Check out the top 100 albums of 2015 on KGNU. This list represents the most played recordings on the station from January 1st through December 1st. You can check out our Top 30 charts throughout the year to keep up on what we’re digging at the moment.
Top 100 Albums on KGNU in 2015:
Rank: #1
Artist: Rhiannon Giddens
Album: Tomorrow Is My Turn
Label: Nonesuch Records
Genre: Folk
Rank: #2
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Album: Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions (Deluxe Edition)
Label: Dualtone Music Group
Genre: Bluegrass
Rank: #3
Artist: The New Basement Tapes
Album: Lost On the River
Label: Harvest Records
Genre: Rock
Rank: #4
Artist: Bomba Estereo
Album: Amanecer
Label: Sony
Genre: World
Rank: #5
Artist: Courtney Barnett
Album: Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
Label: Mom & Pop Music
Genre: Rock
Rank: #6
Artist: Sturgill Simpson
Album: Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
Label: High Top Mountain Records
Genre: Country
Rank: #7
Artist: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Album: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Label: Concord Music Group
Genre: Rock
Rank: #8
Artist: Dom La Nena
Album: Soyo
Label: Six Degrees
Genre: World
Rank: #9
Artist: Yo La Tengo
Album: Stuff Like That There
Label: Matador
Genre: Rock
Rank: #10
Artist: Steve Earle & The Dukes
Album: Terraplane
Label: New West Records
Genre: Folk
Rank: #11
Artist: Jason Isbell
Album: Something More Than Free
Label: Thirty Tigers
Genre: Folk
Rank: #12
Artist: Shakey Graves
Album: And The War Came
Label: Dualtone Music Group
Genre: Rock
Rank: #13
Artist: Luke Winslow-King
Album: Everlasting Arms
Label: Bloodshot Records
Genre: Folk
Rank: #14
Artist: Asleep At the Wheel
Album: Still the King: Celebrating the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Label: Bismeaux Records
Genre: Country
Rank: #15
Artist: Tony Allen
Album: Film Of Life
Label: Jazz Village
Genre: World
Rank: #16
Artist: Dengue Fever
Album: The Deepest Lake
Label: MRI
Genre: Rock
Rank: #17
Artist: Dayme Arocena
Album: Nueva Era
Label: Brownswood Recordings
Genre: World
Rank: #18
Artist: A Tribe Called Red
Album: Suplex – EP
Label: Radicalized Records
Genre: World
Rank: #19
Artist: Various Artists
Album: Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Collection: Favorites and Rarities from the Second Decade
Label: Signature Sounds
Genre: Folk
Rank: #20
Artist: Papa Mali
Album: Music Is Love
Label: 429 Records
Genre: Blues
Rank: #21
Artist: Hot Rize
Album: When I’m Free
Label: Ten In Hand Records
Genre: Bluegrass
Rank: #22
Artist: Various Artists
Album: Funk Soul Brothers & Sisters: Ghetto Funk Classics & Southern Fried Soul Killers
Label: Imports
Genre: R & B
Rank: #23
Artist: Buena Vista Social Club
Album: Lost And Found
Label: World Circuit
Genre: World
Rank: #24
Artist: Father John Misty
Album: I Love You, Honeybear
Label: Sub Pop
Genre: Rock
Rank: #25
Artist: Richard Thompson
Album: Still
Label: Fantasy Records
Genre: Folk
Rank: #26
Artist: Giant Sand
Album: Heartbreak Pass
Label: New West
Genre: Rock
Rank: #27
Artist: Tweedy
Album: Sukierae
Label: dBpm Records
Genre: Rock
Rank: #28
Artist: Various Artists
Album: The Afrosound of Colombia, Vol. 2
Label: VampiSoul
Genre: World
Rank: #29
Artist: Joe Pug
Album: Windfall
Label: Lightning Rod Records
Genre: Folk
Rank: #30
Artist: Ratatat
Album: Magnifique
Label: XL
Genre: Rock
Rank: #31
