History Main / MusicOf20152019

** ''Music/HardwiredToSelfDestruct''

* Music/{{Deadsy}}

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* Music/AetherRealm - ''Tarot''

* Music/{{Aha}}: Reunited in 2015 after having split in 2010.

* Music/AlienWeaponry: First album ''Tū'' released in 2018.

* Music/AvenueBeat released their debut EP in 2019.

* Music/BellBivDeVoe: Made a successful comeback with ''Three Stripes'' in 2017.

* Music/ChuckBerry: Had a final studio album in 2017, died the same year.

* Music/JustinBieber: In late 2015, after not having any big hit for about two years, he released his record-breaking album "Purpose", which gave him nearly as much success as all of his previous music combined.

* Music/DavidBowie: Released his last studio album before his passing in 2016.

* Music/BreakingBenjamin: Returned after a hiatus following Benjamin's illness though most of the members have been replaced.

* Music/PhoebeBridgers - Singer from Los Angeles who began her music career in 2014 and released her debut album in 2017 to critical acclaim.

* Music/{{BTS}}: Gradually gaining success locally and internationally over the years (notably 2015-2016, with hits like "I NEED U", "Dope", "Fire" and "Blood, Sweat and Tears") and breaking into the US mainstream in 2017 and 2018 with the ''LOVE YOURSELF'' album series (singles: "DNA", "Mic Drop", "Fake Love", "IDOL").

* Music/LewisCapaldi: Became a big-time {{Soul}} singer right at the tail end of the decade with "Someone You Loved".

** 2018 - ''[[Music/DeepDarkTrench Deep Dark Trench]]''

* Music/LeonardCohen: Died in 2016, nineteen days after releasing his fourteenth and final studio album, ''You Want It Darker''.

* Music/{{Communion}}: Born Alvaro Vega, he was first known for scatological parody music under the stage name "The Cacaman" in the late 2000s, but following a religious epiphany he reinvented himself as a Catholic rapper and evangelist.

* Music/BillyRayCyrus: Notably featured as a guest vocal in Music/LilNasX's "Old Town Road".

* Music/TheDarkElement: Founded in 2016, debut album released in 2017.

** 2019 - ''Music/TheFurnacesOfPalingenesia'' - {{dystopia}}n ConceptAlbum that represented a lyrical GenreShift from the band's usual dark theological poetry, instead being a dark condemnation of fascism presented as a villainous, self-contradictory manifesto from a fascist, inspired by ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' and Jonathan Littell's novel ''The Kindly Ones''

* Music/{{Dorothy}}: Released their studio album debut ''ROCKISDEAD'' in 2016.

* Music/{{Dreamcatcher|Band}} (Known as MINX until 2017)

* Music/ElectricLightOrchestra: Released their first studio album in fourteen years and became a regular touring fixture since.

* Music/FaithNoMore: Released ''Sol Invictus'', their first album since 1997.

* Music/FortMinor: Released an EP under his real name Mike Shinoda in the wake of Music/LinkinPark bandmate Chester Bennington's passing.
** 2018 - ''Music/PostTraumatic''

** ''The Positions'' (2015)
** ''Let Me Be Clear'' (2016)
** ''Go Farther in Lightness'' (2017)

* Music/GretaVanFleet: Formed in 2012, debut EP in 2017, debut full-length album in 2018. Controversial among music listeners and analysts due to their copious similarities to Music/LedZeppelin.

* Creator/JohnnyHallyday: Died in 2017. Was still churning out chart-topping albums and selling out stadiums in his homeland of France almost to the end.

* Music/KaiHansen - Although he had been involved in many bands since the 80s, in 2016 he released his first solo album.

* Music/{{Kamikazee}}: Took a hiatus in 2015 but has sporadically performed since 2017.

* Music/RKelly: His career came crashing down due to several sexual abuse accusations made against him, especially after the documentary ''Surviving R. Kelly'' was released.

* Music/TheLastShadowPuppets: Put out their second album, ''Everything You've Come to Expect'', in 2016.

* Music/{{LFO}}: Group members Devin Lima and Brad Fischetti reunited in 2017 with a new single "Perfect 10" and plans to continue LFO as a duo after the death of group member Rich Cronin. Unfortunately, Devin would develop stage four adrenal cancer and pass away in 2018, leaving Brad as the only surviving member, and end the band for good.

