1995 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1995.

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Also in 1995[edit]

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January–March[edit]

Date Album Artist Notes
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3 A Thousand Memories Rhett Akins -
Amok Sentenced -
Higher Learning Various Artists Soundtrack
Old Enough to Know Better Wade Hayes -
6 Mary Lou Lord Mary Lou Lord EP
My Starting Point Is Here Aaron Kwok UFO Record Semi-finale
To Persist Nicky Wu
10 Dah Shinin' Smif-N-Wessun -
Demon Knight Various Artists Soundtrack
From the Bottom Up Brownstone -
13 Beyond the Dancing Troy Cassar-Daley -
16 The Rapture Siouxsie and the Banshees UK
University Throwing Muses -
17 Do You Want More?!!!??! The Roots -
The Fun of Open Discussion John Hartford & Bob Carlin -
Look What the Rookie Did Zumpano -
Second Coming The Stone Roses US
19 Blonde Redhead Blonde Redhead -
20 The Last Supper Belphegor -
Sounds of Beautiful Experience On Thorns I Lay -
23 Behind Closed Doors Thunder -
The Great Annihilator Swans -
Hafted Maul Dead Voices on Air -
Hard Times Laughing Hyenas -
Octopus The Human League -
24 Balance Van Halen -
Charlie Parker with Strings Charlie Parker -
Cocktails Too Short -
Good Times Subway -
Ham Fisted Local H -
Hog Wild Hank Williams Jr. -
The Jerky Boys Various Artists Soundtrack
Swedish Bassoon Concertos Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra -
You Gotta Love That! Neal McCoy -
25 Melody Boulevard Joe Hisaishi -
Prick Prick -
27 Fist City Tribe 8 Debut
30 The Sky Moves Sideways Porcupine Tree -
Good News from the Next World Simple Minds -
Dogs of War Saxon -
Leftism Leftfield -
Millennium Fever Apollo 440 -
Nice Ass Free Kitten -
31 ... and the Beat Goes On! Scooter -
? Facts and Fictions Asian Dub Foundation Debut
Pharos Seti -
Personal Best Team Dresch Debut
Daredevil Fu Manchu -
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3 Of Chaos and Eternal Night Dark Tranquillity Compilation
6 World of Morrissey Morrissey Compilation
Mobile Safari The Pastels -
Pygmalion Slowdive -
7 All in the Game Crime Boss -
Being Myself Juvenile -
Now That I've Found You: A Collection Alison Krauss Compilation
Waiting for the Punchline Extreme -
The Woman in Me Shania Twain -
8 3 Years to Become a Ravermaniac DJ Hooligan -
Fourth Dimension Stratovarius -
Junjō Karen Otome Moyō Yuki Uchida -
9 Adak İzel -
Out of My Heads Jennifer Rush -
Worry Bomb Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine -
10 Amid Its Hallowed Mirth Novembers Doom -
Dream In The Absence of The Night Dream Dave Wong UFO Record Semi-finale
Sorcery Kataklysm -
13 Chewyfoot Wingtip Sloat -
14 Black Lita Ford -
Hanky Panky The The -
It's Five O'Clock Somewhere Slash's Snakepit -
King Belly -
Nevermore Nevermore -
The Rapture Siouxsie and the Banshees US
Thinkin' About You Trisha Yearwood -
15 ¡Leche con Carne! No Use for a Name -
17 No Protection Massive Attack Remix CD
Cheshire Cat Blink-182 Debut
18 Painted Desert Ikue Mori -
20 Big Red Car The Wiggles -
Maxinquaye Tricky UK
Single History IV: 1991-1994 The Alfee -
21 Murder Love Snow -
Safe + Sound DJ Quik -
27 Alive in Studio A Bruce Dickinson Live
Cerebral Caustic The Fall -
Delete Yourself! Atari Teenage Riot -
Greatest Hits Bruce Springsteen Compilation
To Bring You My Love PJ Harvey -
Undisclosed Files Addendum Hawkwind Live
28 13 Unlucky Numbers Wax -
1000 Fires Traci Lords Debut
Ball-Hog or Tugboat? Mike Watt -
Big Choice Face to Face -
Deluxe Better Than Ezra Elektra re-release
Diaspora Natacha Atlas Debut
Do You Wanna Ride? Adina Howard Debut
Ex' All Time Favourites Shirley Kwan -
Here Comes Success Band of Susans -
Manic Compression Quicksand -
Pieces of You Jewel Debut
Train a Comin' Steve Earle -
? Pain Killer Energy Orchard -
Black Secret Technology A Guy Called Gerald -
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1 Life The Cardigans Sweden
6 Beggar on a Beach of Gold Mike + the Mechanics -
Medusa Annie Lennox -
7 Power of Inner Strength Grip Inc. -
Ultraphobic Warrant -
Wonderful Adam Ant -
10 Forever You Zard -
The Presidents of the United States of America The Presidents of the United States of America PopLlama release
13 The Bends Radiohead -
Elastica Elastica -
Smart Sleeper -
In Debt Disco Inferno Compilation
14 100% Fun Matthew Sweet -
Above Mad Season -
A Boy Named Goo Goo Goo Dolls -
Collective Soul Collective Soul -
Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin Various Artists Led Zeppelin tribute
Everything Is Wrong Moby -
Feels Like Home Linda Ronstadt -
In a Major Way E-40 -
Me Against the World 2Pac -
20 Orbus Terrarum The Orb -
Made in England Elton John -
Succour Seefeel [32]
21 Alien Love Secrets Steve Vai EP
Brainbloodvolume Ned's Atomic Dustbin -
Conversation Peace Stevie Wonder -
Dopes to Infinity Monster Magnet -
The Edges of Twilight The Tea Party -
Home Blessid Union of Souls Debut
Naveed Our Lady Peace US
One Track Mind Railroad Jerk -
Relish Joan Osborne -
Symbolic Death -
Yes Morphine -
27 D'eux Celine Dion -
Frogstomp Silverchair Debut
Ocean Beach Red House Painters -
Ventolin Aphex Twin EP
Wild Love Smog -
28 A.M. Wilco Debut
Another Night Real McCoy -
Candy Rain Soul for Real -
Faith in Me, Faith in You Doug Stone -
John Michael Montgomery John Michael Montgomery -
King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime Faith No More -
Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous Big L -
My Brother the Cow Mudhoney -
Only Everything Juliana Hatfield -
Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version Ol' Dirty Bastard -
Subhuman Race Skid Row -
Tank Girl soundtrack Various Artists Soundtrack
We Get There When We Do Suddenly, Tammy! -
31 Amita Tata Young Tata Young Debut
? Teeth and Tissue The Headstones -
One Day Jang Pil Soon -

