Top 100 Albums of 2014

Check out the top 100 albums of 2014 on KGNU. This list represents the most played recordings on the station from January 1st through December 1st. Some of these recordings came out toward the end of 2013 but were still red hot for us in the first part of the new year. You can check out our weekly Top 30 charts throughout the year to keep up on what we’re digging at the moment.

Top 100 Albums on KGNU in 2014:

Rank: #1

Artist: Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

Album: Give the People What They Want

Label: Daptone Records

Genre: Soul

Rank: #2

Artist: Courtney Barnett

Album: The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas

Label: House Anxiety

Genre: Rock

Rank: #3

Artist: Beck

Album: Morning Phase

Label: Capitol

Genre: Rock

Rank: #4

Artist: The Black Keys

Album: Turn Blue

Label: Nonesuch Records

Genre: Rock

Rank: #5

Artist: The Railsplitters

Album: The Railsplitters

Label: Self Produced

Genre: Bluegrass

Rank: #6

Artist: Quantic

Album: Magnetica

Label: TruThoughts

Genre: World

Rank: #7

Artist: Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore

Album: Love Runner

Label: Remington Road Records

Genre: Folk

Rank: #8

Artist: Various Artists

Album: A Tribute To Bob Dylan In the 80s: Volume One

Label: ATO Records

Genre: Rock

Rank: #9

Artist: Tinariwen

Album: Emmaar

Label: Anti

Genre: World

Rank: #10

Artist: Juana Molina

Album: Wed 21

Label: Crammed Discs

Genre: Rock

Rank: #11

Artist: Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott

Album: Memories and Moments

Label: Full Skies Records

Genre: Folk

Rank: #12

Artist: Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison

Album: Our Year

Label: Premium Records

Genre: Folk

Rank: #13

Artist: Regina Carter

Album: Southern Comfort

Label: Sony Music

Genre: Jazz

Rank: #14

Artist: Jolie Holland

Album: Wine Dark Sea

Label: Anti

Genre: Rock

Rank: #15

Artist: Lucinda Williams

Album: Lucinda Williams

Label: Thirty Tigers

Genre: Folk

Rank: #16

Artist: Rodney Crowell

Album: Tarpaper Sky

Label: New West Records

Genre: Folk

Rank: #17

Artist: Damien Jurado

Album: Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Son

Label: Secretly Canadian

Genre: Rock

Rank: #18

Artist: Del McCoury Band

Album: The Streets of Baltimore

Label: McCoury Music

Genre: Bluegrass

Rank: #19

Artist: Nickel Creek

Album: A Dotted Line

Label: Nonesuch Records

Genre: Bluegrass

Rank: #20

Artist: Billie Joe + Norah

Album: Foreverly

Label: Reprise Records

Genre: Folk

Rank: #21

Artist: Noam Pikelny

Album: Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe

Label: Compass Records

Genre: Bluegrass

Rank: #22

Artist: Tune-Yards

Album: Nikki Nack

Label: 4AD

Genre: Rock

Rank: #23

Artist: Meridian Brothers

Album: Salvadora Robot

Label: Sound Way

Genre: Rock

Rank: #24

Artist: Various Artists

Album: The Soul Fire Box Set

Label: Truth & Soul

Genre: Soul

Rank: #25

Artist: Old Crow Medicine Show

Album: Remedy

Label: ATO Records

Genre: Rock

Rank: #26

Artist: St. Vincent

Album: St. Vincent

Label: Loma Vista

Genre: Rock

Rank: #27

Artist: The Head And The Heart

Album: Let’s Be Still

Label: Sub Pop

Genre: Rock

Rank: #28

Artist: Various Artists

Album: Country Funk Volume II 1967-1974

Label: Light in the Attic

Genre: Soul

Rank: #29

Artist: Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin

Album: Common Ground: Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin Play And Sing The Songs Of Big Bill Broonzy

Label: Yep Roc Records

Genre: Blues

Rank: #30

Artist: Rodrigo y Gabriela

Album: 9 Dead Alive

Label: ATO Records

Genre: World

Rank: #31

Artist: Dolly Parton

Album: Blue Smoke

Label: Sony Masterworks

Genre: Country

Rank: #32

Artist: William Onyeabor

Album: World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor?

