Who Made Our Year: TOP 5 Most Successful Artists of 2015

2015 sure has been a big year for a majority of talented artists in the music industry. From a bunch of GRAMMY nominations in the beggining of the year, to new singles and breath-taking American Music Awards performances, here's the 5 most-talked about celebrities that we surely had our eyes on throughout the whole year.

#5. Taylor Swift

VEVO highlights wouldn't be complete if it wasn't for the queen of Country-Pop diva Taylor Swift. 2015 has been pretty clean for Taylor as she managed to avoid scandals and unfair rumours perfectly. Starting the year with Style making it to Billboard's TOP 10 and gaining over 350 million views, Tay-Tay reached quite a great feedback all around the world, finishing the year with 4 wins at the 43rd annual American Music Awards, including Song of the Year and Video of the Year.

#4. Justin Bieber

Hallelujah, things are getting hot in here! We've got a new hottie in the business, and it's no one but Justin Bieber. Not only his famus six-pack abs got hotter, but as well his new songs that surprised probably every one of his haters. The one of the most-hated singers showed the world the other side of him as he released a big amount of new (amazing) songs that made it to Billboard's TOP 10, with quite a bunch of them still on the list to be candidates to become the next big hits.

#3. One Direction

"Made in the A.M." must be one of the most-talked-about albums of the year (so far). Even though the band has released only two singles that barely gained any attention, the boys still deserve to be on the list, due to their amazing performances that slayed us all once again, several times, in several places. But one of their performances will never be forgotten - their final one at the X-Factor (2015) final, as the band says a temporary goodbye to their fans, announcing to go on an extended hiatus. 

#2. Adele

"Surprise, bitch. Bet you thought you'd seen the last of me." is a first that came to our heads when the talented queen Adele slayed us all with her return at the near end of the year. As Taylor and One Diretion decide to take a break, Adele walks in with "Hello", a single that almost broke the VEVO record, reaching over 800 million views in just less than 10 weeks. Move over, Tay-Tay Swift! The singer's new-born baby became a smash hit that was heard all around the world, as well as her new album 25 that debuted at number one in more than 25 markets and broke first-week sales records in many countries over the planet. Even though Adele was excluded from the list of nominations in the 58th annual Grammy awards, her new album might bring her promising justice in 2016.

#1. Ariana Grande

In case you ask, we do prefer Grande. The year has been a crazy rollercoaster for the 22 year old starlet. Ariana started the year by releasing the last single of her new album My Everything, titled One Last Time. Queen of Pop surely has been through a lot of suffering this year, too, due to the donut-licking fiasco that had the world talking, as well as her grandpa passing away because of cancer earlier in the year. But now, Ariana Grande is finally bringing her A game back as she releases a hit single Focus that's got everyone on the edge of their seats for more! Not only the succesful singer slayed the AMAs once again with her phenomenal performance of Focus (that had well-known artists like Nicki Minaj and Selena Gomez dancing, by the way), she as well won the Favorite Pop-Rock Female Artist award, beating Taylor Swift and Meghan Trainor, mentioning her grandma in her acceptance speech in a really unsual way. Ariana's latest achievements promise us nothing but even bigger success for 2016, due to her psychedelic Christmas & Chill release, as well as her 3rd album Moonlight that she has in store, planned to be released on the beggining of 2016.
Ariana Grande has also been honoured to be the most-talked about celebrity on Twitter.













So, what are your favorite music artists of 2016? Share your opinion in the comments below! Who deserves/doesn't deserve to be on the list? Who should be first, who should be last? Which new song do you like best? Feel free to say what you think.

As for now, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!