April–June[edit]

Date Album Artist Notes
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3 THRAK King Crimson -
Live Bites Scorpions Live
4 Alien Lanes Guided by Voices -
Civilization Phaze III Frank Zappa -
Lemonade and Brownies Sugar Ray Debut
Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings John Prine -
Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing Strapping Young Lad -
Nihil KMFDM -
The Rhythm of the Night Corona Debut
The Road Goes On Forever The Highwaymen -
Rub It Better General Public -
Thank You Duran Duran -
This Is How We Do It Montell Jordan Debut
Imaginations from the Other Side Blind Guardian -
6 Dandys Rule, OK? The Dandy Warhols -
Now That's What I Call Music! 30 Various Artists UK series; Compilation
7 94 Diskont Oval -
Clockseed Vampire Rodents -
Running on Ice Vertical Horizon -
10 Picture This Wet Wet Wet -
11 3 FireHouse -
Astro-Creep: 2000 White Zombie -
Blonder and Blonder The Muffs -
Friday Various Artists Soundtrack
Infrared Riding Hood Tad -
Wowee Zowee Pavement -
You'd Prefer an Astronaut Hum -
14 Walk on Water UFO Japan-only release until 1997
18 A Small Deadly Space Fight -
Burnt Offerings Iced Earth -
Once upon the Cross Deicide -
This Beautiful Mess Sixpence None the Richer -
Further Flying Saucer Attack -
19 I Hate You with a Passion Dre Dog -
21 Born Annoying Helmet Compilation
24 ...I Care Because You Do Aphex Twin [33]
Plastic Green Head Trouble -
Such Friends Are Dangerous Excuse 17 -
Wolfheart Moonspell -
25 Ain't Had Enough Fun Little Feat -
Come Together: America Salutes the Beatles Various Artists Country music tribute to The Beatles
Cuando los Ángeles Lloran Maná -
Drift Flotsam and Jetsam -
The Infamous Mobb Deep -
28 Rainmaker Fair Warning -
? Vibrator Terence Trent D'Arby -
No Mercy Daddy Yankee -
Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic) Behemoth Debut
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1 Jerk of All Trades Lunachicks -
Machiavelli and the Four Seasons TISM -
Octagon Bathory -
Stylin' Up Christine Anu Debut
2 Divinities: Twelve Dances with God Ian Anderson -
Electr-O-Pura Yo La Tengo -
Fear No Evil Slaughter -
Fun Trick Noisemaker The Apples In Stereo Debut
MTV Unplugged Bob Dylan Live
Poverty's Paradise Naughty by Nature -
Sittin' on Chrome Masta Ace Incorporated -
Spirit of the Wild Ted Nugent -
5 Everything Sucks Reel Big Fish -
8 Green Wheels Merzbow -
Nobody Else Take That -
Short Bus Filter -
Tilt Scott Walker -
9 Clutch Clutch -
Domination Morbid Angel -
God of Love Bad Brains -
Kojak Variety Elvis Costello Live
Nemesisters Babes in Toyland -
The Return of the Space Cowboy Jamiroquai US
Some Rainy Morning Robert Cray -
Time After Time Etta James -
12 Destroy Erase Improve Meshuggah -
15 I Should Coco Supergrass Debut
Bodies Sidi Bou Said -
Inzombia Slant 6 -
Orchid Opeth -
16 Mumtaz Mahal Taj Mahal -
17 Boomerang Hanson Debut
22 The Angel and the Dark River My Dying Bride -
Black in Mind Rage -
P.H.U.Q. The Wildhearts -
