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2022 Music

Variety: Chris Willman: The Best Albums of 2022

11 December 2022

Midnights - Taylor Swift

Chris Willman: The Best Albums of 2022, as published by Variety

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018]

  1. Midnights
    Taylor Swift
  2. The Boy Named If
    Elvis Costello & The Imposters
  3. Fear of the Dawn
    Jack White
  4. Entering Heaven Alive
    Jack White
  5. Special
    Lizzo
  6. Chloë and the Next 20th Century
    Father John Misty
  7. Renaissance
    Beyoncé
  8. Wet Leg
    Wet Leg
  9. Second Nature
    Lucius
  10. God's Work
    LeAnn Rimes
  11. Cruel Country
    Wilco

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