SPIN's 22 Best Albums of 2022

If nothing else, 2022 was a wild one. We started the year with a surprise release by a major artist (The Weeknd's Dawn FM) and bookended it with another

Published: December 22, 2022 15:19 Source

# 1
Album • Nov 18 / 2022 Baroque Pop Singer-Songwriter
# 2
Album • Nov 04 / 2022 Dance-Punk Post-Punk
# 3
Album • Sep 30 / 2022 Jazz Avant-Garde Jazz
# 4
Album • Oct 07 / 2021 Pop Rock Synthpop
# 5
Album • Jul 11 / 2022 Experimental Hip Hop Political Hip Hop
# 6
Album • Jun 24 / 2022 Jazz Jazz Pop
# 7
Album • Jul 22 / 2022 Folk Rock Singer-Songwriter
# 8
Album • Sep 16 / 2022 Art Pop
# 9
Album • Jul 29 / 2022 Nu Jazz Jazz Fusion
# 10
Album • Mar 11 / 2022 Post-Hardcore
# 11
Album • Sep 30 / 2022 Americana Alt-Country
# 12
SOS by SZA
Album • Dec 09 / 2022 Contemporary R&B Pop
# 13
Album • Jul 20 / 2022 Trap Southern Hip Hop
# 14
Album • Jan 21 / 2022 Emo Emo-Pop
# 15
Album • Feb 16 / 2022 Neo-Psychedelia Indietronica
# 16
Album • Apr 26 / 2022
# 17
Album • Jul 22 / 2022 Ambient Techno
# 18
Album • May 06 / 2022 Pop Punk Emo-Pop
# 19
Album • Sep 23 / 2022 Progressive Rock
# 20
Album • Jul 01 / 2022
# 21
Album • Sep 30 / 2022 Folk Rock Americana
# 22
Album • Aug 12 / 2022 Pop Reggae