Year-End Lists

The Boston Globe: The 50 Best Albums of 2022

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023]

• Un Verano Sin Ti
  Bad Bunny
• Good Morning Gorgeous
  Mary J. Blige
• Squeeze
  SASAMI
• Rolling Golden Holy
  Bonny Light Horseman
• Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?
  Tyler Childers
• It's Time... To Rise From the Grave
  Undeath
• Palomino
  Miranda Lambert
• Cool It Down
  Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• The Forever Story
  JID
• Renaissance
  Beyoncé
• Broken Hearts Club
  Syd
• Odesa: A Musical Walk Through a Legendary City
  Vadim Neselovskyi
• Endure
  Special Interest
• The Sea Drift
  The Delines
• In These Times
  Makaya McCraven
• Ants From Up There
  Black Country, New Road
• Versions of Modern Performance
  Horsegirl
• Preacher's Daughter
  Ethel Cain
• King's Disease III
  Nas
• Motomami
  Rosalía
• Spaceships on the Blade
  Larry June
• Linger Awhile
  Samara Joy
• Heaven Come Crashing
  Rachika Nayar
• Heartfall
  Miles Hewitt
• Gemini Rights
  Steve Lacy
• The Car
  Arctic Monkeys
• Wet Leg
  Wet Leg
• Classic Objects
  Jenny Hval
• Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
  Kendrick Lamar
• Faster Than I Can Take
  Jane Inc
• We
  Arcade Fire
• Ghost Song
  Cécile McLorin Salvant
• Being Funny in a Foreign Language
  The 1975
• Single Wide Dreamer
  Aaron Raitiere
• Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
  Big Thief
• Skinty Fia
  Fontaines D.C.
• The Tipping Point
  Tears for Fears
• Traveler - A Journey Symphony
  Austin Wintory & London Symphony Orchestra
• Before Shit Got Weird
  The Cool Kids
• Coping Mechanism
  Willow
• We've Been Going About This All Wrong
  Sharon Van Etten
• Jump
  Julieta Eugenio
• Two Ribbons
  Let’s Eat Grandma
• Down Every Road
  Eli "Paperboy" Reed
• And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
  Weyes Blood
• 40 oz. to Fresno
  Joyce Manor
• Bronco
  Orville Peck
• Zhigeist
  Elzhi & Georgia Anne Muldrow
• All These Fucking Feelings
  Too Much Joy