Top 100
Kosmik Artists of 2018
Based on
frequency of play & total airtime on the program
(N) = released a new album in 2018
1 Ty Segall USA (N - two solo albums and three collaborations)
2 Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Japan (N)
3 Haru Nemuri Japan (N - debut album)
4 Poppy USA (N)
5 Frank Zappa USA
6 (Thee) Oh Sees / OCS (John Dwyer) USA (N - one apiece by Oh Sees and OCS)
7 Judas Priest UK (N)
8 Sonic Youth / Lee Ranaldo / Body-Head / Thurston Moore USA (N - Ranaldo and Body-Head albums)
9 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Australia
10 Parquet Courts USA (N)
11 Dr. Octagon / Kool Keith / Automator USA (N)
12 Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / Pavement USA (N)
13 Death Grips USA (N)
14 Sleep USA (N)
15 Jimi Hendrix USA
16 Kurt Vile USA (N)
17 Neil Young Canada
18 Guerilla Toss USA (N)
19 The Breeders USA (N)
20 White Fence USA (N - collaboration with Ty Segall)
21 John Coltrane USA (N - previously unreleased album from the 60's)
22 Black Sabbath / Ozzy Osbourne UK
23 Cave USA (N)
24 The Orb UK (N)
25 Triptides USA (N)
26 Talking Heads / David Byrne USA (N - Byrne solo album)
27 Wand USA (N)
28 Suuns Canada (Quebec) (N)
29 Kate Bush UK
30 Unknown Mortal Orchestra New Zealand (N - two albums)
31 Eleanor Friedberger USA (N)
32 Courtney Barnett Australia (N)
33 Wednesday Campanella Japan (N)
34 Guided By Voices USA (N - live album, bunches of EP's and singles)
35 FEMM (Far East Mention Mannequins) Japan (N)
36 Speedy Ortiz USA (N)
37 The Grateful Dead USA
38 Kraftwerk Germany
39 The Residents USA
40 Van der Graaf Generator UK
41 Traffic UK
42 Joni Mitchell Canada
43 Led Zeppelin UK
44 Ariel Pink USA
45 Bob Dylan USA
46 Yoko Ono Japan
47 Jon Hassell USA (N)
48 Wooden Shjips USA (N)
49 Enoch Light & The Light Brigade USA
50 Mahavishnu Orchestra UK/USA/Ireland/Panama/Czech.
51 The Velvet Underground USA
52 William Shatner Canada (Quebec) (N - Christmas album!)
53 Iron Butterfly USA
54 The Sword USA (N)
55 Todd Rundgren USA
56 Blue Cheer USA
57 Parliament-Funkadelic USA
58 The Damned UK (N)
59 Slayer USA
60 BABYMETAL Japan
61 Scott Walker USA/UK
62 Buzzy Linhart USA
63 Jefferson Airplane / solo USA
64 Miles Davis USA
65 Return To Forever USA
66 Chicago USA
67 Sonny Sharrock USA
68 Hawkwind UK
69 Karlheinz Stockhausen Germany
70 Can Germany
71 Faust Germany
72 Moon Duo USA
73 The Who UK
74 Fairport Convention UK
75 Herbie Hancock USA
76 Hubert Laws USA
77 Boredoms Japan
78 Yes UK
79 Jethro Tull UK
80 Magma France
81 Cows USA
82 All Them Witches USA (N)
83 Marijuana Deathsquads USA (N)
84 Sophie UK (Scotland) (N)
85 Oneida USA (N)
86 The Pink Fairies UK
87 Charles Earland USA
88 Wayne Shorter USA
89 James Brown USA
90 The Moody Blues UK
91 Grimes Canada
92 Spiritualized UK (N)
93 Camper Van Beethoven USA
94 Aphex Twin UK (N)
95 The Heliocentrics UK
96 The Band Canada/USA
97 Earthling Society UK
98 OOIOO / SAICOBAB (Yoshimi) Japan
99 Uncle Acid & the deadbeats UK (N)
100 Rahsaan Roland Kirk USA
Bubbling Under the Kosmik 100:
101 Television USA
102 Steely Dan USA
103 U.S. Girls USA (N)
104 Daughters USA (N)
105 Public Image Ltd. UK
106 Redbone USA
107 The Callas Greece (N - collaboration with Lee Ranaldo)
108 Dr. Dog USA (N)
109 The Edgar Broughton Band UK
110 Tropical Fuck Storm Australia (N)
111 Blue Oyster Cult USA
112 Melvins USA
113 Silver Apples USA
114 Chrome USA
115 The Flamin' Groovies USA
116 Crosby Stills & Nash / solo USA/UK
117 Black Moth Super Rainbow USA (N)
118 Nina Hagen Germany
119 Brief Candles USA
120 Polyphia USA (N)
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