2015, the year in music: Adele, Drake and Kendrick Lamar

Continued poor album sales meant success this year was measured in downloads, free mixtapes and off-the-cuff singles2015 will mostly be remembered as the year that Adele made an easy-listening album that sold nearly 1.6m copies in the UK in three weeks. In fact, the history books may record that the whole of the year was ruled by the beige brigade: Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, James Bay, all huge. Aside from those album successes, though, record sales were a misery. Even Faithless managed to get a No