We analyzed all the station playlists from the past year and crunched the numbers to determine the 100 most played albums of 2018, as selected by all the KXCI DJ’s throughout the past year. Then on the last day of 2018 KXCI held its Annual Top 100 Countdown. We started at 100 and worked our way to #1. KXCI DJs also infused their favorite notable musical moments and honored performers who passed away during 2018. We are particularly pleased to note that 15 Local Artists are in the Top 100. You can also check out individual playlists from December 31st here or listen to a playback of programming here for up to 2 weeks.
Spotify playlist of KXCI’s Top 100 of 2018 created by KXCI fan Matthew Smith
KXCI’s Top 100 of 2018
| # | artist | title | local | label |
| 1 | Calexico | The Thread That Keeps Us | Yes | Anti |
| 2 | Neko Case | Hell-On | No | Anti/Epitaph |
| 3 | Courtney Barnett | Tell Me How You Really Feel | No | Mom + Pop Music |
| 4 | Father John Misty | God’s Favorite Customer | No | Sub Pop Records |
| 5 | Cat Power | Wanderer | No | Domino |
| 6 | Katie Haverly | Pluto | Yes | Katie Haverly |
| 7 | Mavis Staples | If All I Was Was Black | No | Anti/Epitaph |
| 8 | The Decemberists | I’ll Be Your Girl | No | Capitol Records |
| 9 | First Aid Kit | Ruins | No | Columbia |
| 10 | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Rest | No | Because Music |
| 11 | Florence + The Machine | High As Hope | No | Virgin |
| 12 | Jonathan Wilson | Rare Bird | No | Bella Union |
| 13 | Cowboy Junkies | All That Reckoning | No | Latent Recordings |
| 14 | Laura Veirs | The Lookout | No | Raven Marching Band |
| 15 | Yo La Tengo | There’s a Riot Going On | No | Matador Records |
| 16 | The Breeders | All Nerve | No | 4AD |
| 17 | Eels | The Deconstruction | No | E Works Records |
| 18 | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | Soul of a Woman | No | Daptone Records |
| 19 | Leon Bridges | Good Thing | No | Columbia |
| 20 | Kurt Vile | Bottle It In | No | Matador |
| 21 | Phosphorescent | C’est La Vie | No | Dead Oceans |
| 22 | Brandi Carlile | By the Way, I Forgive You | No | Elektra Records |
| 23 | Beach House | 7 | No | Sub Pop |
| 24 | Gorillaz | The Now Now | No | Warner Bros Records |
| 25 | Lake Street Dive | Free Yourself Up | No | Nonesuch |
| 26 | David Byrne | American Utopia | No | Nonesuch |
| 27 | Belle and Sebastian | How To Solve Our Human Problems | No | Matador |
| 28 | Israel Nash | Lifted | No | Thirty Tigers |
| 29 | Dr Dog | Critical Equation | No | Thirty Tigers |
| 30 | La Luz | Floating Features | No | Hardly Art |
| 31 | June West | June West | Yes | Broken Circles |
| 32 | Birds and Arrows | Arbitrary Magic | Yes | Baby Gas Mask Records |
| 33 | Sundust Road | Faded Features | Yes | xerisound |
| 34 | Kyle Craft | Full Circle Nightmare | No | Sub Pop |
| 35 | Django Django | Marble Skies | No | Because Records |
| 36 | Amos Lee | My New Moon | No | Dualtone |
| 37 | Joe Pena | Dust of Our Love | Yes | Desert |
| 38 | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Tearing at the Seams | No | Stax |
| 39 | Bettye LaVette | Things Have Changed | No | Verve Records |
| 40 | The Jayhawks | Backroads and abandoned motels | No | Legacy |
| 41 | Thievery Corporation | Treasures from the Temple | No | ESL |
| 42 | DeVotchKa | This Night Falls Forever | No | Concord Records |
| 43 | Typhoon | offerings | No | Roll Call Records |
| 44 | Dawes | Passwords | No | Hub Records |
| 45 | Rebekah Rolland | Seed & Silo | Yes | Sky Island Records |
