Listmania 2015!
For 10 years, The FADER’s LISTMANIA has celebrated the best and worst of music, style, and the internet. Here’s 2015.
6 Important Moments That Happened On A Hoverboard
6. Chris Brown flexing his dance moves
5. Chris Brown curving TMZ
4. Migos and Young Thug testing out an IO Hawk
3. JME and his friends going ham in the “Test Me” video
2. Wiz Khalifa getting arrested
1. This random guy going as Aladdin for Halloween
Strains Of Weed We Smoked This Year That Don't Sound Real
1. Ghost Train
2. Barry White
3. Puma
4. Lucky Charms
5. Salmon Creek
Top 9 Songs From 2014 That We Listened To In 2015
9. Holly Herndon, "Chorus"
8. Pure X, “Every Tomorrow”
7. Sam Hunt, “Take Your Time”
6. Zoe Muth, “Little Piece of History”
5. Skepta, “It Ain’t Safe”
4. Modern Baseball, “Rock Bottom”
3. All of The Pinkprint
2. Tinashe, “All Hands on Deck”
1. Fetty Wap, "Trap Queen"
Male Champions Of The Thirst Trap Selfie, From Least To Most Thirsty
4. Safaree Samuels
3. Drake
2. The Game
1. Usher
7 People We're Still Waiting On Albums From
1. Frank Ocean
2. Kanye West
3. Rihanna
4. Usher
5. Kelela
6. Drake
7. Skepta
Top Thing The Rihanna Navy Wants To Know
3 Times We Knew Hpnotiq’s Comeback Was For Real
1. When P-Lo finished a bottle on Halloween
2. At Matthew Trammell’s birthday party
3. When a trendy Manhattan cocktail bar poured some in Sofia Coppola’s canned champagne
8 Best Things In DJ Khaled’s Backyard Snapchats
8. LED jacuzzi lights
7. The coconut trees
6. His orchid
5. The jetski
4. His lion statue
3. Iguana traps
2. The hammock
1. His garden hose
Top 6 Promo Items We Were Surprised Labels Had Money For
6. Jadakiss balaclava
5. August Alsina bouquet of roses
4. Fetty Wap “679” listening party cups
3. The Weeknd phone pouches for phones confiscated during listening session
2. K Camp stress ball
1. Vince Staples water bottle
People That Need To Step Into The Shade Room Immediately
8. Marc Jacobs
7. Cate Blanchett
6. Quincy Jones
5. The person who makes all of the Kardashian’s big salads
4. Michael Caine
3. Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry
2. Rob Kardashian
1. Hillary Clinton
Top 6 Potential Lineups For A Bernie Sanders Tribute Song Featuring Known Supporters
6. Lil B featuring Jello Biafra
5. Lil B featuring Thurston Moore
4. Lil B featuring Zoë Kravitz and Yoni Wolf
3. Lil B (solo)
2. Lil B featuring Killer Mike, Scarface, Bun B, and Lucinda Williams
1. Lil B featuring Anthony Keidis, from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Things Naomi Thinks Future Should Consider Doing In 2016
1. Cut his dreads to shoulder length
2. Stop with the hat
Songs Meek Mill Used To Subtweet Drake That Drake Also Played During His FADER Photo Shoot
1. Future, "Stick Talk"
6 Things We Were Excited That Adele Got Excited About
6. Xavier Dolan
5. MTV's Teen Mom
4. Tobias Jesso Jr.
3. Carbs
2. Britney Spears and The Spice Girls
1. “Frank fucking Ocean”
People Featured On Jamie xx’s “I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times),” According To Young Thug
Best New Facial Hair
6. Denzel
5. Justin Bieber’s lil scruff
4. Willie Geist
3. Zayn Malik
2. Drake
1. FADER contributor Alex G. Frank
8 Sprite Shoutouts From Brand Ambassador Vince Staples That Were Funnier Than Your Blog Posts
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Top 3 Enforcement Agents The Internet Thirsted Over This Year
Top 3 Flavors Of Chupa Chups, A Frequently Consumed FADER Office Treat
3. Special Edition Mango
2. Chocolate and Vanilla
1. Strawberries and Cream
4 Things That Happened During The Grammys That Seemed Vaguely Funny At The Time
4. Jokes about Prince’s orange outfit
3. Jokes about Pharrell being an elevator operator
2. Beck winning
1. Jokes about Iggy Azalea’s birdnest/challah hair (still funny tbh)
Top 3 Batshit Things Rick Owens Did
Top 5 Actually Perfect Lines From The Zola Story
5. “FAMILIES LIVE HERE BRO WTF”
4. “(Ima full nude typa bitch)”
3. “we vibing over our hoeism or whatever”
2. “this nigga lost in the sauce and & his bitch lost in the game”
1. “I leave & go down to the pool. I mean, i am in florida!”
