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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