23 Daryle Singletary Daryle Singletary -
The Inevitable Squirrel Nut Zippers -
Dwight Live Dwight Yoakam Live
Dysfunctional Dokken -
Forever Blue Chris Isaak -
Eternal Malevolent Creation -
God of Love Bad Brains -
LP The Rembrandts LP
Root Down Beastie Boys EP
Sparkle and Fade Everclear -
Tales from the Punchbowl Primus -
29 Pulse Pink Floyd Live
Further Down the Spiral Nine Inch Nails Remix CD
Grand Prix Teenage Fanclub -
Land of the Free Gamma Ray -
Sex Affairs E-Rotic Debut
A Spanner in the Works Rod Stewart -
30 Batman Forever Various Artists Soundtrack
Pocahontas soundtrack Various Artists Soundtrack
Freaks of Nature Kansas -
Goodfellas Show and A.G. -
Love and Money Eddie Money -
31 Blues for Greeny Gary Moore -
? Rarestonebowie David Bowie Compilation
Stanley Road Paul Weller -
Taste of Heaven Takara -
Oolooloo The Pietasters -
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1 Masquerade in Blood Sodom -
Ogród koncentracyjny Świetliki -
5 Forbidden Black Sabbath -
Days Like This Van Morrison -
Panzerfaust Darkthrone -
Still Not Black Enough W.A.S.P. UK
6 And the Music Speaks All-4-One -
Happy Days Catherine Wheel -
The Best of Branigan Laura Branigan Compilation
Derrumbe Gerardo -
Glow The Innocence Mission -
Hi™ How Are You Today? Ashley MacIsaac -
Let Your Dim Light Shine Soul Asylum -
A Turtle's Dream Abbey Lincoln -
9 69/96 Cornelius -
Sacrificial Cake Jarboe -
12 Post Björk -
Draconian Times Paradise Lost -
Infernal Love Therapy? -
Red Medicine Fugazi -
13 Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette -
About Time Pennywise -
All I Need to Know Kenny Chesney -
Demanufacture Fear Factory Sophomore; Debut with Christian Olde Wolbers
Head Over Heels Paula Abdul -
Home Deep Blue Something Interscope re-release
Menace to Sobriety Ugly Kid Joe -
Two Headed Spirit of the West -
The Unboxed Set Angry Samoans Box Set
15 Sing Abra Moore Solo Debut
Subterranean In Flames EP
16 Cerberus Shoal Cerberus Shoal Debut
19 Replenish Reef Debut
20 HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I Michael Jackson Compilation disc + New studio disc
A Very Fine Love Dusty Springfield US
2000 Grand Puba -
Bing, Bing, Bing! Charlie Hunter -
Boheme Deep Forest -
F-Punk Big Audio Dynamite -
Fast Stories... from Kid Coma Truly -
I Am an Elastic Firecracker Tripping Daisy -
Incidental Music 1991-95 Superchunk Compilation
Lorada Johnny Hallyday -
A Northern Soul The Verve -
Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities Circle Jerks -
Rasta Business Burning Spear -
Tigerlily Natalie Merchant -
22 Grandpaw Would Ben Lee Debut
26 Afraid of Sunlight Marillion -
The Drive Haddaway -
Exit Planet Dust The Chemical Brothers UK
27 Apollo 13 soundtrack James Horner Soundtrack
Fey Fey Debut
Gov't Mule Gov't Mule -
I Wish Skee-Lo -
A Live One Phish Live
Mirror Ball Neil Young -
Modernday Folklore Ian Moore -
Only Heaven The Young Gods -
Singles Alison Moyet Compilation
These Days Bon Jovi -
? Chat Chat Takako Minekawa -
Mirror Mirror 10cc -