| 46 | Brazilian Girls | Let’s Make Love | No | Six Degrees |
| 47 | Jim James | Uniform Distortion | No | ATO |
| 48 | Paul McCartney | Egypt Station | No | Capitol |
| 49 | The Exbats | I Got the Hots For Charlie Watts | Yes | Burger Records |
| 50 | Glen Hansard | Between Two Shores | No | Anti- |
| 51 | Phoebe Bridgers | Stranger in the Alps | No | Dead Oceans |
| 52 | Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks | Sparkle Hard | No | Matador Records |
| 53 | Janelle Monae | Dirty Computer | No | bad boy records |
| 54 | Mitski | Be the Cowboy | No | Dead Oceans |
| 55 | King Tuff | The Other | No | Sub Pop Records |
| 56 | Car Seat Headrest | Twin Fantasy | No | Matador |
| 57 | Superorganism | Superorganism | No | Domino |
| 58 | Brian Lopez | Prelude | Yes | Dust and Stone |
| 59 | The Internet | Hive Mind | No | Columbia |
| 60 | Golden Boots | As You Remember Them | Yes | Baby Tooth Records |
| 61 | Spiritualized | And Nothing Hurt | No | Fat Possum Records |
| 62 | Kevin Pakulis | Holliday | Yes | Self Released |
| 63 | Jimi Hendrix | Both Sides of the Sky | No | Legacy Recordings |
| 64 | Moby | Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing | No | Mute |
| 65 | Shannon Shaw | Shannon in Nashville | No | Easy Eye Sound |
| 66 | Jack White | Boarding House Reach | No | Third Man |
| 67 | Franz Ferdinand | Always Ascending | No | Domino |
| 68 | Caroline Rose | Loner | No | New West Records |
| 69 | Eleanor Friedberger | Rebound | No | Frenchkiss Records |
| 70 | Ry Cooder | The Prodigal Son | No | Fantasy Records |
| 71 | Carlos Arzate | Camaleon | Yes | Sonoran Soul Records |
| 72 | Brownout | Fear Of A Brown Planet | No | Fat Beats |
| 73 | Eb Eberlein | Community/Solitude | Yes | Eb Eberlein records |
| 74 | Elvis Costello & The Imposters | Look Now | No | Concord |
| 75 | Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore | Downey to Lubbock | No | Yep Roc Records |
| 76 | Lucy Dacus | Historian | No | Matador |
| 77 | Ray LaMontagne | Part of the Light | No | RCA Records |
| 78 | Damien Jurado | The Horizon Just Laughed | No | Secretly Canadian |
| 79 | Shakey Graves | Can’t Wake Up | No | Dualtone |
| 80 | Arctic Monkeys | Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino | No | Domino |
| 81 | Angelique Kidjo | Remain in Light | No | Kravenworks |
| 82 | Ziggy Marley | Rebellion Rises | No | Tuff Gong |
| 83 | U.S. Girls | In a Poem Unlimited | No | 4AD |
| 84 | The Beths | Future Me Hates Me | No | Carpark |
| 85 | Interpol | Marauder | No | Matador Records |
| 86 | Margo Price | All American Made | No | Thirdman Records |
| 87 | Paul Simon | In The Blue Light | No | Legacy |
| 88 | Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite | No Mercy In This Land | No | Anti- |
| 89 | Bombino | Deran | No | Partisan |
| 90 | Fantastic Negrito | Please Don’t Be Dead | No | Cooking Vinyl |
| 91 | Death Cab for Cutie | Thank You For Today | No | Atlantic Records |
| 92 | Tom Misch | Geography | No | Beyond The Groove |
| 93 | Blood Orange | Negro Swan | No | Domino |
| 94 | Ty Segall | Freedom’s Goblin | No | Drag City |
| 95 | The Carnivaleros | Tallsome Tales | Yes | Carnivaleros |
| 96 | Josh Rouse | Love in the Modern Age | No | Yep Roc Records |
| 97 | La Cerca | Night Bloom | Yes | Xemu Records |
| 98 | Charles Bradley | Black Velvet | No | Daptone Records |
| 99 | Metric | Art of Doubt | No | MMI/Crystal Math Music |
| 100 | Molly Burch | First Flower | No | Captured Tracks |
