Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 by Arthurknight
2022 was a really pleasant year for music. I think that sense of post-Covid energy shines through a lot of the albums that have come out and I for one like this as a nice change from the trend of bored artists making boring lockdown recordings which were continually dolled out as low-stakes releases throughout 2020 and 2021. Musically, the 2020s continue to not be particularly radical – nobodies making anything daringly "new" – but I think a set of sounds that distinguish the decade are beginning to emerge: It's the return of softcore, the "rock band", the concept album, and political music being cool again. Meanwhile, Tiktok looms over us all as the cultural behemoth which will eventually consume the entire industry and convert all artists into short-form vloggers peddling portable smoothie blenders.
Top 15 Songs of 2022:
1. Black Country, New Road: The Place Where He Inserted The Blade
2. Bluetile Lounge: Easterly
3. Blackwinterwells, 8485: halo3
4. Yo La Tengo – Fallout
5. Rachika Nayar, Maria BC – Heaven Comes Crashing
6. julie: pg. 4 a picture of three hedges
7. Kendrick Lamar - The Heart, Part 5
8. Horsegirl: Anti-glory
9. Julia Holter: Heloise
10. Uboa, vi a: Dead Time's Broken Arrow
11. Saya Gray: If There's No Seat In the Sky (Will You Forgive Me???)
12. Sons Of: A Yellow Robe
13. Enablers: Year Of The Dog
14. Jessie Ware: Free Yourself
15. Oiseaux-Tempête: A Man Alone - In A One Man Poem
Additional "Significant" reviews (Written reviews in album comments):
Ethel Cain – Preacher's Daughter: 6
Belle and Sebastian – A Bit of Previous: 6
Sault – Air: 6
Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems: 6
Nouns – While of Unsound Mind: 6
Desire – Escape: 6
Pusha T – It's Almost Dry: 6
Wet Leg – Wet Leg: 6
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Omnium Gatherum: 6
Pinegrove – 1111: 6
FKA Twigs – Caprisongs: 6
Leikeli47 – Shape Up: 6
Earl Sweatshirt – Sick!: 6
Yard Act – The Overload: 5.5
Father John Misty – Chloë And The Next 20th Century: 5.5
Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever: 5.5
Melody's Echo Chamber – Emotional Eternal: 5.5
Black Star – No Fear of Time: 5.5
Soccer Mommy – Somtimes, Forever: 5.5
The Weeknd – Dawn FM: 5
Spoon – Lucifer On The Sofa: 5
Jack White – Fear Of The Dawn: 5
Everything Everything – Raw Data Feel: 4.5
070 Shake – You Can't Kill Me: 4
Arcade Fire – We: 4
Arctic Monkeys – The Car: 2
Unsurprisingly, Muse released the year's worst album: a crass and masturbatory exercise in fantasised hubris masquerading as music. Will Of The People is the closest Muse have got to creating music that can work like the "Killer Joke" from Monty Python's Flying Circus, and after listening to it I could only wish that they had succeeded. Solid attempts at releasing worse music this year were made by Drake, Jack Harlow, and most-daringly Avril Lavigne, but it's hard to actively criticise the sausage factory for the junk it pumps out. Instead, Muse claim to be making art.
- Chart updated: 02/02/2024 04:15
- (Created: 02/07/2022 05:58).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
There are 3 comments for this chart from BestEverAlbums.com members and Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 has an average rating of 90 out of 100 (from 4 votes). Please log in or register to leave a comment or assign a rating.
View the complete list of 53,000 charts on BestEverAlbums.com from The Charts page.
This chart is currently filtered to only show albums from Conway the Machine. (Remove this filter)
There's a really solid mid-section in this album, but that's about it for me? It's kind of an old sound, and Conway doesn't bring much new to the table. Fun nostalgia release though with good songs like Piano Love and Stressed.
_ [First added to this chart: 05/05/2022]
Don't agree with this chart? Create your own from the My Charts page!
Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 composition
Artist | Albums | % | |
---|---|---|---|
|
|||
Lambchop | 1 | 1% | |
The Weather Station | 1 | 1% | |
Black Dresses | 1 | 1% | |
Jockstrap | 1 | 1% | |
Gospel | 1 | 1% | |
Craig Finn | 1 | 1% | |
Wild Up | 1 | 1% | |
Show all |
Country | Albums | % | |
---|---|---|---|
|
|||
45 | 45% | ||
20 | 20% | ||
6 | 6% | ||
4 | 4% | ||
3 | 3% | ||
3 | 3% | ||
2 | 2% | ||
Show all |
Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 chart changes
Biggest climbers |
---|
Up 1 from 99th to 98th Air Guitar by Sobs |
Biggest fallers |
---|
Down 1 from 98th to 99th How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars by The Weather Station |
Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 similarity to your chart(s)
Not a member? Registering is quick, easy and FREE!
Why register?
- Join a passionate community of over 50,000 music fans.
- Create & share your own charts.
- Have your say in the overall rankings.
- Post comments in the forums and vote on polls.
- Comment on or rate any album, artist, track or chart.
- Discover new music & improve your music collection.
- Customise the overall chart using a variety of different filters & metrics.
- Create a wishlist of albums.
- Help maintain the BEA database.
- Earn member points and gain access to increasing levels of functionality!
- ... And lots more!
Register now - it only takes a moment!
Other year charts (from the 2020s) by Arthurknight
Top 15 Music Albums of 2024 by Arthurknight (2024)Top 100 Music Albums of 2023 by Arthurknight (2024)
Top 100 Music Albums of 2021 by Arthurknight (2023)
Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 by Arthurknight (2024)
Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 ratings
where:
av = trimmed mean average rating an item has currently received.
n = number of ratings an item has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an item to appear in a 'top-rated' chart (currently 10).
AV = the site mean average rating.
N.B. The average rating for this chart will not be reliable as it has been rated very few times.
Showing all 4 ratings for this chart.
Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
---|---|---|---|---|
07/24/2022 13:50 | ForegroundNoise | 475 | 87/100 | |
07/16/2022 22:16 | travelful | 209 | 99/100 | |
07/10/2022 20:39 | ghosttomost | 56 | 85/100 | |
02/09/2022 19:47 | DJENNY | 4,408 | 100/100 |
Please log in or register if you want to be able to leave a rating
Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 favourites
Showing all 1 members who have added this chart as a favourite
Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 comments
Showing all 3 comments |
Most Helpful First | Newest First | Maximum Rated First |
Longest Comments First
(Only showing comments with -2 votes or higher. You can alter this threshold from your profile page. Manage Profile)
Great chart and love all the reviews- keep it coming!
Went to give this a 100/100 and praise your writing when I noticed I'd got there already! Interested to hear your thoughts on my own top 20 – got a piece on Ants From Up There coming out soon too
Another class year chart!! Genuinely a better standard of journalism than most 'Best of 2022 So Far' lists I've seen from major publications; looking forward to checking back on what it looks like in December!
Please log in or register if you want to be able to add a comment
Your feedback for Top 100 Music Albums of 2022
A lot of hard work happens in the background to keep BEA running, and it's especially difficult to do this when we can't pay our hosting fees :(
We work very hard to ensure our site is as fast (and FREE!) as possible, and we respect your privacy.