Label: Luaka Bop

Genre: World

Rank: #33

Artist: Neil Young

Album: Live At The Cellar Door

Label: Reprise Records

Genre: Folk

Rank: #34

Artist: Sly & Robbie

Album: Underwater Dub

Label: Groove Attack

Genre: Reggae

Rank: #35

Artist: Hot Rize

Album: When I’m Free

Label: Ten In Hand Records

Genre: Bluegrass

Rank: #36

Artist: Mungo’s Hi Fi & Prince Fatty

Album: Prince Fatty Versus Mungo’s Hi-Fi

Label: Mr. Bongo

Genre: Reggae

Rank: #37

Artist: David Grisman

Album: Muddy Roads

Label: Acoustic Disc

Genre: Bluegrass

Rank: #38

Artist: Andrew Bird

Album: I Want to See Pulaski at Night

Label: Grimsey Records

Genre: Rock

Rank: #39

Artist: Nikki Lane

Album: All Or Nothin’

Label: New West Records

Genre: Rock

Rank: #40

Artist: Temples

Album: Sun Structures

Label: Fat Possum

Genre: Rock

Rank: #41

Artist: Alsarah And The Nubatones

Album: Silt

Label: Wonderwheel Recordings

Genre: World

Rank: #42

Artist: William Onyeabor

Album: What?!

Label: Luaka Bop

Genre: Electronic

Rank: #43

Artist: Eccodek

Album: Singing In Tongues

Label: Eccodek

Genre: Electronic

Rank: #44

Artist: Bryan Sutton

Album: Into My Own

Label: Sugar Hill Records

Genre: Bluegrass

Rank: #45

Artist: Kasai Allstars

Album: Beware the Fetish (Congotronics 5)

Label: Crammed Discs

Genre: World

Rank: #46

Artist: Ibibio Sound Machine

Album: Ibibio Sound Machine

Label: Sound Way

Genre: World

Rank: #47

Artist: Various Artists

Album: Studio One Ska Fever!

Label: Soul Jazz

Genre: Reggae

Rank: #48

Artist: Dom La Nena

Album: Golondrina – EP

Label: Six Degrees Records

Genre: Rock

Rank: #49

Artist: The Plates

Album: Punky Reggae

Label: Self Produced

Genre: Reggae

Rank: #50

Artist: Dexter Payne Quartet + 1

Album: Pra Voce

Label: Dexofon Records

Genre: Jazz

Rank: #51

Artist: Shovels & Rope

Album: Swimmin’ Time

Label: Dualtone Records

Genre: Folk

Rank: #52

Artist: Sonny Knight & The Lakers

Album: I’m Still Here

Label: Secret Stash

Genre: Soul

Rank: #53

Artist: The Devil Makes Three

Album: I’m a Stranger Here

Label: New West Records

Genre: Rock

Rank: #54

Artist: Various Artists

Album: Delmark 60 Years of Blues

Label: Delmark Records

Genre: Blues

Rank: #55

Artist: The Haden Triplets

Album: The Haden Triplets

Label: Third Man Records

Genre: Folk

Rank: #56

Artist: Bahamas

Album: Bahamas Is Afie

Label: Brushfire

Genre: Rock

Rank: #57

Artist: Various Artists

Album: This Is the Town: A Tribute to Nilsson, Vol. 1

Label: The Royal Potato Family

Genre: Rock

Rank: #58

Artist: Lake Street Dive

Album: Bad Self Portraits

Label: Signature Sounds

Genre: Rock

Rank: #59

Artist: Steve Martin And The Steep Canyon Rangers feat. Edie Brickell

Album: Live

Label: Rounder

Genre: Bluegrass

Rank: #60

Artist: Johnny Cash

Album: Out Among The Stars

Label: Sony Music

Genre: Country

Rank: #61

Artist: Various Artists

Album: Finding Fela (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Label: Knitting Factory

