musicOMH's Top 50 Albums of 2022
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Published: December 21, 2022

Wonderland's Albums of the Year 2022
From the disco-drenched return of Beyoncé to the late night musings of Taylor Swift: here are the albums that got us through 2022.
Published: December 21, 2022

Atwood Magazine's Albums of the Year 2022
As 2022 comes to a close, Atwood Magazine celebrates the music that had the greatest impact on our lives. Here are the best albums of the year!
Published: December 21, 2022

Okayplayer's 22 Best Albums of 2022
While the music was constantly good this year, there weren't many game changers. Here are the best albums of 2022
Published: December 20, 2022

The Alternative's Top 50 Albums of 2022
The Alternative staff's top 50 releases of the year and our yearly awards
Published: December 20, 2022

Rolling Stone's 15 Best Metal Albums of 2022
The Best Metal Albums of 2022 with Ozzy Osbourne, Slipknot, Ghost, Meshuggah, Lamb of God, Megadeth, Undeath, Soul Glo, Chat Pile and Dead Cross.
Published: December 20, 2022

Hot Press's 50 Best Albums of 2022
Grian Chatten and co. reign supreme as our critics give their verdict on the year’s finest albums.
Published: December 20, 2022

WXPN Best Albums of 2022
The top 25 albums of the year, as voted on by WXPN's on-air hosts.
Published: December 20, 2022

Gaffa (Sweden)'s Best Albums of 2022

Published: December 20, 2022

Kerrang!'s 50 Best Albums of 2022
The Kerrang! verdict on the 50 albums that shaped 2022.
Published: December 19, 2022

NBHAP's Highlights of 2022
This year was full of beautiful releases and in a matter of summing up the most remarkable ones, the NBHAP staff is going for a stroll down memory lane.
Published: December 19, 2022

Gigwise's 51 Best Albums of 2022
Who came out on top?
Published: December 19, 2022

Rolling Stone's 25 Best Country & Americana Albums of 2022
The best country music and Americana albums released this year: Zach Bryan, Willie Nelson, Kane Brown, and more.
Published: December 18, 2022

The Observer: Kitty Empire's Top 10 Albums of 2022
Non-stop dance parties, retro beats and dreamy vignettes vied with slacker rock, flamenco-inflected R&B and no end of heartbreakThe Observer critics’ review of 2022 in full
Published: December 18, 2022

BrooklynVegan's 30 Best Rap Albums of 2022
From Kendrick Lamar to Rico Nasty to redveil to billy woods to Leikeli47 to Boldy James to Vince Staples to Moor Mother to GloRilla, here's our list of the best rap albums of 2022...
Published: December 16, 2022

Stereogum's 10 Best Rap Albums of 2022
Midway through 2022, it seemed like hip-hop was bland and headed for a disappointing year. Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers confused people with its insularity and inherent selfishness. Gone were sweeping records about Black Americana; say hello to a record about choosing yourself in the midst of rising fascism and cataclysmic unhappiness. There wasn’t a DaBaby of the year, in other words, someone who was seemingly everywhere over the radio. Looking back at these past 12 months, nothing stands out, but there’s an abundance of quality. If there is a MVP of this year, it might be Baton Rouge’s YoungBoy Never Broke Again – the quantity-over-quality superstar whose fame comes from his music and also his sometimes bizarre antics.
Published: December 16, 2022

Hypebeast's Best Music Projects of 2022
The Best Music Projects of 2022: 11 selections curated by the Hypebeast editorial team, along with a few honorable mentions.
Published: December 16, 2022

The Washington Post's Top 10 Albums of 2022
It was a year of albums and songs about Earthlings and aliens, gods and devils, monsters and dogs, and everything else.
Published: December 16, 2022

Dazed's 20 Best Albums of 2022
From Beyoncé and Bladee to Ethel Cain and Malibu, we look back on our favourite albums of the year
Published: December 16, 2022

