Year-End Lists

Jon Caramanica: Best Albums of 2022, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2011]

1. American Heartbreak
   Zach Bryan
2. Motomami
   Rosalía
3. Honestly, Nevermind
   Drake
4. Welcome to the Block Party
   Priscilla Block
5. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
6. Farm to Table
   Bartees Strange
7. Gulch’s final show, Sound & Fury Festival, July 31, 2022
8. Last Ones Left
   42 Dugg and EST Gee
9. Mr. Money with the Vibe
   Asake
10. Disrespectful
    Bad Boy Chiller Crew
11. Un Verano Sin Ti
    Bad Bunny
12. Club Godfather
    Bandmanrill
13. Endure
    Special Interest

And 16 more, alphabetically

• Being Funny in a Foreign Language
  The 1975
• 2 Slizzy 2 Sexy (Deluxe)
  Cash Cobain & Chow Lee
• Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?
  Tyler Childers
• Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022)
  Fred again..
• Give or Take
  Giveon
• 7220
  Lil Durk
• Laughing so Hard, it Hurts
  Mavi
• I Used to Think I Could Fly
  Tate McRae
• Heaven Come Crashing
  Rachika Nayar
• Harry's House
  Harry Styles
• Sick!
  Earl Sweatshirt
• Beautiful Mind
  Rod Wave
• Dawn FM
  The Weeknd
• Coping Mechanism
  Willow
• Colors
  YoungBoy Never Broke Again

Honorary late 2021 release

• The D.O.A. Tape
  Kay Flock