July–September[edit]

Date Album Artist Notes
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4 Foo Fighters Foo Fighters Debut
Brown Sugar D'Angelo Debut
Think with Your Heart Debbie Gibson -
Brothas Doobie Funkdoobiest -
Teenage Politics MxPx -
Vol V – Believe Soul II Soul -
11 Dangerous Minds soundtrack Various Artists Soundtrack
311 311 -
Sleepy Eyed Buffalo Tom -[34]
...And the Circus Leaves Town Kyuss -
Boombastic Shaggy -
Off the Hook Xscape -
18 ¡Adios Amigos! Ramones -
Bette of Roses Bette Midler -
Cesária Cesária Évora -
Chants and Dances of the Native Americans Sacred Spirit -
Clueless soundtrack Various Artists Soundtrack
Dreaming of You Selena Posthumous
Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality Guru -
Hidden Treasures Megadeth Rarities EP
The Long Goodbye Procol Harum -
Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home Geraldine Fibbers -
Mainliner: Wreckage from the Past Social Distortion Compilation
Miss Thang Monica Debut
Not a Pretty Girl Ani DiFranco -
Reflections After 7 -
Restless Shelby Lynne -
The Show, the After Party, the Hotel Jodeci -
'Til Shiloh Buju Banton -
Totally Crushed Out! That Dog -
Use Your Fingers The Bloodhound Gang -
21 Elliott Smith Elliott Smith -
La Alteración Akina Nakamori -
Live in Progress The Alfee -
24 Caution to the Wind Pura Fé Debut
25 E 1999 Eternal Bone Thugs-n-Harmony -
The Presidents of the United States of America The Presidents of the United States of America Columbia re-release; Remixed
28 Invisible La Ley -
Seed Prototype -
31 The Garden Merril Bainbridge Debut; AUS
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1 Answer That and Stay Fashionable AFI -
Bad Habits Colin James -
Brother's Keeper Rich Mullins -
Fight for Your Mind Ben Harper -
Killer Cuts Robin Beanland -
Now That's What I Call Music! 31 Various Artists Compilation
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Raekwon -
Set Your Goals CIV -
We Care Whale -
Wholesale Meats and Fish Letters to Cleo -
7 Alternative Pet Shop Boys Compilation
Sweden The Mountain Goats -
The Twenty-Seven Points The Fall Live
8 Ben Folds Five Ben Folds Five Debut
Brown Bag Citizen King -
Hot Charity Rocket from the Crypt -
I Remember You Brian McKnight -
Penthouse Luna -
The Sacrilicious Sounds of the Supersuckers Supersuckers -
Spirit of '73: Rock for Choice Various Artists -
14 Deep Dead Blue Elvis Costello and Bill Frisell Live
Donkey Rhubarb Aphex Twin EP[35]
15 Garbage Garbage US
Dirt Track Date Southern Culture on the Skids -
I Just Wasn't Made for These Times Brian Wilson -
King Ferus Ferus Mustafov also known as Macedonian Wedding Soul Cooking
A Moment of Forever Kris Kristofferson -
Mortal Kombat soundtrack Various Artists Soundtrack
Real Brothas B.G. Knocc Out and Dresta -
Soup Blind Melon -
True Forever Andy Lau Philips Record Begins
18 Goofyfoot Phranc EP
21 Stranger in Us All Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow -
Viva Last Blues Palace Music -
22 ...And Out Come the Wolves Rancid -
Good News in Hard Times The Sisters of Glory Debut
Hit & Run Holiday My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult -
I Heard They Suck Live!! NOFX Live
I'll Lead You Home Michael W. Smith -
Mandylion The Gathering -
Pet Your Friends Dishwalla -
Pucker! The Selecter -
Tindersticks Tindersticks Second album
25 Methodrone The Brian Jonestown Massacre -
28 Southpaw Grammar Morrissey UK
29 Cheapness and Beauty Boy George -
Conspiracy Junior M.A.F.I.A. -
Faith Faith Evans Debut
Freedom Bondage Zeni Geva -
It Matters to Me Faith Hill -
The Road Home Heart Live
Wind Can't Stop Aaron Kwok UFO Record Finale
? Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot Sparklehorse -
The Damnation Game Symphony X -
Sargasso Sea Pram -
New Moon Daughter Cassandra Wilson -
No Doubt Petra -
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1 Crossover Yoshinori Sunahara -
Ocean Drive Lighthouse Family -
4 La Mia Vita Violenta Blonde Redhead -
Roots to Branches Jethro Tull UK
5 American Standard Seven Mary Three -
Nowhere to Here Blue Rodeo -
Sommersprossen Die Flippers -
Take Me Higher Diana Ross -
8 Ask for It Hole EP
11 The Great Escape Blur -
Serpentine Gallery Switchblade Symphony Debut
12 One Hot Minute Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Circus Lenny Kravitz -
Dear You Jawbreaker -
Inside Out MC Hammer -
A Medio Vivir Ricky Martin -
Nine High a Pallet brute. -
Planet B.A.D. Big Audio Dynamite Compilation
Roots to Branches Jethro Tull US
Timeless Goldie -
Up Great Big Sea Canada
18 Paranoid and Sunburnt Skunk Anansie Debut
On Echobelly -
19 A Change of Seasons Dream Theater EP
Clouds Taste Metallic The Flaming Lips -
Coast to Coast Motel G. Love & Special Sauce -
Gilt Machines of Loving Grace -
Greatest Hits (1985–1995) Michael Bolton Compilation
Here's Where the Strings Come In Superchunk -
Huang Chung Wang Chung Re-release
In The Grass Splendora Debut
Ledbetter Heights Kenny Wayne Shepherd -
NOLA Down Debut
Randy Newman's Faust Randy Newman -
See You on the Other Side Mercury Rev -
Trace Son Volt Debut
21 Mi-Chemin Yuki Uchida -
25 Outside David Bowie -
Forever Failure Paradise Lost
Herzeleid Rammstein Debut
Friendly Fire Shara Nelson -
Hard Wired Front Line Assembly -
Voice of Reason Harem Scarem -
26 Ballbreaker AC/DC -
The Gold Experience Prince -
Peel Slowly and See The Velvet Underground Box Set
Washing Machine Sonic Youth -
Abriendo Puertas Gloria Estefan -
4,5,6 Kool G Rap Solo debut
Best of Country Christmas, Vol. 5 Various artists Compilation
Bienvenue chez moi Florent Pagny Compilation
Exit the Dragon Urge Overkill -
For Lovers Only The Temptations -
Forgiven, Not Forgotten The Corrs Debut
Haunted Six Feet Under Debut
Ring Them Bells Joan Baez US; Live
Tails Lisa Loeb -
Wrecking Ball Emmylou Harris -
29 Tambu Toto Europe
The Carnival Bizarre Cathedral -
? Jack Ingram Jack Ingram -
Romantique 96 Pizzicato Five -
Bring 'em All In Mike Scott -
Hate Rock 'N' Roll The Jesus and Mary Chain Compilation