Stereogum's 10 Best Country Albums of 2022
In September, the shit really hit the fan(s). Brittany Aldean, wife of country star Jason Aldean and owner of her own fashion brand, posted a video of herself getting her hair and makeup done, and she punctuated it with some transphobic bullshit. She thanked her parents for not changing her gender when she went through her tomboy phase. Pushback was swift and merciless. Country singers Cassadee Pope and Joy Olakodun called Aldean out on her ignorance, but the most damning response came from Maren Morris, who tweeted, “It’s so easy to, like, not be a scumbag human? Sell your clip-ins and zip it, Insurrection Barbie.” In response, the former tomboy complained to Fox News, and non-country person Tucker Carlson slapped Morris with the sickest burn he could come up with: “lunatic country music person.”
Published: December 15, 2022

Rolling Stone's 25 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2022
The best rap albums released this year: JID, Smino, Earl Sweatshirt, Nas, Pusha T
Published: December 15, 2022

Clash's Albums of the Year 2022
Viewed purely in social and political terms, 2022 is an impossible year to categorise. Our first post-lockdown annum, it saw two Monarchs and three Prime
Published: December 15, 2022

The Atlantic's 10 Best Albums of 2022
The year in music was a party.
Published: December 15, 2022

Dork's Albums of the Year 2022

Published: December 15, 2022

Beats Per Minute's Top 50 Albums of 2022

Published: December 15, 2022

Coup De Main's Best Albums of 2022
Some people organise their memories according to time/date/place, scent, or photos - but as people that enjoy living our lives with big soundtracked main-character-energy, we (of course) like to organise our memories into album-associated periods of life
Published: December 14, 2022

BrooklynVegan's Top 50 Albums of 2022
From Nilüfer Yanya to Soul Glo to Kendrick Lamar to Beyoncé to Big Thief to Jockstrap to SZA to billy woods to Mindforce to Special Interest, here are our favorite albums of the year...
Published: December 14, 2022

KCRW's 22 Best Albums of 2022
From experimental hip-hop to jazz electronica, post-Instagram post-punk to neo-discodelia, futurist salsa dura to pop renaissances, 2022 marked the first full year of art born in the “after.” These are the albums that defined our year.
Published: December 14, 2022

Esquire's 25 Best Albums of 2022
From Mitski to Charli XCX, Earl Sweatshirt, Tears For Fears, Eddie Vedder, and more, these are the best music albums of 2022 so far.
Published: December 14, 2022

The Independent's Best Albums of 2022
There was oversharing and tubthumping aplenty in 2022, but largely in the spirit of musical renaissance and tentative celebration. Mark Beaumont and Helen Brown pick their favourites
Published: December 14, 2022

The Associated Press's Top Albums of 2022
Ten of the best albums of the year, as selected by The Associated Press entertainment journalists. BEYONCÉ, “RENAISSANCE”
Published: December 14, 2022

Stereogum's 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2022
2022 started off really well. A bunch of great albums came out in January, including alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins’ The 7th Hand; bassist Luke Stewart’s The Bottom; the Matthew Shipp/Michael Bisio duo Flow Of Everything; 2 Blues For Cecil by the trio of trumpeter Enrico Rava, bassist William Parker, and drummer Andrew Cyrille; John Zorn and Bill Laswell’s first collection of duos, The Cleansing; and Historic Music Past Tense Future, an archival recording by Peter Brötzmann, Parker, and Milford Graves. I hosted a streaming event on New Year’s Day, the Burning Ambulance Festival, that included performances from bassist William Parker, saxophonists Muriel Grossmann, Rodrigo Amado, and Patrick Shiroishi, pianist Lisa Ullén, drummer Gard Nilssen’s trio Acoustic Unity (see the list below), and many other musicians from the worlds of jazz, avant-garde improv, noise, and electronic music. In February, my book Ugly Beauty: Jazz In The 21st Century, which I’d spent most of 2021 writing, came out. The year held incredible promise.
Published: December 13, 2022

The FADER's 50 Best Albums of 2022
From Bad Bunny to Freddie Gibbs and Rachika Nayar to Jockstrap, these are the albums that soundtracked the past year.
Published: December 13, 2022

Pitchfork's Best Progressive Pop Music of 2022
From Haru Nemuri’s punk-inflected J-pop to Coco & Clair Clair’s spaced-out diss tracks, Ralphie Choo’s computerized flamenco and MUNA’s synth-pop fireworks, here are some standout pop songs and albums from this year.
Published: December 13, 2022