Artist: Mark Knopfler
Album: Tracker
Label: Verve Records
Genre: Folk
Rank: #32
Artist: The Paradise Bangkok Molam World Band
Album: 21st Century Molam
Label: World Circuit
Genre: World
Rank: #33
Artist: Pine Hill Project
Album: Tomorrow You’re Going
Label: Signature Sounds
Genre: Folk
Rank: #34
Artist: Lucinda Williams
Album: Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone
Label: Thirty Tigers
Genre: Rock
Rank: #35
Artist: La Luz
Album: Weirdo Shrine
Label: Hardly Art
Genre: Rock
Rank: #36
Artist: Bill Frisell
Album: Guitar in the Space Age
Label: Okeh
Genre: Jazz
Rank: #37
Artist: Punch Brothers
Album: The Phosphorescent Blues
Label: Nonesuch Records
Genre: Bluegrass
Rank: #38
Artist: Wilco
Album: Star Wars
Label: Anti
Genre: Rock
Rank: #39
Artist: The Budos Band
Album: Burnt Offering
Label: Daptone Recording
Genre: R & B
Rank: #40
Artist: Brandi Carlile
Album: The Firewatcher’s Daughter
Label: ATO Records
Genre: Folk
Rank: #41
Artist: Trout Steak Revival
Album: Brighter Every Day
Label: Self Produced
Genre: Bluegrass
Rank: #42
Artist: Django Django
Album: Born Under Saturn
Label: Ribbon Music
Genre: Rock
Rank: #43
Artist: Alabama Shakes
Album: Sound & Color
Label: ATO Records
Genre: Rock
Rank: #44
Artist: Sun Ra
Album: Marshall Allen presents Sun Ra and His Arkestra: In the Orbit of Ra
Label: Strut Records
Genre: Jazz
Rank: #45
Artist: Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal
Album: Musique de Nuit
Label: Six Degrees
Genre: World
Rank: #46
Artist: Panda Bear
Album: Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
Label: Domino Records
Genre: Rock
Rank: #47
Artist: Various Artists
Album: Truckers, Kickers, Cowboy Angels: The Blissed Out Birth of Country Rock: Volume 6
Label: Bear Family
Genre: Country
Rank: #48
Artist: Seckou Keita
Album: 22 Strings
Label: ARC Music
Genre: World
Rank: #49
Artist: Khaira Arby
Album: Gossip
Label: Clermont Music
Genre: World
Rank: #50
Artist: Seva Venet
Album: Revisiting New Orleans String Bands: 1880-1949
Label: Threadhead Cultural Foundation
Genre: Jazz
Rank: #51
Artist: Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard
Album: Django And Jimmie
Label: Legacy
Genre: Country
Rank: #52
Artist: Goat
Album: Commune
Label: Sub Pop
Genre: Rock
Rank: #53
Artist: Tame Impala
Album: Currents
Label: Interscope
Genre: Rock
Rank: #54
Artist: Danielle Ate the Sandwich
Album: The Drawing Back of Curtains (Music from the Film “Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson”)
Label: Youngest Daughter Records
Genre: Folk
Rank: #55
Artist: Taarka
Album: Making Tracks Home
Label: Self Produced
Genre: Folk
Rank: #56
Artist: Tin Men
Album: On The Shady Side
Label: Self Produced
Genre: Blues
Rank: #57
Artist: Mbongwana Star
Album: From Kinshasa
Label: World Circuit
Genre: World
Rank: #58
Artist: Great Lake Swimmers
Album: A Forest of Arms
Label: Nettwerk Productions
Genre: Rock
Rank: #59
Artist: Toto la Momposina y Sus Tambores
Album: Tambolero
Label: Real World
Genre: World
Rank: #60
Artist: El Ten Eleven
Album: Fast Forward
Label: Fake Record Label
Genre: Rock
Rank: #61
Artist: Chris Daniels & The Kings
Album: Funky to the Bone (feat. Freddi Gowdy)
Label: Moon Voyage
Genre: Blues
Rank: #62
Artist: Nostalgia 77 & Prince Fatty
Album: In the Kingdom of Dub
Label: Tru Thoughts
Genre: Reggae
Rank: #63
Artist: Kacey Musgraves
Album: Pageant Material
Label: Mercury Records
Genre: Country
Rank: #64
Artist: Dale Watson
