Top 100 Kosmik Artists of 2021

Based on frequency of play & total airtime on the program

(N) = released a new album (or EP) in 2021
 
  1    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard  Australia  (N - two studio albums and more live albums)
  2    Guided By Voices / Cub Scout Bowling Pins
 USA  (N - three albums)
  3    Dempagumi.inc  Japan
  4    Poppy  USA  (N)
  5    Neil Young  Canada/USA  (N - Crazy Horse album, live albums & archives)
  6    Osees
 USA  (N - two live albums)
  7    Frank Zappa / The Mothers (of Invention)  USA
  8    black midi  UK  (N)
  9    Kyary Pamyu Pamyu  Japan  (N)
 10   Melvins  USA  (N - two albums)
   
  11    Parquet Courts
 USA  (N)
  12    Stereolab
 UK/France  (N - compilation of rare tracks)
  13    Tom Jones
 UK (Wales)  (N)
  14    Jimi Hendrix
 USA
  15    The Beatles / solo
 UK  (N - McCartney album)
  16    Dinosaur jr.
 USA  (N - studio and live albums)
  17    Taras Bulba
 UK  (N)
  18    Grave Flowers Bongo Band
 USA  (N)
  19    Ty Segall
 USA  (N)
  20    Triptides
 USA  (N)
 
  21    Haru Nemuri
 Japan
  22    Menahan Street Band
 USA  (N)
  23    Parliament/Funkadelic
 USA
  24    Sonic Youth / solo
 USA
  25    Can
 Germany  (N - archival live album)
  26    Black Sabbath
 UK
  27    Sly & The Family Stone
 USA
  28    Rose City Band
 USA  (N)
  29    Elephant9
 Norway  (N)
  30    Prince
 USA  (N - posthumous unreleased album)

  31    Pink Floyd
 UK
  32    Courtney Barnett  Australia  (N)
  33    Van der Graaf Generator / Peter Hammill  UK  (N - two Hammill albums)
  34    Miles Davis  USA
  35    Pharoah Sanders  USA  (N - with Floating Points)
  36    Grateful Dead  USA
  37    Esperanza Spalding  USA  (N)
  38    Joni Mitchell  Canada
  39    Rahsaan Roland Kirk  USA
  40    Steely Dan / Donald Fagen  USA  (N - two live albums)

  41    Mythic Sunship
 Denmark  (N)
  42    Iron Maiden  UK  (N)
  43    The Black Keys  USA  (N)
  44    Goat  Sweden  (N - compilation of rarities)
  45    DAOKO  Japan
  46    88Kasyo Junrei  Japan  (N)
  47    Throbbing Gristle  UK
  48    The Who  UK
  49    Jaco Pastorious  USA
  50    75 Dollar Bill  USA  (N - live album)

  51    Judas Priest
 UK
  52    KISS  USA
  53    Kraftwerk  Germany
  54    ZZ Top  USA
  55    Budgie  UK (Wales)
  56    Herbie Mann  USA
  57    MF Doom  USA
  58    Herbie Hancock  USA
  59    Crosby Stills & Nash / solo  USA/UK
  60    Thin Lizzy  Ireland/UK/USA

  61    James Brown
 USA
  62    Sun Ra  USA
  63    Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band  USA
  64    Swans  USA
  65    The Pink Fairies  UK/Canada
  66    (Eric Burdon &) The Animals  UK
  67    Isaac Hayes  USA
  68    Heather Trost  USA  (N)
  69    The Rolling Stones  UK
  70    Dope Purple  Taiwan  (N)

  71    Four Tet
 UK
  72    Plankton Wat  USA  (N)
  73    Lee “Scratch” Perry  Jamaica
  74    Scott Walker  USA/UK
  75    The Guess Who  Canada
  76    The Doors  USA
  77    Mdou Moctar  Niger  (N)
  78    Capsule  Japan
  79    Mouse On Mars / Jan St. Werner  Germany  (N - one album apiece)
  80    Chrome  USA  (N)

  81    Wayne Shorter / Weather Report
 USA
  82    Kurt Vile
 USA  (N - EP)
  83    TEKE::TEKE  Canada (Quebec)/Japan  (N)
  84    BABYMETAL  Japan
  85    Acid Dad  USA  (N)
  86    Todd Rundgren / Nazz  USA
  87    Charles Bradley  USA
  88    XTC  UK
  89    Love  USA
  90    Bad Bad Hats  USA  (N)

  91    Karlheinz Stockhausen
 Germany
  92    Rush  Canada
  93    Don Ellis  USA
  94    John Coltrane  USA
  95    Emerson Lake & Palmer  UK
  96    Isildurs Bane  Sweden  (N - with Peter Hammill)
  97    Return To Forever
 USA
  98    Curtis Mayfield  USA
  99    Floating Points  UK  (N - with Pharoah Sanders)
100    Fela Kuti & Afrika 70
 Nigeria
 
   
Bubbling Under the Kosmik 100:
  
101    Santana  USA/Mexico
102    The Chambers Brothers  USA
103    Hawkwind  UK
104    The Velvet Underground  USA/UK (Wales)
105    Eric Dolphy  USA
106    Cluster / Harmonia  Germany
107    Cave  USA
108    Alice Cooper  USA
109    U2  Ireland
110    Sonny Sharrock  USA

111    Charles Mingus
 USA
112    Faust  Germany
113    Gal Costa  Brazil
114    The Strawberry Alarmclock  USA
115    The Police  UK/USA
116    Yoko Ono  Japan/USA
117    Richard Dawson & Circle  UK/Finland  (N)
118    Dr. Lonnie Smith  USA  (N)
119    John Abercrombie  USA
120    Nina Hagen  Germany
    

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