On Wednesday, December 31st from 7am to 6pm we are sharing songs from KXCI’s Top 100 Albums of 2025. We analyzed and sorted all the data** from the playlists of every music program over the course of 2025 to determine the 100 most played new albums, as selected by each KXCI DJ and their hand curated playlists created throughout the entire past year. KXCI’s Top 100 Countdown of the most played albums of 2025 starts at 7am on Your Morning Brew with the 100th most played album and the countdown continues all the way to number 1 on The Home Stretch. In between KXCI DJs Coach Corr, Sean, Duncan and Hannah will feature tributes to musicians we lost in 2025 and other notable musical moments. **The data for 2025 included over 106 thousand entries with songs played from over 26 thousand artists and 44 thousand releases.
Check back as we update this page with playlists, audio archives and a list of KXCI’s Top 100 Albums of 2025
Here are playlists to view and stream the two week archive of KXCI’s Top 100 day of programming: (updating)
KXCI’s Top 100 Albums of 2025
| # | Artist | Release | |
| 1 | Sharon Van Etten | Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory | |
| 2 | Valerie June | Owls, Omens, and Oracles | |
| 3 | Wet Leg | moisturizer | |
| 4 | Sunny War | Armageddon In A Summer Dress | |
| 5 | Adrian Quesada | Boleros Psicodélicos II | |
| 6 | Galactic & Irma Thomas | Audience With the Queen | |
| 7 | Japanese Breakfast | For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) | |
| 8 | Neko Case | Neon Grey Midnight Green | |
| 9 | XIXA | XOLO | |
| 10 | HAIM | I quit | |
| 11 | Stereolab | Instant Holograms On Metal Film | |
| 12 | Lucy Dacus | Forever Is A Feeling | |
| 13 | Chuck Prophet | Wake the Dead (feat. Qiensave) | |
| 14 | Say She She | Cut & Rewind | |
| 15 | Cat Mountain | Life on Lazy Heart | |
| 16 | Durand Jones & The Indications | Flowers | |
| 17 | Saya Gray | SAYA | |
| 18 | Curtis Harding | Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt | |
| 19 | The Altons | Heartache in Room 14 | |
| 20 | S.G. Goodman | Planting by the Signs | |
| 21 | Blood Orange | Essex Honey | |
| 22 | I’m With Her | Wild and Clear and Blue | |
| 23 | Polo & Pan | 22:22 | |
| 24 | My Morning Jacket | is | |
| 25 | Charley Crockett | Lonesome Drifter | |
| 26 | Nicosa | Era | |
| 27 | The Weather Station | Humanhood | |
| 28 | Little Simz | Lotus | |
| 29 | Pachyman | Another Place | |
| 30 | Perfume Genius | Glory | |
| 31 | Tunde Adebimpe | Thee Black Boltz | |
| 32 | Kathleen Edwards | Billionaire | |
| 33 | Bon Iver | SABLE, fABLE | |
| 34 | Van Morrison | Remembering Now | |
| 35 | Neal Francis | Return To Zero | |
| 36 | Maribou State | Hallucinating Love | |
| 37 | Gabrielle Pietrangelo | Back to the Heart | |
| 38 | Marinero | La La La | |
| 39 | Arc De Soleil | Lumin Rain | |
| 40 | DEBBY FRIDAY | The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life | |
| 41 | Molly Tuttle | So Long Little Miss Sunshine | |
| 42 | The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble | Gemini | |
| 43 | Eric Hilton | Midnight Ragas | |
| 44 | Damaris Bojor | Folkpirana | |
| 45 | FKA twigs | EUSEXUA | |
| 46 | Geese | Getting Killed | |
| 47 | João Selva | Onda | |
| 48 | Nation of Language | Dance Called Memory | |
| 49 | Lara Ruggles | Anchor Me | |
| 50 | Silvana Estrada | Vendrán Suaves Lluvias | |
| 51 | Various | TRANSA | |
| 52 | Seu Jorge | Baile à la Baiana | |
| 53 | Tropa Magica | Para Bailar Y Tripiar | |
| 54 | Youth Lagoon | Rarely Do I Dream | |
| 55 | Goose | Everything Must Go | |
| 56 | Automatic | Is It Now? | |
| 57 | Deep Sea Diver | Billboard Heart | |
| 58 | Buscabulla | Se Amaba Así | |
| 59 | Femi Kuti | Journey Through Life | |
| 60 | Sault | Acts of Faith | |
| 61 | Fishbone | Stockholm Syndrome | |
| 62 | Jeff Tweedy | Twilight Override | |
| 63 | Michael Franti & Spearhead | Break Up With Everything | |
| 64 | Playing for Change | Songs For Humanity | |
| 55 65 | The Budos Band | VII | |
| 66 | Uwade | Florilegium | |
| 67 | Alex G | Headlights | |
| 68 | Phoebe Rings | Aseurai | |
| 69 | Songhoy Blues | Héritage | |
| 70 | Carlos Arzate and the Ghost Notes | Through Line | |
| 71 | Cut Copy | Moments | |
| 72 | Bret McKenzie | Freak Out City | |
| 73 | Franz Ferdinand | The Human Fear | |
| 74 | Josh Ritter | I Believe in You, My Honeydew | |
| 75 | The Wood Brothers | Puff of Smoke | |
| 76 | Art d’Ecco | Serene Demon | |
| 77 | Amyl and The Sniffers | Cartoon Darkness | |
| 78 | Father John Misty | Mahashmashana | |
| 79 | Tom Misch | Six Songs – EP | |
| 80 | Benjamin Booker | LOWER | |
| 81 | Jen Awad | Existential Daydream | |
| 82 | Mavis Staples | Sad and Beautiful World | |
| 83 | Sierra Hull | A Tip Toe High Wire | |
| 84 | Sudan Archives | THE BPM | |
| 85 | Jon Batiste | BIG MONEY | |
| 86 | Kendrick Lamar | GNX | |
| 87 | TOKiMONSTA | Eternal Reverie | |
| 88 | Warren Haynes | Million Voices Whisper | |
| 89 | Desert Undertones | The Sentinel | |
| 90 | Grace Potter | Medicine | |
| 91 | Momma | Welcome To My Blue Sky | |
| 92 | Madison McFerrin | SCORPIO | |
| 93 | Patterson Hood | Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams | |
| 94 | Group Passion | Half Way There, But Not Half Way Up | |
| 95 | The Cure | Mixes of a Lost World | |
| 96 | Butcher Brown | Letters From The Atlantic | |
| 97 | The Bongo Hop | La Pata Coja | |
| 98 | Ela Minus | DÍA | |
| 99 | Tesoro | Ascension | |
| 100 | Soccer Mommy | Evergreen | |