Album: Call Me Insane
Label: Audium
Genre: Country
Rank: #65
Artist: Yonder Mountain String Band
Album: Black Sheep
Label: Frog Pad Records
Genre: Bluegrass
Rank: #66
Artist: Kamasi Washington
Album: The Epic
Label: Brainfeeder
Genre: Jazz
Rank: #67
Artist: Calexico
Album: Edge Of The Sun
Label: Anti
Genre: Rock
Rank: #68
Artist: Pokey LaFarge
Album: Something In the Water
Label: Rounder Records
Genre: Folk
Rank: #69
Artist: Snake Rattle Rattle Snake
Album: Totem
Label: Self Produced
Genre: Rock
Rank: #70
Artist: The Decemberists
Album: What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
Label: Capitol
Genre: Rock
Rank: #71
Artist: Amara Toure
Album: Amara Toure (1973 – 1980)
Label: Analog Africa
Genre: World
Rank: #72
Artist: Grupo Fantasma
Album: El Existential
Label: Nat Geo Music
Genre: World
Rank: #73
Artist: Dave Rawlings Machine
Album: Nashville Obsolete
Label: Acony
Genre: Folk
Rank: #74
Artist: Rapidgrass
Album: Crooked Road
Label: Self Produced
Genre: Bluegrass
Rank: #75
Artist: They Might Be Giants
Album: Glean
Label: Idlewild Recordings
Genre: Rock
Rank: #76
Artist: Modou Toure & Ramon Goose
Album: The West African Blues Project
Label: ARC Music
Genre: World
Rank: #77
Artist: Quitapenas
Album: Quitapenas
Label: Mas Tropical
Genre: World
Rank: #78
Artist: Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley
Album: Before the Sun Goes Down
Label: Compass Records
Genre: Country
Rank: #79
Artist: Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Album: In Session
Label: Mountain Home Music Company
Genre: Bluegrass
Rank: #80
Artist: Hot Chip
Album: Why Make Sense?
Label: Domino Records
Genre: Rock
Rank: #81
Artist: The Tallest Man On Earth
Album: Dark Bird Is Home
Label: Dead Oceans
Genre: Rock
Rank: #82
Artist: Alex Cuba
Album: Healer
Label: Caracol Records
Genre: World
Rank: #83
Artist: Foxygen
Album: …And Star Power
Label: Jagjaguwar
Genre: Rock
Rank: #84
Artist: El Naan
Album: Codigo de Barros
Label: ARC Music
Genre: World
Rank: #85
Artist: Reverend Freakchild
Album: Hillbilly Zen-Punk Blues
Label: Treated And Released
Genre: Blues
Rank: #86
Artist: Morgan Heritage
Album: Strictly Roots
Label: CTBC Music Group
Genre: Reggae
Rank: #87
Artist: Itchy-O
Album: Burn the Navigator
Label: Alternative Tentacles
Genre: Rock
Rank: #88
Artist: Chui Wan
Album: Chui Wan
Label: Maybe Mars
Genre: Rock
Rank: #89
Artist: Bob Dylan & The Band
Album: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete
Label: Legacy
Genre: Rock
Rank: #90
Artist: Viet Cong
Album: Viet Cong
Label: Jagjaguwar
Genre: Rock
Rank: #91
Artist: Monophonics
Album: Sound of Sinning
Label: Transistor Sound
Genre: R & B
Rank: #92
Artist: Dwight Yoakam
Album: Second Hand Heart
Label: Reprise Records
Genre: Country
Rank: #93
Artist: Otis Taylor
Album: Hey Joe Opus/Red Meat
Label: Trance Blues Festival
Genre: Blues
Rank: #94
Artist: Ligeia Mare
Album: Amplifier
Label: Self Produced
Genre: Modern
Rank: #95
Artist: St Germain
Album: St Germain
Label: Primary Society
Genre: Electronic
Rank: #96
Artist: Bostich + Fussible
Album: Motel Baja
Label: Nacional Records
Genre: Rock
Rank: #97
Artist: Justin Townes Earle
Album: Single Mothers
Label: Vagrant
Genre: Folk
Rank: #98
Artist: Flavia Coelho
Album: Mundo Meu
Label: Mr Bongo
Genre: World
Rank: #99
Artist: The Souljazz Orchestra
Album: Resistance
Label: Strut
Genre: World
Rank: #100
Artist: Cassandra Wilson
Album: Coming Forth by Day
Label: Legacy
Genre: Jazz