October–December[edit]

Date Album Artist Notes
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2 (What's the Story) Morning Glory? Oasis -
Corte en Tramite Javiera y Los Imposibles Debut
Grown Man Loudon Wainwright III -
The X Factor Iron Maiden -
3 ! The Dismemberment Plan -
Adrenaline Deftones Debut
Curb Servin' WC and the Maad Circle -
Daydream Mariah Carey Diamond; over 10 million copies sold
Example For Squirrels -
Jesus Wept P.M. Dawn -
Lucy Candlebox -
Starting Over Reba McEntire Platinum; over 1 million copies sold
This Is Greta! Greta -
9 Life Simply Red -
Ima BT Debut
10 Insomniac Green Day -
Tragic Kingdom No Doubt -
Design of a Decade: 1986–1996 Janet Jackson Compilation +2 new tracks
Raoul and the Kings of Spain Tears for Fears -
Time Fleetwood Mac -
Frampton Comes Alive! II Peter Frampton Live
All You Can Eat k.d. lang -
Disco Volante Mr. Bungle -
Happy Nowhere Dog's Eye View Debut
Hello Poe -
It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah Black Grape -
KRS-One KRS-One -
Lonestar Lonestar -
Mind of Mystikal Mystikal Debut
Modern Rock The Clean -
Pleasure Semisonic EP
Riddle Box Insane Clown Posse -
Scream, Dracula, Scream! Rocket from the Crypt -
Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd Jaz Coleman and The London Philharmonic Orchestra -
Working Class Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon Various Artists John Lennon tribute
The Worldhood of the World (As Such) NoMeansNo -
11 Life on a Plate Millencolin -
13 Robyn Is Here Robyn Sweden
16 The Isle of View The Pretenders Live
Journeys by DJ: 70 Minutes of Madness Coldcut DJ mix
The Lone Ranger Suggs -
Twisted Hallucinogen -
17 The Alien Conspiracy Crisis n.T.i. -
Alive in America Steely Dan Live
Anamorphosée Mylène Farmer -
Amanda Marshall Amanda Marshall Debut
El Concierto Luis Miguel Live
Hypnotize the Moon Clay Walker -
Plastic Planet G//Z/R -
The R*tist 4*merly Known as Dangerous Toys Dangerous Toys -
18 This Is Christmas Luther Vandross Christmas
20 10 Wings Miyuki Nakajima -
Do You Like My Tight Sweater? Moloko -
23 Ozzmosis Ozzy Osbourne -
Vault: Def Leppard Greatest Hits (1980–1995) Def Leppard Compilation
Erasure Erasure -
The Final Experiment Ayreon -
Swingin' with Raymond Chumbawamba -
Dear Sir Cat Power -
Lone Star 119 Nicky Wu UFO Record Finale
Would Rather Not Free Dave Wong -
24 Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness The Smashing Pumpkins -
Smells Like Children Marilyn Manson EP
20 Fingers 20 Fingers -
1200 Curfews Indigo Girls Live
All We Got Iz Us Onyx -
Christmas Here with You The Four Tops Christmas
Dead Winter Dead Savatage Christmas
Formula OLD -
Get Lost The Magnetic Fields -
Groove Theory Groove Theory -
Here's to the Ladies Tony Bennett -
It's a Mystery Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band -
Jealous One's Envy Fat Joe -
Ragnarök Gwar -
Resident Alien Spacehog -
Return of the Rentals The Rentals -
Spinner Brian Eno & Jah Wobble -
Stomp 442 Anthrax -
Tapestry Revisited: A Tribute to Carole King Various Artists Carole King tribute
Woman's Gotta Have It Cornershop -
27 Friction Breach -
30 Welcome to the Neighborhood Meat Loaf -
Different Class Pulp -
The Bridge Ace of Base -
31 20 Mothers Julian Cope -
Always Drink Upstream from the Herd Riders in the Sky -
Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom Cypress Hill -
