Swift — Style
3. Rihanna, Kanye & Macca — FourFiveSeconds
4. Carly Rae Jepsen — Run Away With Me
5. Madonna — Bitch I'm Madonna
6. Selena Gomez — Good For You
7. Justin Bieber — What Do You Mean?
8. Ariana Grande — Focus
9. Fifth Harmony — Worth It
10. Sia — Alive

Most absurd use of major label cash

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1. Rihanna's ANTIdiaRy
2. The Anti album launch party
3. Halsey
4. The Bad Blood video
5. Tidal
6. Ben Haenow
7. The Demi Lovato album
8. Madonna album ads on Grindr
9. Nathan Sykes' solo career
10. Who Is Fancy

Major artist with disappointing music most at odds with ability to achieve better

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1. Demi Lovato
2. Rihanna
3. Madonna
4. Kylie Minogue
5. Ellie Goulding
6. Ariana Grande
7. Britney Spears
8. Rita Ora
9. Kelly Clarkson
10. Sam Smith

Disaster of the year

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1. Anti
2. Madonna at the Brits
3. One Direction's """hiatus"""
4. The X Factor
5. Ben Haenow's career
6. Sam Smith's Bond single
7. Iggy and Britney
8. Fifth Harmony
9. Leona Lewis' album campaign
10. Gaga on American Horror Story

Triumph of the year

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1. Carly Rae Jepsen's album
2. Fleur East on The X Factor
3. Adele's single
4. Justin Bieber's 'rein­ven­tion'
5. Jess Glynne's run of Number Ones
6. Lady Gaga at the Oscars
7. Madonna getting back up after the cape debacle
8. Years & Years doing well
9. Janet Jackson returning to music
10. Marina's monthly Froot campaign thing

Comeback of the year

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1. Adele
2. Justin Bieber
3. Carly Rae Jepsen
4. Little Mix
5. Madonna
6. Missy Elliot
7. Selena Gomez
8. Janet Jackson
9. Hilary Duff
10. Giorgio Moroder

Worst attempt at a solo career

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1. Aston Merrygold
2. Sarah Harding
3. Zayn Malik
4. Nathan Sykes
5. Ben Haenow
6. Camila Cabello
7. Nick Jonas
8. Vanessa White
9. Markus Feehily
10. Joe Jonas / DNCE

Best new act to properly get going in 2015

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1. Years & Years
2. Troye Sivan
3. Halsey
4. Fleur East
5. Hailee Steinfeld
6. Jess Glynne
7. Allie X
8. Alessia Cara
9. The Weeknd
10. Melanie Martinez

Most ridiculous recording artist

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1. Meghan Trainor
2. Iggy Azalea
3. Halsey
4. Demi Lovato
5. Miley Cyrus
6. Jason Derulo
7. Rihanna
8. Pitbull
9. Sam Smith
10. Rita Ora

Best radio station

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1. Radio 1
2. Beats 1
3. Kiss
4. Capital
5. Spotify
6. Heat Radio
7. "None of them" / "They're all shit" etc
8. 1Xtra
9. Magic
10. 6 Music

The Rihanna Award For Most Infuriating Album Campaign

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1. Rihanna — Anti
2. Carly Rae Jepsen — E•MO•TION
3. Hilary Duff — Breathe In. Breathe Out.
4. Kanye West — Swish
5. Ellie Goulding — Delirium
6. Madonna — Rebel Heart
7. Leona Lewis — I Am
8. Halsey — Badlands
9. Taylor Swift — 1989
10. Foxes — All I Need

Best DJ (on the radio)

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1. Annie Mac
2. Nick Grimshaw
3. Clara Amfo
4. Greg James
5. Scott Mills
6. Marvin Humes
7. "None of them" / "They're all shit" ETC ETC
8. Zane Lowe
9. Pete Allison
10. Emma Bunton

Best TV show with music as some sort of central focus

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1. Empire
2. The X Factor
3. The Voice
4. Eurovision
5. Strictly Come Dancing
6. Songs Of Praise
7. TFI Friday
8. Made In Chelsea
9. Nashville
10. Later… With Jools Holland

Best cover version

1. Grace feat G‑Eazy — You Don't Own Me
2. Sia — California Dreamin'
3. Carly Rae Jepsen — Last Christmas
4. FKA Twigs — Elastic Heart
5. Giorgio Moroder feat Britney Spears — Tom's Diner
6. Various amusing votes based on Fleur East's Sax sounding like Uptown Funk
7. Lady Gaga — I Want Your Love
8. Years & Years — Toxic
9. Little Mix — Want To Want Me
10. Disclosure and Sam Smith — Hotline Bling

Up next: Best col­lab­or­a­tion, worst part­ner­ship between brand and artist, total hero of the year and more…

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