5 Cute #FADERSelfies
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8 Emojis We Still Need
1. vomiting face
2. nauseated face
3. eyebrows
4. butt crack
5. ¯\(ツ)/¯
6. dumplings
7. a fat joint
8. Justin Bieber’s dick
Words That Were In
Words That Were Out
6 Most Supportive Tweets From @TinasheGramma
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3 Songs That Suggest John Mayer Thirst Is Alive And A Comeback Is Imminent
1. Justin Bieber, “Love Yourself”
2. Jeremih, “Paradise”
3. Ty Dolla $ign f. Babyface, “Solid”
7 Legitimately Good Songs Kylie Jenner Co-Signed On Instagram
1. Justin Bieber, "Sorry"
2. Bryson Tiller, “Come Up”
3. Roy Woods f. Drake, “Drama”
4. Drake f. PARTYNEXTDOOR, “Preach”
5. Future, “Rich Sex”
6. T-Wayne, “Nasty (Freestyle)”
7. Tink, “Treat Me Like Somebody”
9 Shades Of Drake’s Beard
1. Contemplating growth
2. An early test run
3. What if?
4. Nah, not yet
5. Oh, okay
6. Let's talk about it
7. It's a business beard
8. Trus mi daddi
9. What a time!
5 Surreal Listening Sessions That Happened In The FADER Office
1. When Skepta hijacked the aux to play Tame Impala
2. When Mike WiLL brought a mysterious pink liqueur to share and Eearz rapped his entire album live on a table
3. When Wyclef Jean danced with an intern
4. When YG showed videos of his baby on an iPhone
5. When we ate bagels and blasted Deafheaven at 10am
Best Deep Cut Hotline Bling Remixes
4. Sizzla x Drake x Willy Chin, "1-800-GIVEMEATRY"
3. Trina, "1-900-BADDEST"
2. Jadakiss f. Nino Man, "THotline Bling"
1. Iman Shumpert, "Highlight Reel (Hotline Bling)"
Top 4 Teams At Drake’s Competitive 29th Birthday Party #DrakeGames2015
1. The Eastside Catty Whisperers
2. The Scarborough Fry Skulls
3. The Kennedey Rd. Pieces
4. The Toronto Wastemans
Things That Seem Chill About Apple Music Executive Larry Jackson’s Life
3. Referring to making calls on a yacht on a Sunday as “Smilin’ n’ dialin’”
2. Going to Australia on Thanksgiving because #dutycalls
1. Tequila with Oprah
11 Times A Woman Covered A Man's Song And Owen Liked It Better
1. Carly Rae Jepsen, "Last Christmas"
2. Karen O, “Obsession”
3. Julianna Barwick, “Dream Baby Dream”
4. Natalie Prass, "Raining Blood"
5. Courtney Barnett "Charecoal Lane"
6. Lana Del Rey, "Some Things Last a Long Time"
7. Sevyn, "Don't"
8. Mila J, "Friends"
9. Kacey Musgraves, “Yellow”
10. Metric, "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards"
11. Florence + The Machine, “Times Like These”
Artists We Hope To Hear More From in 2016
Stormzy
Kamaiyah
Jai Paul
sky Ferreira
Amnesia Scanner
dvsn
Maty Noyes
Kablam
Lil B
Danny Brown
Chino Amobi
SheLovesMeechie
Whitney
Ta-ha
The artist formerly known as Unicorn Kid
Top 5 Soundtrack Decisions Of 2015, According To Patrick
5. Arthur Russell’s “A Little Lost” when Rachel moves out on Master of None
4. Amy Winehouse recording “Back to Black” with Mark Ronson in AMY
3. Every climactic beat-drop in Heaven Knows What
2. When Carol puts on “You Belong To Me” while driving with Terese
1. Disasterpeace’s spooky-as-hell It Follows score
8 New Stunts Artists Pulled To Draw Attention To Their Releases
1. Erykah Badu filmed her video live on Periscope
2. Justin Bieber released his “Hotline Bling” remix on an actual hotline
4. Animal Collective previewed their album in the Baltimore airport
5. Kendrick Lamar premiered the video for “King Kunta” in Times Square
6. Yung Jake made a video you need two phones to watch on Snapchat
7. Oneohtrix Point Never created a alternate alien universe where Blogspot is still a thing
8. Rihanna made a Samsung game from hell
4 Times @Rawiya Went Viral
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4 Times @Rawiya Should Have Gone Viral
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Top 10 Tweets From Retired 1990s Yankees And Phillies Baseball Player Ricky Ledee
