Top 100
Kosmik Artists of 2023
Based on
frequency of play & total airtime on the program
(N) = released a new album or EP in 2023
1 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Australia (N - two studio albums)
2 Frank Zappa / The Mothers (of Invention) USA
3 U.S. Girls USA/Canada (N - studio and live albums)
4 Guided By Voices USA (N - three albums)
5 Osees / John Dwyer USA (N)
6 Neil Young Canada/USA (N - also lots of archival releases)
7 Swans USA (N)
8 Iggy Pop / The Stooges USA (N - new Iggy album)
9 Dempagumi.inc Japan (N)
10 Goat Sweden (N - studio and soundtrack albums)
11 Unknown Mortal Orchestra New Zealand/USA (N)
12 Woods USA (N)
13 Public Image Ltd. UK (N)
14 Quasi USA (N)
15 Grateful Dead USA
16 Jiro Inagaki Japan
17 Jimi Hendrix USA
18 Parliament-Funkadelic USA
19 ano / You’ll Melt More Japan (N - solo debut)
20 Night Beats USA (N)
21 The Babe Rainbow Australia (N)
22 Tricot Japan
23 HANABIE. Japan (N)
24 The Damned UK (N)
25 Scott McMicken & The Ever Expanding USA (N)
26 Appare! Japan (N)
27 Psychedelic Porn Crumpets Australia (N)
28 Led Zeppelin UK
29 King Crimson UK
30 Black Sabbath UK
31 Sonic Youth USA
32 Animal Collective / solo USA (N - group album and Panda Bear dub album)
33 Pink Floyd UK
34 88Kasyo Junrei Japan
35 Queen UK
36 Chicago USA
37 Holy Wave USA (N)
38 Monkees / Mickey Dolenz USA/UK (N - Dolenz EP)
39 Deerhoof USA/Japan (N)
40 Half Japanese USA (N)
41 The Mars Volta USA (N)
42 BABYMETAL Japan (N)
43 Atarashii Gakko! Japan (N)
44 Sparks USA (N)
45 Promise Of The Real USA (N)
46 Speedy Ortiz USA (N)
47 Budos Band USA (N)
48 Poppy USA (N)
49 The Beatles / solo UK
50 Jethro Tull UK
51 Genesis UK
52 Miles Davis USA
53 Jaimie Branch USA (N)
54 Metallica USA (N)
55 Wayne Shorter / Weather Report USA
56 Spiritualized UK
57 Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra USA (N)
58 Spectrum UK
59 Kool & The Gang USA
60 Chris Forsyth USA
61 Stoned Jesus Ukraine (N)
62 The Orb UK (N)
63 Dave McMurray USA (N)
64 Tropical Fuck Storm Australia (N)
65 Sly & The Family Stone USA
66 Vangelis Greece
67 The Doors USA
68 Stevie Wonder USA
69 Wilco USA (N)
70 Negativland USA (N)
71 Melvins USA (N - at least three)
72 Kikagaku Moyo Japan
73 James Brown USA
74 The Band Canada/USA
75 Kurt Vile USA (N)
76 Throbbing Gristle UK
77 Matmos USA (N)
78 Atsuko Chiba Canada (Quebec) (N)
79 Emerson Lake & Palmer UK
80 Black Country, New Road UK (N)
81 Alice Cooper USA
82 Gary Wright / Spooky Tooth UK
83 Gozu USA (N)
84 The Isley Brothers USA
85 Tom Jones UK (Wales)
86 OFF! USA
87 Haru Nemuri Japan (N)
88 Bobbie Lovesong USA (N)
89 Descartes A Kant Mexico (N)
90 Thin Lizzy Ireland/UK/USA
91 Ins Kino USA (N)
92 Mudhoney USA (N)
93 Ike & Tina Turner USA
94 Charisma.com Japan (N)
95 Wednesday Campanella Japan (N)
96 Black Flag USA
97 Otoboke Beaver Japan
98 Velvet Underground / Lou Reed USA
99 Pharoah Sanders USA (N - reissue)
100 Herbie Hancock USA
Bubbling Under the Kosmik 100:
101 Jeff Beck UK
102 Stephen Malkmus / Pavement USA
103 Crosby Stills & Nash / solo USA/UK
104 Joni Mitchell Canada
105 Fela Kuti & Afrika 70 Nigeria
106 The Corporation USA
107 Gong France/UK/Australia
108 Green Milk From The Planet Orange Japan
109 Gerry Gibbs Thrasher People USA (N)
110 Flower Travellin' Band Japan
111 William Shatner Canada (Quebec)
112 Herbie Mann USA
113 MC5 USA
114 Magma France
115 Caravan UK
116 Sonny Sharrock USA
117 Van der Graaf Generator UK
118 Jan Hammer Czech.
119 THUMPER Ireland (N)
120 Judas Priest UK
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