Year-End Lists

The Forty-Five: The Best Albums of 2022

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2021 • 2020]

1. Jockstrap
   I Love You Jennifer B
2. Wet Leg
   Wet Leg
3. Shygirl
   Nymph
4. Mitski
   Laurel Hell
5. Sudan Archives
   Natural Brown Prom Queen
6. Beyoncé
   Renaissance
7. Rosalía
   Motomami
8. Taylor Swift
   Midnights
9. Weyes Blood
   And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
10. Sampa the Great
    As Above, So Below
11. Nova Twins
    Supernova
12. Grace Ives
    Janky Star
13. The Big Moon
    Here Is Everything
14. Ethel Cain
    Preacher's Daughter
15. Megan Thee Stallion
    Traumazine
16. Florence + The Machine
    Dance Fever
17. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
    Cool It Down
18. Sylvan Esso
    No Rules Sandy
19. Maggie Rogers
    Surrender
20. Charli XCX
    Crash
21. Warpaint
    Radiate Like This
22. Julia Jacklin
    Pre Pleasure
23. The Beths
    Expert in a Dying Field
24. Angel Olsen
    Big Time
25. Snail Mail
    Valentine
26. Nilüfer Yanya
    Painless
27. Let’s Eat Grandma
    Two Ribbons
28. Phoebe Green
    Lucky Me
29. Muna
    Muna
30. Cate Le Bon
    Pompeii
31. Raveena
    Asha's Awakening
32. Rina Sawayama
    Hold the Girl
33. Nina Nastasia
    Riderless Horse
34. Carly Rae Jepsen
    The Loneliest Time
35. Björk
    Fossora
36. Momma
    Household Name
37. Soccer Mommy
    Sometimes, Forever
38. Natalia Lafourcade
    De todas las flores
39. Kae Tempest
    The Line Is A Curve
40. Sorry
    Anywhere But Here
41. Horsegirl
    Versions of Modern Performance
42. Big Joanie
    Back Home
43. Beabadoobee
    Beatopia
44. Lowertown
    I Love To Lie
45. Niki
    Nicole