We analyzed all the KXCI station playlists from the past year and crunched the numbers to determine the 100 most played albums of 2019, as selected by all the KXCI DJs. We’re playing the 2019 Annual Top 100 Countdown on Tuesday, December 31 from 7am to 6 pm.
We started at 100 on Your Morning Brew and worked our way to #1 on The Homestretch. KXCI DJs also infused their favorite notable musical moments and honored performers who passed away during 2019.
The remarkable breadth of great music that greets you whenever you connect with KXCI is a journey, a destination, an inspiration, and an education, all at once. Music has so much to offer. Thank you for making it possible and we wish you all the best in 2020 and beyond!
Your Morning Brew Countdown Playlist with Gene Armstrong #100 to #71! Listen again through January 13, 2020!
Morning Music Mix Countdown Playlist with Amy A. #70 to #51! Listen again through January 13, 2020!
AFTERNOON MUSIC MIX Countdown PLAYLIST with KXCI Music Director Duncan Hudson #50 to #31! Listen Again through January 13, 2020!
HOMESTRETCH Countdown PLAYLIST with Casey #31 to #1! Listen again through January 13, 2020!
KXCI fan Mathew Smith made a Spotify Playlist of the Top 100!
Consider the powerful emotions, pleasures, and inspirations you find when you spend time with KXCI. Whether it’s a few minutes or several hours, KXCI makes any day a better one. Together, we make the music play! KXCI stays independent for YOU because it’s our mission, first and foremost, to keep us all connected.
In turn, YOU help support KXCI because you hear the rewards of your generosity each time you turn the dial to 91.3FM.
Here’s the complete list of KXCI’s Top 100 for 2019. Let the discussions begin!
| Position | Artist | Release Name | Label |
| 1 | Jenny Lewis | On the Line |
Warner Bros.
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| 2 | Sharon Van Etten | Remind Me Tomorrow |
Jagjaguwar
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| 3 | Calexico & Iron & Wine | Years to Burn |
Sub Pop Records
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| 4 | Karen O & Danger Mouse | Lux Prima |
30th Century Records
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| 5 | The Black Keys | “Let’s Rock” |
Nonesuch
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| 6 | Mavis Staples | We Get By | Anti |
| 7 | Michael Franti & Spearhead | Stay Human Vol. II |
Boo Boo Wax/Thirty Tigers
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| 8 | Lila Downs | Al Chile |
Sony Music Entertainment Mexico
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| 9 | Wilco | Ode to Joy |
dBpm Records
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| 10 | Black Pumas | Black Pumas |
ATO Records
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| 11 | Gary Clark Jr. | This Land |
Warner Bros.
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| 12 | Brittany Howard | Jaime |
ATO Records
|
| 13 | Julia Jacklin | Crushing |
Polyvinyl Records
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| 14 | Tacocat | This Mess Is a Place |
Sub Pop Records
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| 15 | The Raconteurs | Help Us Stranger |
Third Man Records
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| 16 | Vampire Weekend | Father of the Bride |
Columbia
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| 17 | Norah Jones | Begin Again |
Blue Note
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| 18 | The New Pornographers | In the Morse Code of Brake Lights |
Concord Records
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| 19 | Fruit Bats | Gold Past Life |
Merge Records
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| 20 | Pedro the Lion | Phoenix |
Polyvinyl Records
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| 21 | Lizzo | Cuz I Love You |
Nice Life/Atlantic
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| 22 | XIXA | The Code – EP |
Dust and Stone
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| 23 | Andrew Bird | My Finest Work Yet |
Loma Vista
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| 24 | The National | I Am Easy to Find | 4AD |
| 25 | Black Belt Eagle Scout | At the Party with My Brown Friends |
Saddle Creek
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| 26 | Jeff Tweedy | Warm |
dBpm records
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| 27 | Strand of Oaks | Eraserland |
Dead Oceans
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| 28 | Better Oblivion Community Center | Better Oblivion Community Center |
Dead Oceans
|
| 29 | John Coinman | Under the Sun |
Arroyo Verde Productions
|
| 30 | Galactic | Already Ready Already |
Tchoup-Zilla Records
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| 31 | Howe Gelb | Gathered |
Fire Records
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| 32 | Orkestra Mendoza | La Caminadora |
Orkesta Mendoza Musica
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| 33 | Billy Sedlmayr | Harlem River Drive |
Fell City Records
|
| 34 | Bruce Springsteen | Western Stars |
Columbia
|
| 35 | Patty Griffin | Patty Griffin |
PGM/Thirty Tigers
|
| 36 | Santana | Africa Speaks |
Concord Records
|
| 37 | Tedeschi Trucks Band | Signs | Fantasy |
| 38 | Angel Olsen | All Mirrors |
Jagjaguwar
|
| 39 | Flying Lotus | Flamagra |
Warp Records
|
| 40 | Kyle Craft | Showboat Honey |
Sub Pop Records
|
| 41 | Sheryl Crow & friends | Threads |
The Valory Music Co.