Dogg Food Tha Dogg Pound -
Gone Dwight Yoakam -
The Individualist TR-i (Todd Rundgren) -
On Top of the World 8Ball & MJG -
? Kim Kyung Ho Kim Kyung Ho -
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1 Fungus Amongus Incubus Debut
Salt Peter Ruby Debut
6 Made in Heaven Queen -
Love Songs Elton John Compilation
It's A Man's World Cher European release only
I'm with Stupid Aimee Mann -
Jake's Progress soundtrack Elvis Costello and Richard Harvey Soundtrack
Tri Repetae Autechre -
7 Alice In Chains Alice in Chains -
Something to Remember Madonna Compilation +3 new tracks
Gangsta's Paradise Coolio -
All Ages Bad Religion Compilation
All of This Love Pam Tillis -
Better Late Than Never Craig Goldy -
Clouds In My Coffee Carly Simon Box Set
Demanufacture Fear Factory Limited Edition Digipak with Bonus Tracks
Double or Nothing Erick Sermon -
Rising Yoko Ono -
Letters from Chutney Rainbow Butt Monkeys Debut; only album before name change to Finger Eleven
Liquid Swords GZA -
Original Soundtracks 1 Passengers -
Ragged Ass Road Tom Cochrane -
Rising Yoko Ono/IMA -
Road Tested Bonnie Raitt Live
Sunny Day Real Estate Sunny Day Real Estate -
Soul Food Goodie Mob Debut
13 Stripped The Rolling Stones Live
Aglio e Olio Beastie Boys EP
Up All Night East 17 -
Now That's What I Call Music! 32 Various Artists Compilation
14 Labcabincalifornia The Pharcyde -
New Beginning Tracy Chapman -
Parachute Guster Debut
R. Kelly R. Kelly -
Slaughter of the Soul At the Gates -
Southern Gal Terry Ellis -
Waiting to Exhale: Original Soundtrack Album Various Artists Soundtrack
Where Forever Begins Ken Mellons -
Your Little Secret Melissa Etheridge -
16 Bif Naked Bif Naked Debut
17 Storm of the Light's Bane Dissection -
20 The Beatles Anthology, Volume 1 The Beatles Compilation +1 new track
The Memory of Trees Enya -
21 The Ghost of Tom Joad Bruce Springsteen -
Enrique Iglesias Enrique Iglesias Debut
Fresh Horses Garth Brooks -
Jesus Freak dc Talk -
I Refuse to Be Lonely Phyllis Hyman -
Live by Yo Rep Three 6 Mafia EP
Livin' Proof Group Home Debut
Mr. Smith LL Cool J -
Natural Wonder Stevie Wonder Live
The Wheel Keeps on Rollin' Asleep at the Wheel -
22 Amore Toshinori Yonekura -
27 Bizarre Fruit II M People -
Eternal E Eazy-E Posthumous
The Gallery Dark Tranquillity -
N/A Become the Other Ozric Tentacles -
Desperate, Scared But Social Emily's Sassy Lime Debut
Electronic Pleasure N-Trance Debut
Grayfolded Grateful Dead Live
Izlamaphobia Muslimgauze -
Scratch or Stitch Melt-Banana -
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1 The Blood-Splat Rating System Powerman 5000 -
4 Balto: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Various Artists Soundtrack
How Long Has This Been Going On Van Morrison Live
5 1990-Sick Spice 1 -
Merkin Ball Pearl Jam featuring Neil Young EP
Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits Various Artists Compilation
We Got It Immature -
8 Cutterpillow Eraserheads -
Last of the Ghetto Astronauts Matthew Good Band -
Taiyō no Shōnen Hideaki Tokunaga -
12 Glyph Harold Budd & Hector Zazou -
Lonesome Questions Jack Ingram -
Xorcist X-Raided -
14 Cibo Matto Cibo Matto -
15 Final Bell / Ghost in the Ruins Savatage Live
18 Low On Ice Alec Empire -
? Dancehall Dreamer Pat Green -
Odoru Issunboushi Ningen Isu -
Di-Dar Faye Wong -
Greed Killing Napalm Death EP

