Top 100
Kosmik Artists of 2016
Based on
frequency of play & total airtime on the program
(N) = released a new album in 2016
1 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Australia (N - showing restraint and only releasing one LP this year)
2 David Bowie UK (N - final album and reissued greatest hits compilation)
3 Dungen Sweden
4 Thee Oh Sees USA (N - two studio plus one double live album!)
5 Ty Segall USA (N)
6 Neil Young Canada (N - solo and album with Promise of the Real)
7 Promise of the Real USA (N - one album backing Lukas Nelson and one with Neil Young)
8 Black Mountain Canada (N)
9 Charles Bradley USA (N)
10 Black Sabbath UK (N - final EP)
11 The Luck of Eden Hall USA (N)
12 Woods USA (N)
13 Parquet Courts USA (N)
14 Deerhoof USA (N)
15 Emerson Lake & Palmer UK
16 Prince USA
17 Sonic Youth / solo USA (N - archival release & reissues)
18 Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention USA
19 Metallica USA (N - first new album in a while plus first 3 LPs reissued)
20 Jefferson Airplane USA
21 Eleanor Friedberger / The Fiery Furnaces USA (N - Eleanor solo album)
22 Heron Oblivion USA (N)
23 Iggy Pop / The Stooges USA (N - Iggy album)
24 Octagrape USA (N)
25 Death By Unga Bunga Norway (N - album and EP's)
26 Pink Floyd UK (N - archival box set)
27 Grateful Dead / solo USA (N - archives & spinoffs, including Bob Weir solo album)
28 New Madrid USA (N)
29 The Monkees USA/UK (N - brand new album for the group's 50th anniversary!!!)
30 Cass McCombs USA (N)
31 Children of Leir UK (N)
32 The Besnard Lakes Canada (N)
33 The Walking Faces USA (N)
34 Suuns Canada (Quebec) (N)
35 Blood Ceremony Canada (N)
36 Dinosaur Jr. USA (N)
37 Sean Lennon USA (N - album with Claypool-Lennon Delirium and EP with Moonlandingz)
38 Scott Walker USA/UK (N - instrumental movie soundtrack)
39 The Beatles UK
40 The Mystery Lights USA (N)
41 Melvins USA (N - archival 1990's recordings plus an EP)
42 Tim Presley / White Fence / W-X USA (N - first Presley solo album)
43 Todd Rundgren / Nazz / Utopia USA
44 Swans USA (N)
45 Jade Warrior / July UK
46 Amon Duul II Germany
47 The Guess Who Canada
48 MV & EE USA
49 Brian Eno UK (N)
50 Talking Heads USA
51 Grand Funk Railroad USA
52 Stereolab UK/France
53 Radio Moscow USA (N)
54 James Brown USA
55 Parliament/Funkadelic USA
56 ORB Australia (N - not to be confused with "The Orb")
57 Uriah Heep UK
58 Electric Eye Norway (N)
59 Minotaurs Canada (N)
60 The Fall UK (N - EP)
61 Fat White Family UK (N - including EP with Sean Lennon as Moonlandingz)
62 Flamingods UK/Bahrain (N)
63 Led Zeppelin UK
64 Deep Purple UK
65 Tom Jones UK (Wales)
66 Boogarins Brazil (N)
67 Holy Wave USA (N)
68 Slayer USA
69 The Band Canada/USA (N - Robbie Robertson compilation)
70 Gazebos USA (N)
71 Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve UK (N)
72 Budgie UK (Wales)
73 The Robert Bensick Band USA (N - archival release)
74 Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings USA (N - movie soundtrack)
75 Sly & The Family Stone USA
76 Suicide USA
77 Hooton Tennis Club UK
78 Yuck UK (N)
79 Sonny & The Sunsets UK (N)
80 Synthetic ID USA (N)
81 Adam Green USA (N)
82 Public Image Ltd. UK
83 The Far East Family Band Japan
84 Van der Graaf Generator UK
85 Magma France
86 Miles Davis USA
87 The Doors USA
88 Jimi Hendrix USA
89 Genesis UK
90 Boredoms Japan
91 Blue Oyster Cult USA
92 Fela Kuti Nigeria
93 The Mahavishnu Orchestra UK/USA/Czech./Ireland/Panama
94 Joni Mitchell Canada
95 Can Germany
96 Phil Manzanera UK
97 Sun Ra USA
98 Curved Air UK
99 Linear Downfall USA (N)
100 Triumvirat Germany
Bubbling Under the Kosmik 100:
101 Dr. John USA (N - live tribute album)
102 Earth Wind & Fire USA
103 The Nice UK
104 The Sex Pistols UK
105 Bobby Conn USA
106 Jimmy Cliff Jamaica
107 Teenage Fanclub UK (Scotland) (N)
108 Cream UK
109 Droids Attack USA (N)
110 Mountains and Rainbows USA (N)
111 Ought Canada (Quebec) (N)
112 Soul Phlegm USA (N)
113 James Chance & The Contortions USA (N)
114 Bonnie Prince Billy & Bitchin Bajas USA (N)
115 Psychic Ills USA (N)
116 Trolley USA (N)
117 Apprentice Destroyer USA (N)
118 Dengue Fever USA/Cambodia
119 Diamond Head UK
120 Bob Dylan USA
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