Since KEXP is based in Seattle, it shouldn't be surprising that Seattle is the biggest hometown across 25 years of its Annual Listeners' Favorite lists: 144 artists, about one list entry in nine. But the lists are far from local. The artists come from 26 countries, and
The typical artist on one of KEXP's Annual Listeners' Favorite lists was about six years into their career in 2001 through 2010. In 2016 through 2025, it was about ten. Are listeners drifting toward seasoned artists, or is something else going on? That question is what this
Twenty of the 25 albums that have ever hit #1 on KEXP's Annual Listeners' Favorite lists were put out by bands. Only five came from a solo artist, with four of those five arriving after 2014. Does this suggest a trend in the types of artists that
In 25 years of KEXP's listener-voted annual "Listeners' Favorite Albums of the Year" lists, exactly three artists have landed a total of ten or more releases across the two-and-a-half-decade time span: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Wilco, and The
My intent in creating the original file behind this project was to give myself a shopping list of sorts, something to guide my exploration of music and record store browsing. That's it. No grand plan, just wanting to crowdsource some recommendations from the KEXP community to inform my