Release date unknown[edit]

Biggest hit singles[edit]

The following songs achieved the highest aggregated positions in the charts of 1995.[36]

# Artist Title Year Country Chart Entries
1 Coolio Gangsta's Paradise 1995 United States United Kingdom: 1 – October 1995; United States Billboard: 1 of 1995; The Netherlands: 1 – October 1995; Sweden: 1 – October 1995; Austria: 1 – November 1995; Switzerland: 1 – November 1995; Norway: 1 – October 1995; Italy: 1 of 1996; Germany: 1 – January 1996; Republic of Ireland: 1 – October 1995; New Zealand: 1 for 9 weeks October 1995; Australia: 1 for 13 weeks January 1996; France: 3 – October 1995; Poland: 3 – October 1995; Australia: 6 of 1995; United States Billboard: 11 of 1995; United States Cash Box: 12 of 1995; Germany: 16 of the 1990s; Scrobulate: 27 of rap; Pop Culture Madness: 31 of 1995; Global: 33 (5 million sold) – 1995; Europe: 48 of the 1990s; Rate Your Music: 69 of 1995; Acclaimed: 439
2 Shaggy Boombastic 1995 Jamaica UK 1 – September 1995, Italy 1 of 1995, Republic of Ireland 1 – September 1995, New Zealand 1 for 2 weeks September 1995, Australia 1 for 1 weeks May 1996, Norway 2 – September 1995, Germany 2 – September 1995, US BB 3 of 1995, Austria 3 – October 1995, Switzerland 3 – October 1995, Netherlands 4 – September 1995, Sweden 4 – September 1995, US BB 6 of 1995, POP 7 of 1995, France 8 – August 1995, Australia 8 of 1996, US CashBox 23 of 1995, Scrobulate 34 of dancehall, Germany 181 of the 1990s
3 Take That Back for Good 1995 United Kingdom UK 1 – April 1995, Sweden 1 – April 1995, Norway 1 – April 1995, Germany 1 – April 1995, Republic of Ireland 1 – March 1995, Australia 1 for 2 weeks August 1995, Netherlands 2 – April 1995, Switzerland 2 – April 1995, Austria 3 – May 1995, US BB 7 of 1995, Australia 9 of 1995, Poland 10 – January 1995, Italy 28 of 1995, RYM 53 of 1995, OzNet 126, Germany 128 of the 1990s
4 Michael Jackson You Are Not Alone 1995 United States UK 1 – September 1995, US BB 1 of 1995, Switzerland 1 – September 1995, Poland 1 – August 1995, Republic of Ireland 1 – September 1995, New Zealand 1 for 3 weeks September 1995, Austria 2 – September 1995, Germany 3 – September 1995, Sweden 5 – August 1995, Netherlands 6 – August 1995, Norway 9 – September 1995, US CashBox 13 of 1995, Australia 25 of 1995, Italy 45 of 1995, Germany 262 of the 1990s
5 U2 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me 1995 Republic of Ireland Norway 1 – June 1995, Poland 1 – January 1995, Republic of Ireland 1 – June 1995, New Zealand 1 for 1 weeks July 1995, Australia 1 for 6 weeks October 1995, UK 2 – June 1995, Austria 4 – July 1995, Switzerland 5 – July 1995, Netherlands 9 – June 1995, Germany 9 – July 1995, Sweden 15 – August 1995, US BB 16 of 1995, Australia 16 of 1995, Italy 27 of 1995, POP 59 of 1995, RYM 72 of 1995

