Year-End Lists

PopMatters: The 80 Best Albums of 2022

1. Beyoncé
   Renaissance
2. Jack White
   Fear of the Dawn
2. Jack White
   Entering Heaven Alive
3. The Smile
   A Light for Attracting Attention
4. Sampa the Great
   As Above, So Below
5. Taylor Swift
   Midnights
6. Poppy Ajudha
   The Power In Us
7. Odesza
   The Last Goodbye
8. Rina Sawayama
   Hold the Girl
9. Röyksopp
   Profound Mysteries
10. Black Country, New Road
    Ants From Up There
11. Bartees Strange
    Farm to Table
12. Big Thief
    Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
13. Beach House
    Once Twice Melody
14. Wet Leg
    Wet Leg
15. Daniel Avery
    Ultra Truth
16. Dry Cleaning
    Stumpwork
17. Gabriels
    Angels & Queens – Part I
18. Yard Act
    The Overload
19. Rosalía
    Motomami
20. Kendrick Lamar
    Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
21. Amanda Shires
    Take It Like a Man
22. Hot Chip
    Freakout/Release
23. 700 Bliss
    Nothing To Declare
24. Emeli Sandé
    Let's Say for Instance
25. Black Midi
    Hellfire
26. Congotronics International
    Where's The One?
27. Hurray for the Riff Raff
    Life on Earth
28. Fontaines D.C.
    Skinty Fia
29. Sudan Archives
    Natural Brown Prom Queen
30. The Orielles
    Tableau
31. Beth Orton
    Weather Alive
32. Alex G
    God Save the Animals
33. Kojey Radical
    Reason to Smile
34. Jake Blount
    The New Faith
35. Denzel Curry
    Melt My Eyez See Your Future
36. Gang of Youths
    Angel in Realtime
37. Leyla McCalla
    Breaking The Thermometer
38. Wu-Lu
    Loggerhead
39. Carly Rae Jepsen
    The Loneliest Time
40. Open Mike Eagle
    a tape called component system with the auto reverse
41. The Beths
    Expert in a Dying Field
42. Greentea Peng
    Greenzone 108
43. Perfume Genius
    Ugly Season
44. Flohio
    Out of Heart
45. Maggie Rogers
    Surrender
46. Ibrahim Maalouf & Angelique Kidjo
    Queen of Sheba
47. Jockstrap
    I Love You Jennifer B
48. Aldous Harding
    Warm Chris
49. Dungen
    En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog
50. Shamir
    Heterosexuality
51. Florence and the Machine
    Dance Fever
52. Hatchie
    Giving the World Away
53. Ibibio Sound Machine
    Electricity
54. Charli XCX
    Crash
55. Tears for Fears
    The Tipping Point
56. The Weeknd
    Dawn FM
57. Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin
    Ali
58. Kevin Morby
    This Is a Photograph
59. Jenny Hval
    Classic Objects
60. S.G. Goodman
    Teeth Marks
61. Sharon Van Etten
    We've Been Going About This All Wrong
62. Hercules and Love Affair
    In Amber
63. Danger Mouse and Black Thought
    Cheat Codes
64. Burial
    Antidawn
64. Burial
    Streetlands
65. Alvvays
    Blue Rev
66. Black Lips
    Apocalypse Love
67. Sarah Shook & the Disarmers
    Nightroamer
68. Ghost
    Impera
69. Confidence Man
    Tilt
70. Julian Lage
    View with a Room
71. Demi Lovato
    Holy Fvck
72. Harry Styles
    Harry's House
73. Fantastic Negrito
    White Jesus Black Problems
74. CMAT
    If My Wife New I'd Be Dead
75. Guided by Voices
    Crystal Nuns Cathedral
76. St. Paul & The Broken Bones
    The Alien Coast
77. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
    Crooked Tree
78. Suede
    Autofiction
79. The Chats
    Get Fucked
80. Saba
    Few Good Things