Top 100
Kosmik Artists of 2022
Based on
frequency of play & total airtime on the program
(N) = released a new album in 2022
1 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Australia (N - FIVE new studio albums)
2 Dempagumi.inc Japan (N - album and an EP)
3 Guided By Voices USA (N - two or three albums)
4 Babe Rainbow Australia (N - studio and live albums)
5 Neil Young Canada (N - two new Crazy Horse albums and live one with Promise of the Real)
6 black midi UK (N)
7 Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention USA
8 Matmos / The Soft Pink Truth USA (N - one album apiece)
9 Can Germany (N - archival live album)
10 The Mars Volta USA (N - first album in ten years)
11 Osees / John Dwyer USA (N)
12 Kurt Vile USA (N)
13 Kikagaku Moyo Japan (N)
14 Haru Nemuri Japan (N)
15 David Bowie UK
16 Sonic Youth USA (N - archival material from the early 2000's)
17 Jazz Sabbath UK (N)
18 Black Lips USA (N)
19 Superorganism UK/USA/Australia (N)
20 Sun Ra USA
21 Wand USA (N - live album)
22 Psychedelic Porn Crumpets Australia (N)
23 Perfume Japan (N)
24 Old Time Relijun USA
25 DISQ USA (N)
26 Ty Segall USA (N)
27 The Black Keys USA (N)
28 Alex G USA (N)
29 Miles Davis USA
30 Billy Cobham USA
31 Laddio Bolocko USA (N - complete works box)
32 Snarky Puppy USA (N)
33 Betty Davis USA
34 Anteloper USA (N)
35 Deodato Brazil/USA
36 Richard Dawson UK (N)
37 The Black Angels USA (N)
38 Kate Bush UK
39 Gnome Belgium (N)
40 EXEK Australia (N)
41 Pink Floyd UK
42 Stephen Malkmus / Pavement USA
43 The Breeders USA
44 Jenny Hval Norway (N)
45 The Gatekeepers musicians from around the world (N)
46 Jefferson Airplane USA
47 Dungen Sweden (N)
48 Steely Dan USA
49 Bronze USA (N)
50 Tom Jones UK(Wales)
51 Poppy USA (N - EP)
52 Grateful Dead USA
53 John Coltrane USA
54 Black Dice / Flaccid Mojo USA (N - debut by Flaccid Mojo)
55 Sonny Sharrock USA
56 Scott Walker USA/UK
57 Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band USA
58 Black Sabbath UK
59 Public Image Lid. UK
60 All Them Witches USA (N)
61 Beatles / solo UK
62 Promise of the Real USA (N - live album with Neil Young)
63 75 Dollar Bill USA
64 Dinosaur Jr. USA
65 Genesis UK
66 Jimi Hendrix USA
67 Meat Puppets USA
68 The Doors USA
69 The Guess Who Canada
70 Parliament / Funkadelic USA
71 Crosby Stills & Nash / solo USA/UK
72 Black Country, New Road UK (N)
73 Cheer-Accident USA (N)
74 Judas Priest UK
75 Acid Dad USA
76 50 Foot Wave USA (N)
77 The Velvet Underground USA/UK(Wales)
78 Chicago USA
79 The Comet Is Coming UK (N)
80 Goat Sweden
81 Boris Japan (N - two albums)
82 The Natural Yogurt Band UK (N)
83 Television USA
84 Joyeria Canada/UK (N - debut EP)
85 Nina Hagen Germany
86 Discovery Zone USA/Germany
87 Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Japan
88 Black Oak Arkansas USA
89 Todd Rundgren USA (N)
90 Chelmico Japan (N)
91 Trash Panda Go Kart USA (N)
92 Panda Bear & Sonic Boom USA/UK (N - collaboration album)
93 Alice Cooper USA
94 Jade Warrior / July UK
95 Atarashii Gakko! Japan (N - EP)
96 Karlheinz Stockhausen Germany
97 Steve Hillage UK
98 Eric Dolphy USA
99 Egg UK
100 Larry Coryell USA
Bubbling Under the Kosmik 100:
101 Elvin Jones USA (N - previously unreleased live recordings)
102 NoMeansNo Canada
103 Isaac Hayes USA
104 Pharoah Sanders USA
105 The Flying Luttenbachers USA (N)
106 Esperanza Spalding USA
107 Daft Punk France
108 Freddie Hubbard USA
109 Nico Germany
110 Bob Dylan USA
111 Bob Marley Jamaica
112 The Temptations USA
113 Cecil Taylor USA
114 Tom Waits USA
115 John Abercrombie USA
116 Endless Boogie USA
117 Bitchin’ Bajas USA (N)
118 The Monkees USA/UK
119 Herbie Mann USA
120 Herbie Hancock USA
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