Bubbling Up Top 250 Most Played Artists of 2025

  • December 26, 2025
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Bubbling Up started two years ago, every Tuesday night 7-10pm. DJ Gavin Dahl shares 50 new songs each week, primarily focused on soul, jazz, electronic, hip hop, reggae, and psychedelic sounds from around the world. With help from Connor aka DJ Lowdown on a few programs, Bubbling Up shared more than 1200 different new songs released in 2025. Throughout the month of December, Gavin is sharing 50 artists each Tuesday night, counting down the top 250 artists of the year. Here is the final tally, based on overall spins on Tuesday evenings during 2025. (Pictured: Maribou State, Hallucinating Love)

Top 250 Most Played Artists of 2025

1. Maribou State TOP 10 ALBUM

2. Teddy Roxpin & Smile High & Felty TOP 10 ALBUM

3. Kokoroko TOP 10 ALBUM

4. Headnodic

5. Gramatik TOP 10 ALBUM

6. Ant

7. The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble TOP 10 ALBUM

8. Chiminyo

9. SAULT

10. Clozee

11. Mah Ze Tar

12. Just A Gent

13. Magic City Hippies TOP 10 ALBUM

14. Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek TOP 10 ALBUM

15. Mereba 

16. Pachyman

17. RIO KOSTA TOP 10 ALBUM

18. Cimafunk

19. Little Simz

20. Jacob Banks

21. Nightmares on Wax TOP 10 ALBUM

22. RUMTUM

23. Morillo

24. Simba Sax (Utah musician)

25. Axel Thesleff

26. El Michels Affair

27. Makaya McCraven

28. Brother Ali

29. Thandii

30. Dirtwire

31. Jorja Smith

32. Moses Yoofee Trio

33. Jon Batiste

34. Homer

35. Obongjayar

36. Flamingosis

37. Maverick Sabre

38. Toy Box

39. GRiZ

40. High Contrast

41. Liam Bailey

42. Aesop Rock

43. Ana Tijoux

44. Reuben James

45. Everything is Recorded

46. TAMTAM

47. Joe Armon-Jones

48. Amanda Whiting

49. Adam Ben Ezra

50. The Budos Band

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51. Kalya Scintilla

52. LSDREAM

53. DJ Drez

54. Lady Wray

55. CARRTOONS

56. Hollie Cook

57. Parcels TOP 10 ALBUM

58. Biig Piig

59. Silas Short

60. Katie Tupper

61. Salin

62. Kamasi Washington

63. The Luna Lounge

64. FKJ

65. Henry Canyons

66. Saba & No ID

67. Jazz Mafia

68. Akriza

69. An-Ten-Nae

70. Rusko

71. So Sus

72. Cualli

73. Maddy O’Neal

74. Daily Bread

75. Tokimonsta

76. EARTHGANG

77. Moon Hooch

78. High Step Society

79. Alexander IV

80. Domenique Dumont

81. Q

82. Loaded Honey

83. Homeboy Sandman

84. Oddisee

85. Roge

86. Adrian Quesada

87. Eric Krasno & Son Little = Roll Mega

88. Terrace Martin

89. Hether

90. Yazmin Lacey

91. Kase

92. corto.alto

93. Benny Sings

94. Tom Misch

95. Brandee Younger

96. Ramakhandra

97. OMA

98. Moods

99. Dojo Cuts

100. Talia Keys (Utah musician)

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101. Yukimi

102. Greentea Peng

103. Mikayli 

104. A Hundred Drums

105. INZO & Blookah

106. rSUN

107. GoGo Penguin

108. Butcher Brown

109. Surprise Chef

110. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band

111. Otis McDonald

112. BALTHVS

113. Emma-Jean Thackray

114. Lila Ike

115. Eva Lazarus

116. Amber Mark

117. Calimossa

118. DJ Grumble

119. Combo Chimbita

120. cosmic collective

121. Alfa Mist & Richard Spaven = 44th Move

122. Loyle Carner

123. FloFilz

124. Original Koffee

125. Kofi Stone

126. Bonobo

127. Zusha

128. VIER = Machinedrum & Thys & Holly & Salvador Breed

129. Byzantine Time Machine

130. Savej

131. Ashez

132. Deekapz

133. Kassa Overall

134. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad

135. T H R O N E

136. The Sorcerers

137. Ezra Collective

138. Mahalia

139. DARGZ

140. Blundetto 

141. Anna Moss

142. Skinshape

143. Brazuca Band (Utah musician)

144. Leven Kali

145. NoSo

146. Olivia Dean

147. Arc De Soleil

148. DOPE LEMON

149. Say She She

150. MRCY

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151. Mndsgn

152. Demae

153. Bronze Whale

154. Melodiesinfonie

155. ATYYA

156. Levity

157. Ele A

158. Ben L’Oncle Soul

159. Richard Houghten

160. Robert Glasper

161. Yaya Bey

162. Mulatu Astatke

163. Sababa 5

164. Yazz Ahmed

165. Samm Henshaw

166. True Loves 

167. Antibalas

168. Emancipator & Lapa

169. Quantic

170. Kyle McEvoy & wowflower & The Field Tapes

171. Jungle

172. LP Giobbi

173. Sirens of Lesbos

174. Collect 200

175. MELVV

176. Vincent Antone

177. Manic Focus

178. Flume

179. Jade Cicada

180. Mersiv

181. Gardna

182. oreglo

183. Kae Tempest

184. Cookin Soul

185. Pale Jay

186. Hope Tala

187. Masego

188. The Cavemen.

189. DON WEST

190. Dialup

191. .multibeat

192. Ollella

193. GoldFord

194. Sargeant X Comrade

195. Hot 8 Brass Band

196. Brian Jackson & Black Thought

197. Bluestaeb

198. Chronixx

199. BADBADNOTGOOD

200. Erykah Badu & The Alchemist

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201. Laufey

202. Yttling Jazz

203. Soul Food Horns

204. R.A.P. Ferreira

205. Nyquist

206. Buzz Junior

207. Kirby

208. Benjamin Booker

209. Little Barrie

210. Chance the Rapper

211. Vulfpeck

212. Alina Bzhezhinska

213. Pola & Bryson

214. Elje

215. Sam Gellaitry

216. A-F-R-O

217. Lettuce

218. Bardo

219. KAYTRANADA

220. Catching Flies

221. Helado Negro

222. Blockhead

223. The Halluci Nation

224. Captain Planet

225. Jamie xx

226. Lord Echo

227. Michal Menert

228. Beats Antique

229. Filastine & Nova Ruth

230. The Dude with The Oud

231. The Black Seeds

232. Jaywalk and The Cadillacs

233. August Charles

234. Barry Can’t Swim

235. Louis Futon

236. Hermanos Gutierrez

237. Joy Crookes

238. Snacktime

239. Samara Joy

240. Patchwork Inc.

241. Flo Naegeli

242. Otis Kane

243. TENDER

244. Syd

245. Dijon 

246. Electric Guest 

247. Max Rad

248. Jalen Ngonda

249. The Altons

250. Durand Jones & The Indications

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Check out this Spotify playlist of over 1200 songs released in 2025 that got airplay on KRCL's Bubbling Up this year.

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