On Friday, December 29th we shared songs from KXCI’s Top 100 Albums of 2023. We analyzed and sorted all the data** from the playlists of every music program over the course of 2023 to determine the 100 most played new albums, as selected by each KXCI DJ’s hand curated playlists created throughout the past year. KXCI’s Top 100 Countdown of the most played albums of 2023 started at 7am on Your Morning Brew 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 2023 and other notable musical moments. **The data for 2023 included over 104 thousand entries with songs played from over 22 thousand artists and 40 thousand releases.
Here are playlists to view KXCI’s Top 100 day of programming:
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KXCI Top 100 most played new releases of 2023
| Rank | Artist | Release | Label |
| 1 | Joy Oladokun | Proof Of Life | Amigo/Verve Forecast/Republic |
| 2 | boygenius | the record | boygenius/Interscope Records |
| 3 | Sunny War | Anarchist Gospel | New West Records |
| 4 | Durand Jones | Wait Til I Get Over | Dead Oceans |
| 5 | Arlo Parks | My Soft Machine | Transgressive |
| 6 | Jillian Bessett | Joy | Black Bag Output |
| 7 | The New Pornographers | Continue as a Guest | Merge Records |
| 8 | Brian Lopez | Tidal | Brian Lopez/Cosmica |
| 9 | Yves Tumor | Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; | Warp Records |
| 10 | Allison Russell | The Returner | Fantasy Records |
| 11 | Jenny Lewis | Joy’All | Blue Note Records |
| 12 | Young Fathers | Heavy Heavy | Ninja Tune |
| 13 | Y La Bamba | Lucha | Tender Loving Empire |
| 14 | Captain Planet | Sounds Like Home | Bastard Jazz Recordings |
| 15 | Bettye LaVette | LaVette! | Jay-Vee Records |
| 16 | Iris DeMent | Workin’ on a World | FlariElla Records |
| 17 | Margo Price | Strays | Loma Vista Recordings |
| 18 | Rhiannon Giddens | You’re the One | Nonesuch Records |
| 19 | Los Esplifs | Chemistry | Los Esplifs |
| 20 | Blur | The Ballad Of Darren | Parlophone |
| 21 | The Arcs | Electrophonic Chronic | Easy Eye Sound |
| 22 | Black Belt Eagle Scout | The Land, The Water, The Sky | Saddle Creek |
| 23 | The National | First Two Pages of Frankenstein | 4AD |
| 24 | Meshell Ndegeocello | The Omnichord Real Book | Blue Note |
| 25 | The Allergies | Reconcile – EP (+singles) | Jalapeno Records |
| 26 | Say She She | Silver | Karma Chief Records |
| 27 | Little Simz | No Thank You | Forever Living Originals/AWAL |
| 28 | Nickodemus | Soul & Science | Wonderwheel |
| 29 | Los Velvets | Azúcar y Miel – EP | Los Velvets |
| 30 | WITCH | Zango | Desert Daze; Desert Daze Sound |
| 31 | King Tuff | Smalltown Stardust | Sub Pop Records |
| 32 | Dengue Fever | Ting Mong | Tuk Tuk Records |
| 33 | Fever Ray | Radical Romantics | Mute/Rabid Records |
| 34 | Zuco 103 | Telenova | Six Degrees Records |
| 35 | iLe | Nacarile | Sony |
| 36 | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | V | Jagjaguwar |
| 37 | Jungle | Volcano | Caiola Records/AWAL |
| 38 | Rodrigo y Gabriela | In Between Thoughts… A New World | ATO Records |
| 39 | Margaret Glaspy | Echo The Diamond | ATO Records |
| 40 | Wye Oak | Every Day Like the Last | Merge Records |
| 41 | Altin Gün | Aşk | ATO Records |
| 42 | Raye Zaragoza | Hold That Spirit | Rebel River Records |
| 43 | Belle and Sebastian | Late Developers | Matador Records |
