Top 100
Kosmik Artists of 2019
Based on
frequency of play & total airtime on the program
(N) = released a new album (or EP) in 2019
1 BABYMETAL Japan (N)
2 Sonic Youth / Kim Gordon / Lee Ranaldo USA (N - Kim Gordon's first solo album)
3 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Australia (N - two albums)
4 Dempagumi.inc Japan (N)
5 Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Japan
6 (Thee) Oh Sees USA (N)
7 Santana USA/Mexico (N)
8 Ty Segall USA (N - a studio and a live album)
9 Poppy USA (N)
10 Royal Trux USA (N)
11 Neil Young Canada (N - new studio album with Crazy Horse and archival live album)
12 Stephen Malkmus / Pavement USA (N; also solo album from Spiral Stairs)
13 Swans USA (N)
14 Meat Puppets USA (N)
15 The Babe Rainbow Australia (N)
16 DAOKO Japan (N)
17 Guided By Voices USA (N - three albums, 68 new songs!)
18 DMBQ Japan (N)
19 Ariel Pink USA (N - compilation of unreleased material & reissue of archival albums)
20 Wand USA (N)
21 Haru Nemuri Japan
22 Tropical Fuck Storm Australia (N)
23 Kool Keith USA (N)
24 Frank Zappa / The Mothers (of Invention) USA
25 75 Dollar Bill USA (N)
26 Taras Bulba / Earthling Society UK (N - Taras Bulba debut album)
27 Prince USA (N - posthumous songwriting demos)
28 Wednesday Campanella Japan (N)
29 The Budos Band USA (N)
30 Iggy Pop / The Stooges USA (N)
31 The Velvet Underground / Lou Reed USA
32 88Kasyo Junrei Japan
33 Psychedelic Porn Crumpets Australia (N)
34 Miles Davis USA
35 Chris Forsyth USA (N)
36 Sleater-Kinney USA (N)
37 The Who UK (N)
38 Sly & The Family Stone USA
39 FEMM (Far East Mention Mannequins) Japan
40 The Claypool-Lennon Delirium USA (N)
41 Moon Duo USA (N)
42 Stereolab / Laetitia Sadier UK/France
43 Matmos USA (N)
44 The Mystery Lights USA (N)
45 REOL Japan (N)
46 The Black Keys USA (N)
47 Clinic UK (N)
48 The Sheep Fiends USA (N - four albums)
49 Parliament-Funkadelic USA
50 Cheer-Accident USA (N)
51 Black Mountain Canada (N)
52 Cass McCombs USA (N)
53 Perfume Japan (N - triple CD greatest hits compilation)
54 ORB Australia (N)
55 Melvins USA (N - collaboration with Flipper)
56 Unknown Mortal Orchestra New Zealand
57 Judas Priest UK
58 The Fiery Furnaces / Eleanor Friedberger USA
59 The Fat White Family UK (N)
60 Guerilla Toss USA (N)
61 Camper Van Beethoven / Victor Krummenacher USA (N - Krummenacher solo album)
62 Kurt Vile USA
63 Charisma.com Japan
64 Malibu Ken USA (N - debut album collaboration by Tobacco and Aesop Rock)
65 The Beatles / solo UK
66 Jimi Hendrix USA
67 Scott Walker USA/UK
68 Beyond Captain Orca! USA (N - several live releases)
69 The Isley Brothers USA
70 XTC / TC&I / The Dukes Of Stratosphear UK (N - TC&I live album)
71 Rush Canada
72 Black Sabbath UK
73 The Band Canada/USA
74 Kungens Man Sweden (N)
75 Flower Travellin' Band Japan
76 The Replacements USA (N - reissue box set)
77 James Brown USA
78 Grant Green USA
79 KISS USA
80 Charlie Parker USA
81 Cypress Hill USA
82 Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band USA
83 The Stark Reality USA
84 Tricot Japan (N)
85 Jefferson Airplane USA
86 Faust Germany
87 Chrome USA
88 Crosby Stills & Nash USA/UK
89 Nina Hagen Germany
90 Scorpions Germany
91 The Guess Who Canada
92 Prettiest Eyes USA (N)
93 Redd Kross USA (N)
94 POW! USA (N)
95 The Grateful Dead USA
96 John Coltrane USA
97 Herbie Hancock USA
98 Eric Dolphy USA
99 Dr. John USA
100 Charles Mingus USA
Bubbling Under the Kosmik 100:
101 Masahiko Satoh Japan
102 Cluster / Harmonia Germany
103 Isaac Hayes USA
104 Joni Mitchell Canada
105 Os Mutantes Brazil
106 Led Zeppelin UK
107 Jane's Addiction USA
108 Boris Japan (N)
109 The Orb UK
110 Sunn O))) USA (N - two albums)
111 Slayer USA
112 Genesis UK
113 Kevin Ayers UK
114 The Allman Brothers Band USA
115 The New York Dolls USA
116 Roscoe Mitchell USA (N)
117 Fairport Convention UK
118 Yonin-Bayashi Japan
119 Pink Floyd UK
120 Sun Ra USA
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