On Friday, December 30th we shared selections from KXCI’s Top 100 Albums of 2022! We analyzed and sorted all the data from the playlists of every music program over the course of 2022 to determine the 100 most played new albums, as selected by KXCI DJ’s throughout the year. KXCI’s Top 100 Countdown of the most played albums of 2022. Your Morning Brew will began with the 100th most played album and the countdown continued all the way to number 1 on The Home Stretch. In between, we featured tributes to musicians we lost in 2022 and other notable musical moments. Check out the playlists to see songs played and play back the programming from our two week archive.
#100 to 71 on Your Morning Brew
#70 to 51 on the Morning Music Mix
#50 to 31 on The Afternoon Music Mix
| Rank | Artist | Album | Label | Notes |
| 1 | Calexico | El Mirador | ANTI- | local |
| 2 | Adrian Quesada | Boleros Psicodélicos | ATO | |
| 3 | Hurray for the Riff Raff | LIFE ON EARTH | Nonesuch | |
| 4 | Spoon | Lucifer On The Sofa | Matador | |
| 5 | Cat Power | Covers | Domino | |
| 6 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Cool It Down | Secretly Canadian | |
| 7 | Sudan Archives | Natural Brown Prom Queen | Stones Throw | |
| 8 | Ibibio Sound Machine | Electricity | Merge Records | |
| 9 | Andrew Bird | Inside Problems | Loma Vista | |
| 10 | Mitski | Laurel Hell | Dead Oceans | |
| 11 | Sharon Van Etten | We’ve Been Going About This… | Jagjaguwar | |
| 12 | Wet Leg | Wet Leg | Domino | |
| 13 | Julia Jacklin | PRE PLEASURE | Polyviny | |
| 14 | Golden Boots | Liquid Ranch | Compact Disc Records | local |
| 15 | Valerie June | Under Cover | Fantasy | |
| 16 | Toro y Moi | MAHAL | Dead Oceans | |
| 17 | Hollie Cook | Happy Hour | Merge | |
| 18 | Santigold | Spirituals | Little Jerk Records | |
| 19 | Making Movies | XOPA | Cosmica Artists | |
| 20 | Big Thief | Dragon New Warm Mountain… | 4AD | |
| 21 | Los Bitchos | Let the Festivities Begin! | City Slang | |
| 22 | ODESZA | The Last Goodbye | Ninja Tune | |
| 23 | Fontaines D.C. | Skinty Fia | Partisan | |
| 24 | Hot Chip | Freakout / Release | Domino | |
| 25 | Grace Ives | Janky Star | True Panther/Harvest | |
| 26 | Las Chollas Peligrosas | Las Chollas Peligrosas – EP | Las Chollas Peligrosas | local |
| 27 | Seratones | Love & Algorhythms | New West | |
| 28 | Cimafunk | El Alimento | Terapia Prod./Thirty Tigers | |
| 29 | Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio | Cold As Weiss | Colemine | |
| 30 | Nilüfer Yanya | PAINLESS | ATO | |
| 31 | Panda Bear & Sonic Boom | Reset | Domino | |
| 32 | NoSo | Stay Proud of Me | Partisan | |
| 33 | Automatic | Excess | Stone’s Throw | |
| 34 | Omar Apollo | Ivory | Warner | |
| 35 | Tedeschi Trucks Band | I Am The Moon | Fantasy | |
| 36 | Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul | Topical Dancer | DEEWEE | |
| 37 | Shemekia Copeland | Done Come Too Far | Alligator | |
| 38 | Angel Olsen | Big Time | Jagjaguwar | |
| 39 | Beyoncé | RENAISSANCE | Columbia | |
| 40 | Bonnie Raitt | Just Like That… | Redwing Records | |
| 41 | Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin | Ali | Dead Oceans | |
| 42 | Chastity Brown | Sing to the Walls | Red House Records | |
| 43 | Lettuce | Unify | Round Hill Records | |
