23 best songs of 2015 so far

By Eric Renner Brown, Jessica Goodman, Kevin O'Donnell, Kyle Anderson, Leah Greenblatt and Madison Vain June 22, 2015 at 04:27 PM EDT

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The first half of 2015 has been good to music fans. Drake released a surprise mix tape, Sleater-Kinney came through with their first record in a decade, and, for better or worse, Nicki Minaj introduced us to the concept of “truffle butter.” Six months in, here are EW’spicks for the best songs of the year, so far.

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