| 44 | Portugal. The Man | Chris Black Changed My Life | Atlantic |
| 45 | St. Paul & The Broken Bones | Angels In Science Fiction | ATO Records |
| 46 | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | Weathervanes | Southeastern Records |
| 47 | Lucinda Williams | Stories from a Rock N Roll Heart | Highway 20 Records |
| 48 | Hannah Jadagu | Aperture | Sub Pop Records |
| 49 | Black Pumas | Chronicles of a Diamond | ATO Records |
| 50 | Mamma Coal | Dance Hall Crush | Mamma Coal |
| 51 | First Aid Kit | Palomino | Columbia |
| 52 | Tinariwen | Amatssou | Wedge |
| 53 | Katie Haverly | Triangulating Line | Katie Haverly |
| 54 | Adrian Quesada | Jaguar Sound | ATO Records |
| 55 | Death Cab for Cutie | Asphalt Meadows | Atlantic Records |
| 56 | Kelela | Raven | Warp Records |
| 57 | SZA | SOS | Top Dawg Entertainment/RCA |
| 58 | Julie Byrne | The Greater Wings | Ghostly International |
| 59 | M83 | Fantasy | Mute |
| 60 | Jamila Woods | Water Made Us | Jagjaguwar |
| 61 | Death Valley Girls | Islands in the Sky | Suicide Squeeze Records |
| 62 | Raul Malo | Say Less | Thirty Tigers/Mono Mundo |
| 63 | Rufus Wainright | Folkocracy | BMG |
| 64 | Wilco | Cousin | dBPM Records |
| 65 | Beach Fossils | Bunny | Bayonet Records |
| 66 | Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra | The Times | Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra |
| 67 | Grace Potter | Mother Road | Fantasy Records |
| 68 | Object Heavy | Love & Gravity | Color Red |
| 69 | Bombino | Sahel | Partisan Records |
| 70 | Bully | Lucky for You | Sub Pop Records |
| 71 | Feist | Multitudes | Polydor |
| 72 | Geese | 3D Country | Partisan / Play It Again Sam |
| 73 | Nation of Language | Strange Disciple | Play It Again Sam |
| 74 | U.S. Girls | Bless This Mess | 4AD |
| 75 | Say She She | Prism | Karma Chief Records |
| 76 | Stephen Marley | Old Soul | Ghetto Youth Int./Tuff Gong |
| 77 | Rayland Baxter | If I Were A Butterfly | ATO Records |
| 78 | Rubblebucket | Earth Worship | Grand Jury Music |
| 79 | Josh Ritter | Spectral Lines | Pytheas Recordings |
| 80 | Ben Folds | What Matters Most | New West Records |
| 81 | AHNOHNI | My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross | Secretly Canadian |
| 82 | Elisapie | Inuktitut | Bonsound |
| 83 | Phoenix | Alpha Zulu | Glassnote |
| 84 | Slowdive | everything is alive | Dead Oceans |
| 85 | Pachyman | Switched-On | ATO Records |
| 86 | Taj Mahal | Savoy | Stony Plain Records |
| 87 | Abraham Alexander | SEA/SONS | Dualtone Music Group |
| 88 | Deer Tick | Emotional Contracts | ATO Records |
| 89 | Grian Chatten | Chaos For The Fly | Partisan Records |
| 90 | Hermanos Gutiérrez | El Bueno Y El Malo | Easy Eye Sound |
| 91 | Lydia Loveless | Nothing’s Gonna Stand in My Way Again | Bloodshot Records |
| 92 | Sufjan Stevens | Javelin | Asthmatic Kitty |
| 93 | Eddie Roberts, George Porter Jr. & Floki Sessions | Boots In Place | Floki Studios |
| 94 | Mitski | The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We | Dead Oceans |
| 95 | Ruthie Foster | Healing Time | Blue Corn Music |
| 96 | Jackie Mendoza | Galaxia de Emociones | ZZK Records |
| 97 | Youth Lagoon | Heaven Is a Junkyard | Fat Possum Records |
| 98 | Jalen Ngonda | Come Around and Love Me | Daptone Records |
| 99 | The Heavy | Amen | The Heavy |
| 100 | Cautious Clay | KARPEH | Blue Note Records |