| 44 | The Beths | Expert in a Dying Field | Carpark Records | |
| 45 | Birds and Arrows | Electric Bones | Hookworm Records | local |
| 46 | Dehd | Blue Skies | Fat Possum | |
| 47 | Keb’ Mo’ | Good To Be… | Rounder Records | |
| 48 | Thee Sacred Souls | Thee Sacred Souls | Penrose / Daptone Records | |
| 49 | Wilco | Cruel Country | dBpm Records | |
| 50 | Lee Fields | Sentimental Fool | Daptone Records | |
| 51 | The Afghan Wigs | How Do You Burn? | BMG | |
| 52 | Animal Collective | Time Skiffs | Domino | |
| 53 | Father John Misty | Chloë and the Next 20th Century | Sub Pop | |
| 54 | Weyes Blood | And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow | Sub Pop | |
| 55 | Bonobo | Fragments | Ninja Tune | |
| 56 | Ibeyi | Spell 31 | XL Recordings | |
| 57 | Shamir | Heterosexuality | Antifragile Music | |
| 58 | Beach House | Once Twice Melody | Sub Pop | |
| 59 | Warpaint | Radiate Like This | Blood Red; Virgin Music | |
| 60 | Widowspeak | The Jacket | Captured Tracks | |
| 61 | Soccer Mommy | Sometimes, Forever | Loma Vista Recordings | |
| 62 | Yumi Zouma | Present Tense | Polyvinyl | |
| 63 | RISO | New Eyes | RISO | local |
| 64 | Aldous Harding | Warm Chris | 4AD | |
| 65 | Alvvays | Blue Rev | Polyvinyl Records | |
| 66 | Lisa Morales | She Ought To Be King | Zaino Records | local |
| 67 | Sylvan Esso | No Rules Sandy | Loma Vista | |
| 68 | Bartees Strange | Farm to Table | 4AD | |
| 69 | Courtney Marie Andrews | Loose Future | Fat Possum | |
| 70 | Mattiel | Georgia Gothic | ATO | |
| 71 | beabadoobee | Beatopia | Dirty Hill; Dirty Hit | |
| 72 | Band of Horses | Things Are Great | BMG | |
| 73 | Cowboy Junkies | Songs of the Recollection | Latent Recordings | |
| 74 | Gaby Moreno | Alegoría | Cosmica/Metamorfosis | |
| 75 | KAINA | It Was a Home | City Slang | |
| 76 | Trombone Shorty | Lifted | Blue Note Records | |
| 77 | Cate Le Bon | Pompeii | Mexican Summer | |
| 78 | The Sadies | Colder Streams | Yep Roc | |
| 79 | A. Billi Free & The Lasso | Holy Body Roll | Mello Music Group | |
| 80 | Destroyer | LABYRINTHITIS | Merge | |
| 81 | Chateau Chateau | Grow Up | Kill Rock Stars | local |
| 82 | Metric | Formentera | Metric Music Int. | |
| 83 | Obongjayar | Some Nights I Dream of Doors | September Recordings | |
| 84 | Kendrick Lamar | Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers | Interscope | |
| 85 | Lizzo | Special | Nice Life/Atlantic | |
| 86 | Tori Amos | Ocean to Ocean | Decca (UMO) | |
| 87 | Dr. John | Things Happen That Way | Rounder | |
| 88 | Willie Nelson | A Beautiful Time | Legacy Recordings | |
| 89 | Danielle Ponder | Some of Us Are Brave | Future Classic | |
| 90 | The Dip | Sticking With It | Dualtone | |
| 91 | Ben Harper | Bloodline Maintenance | Chrysalis | |
| 92 | MUNA | MUNA | Dead Oceans | |
| 93 | Dawes | Misadventures Of Doomscroller | Rounder Records | |
| 94 | Elvis Costello & The Imposters | The Boy Named If | EMI | |
| 95 | Michael Franti & Spearhead | Follow Your Heart | Boo Boo Wax/Thirty Tigers | |
| 96 | Alex G | God Save the Animals | Domino | |
| 97 | Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway | Crooked Tree | Nonesuch | |
| 98 | Buddy Guy | The Blues Don’t Lie | RCA/Silvertone | |
| 99 | Maggie Rogers | Surrender | Capitol Records | |
| 100 | Slow Waves | Slow Waves | Casete Upload | local |