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4 Times Rappers Switched It Up Like Ginobli
4. Spur of the moment, I ball like Ginobli —Nicki Minaj on “Big Daddy”
3. I hit that Ginobli with my left hand up like, woo! —Drake on “Jumpman”
2. Switch it, switch it, like Ginobli —Puffy L’z “Switch It Up”
1. Switch it up with the left, like Ginobli —Mo-G on “Still”
Things That Duncan Honestly Thought Were Going To Be Good
1. Zac Efron's EDM movie
2. 2015
Top Time Larry King Read The FADER Out Loud To Joanna Newsom
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Things That Don’t Feel Like They Happened This Year That We Still Want To Talk About
1. North West in the “Only One” video
2. SremmLife
3. “FourFiveSeconds”
4. Malia Obama’s Pro Era selfie
Things That Don’t Feel Like They Happened This Year That We Don’t Want To Talk About
1. The dress
2. Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz
3. When Slim Jimmy opened that gash in his leg
4. When the L train just, like, didn’t run on weekends
5. Left Shark
Top Under-Appreciated Holidays
8. Labor Day
7. Purim
6. Mischief Night
5. Flag Day
4. Boxing Day
3. Tu BiShvat
2. National Siblings Day
1. Mariah Carey Thanksgiving
5 Perfect Memes Courtesy Of Short-Lived NYC Art World Parody Account @Freeze_De
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3 Skepta Tweets That Were Better Than Therapy
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Top 3 Legacy Rock Bands Whose Facebook Pages Were Hacked By Pornbots
4 Trends FADER Style Declared Dead This Year
17 Imaginative And Mostly NSFW Hashtags Invented By The Game
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#WitBrysonTillerOvertimePlayin #OnRepeatTilYoPussyLearnTheWords
#ThenImGoneStickMyTongueInsideThatPinkPaddedWallTiliMakeYoVaginaSpitThe1stVerse
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#itsGottaFeelGoodToHaveACareerOtherThanWaistTrainingTeaDrinkinOrTeethWhitenin
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#YoDaddyJustWasntPackinSoGeneticallyYourLifeFuckedUp #MyDaddyWasADragonSlayerOutHereAndItGotPassedDownToMe #MyGrandaddyWasASeaMonsterKiller #ItRunsInTheFamily
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#ThousandDollarsShouldAtLeastGetANiggaAPeanutButterAndJellySammich
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#ThatHopOutARedVelvetCakeDick
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#LetMeKnowWhenYoureReadyAndillMarryYouAndBeEverythingYouEverDreamedOf
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#LayYoAssHereAndGetLickedTilTheNBAChampionshipSeriesOver
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#PutTheHeelsOfYourFeetOnMyCalvesAndPullMeInTilYouFeelMeInYourSoul
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#PutsDickBackInTheVersaceBoxers #PullsPantsUp #ZipsZipperAndPretendsLikeIWasSleep
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#MyGrandmaNeedsNoFilter #SheLookBetterThanSomeOfThese100kChicksOnHere
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#AhEatItLikeItCameWitMyRedSnapperOrder
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#iAintTalkinNoEBTpurchase #ImTalkin800dollarsWorthAShitIn4BasketsEatTheBooty
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#IfYouDidntHaveNoOverallsYouWasntShit
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#TheNewHairRelaxerAndLeaveInConditonerInOne #Yep #PussyJuice.
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#YouKnowThatSkittlesCommercialWhereTheyBeLikeTasteTheRainbow #WellFuckDatCommercial
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#PictureUsLayedAllUpWatchingNetFlix #OhAndYouKnowWhatRhymeWithNetFlix #BestDick
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#SorryBoutTheVulgarity
6 Vines That Made Nazuk Stop Breathing
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