Top 100
Kosmik Artists of 2020
Based on
frequency of play & total airtime on the program
(N) = released a new album (or EP) in 2020
1 Dempagumi.inc Japan (N)
2 Osees / Damaged Bug (John Dwyer) USA (N - three Osees studio albums, an EP, live albums, plus one by Damaged Bug)
3 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Australia (N - one studio and many live albums, collection of demo recordings)
4 Neil Young Canada (N - solo EP and more archive releases)
5 The Orb UK (N)
6 Guided By Voices USA (N - three albums)
7 Poppy USA (N - album and Christmas EP)
8 DAOKO Japan (N)
9 Frank Zappa / The Mothers (of Invention) USA
10 Haru Nemuri Japan (N)
11 Matmos USA (N - one triple album)
12 Black Sabbath / Ozzy Osbourne UK (N - Ozzy album)
13 Ty Segall / Fuzz USA (N - Fuzz album)
14 Deerhoof USA/Japan (N - new studio album & collection of rarities)
15 Stephen Malkmus / Pavement USA (N)
16 The Once And Future Band USA (N)
17 DISQ USA (N - debut album)
18 X USA (N - first album of new songs since 1993!)
19 Parliament-Funkadelic USA
20 Sonic Youth / solo USA
21 OOIOO Japan (N)
22 Richard Dawson UK (N)
23 Maximum The Hormone Japan
24 Sparks USA (N)
25 The Black Lips USA (N)
26 Royal Trux / The Howling Hex USA (N - Howling Hex album)
27 Chicano Batman USA (N)
28 Miles Davis USA
29 Chris Forsyth USA (N)
30 ZZ Top USA
31 Jazz Sabbath UK (N)
32 Population II Canada (Quebec) (N)
33 Cornershop UK (N)
34 Led Zeppelin UK
35 All Them Witches USA (N)
36 L.A. Takedown USA (N)
37 Mastodon USA (N - compilation of rarities)
38 black midi UK (N)
39 Eddy Current Suppression Ring Australia (N)
40 Khruangbin USA (N)
41 Melvins USA (N)
42 (Sandy) Alex G USA (N)
43 The Guess Who Canada
44 William Shatner Canada (Quebec) (N)
45 Mr. Elevator USA (N)
46 The Stooges / Iggy Pop USA
47 BABYMETAL Japan (N - greatest hits album)
48 75 Dollar Bill USA (N)
49 Rush Canada
50 Earthling Society / Taras Bulba USA (N - Taras Bulba album)
51 Quin Kirchner USA (N)
52 Black Mountain Canada
53 Blue Oyster Cult USA (N - first album of new songs since 2001!)
54 The Flaming Lips USA (N)
55 Horse Lords USA (N)
56 Sleep USA
57 Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Japan
58 Jimi Hendrix USA
59 De La Soul USA
60 Brigid Dawson & The Mothers
Network USA (N)
61 Grateful Dead USA
62 Wire UK (N)
63 Dope Body USA (N - two albums)
64 The Mars Volta / Omar Rogriguez-Lopez USA
65 The Beatles / solo UK
66 Pink Floyd UK
67 Sun Ra USA
68 Van der Graaf Generator UK
69 Shabazz Palaces / Digable Planets USA (N)
70 Tame Impala Australia (N)
71 Talking Heads USA
72 Herbie Hancock USA
73 A Tribe Called Quest USA
74 Traysh USA (N)
75 Sonny Sharrock USA
76 The Comet Is Coming UK (N)
77 Jeff Parker USA (N)
78 DMBQ Japan
79 Sly & The Family Stone USA
80 Steely Dan USA
81 Joni Mitchell Canada
82 The 13th Floor Elevators USA (N - compilation of live recordings)
83 Wednesday Campanella Japan
84 Cheer-Accident USA
85 Caribou Canada (N)
86 Kraftwerk Germany
87 The Velvet Underground USA/UK (Wales)
88 Liars USA/Australia
89 XTC UK
90 Smoke Fairies UK (N)
91 Tricot Japan (N)
92 Crosby Stills & Nash / solo USA/UK
93 David Bowie UK
94 Meat Puppets USA
95 Killdozer USA
96 Judas Priest UK
97 Slayer USA
98 The Babe Rainbow Australia
99 Sir Lord Baltimore USA
100 FEMM (Far East Mention Mannequins) Japan/USA (N - EP and singles)
Bubbling Under the Kosmik 100:
101 Thundercat USA (N)
102 The Budos Band USA (N)
103 Archie Shepp USA
104 MV & EE USA
105 Stereolab UK/France
106 Fela Kuti & Africa 70 Nigeria
107 Wishbone Ash UK
108 The Soft Machine UK
109 Digital Underground USA
110 Jaco Pastorious USA
111 Wolf People UK
112 Elephant9 Norway
113 Uriah Heep UK
114 The Skull Defekts Sweden
115 Amon Duul II Germany
116 Raoul Bjorkenheim Finland/USA
117 Wolfgang Dauner Germany
118 James Brown USA
119 Algarnas Tradgard Sweden
120 Pharoah Sanders USA
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