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Flagship deep dives and data projects: the big, slow-cooked pieces.

A grid of 25 small panels, one per list year from 2001 to 2025, each made of colored dots: mostly purple for bands, with gold for solo women and teal for solo men.

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Who's on the list?

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

A wheel of colored dots: one spoke for each year from 2001 to 2025, with one dot for every album on KEXP's Annual Listeners' Favorite lists.

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25 years of KEXP Annual Listeners' Favorite lists

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