* Music/MuniLong re-emerges in 2017 as an RAndB artist.

* Music/{{Majestica}}: Active in the early part of the decade as [=ReinXeed=], reformed after a hiatus (due to band leader Tommy Johansson joining Music/{{Sabaton}}) in 2019.

* Music/MelanieMartinez: Released her first full-length album in 2015 after appearing on ''Series/TheVoice'' three years earlier.

* Creator/LinManuelMiranda: Puerto Rican composer, lyricist and actor, most well known for the Broadway musical ''Hamilton''.

* Music/TheMonkees: Two studio albums with posthumous contributions from Davy Jones.

* Music/MotherFeather: Self-titled debut album came out in 2016.

* Music/{{Motorhead}}: Disbanded after Lemmy Kilmeister's death in 2015.

* Music/{{Northward}}: Conceptualized and written in 2008, but Floor Jansen and Jørn Viggo Lofstad didn't have time to record any of it until Music/{{Nightwish|Band}} took a break in 2017. The album came out October 2018.

* Music/MikeOldfield: Released his last album in 2017 before retiring the following year (though he didn't announce his retirement until 2023).

* Music/TomPetty: Died suddenly after his last tour in 2017, and his longtime backing group, the Heartbreakers, disbanded afterwards.

* Music/{{Prince}}: Released two albums in 2015 before passing away the following year.

* Music/TheProdigy: Vocalist and dancer Keith Flint died in 2019.

* Music/RadioTapok: Started recording covers in 2016, then broke out with a ColbertBump from Music/{{Sabaton}} in 2019.

* Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}: Their 2016 album, ''Blue & Lonesome'', was the last to include drummer Charlie Watts before his death in August 2021.

* Music/{{serpentwithfeet}}: Debuted in 2016 with the EP ''blisters''.

** 2017 - ''[[Music/{{Divide}} ÷]]''

* Music/{{Slayer}}: Disbanded in 2019.

* Music/{{Slowdive}}: After breaking up in 1995, they reunited in 2014 and released their fourth album, ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Slowdive]]'', to great success and critical acclaim.

* Music/{{Sophie}}: One of the TropeMakers of the bubblegum bass subgenre of electronic music. Passed away in 2021.

* Music/{{Soundgarden}}: Frontman Music/ChrisCornell committed suicide only hours after their show in Detroit in May 2017, and the group officially disbanded in October 2018, holding a tribute concert for Cornell in January 2019.

* Creator/HaileeSteinfeld: Started her career as a recording artist during this time.

* Music/HarryStyles: Began his solo career during this period; his 2019 studio album ''Fine Line'' also notably became the Billboard 200's first No. 1 album of TheNewTwenties (owing in part to its late release date of December 13).

* Music/TearsForFears: Released their first new songs since 2004 on a GreatestHitsAlbum in 2017.

* Music/TenggerCavalry: Reformed as a full band in 2015. Disbanded in 2019.

* Music/{{Thrice}}: Reformed in 2015 and released their highest-charting album to date, ''To Be Everywhere is to Be Nowhere'', the next year. (Also released a followup, ''Palms'', in 2018.)

* Music/{{TLC}} would release a SelfTitledAlbum in 2017, their first without deceased member Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes.

* Music/TonesAndI: Had a smash hit in 2019 with "Dance Monkey".

* WebVideo/MichaelTrapson: Real name Dean Anthony Morrow Jr., he originally started making original music under the name "OG Cano", before finding viral success as a TrapMusic-styled Music/MichaelJackson impersonator, complete with trap-styled parodies of Jackson's catalogue.

* Music/TwinTribes (first two albums were released in 2018 and 2019)

* Vargskelethor/Joel Varg Johansson (of {{WebVideo/Vinesauce}} fame)

* Music/TheWeeknd: An R&B singer on Website/YouTube before achieving unexpected mainstream success in 2015 with three of the biggest hits of that year: "[[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Earned It]]," "Can't Feel My Face," and "The Hills".

* Music/{{Xscape|Group}}: Reunited and released some [=EPs=].

* Music/XXXTentacion: Had a very short career before his murder in June of 2018. Despite having only six years in the music industry and being mainstream for only one and a half years, he managed to garner a worldwide fanbase and intense media scrutiny following [[DeadArtistsAreBetter (and perhaps because of)]] his death.