|
| 42 | Bon Iver | i,i |
Jagjaguwar
|
| 43 | Citizen Cope | Heroin and Helicopters |
RainWater Recordings/Thirty Tigers
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| 44 | Echo In The Canyon | Echo in the Canyon [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] | BMG |
| 45 | Josh Ritter | Fever Breaks | Pytheas |
| 46 | Solange | When I Get Home |
Columbia
|
| 47 | Beirut | Gallipoli | 4AD |
| 48 | The Head and the Heart | Living Mirage | Reprise |
| 49 | Lana Del Rey | Norman Fucking Rockwell! |
Interscope/Polydor Records
|
| 50 | Rodrigo y Gabriela | Mettavolution |
ATO Records/Rubyworks
|
| 51 | Son Volt | Union |
Thirty Tigers/Transmit Sound
|
| 52 | Billie Eilish | WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? |
Darkroom/Interscope Records
|
| 53 | Hayes Carll | What It Is |
Dualtone
|
| 54 | Prince | Originals |
Warner Bros.
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| 55 | Jamila Woods | LEGACY! LEGACY! |
Jagjaguwar
|
| 56 | Toro y Moi | Outer Peace |
Carpark Records
|
| 57 | Chelsea Wolfe | Birth of Violence |
Sargent House
|
| 58 | Helado Negro | This Is How You Smile |
RVNG Intl.
|
| 59 | Michael Kiwanuka | KIWANUKA |
Interscope/Polydor Records
|
| 60 | Ladytron | Ladytron |
Ladytron Music
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| 61 | The Highwomen | The Highwomen |
Low Country Sound/Elektra
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| 62 | Robbie Robertson | Sinematic | UMe |
| 63 | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | Turn Off the News (Build a Garden) | Fantasy |
| 64 | Rickie Lee Jones | Kicks |
OSOD/Thirty Tigers
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| 65 | Willie Nelson | Ride Me Back Home | Legacy |
| 66 | Anchorbaby | Groovysmo |
Midtown Island Recordings
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| 67 | Beck | Hyperspace |
Capitol Records
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| 68 | Hot Chip | A Bath Full of Ecstasy |
Domino Recording Co.
|
| 69 | Allman Betts Band | Down to the River | BMG |
| 70 | Diluvio AZ | Marea en el Desierto |
Diluvio Az
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| 71 | Elbow | Giants of All Sizes |
Polydor Records
|
| 72 | Meat Puppets | Dusty Notes |
Megaforce
|
| 73 | Keb’ Mo’ | Oklahoma |
Concord Records
|
| 74 | Rising Appalachia | Leylines |
Rising Appalachia
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| 75 | Yola | Walk Through Fire |
Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch
|
| 76 | Belle and Sebastian | Days of the Bagnold Summer | Matador |
| 77 | Deerhunter | Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? | 4AD |
| 78 | Glen Hansard | This Wild Willing |
Anti;Anti/Epitaph
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| 79 | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Fishing for Fishies |
ATO Records
|
| 80 | The Felice Brothers | Undress |
Yep Roc Records
|
| 81 | Bill Callahan | Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest |
Drag City Records
|
| 82 | boygenius | boygenius |
Matador Records
|
| 83 | Cherry Glazerr | Stuffed & Ready |
Secretly Canadian
|
| 84 | JR JR | Invocations / Conversations |
Love is EZ
|
| 85 | Purple Mountains | Purple Mountains |
Drag City Records
|
| 86 | Seratones | Power |
New West Records
|
| 87 | Angelique Kidjo | Celia |
Decca/Verve
|
| 88 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Ghosteen |
Ghosteen Ltd
|
| 89 | The Bird and the Bee | Interpreting the Masters, Vol. 2 (A Tribute to Van Halen) |
No Expectations / Release Me Records
|
| 90 | Van Morrison | Three Chords and the Truth |
Exile/Caroline
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| 91 | Aldous Harding | Designer | 4AD |
| 92 | Kishi Bashi | Omoiyari |
Joyful Noise Recordings
|
| 93 | Mercury Rev | Bobbie Gentry’s the Delta Sweete Revisited |
Partisan Records
|
| 94 | Rising Sun Daughter | Rising Sun Daughter – EP |
Rising Sun Daughter
|
| 95 | Steve Gunn | The Unseen In Between | Matador |
| 96 | Tom Poley & Dharmapoke | Electric Fence |
Blue Bhikku records
|
| 97 | Local Natives | Violet Street |
Loma Vista Recordings
|
| 98 | Mark Lanegan Band | Somebody’s Knocking |
Heavenly Recordings
|
| 99 | Tinariwen | Amadjar |
Anti/Epitaph
|
| 100 | Various Artists | Come On Up To the House: Women Sing Waits |
Dualtone
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