DJ Mag's Top Albums of 2022
An unranked overview of the albums that made the past 12 months so memorable for electronic music around the world
Published: December 13, 2022

MAGNET's Top 25 Albums of 2022
MAGNET's Top 25 Albums Of 2022
Published: December 13, 2022

Alternative Press's 55 Best Albums of 2022
These are 55 of the best albums of 2022. From major pop and hip-hop records to indie-rock hits, punk releases, and more, these are Alternative Press' favorite albums of the year.
Published: December 12, 2022

Stereogum's 10 Best Metal Albums of 2022
Welcome to the Black Market’s 2022 favorite metal albums extravaganza. As always, we’re sponsored by sleep deprivation, depression, and an insatiable need to hear heavy metal to make it all go away. We have 10 of the finest slabs of steel released this year on the docket for you today. But first, an intro that neatly sums up the state of metal and the years ahead.
Published: December 12, 2022

DIY's Albums of 2022
From debut LPs to grand returns, here are our fave records from the last 12 months.
Published: December 12, 2022

Stereogum's 10 Best Pop Albums of 2022
As a music writer, I don’t actually sit around much comparing current years to previous years — I don’t even do that very much in life. I’m more interested in looking ahead to whatever is coming next. So when I do look back, it’s mostly just to savor standout songs and/or albums that came out X number of years ago, and there are always plenty of those, regardless of whether they came out last year or 30 years ago. This is just my long-winded way of saying that I love every year’s music output equally. That said: 2022 unleashed some damn good pop albums.
Published: December 12, 2022

Consequence of Sound's Top 15 Rap Albums of 2022
Here are the best rap albums released in 2022, many of which we'll keep listening to well into the new year and beyond.
Published: December 12, 2022

A.V. Club's 30 Best Albums of 2022
From Renaissance and Big Time to Blue Rev and Dawn FM, here are this year's standout albums
Published: December 12, 2022

NPR Music's 50 Best Albums of 2022
We ranked our 50 favorite records of the year, from hip-hop to classical and everything in between.
Published: December 12, 2022

Classic Rock's 50 Best Rock Albums of 2022
Another Christmas is almost upon us, and the usual end-of-year shenanigans are underway: office parties, inappropriate behaviour, and magazines and websites proclaiming their end-of-year lists to be d
Published: December 12, 2022

DIY's Albums of 2022
From debut LPs to grand returns, here are our fave records from the last 12 months.
Published: December 12, 2022

Far Out Magazine's 50 Best Albums of 2022
2022 has provided us with some of the best albums in recent memory with records from Wet Leg, Yard Act and Arctic Monkeys triumphing.
Published: December 11, 2022

The Sunday Times' 25 Best Albums of 2022
From Mahler to Mr Morale — here is our pick of the 2022 releases, plus we talk to our winner, Weyes Blood. By our critics Dan Cairns and Jonathan Dean
Published: December 11, 2022

Stereogum's 10 Best Hardcore Albums of 2022
I’m never going to forget the feeling: Thousands of people, a sea of humanity, just losing its collective mind the moment that the “Holiday” riff kicked in. This year, Turnstile were everywhere: Taco Bell ads, Sunday Night Football ad bumpers, every poster for every big 2023 festival. Eventually, that omnipresence might dull the feeling. But when Turnstile toured huge venues in 2022, they proved conclusively that hardcore shows can work on a grand, world-altering scale. Looking around in the crowd at their DC gig, I saw plenty of people who were experiencing that sense of group catharsis for the first time. It was magical.
Published: December 09, 2022

Variety: Jem Aswad's Top 10 Albums of 2022
Variety critics' best album picks for 2022 include Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Rosalía, Lizzo, Kendrick Lamar, Wet Leg, SZA, Jack White and Angel Olsen.
Published: December 09, 2022

Variety: Jem Aswad's Top 10 Albums of 2022
Variety critics' best album picks for 2022 include Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Rosalía, Lizzo, Kendrick Lamar, Wet Leg, SZA, Jack White and Angel Olsen.
Published: December 09, 2022