Genre: World

Rank: #62

Artist: Son Palenque

Album: Afro-Colombian Sound Modernizers

Label: VampiSoul

Genre: World

Rank: #63

Artist: Various Artists

Album: New Orleans Funk 3

Label: Soul Jazz

Genre: Soul

Rank: #64

Artist: Chris Smither

Album: Still On the Levee

Label: Homonculus Music

Genre: Folk

Rank: #65

Artist: Nathaniel Rateliff

Album: Falling Faster Than You Can Run

Label: Mod y Vi Records

Genre: Rock

Rank: #66

Artist: Halden Wofford And The Hi-Beams

Album: Rocky Mountain Honky Tonk

Label: Self Produced

Genre: Country

Rank: #67

Artist: Willie Nelson

Album: To All The Girls…

Label: Legacy

Genre: Country

Rank: #68

Artist: Neil Young

Album: A Letter Home

Label: Reprise Records

Genre: Folk

Rank: #69

Artist: The Infamous Stringdusters

Album: Let It Go

Label: Thirty Tigers

Genre: Bluegrass

Rank: #70

Artist: Catherine Russell

Album: Bring It Back

Label: Jazz Village

Genre: Jazz

Rank: #71

Artist: Mary Flower

Album: When My Bluebird Sings

Label: Bluesette Records

Genre: Blues

Rank: #72

Artist: Cibo Matto

Album: Hotel Valentine

Label: Chimera Music

Genre: Rock

Rank: #73

Artist: Mogwai

Album: Rave Tapes

Label: Kranky

Genre: Rock

Rank: #74

Artist: Jaune Toujours

Album: Routes

Label: Choux De Bruxelles

Genre: World

Rank: #75

Artist: Various Artists

Album: Six Degrees of Brazil, Vol. 2

Label: Six Degrees

Genre: World

Rank: #76

Artist: Lucinda Williams

Album: Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone

Label: Thirty Tigers

Genre: Rock

Rank: #77

Artist: Leon Russell

Album: Life Journey

Label: Universal Music Group

Genre: Blues

Rank: #78

Artist: Suzy Bogguss

Album: Lucky

Label: Loyal Dutchess Records

Genre: Country

Rank: #79

Artist: Carlene Carter

Album: Carter Girl

Label: Rounder

Genre: Country

Rank: #80

Artist: The Budos Band

Album: Burnt Offering

Label: Daptone Recording

Genre: Soul

Rank: #81

Artist: Diane Coffee

Album: My Friend Fish

Label: Western Vinyl

Genre: Rock

Rank: #82

Artist: Mr. Scruff

Album: Friendly Bacteria

Label: Ninja Tune

Genre: Electronic

Rank: #83

Artist: Sarah Jarosz

Album: Build Me Up From Bones

Label: Sugar Hill Records

Genre: Bluegrass

Rank: #84

Artist: Pretty Lights

Album: A Color Map of the Sun (Remixes)

Label: 8 Minutes 20 Seconds

Genre: Electronic

Rank: #85

Artist: Monty Alexander

Album: Harlem Kingston Express, Vol. 2: The River Rolls On

Label: Motema Music

Genre: Jazz

Rank: #86

Artist: Thievery Corporation

Album: Saudade

Label: ESL

Genre: World

Rank: #87

Artist: Ana Tijoux

Album: Vengo

Label: Nacional Records

Genre: World

Rank: #88

Artist: Red Molly

Album: The Red Album

Label: Self Produced

Genre: Folk

Rank: #89

Artist: Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars

Album: Libation

Label: Cumbancha

Genre: World

Rank: #90

Artist: Jim & Jesse And The Virginia Boys

Album: Radio Shows

Label: Rural Rhythm

Genre: Bluegrass

Rank: #91

Artist: First Aid Kit

Album: Stay Gold

Label: Columbia

Genre: Rock

Rank: #92

Artist: Beats Antique

Album: A Thousand Faces – Act 1

Label: Self Produced

Genre: Rock

Rank: #93

Artist: Les Claypool’s Duo De Twang

Album: Four Foot Shack

Label: ATO Records

Genre: Rock

Rank: #94

Artist: Amos Lee

Album: Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song

Label: Blue Note

Genre: Folk

Rank: #95

Artist: Various Artists

Album: Angola Soundtrack 2: Hypnosis, Distortions & Other Sonic Innovations 1969-1978

Label: Analog Africa

Genre: World

Rank: #96

Artist: Bob Dylan & The Band

Album: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete

Label: Legacy

Genre: Rock