Top 40 Chart hit singles[edit]

Song title Artist(s) Release date(s) US UK Highest chart position Other Chart Performance(s)
"1st of tha Month" Bone Thugs-N-Harmony June 1995 14 15 7 (New Zealand) 4 (U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Songs) - 12 (U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs) - 46 (Netherlands [Single Top 100])
"3 Is Family" Dana Dawson June 1995 n/a 9 5 (Italy) See chart performance entry
"'74–'75" The Connells August 1995 n/a 14 1 (Norway, Sweden) See chart performance entry
"Adiemus" Adiemus November 1995 n/a 48 4 (Switzerland) 6 (Germany) - 7 (Austria) - 18 (Netherlands [Dutch Top 40])
"Agua Dulce, Agua Salá" Julio Iglesias April 1995 n/a n/a 6 (Netherlands [Dutch Top 40]) 1 (US Billboard Latin Pop Airplay) - 3 (US Billboard Hot Latin Songs) - 9 (Netherlands [Dutch Single Top 199])
"Alice (Who The X Is Alice?)" Gompie February 1995 n/a 17 1 (Belgium, Netherlands [Dutch Top 40], Netherlands [Single Top 100] See chart performance entry
"All Over You" Live January 1995 n/a 48 18 (Canada) See chart performance entry
"Alright" Supergrass July 1995 n/a 2 2 (United Kingdom) See chart performance entry
"Angel (Ladadi O-Heyo)" Jam & Spoon & Plavka November 1995 n/a 26 2 (Netherlands [Dutch Top 40], Italy) See chart performance entry
"Ants Marching" Dave Matthews Band September 1995 n/a n/a 30 (Canada) See chart performance entry
"Any Man of Mine" Shania Twain April 1995 31 118 31 (United States) 1 (Canada Country Tracks, US Billboard Hot Country Songs)
"Anything" 3T December 1995 15 2 2 (Ireland, Sweden, United Kingdom) See chart performance entry
"Anywhere Is" Enya November 1995 n/a 7 1 (Poland) See chart performance entry
"Army of Me" Björk April 1995 n/a 10 1 (Iceland) See chart performance entry
"As I Lay Me Down" Sophie B. Hawkins February 1995 6 24 6 (Canada) See chart performance entry
"Axel F" Clock March 1995 n/a 7 5 (Netherlands [Dutch Top 40], Scotland) See chart performance entry

Other Chart hit singles[edit]

Notable singles[edit]

Song title Artist(s) Release date(s) Other Chart Performance(s)
"Alright" Supergrass July 1995 See chart performance entry

Other Notable singles[edit]

Top ten best albums of the year[edit]

The following ten albums from 1995 are the highest rated, as per aggregate ratings compiled from over 33,000 different "greatest album" charts.[37] Results accurate as of April 2018.

  1. RadioheadThe Bends
  2. Oasis(What's the Story) Morning Glory?
  3. The Smashing PumpkinsMellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
  4. PulpDifferent Class
  5. Alanis MorissetteJagged Little Pill
  6. BjörkPost
  7. GZALiquid Swords
  8. Elliott SmithElliott Smith
  9. P.J. HarveyTo Bring You My Love
  10. PavementWowee Zowee

Classical music[edit]

Opera[edit]

Jazz[edit]

Musical theater[edit]

Musical films[edit]

Births[edit]

Deaths[edit]

Awards[edit]

Grammy Awards[edit]

Country Music Association Awards[edit]

Eurovision Song Contest[edit]

Mercury Music Prize[edit]

MTV Video Music Awards[edit]

Charts[edit]

Triple J Hottest 100
Main article: Triple J Hottest 100, 1995

See also[edit]

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