Best Albums of 2022

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Listed below are the best albums of 2022 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 6 hours ago).

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2022 year summaryThe best artists of 2022 were Black Country, New Road, Big Thief, Kendrick Lamar, Alvvays, Black Midi, The Smile, Fontaines D.C., Beyoncé, Beach House and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.

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31.

God Save The Animals

Alex G

"Wow, what a beautiful listen. ‘God Save The Animals’ sounds both starkly original yet familiar at the same time, sporting thirteen deeply expressive and poignant tracks of indie rock/ folk." Reply

- jbentley3997 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

153 charts

Rank Score:

484

Rank in 2022:

Rank in 2020s:

161

Overall Rank:

3,123

Average Rating:

75 (113 votes)

Comments:

32.

Big Time

Angel Olsen

"This is a perfectly okay album, but Olsen has lost any x-factor I thought she once had. I'd rather listen to 70s country classics than this project – because that's literally what this album is emulating, just with gay themes and ill-fittingly clean production. Olsen is able to make the genre shi..." [+] Reply

Arthurknight | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

182 charts

Rank Score:

482

Rank in 2022:

Rank in 2020s:

163

Overall Rank:

3,136

Average Rating:

74 (136 votes)

Comments:

33.

Fear Of The Dawn

Jack White

"A few of the songs are jams that can sound a bit unfocused at times and White occasionally sounds like a caricature of himself, but he does it in a way that welcomes reinvention and I love the high energy here. There are some weirder more experimental moments that threw me for a loop and were ver..." [+] Reply

- pctrooper | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

136 charts

Rank Score:

471

Rank in 2022:

Rank in 2020s:

166

Overall Rank:

3,201

Average Rating:

75 (140 votes)

Comments:

34.

The Overload

Yard Act

"I thought I'd like this when I first heard about it but I just found a lot of the album to sound too silly at times and the vocals in my opinion are annoying. Didn't work for me sadly" Reply

- SD100852 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

157 charts

Rank Score:

470

Rank in 2022:

Rank in 2020s:

167

Overall Rank:

3,203

Average Rating:

72 (142 votes)

Comments:

35.

Midnights

Taylor Swift

"I think how much you're fascinated with everything Taylor Swift- particularly both the icon and what people perceive her as out of the limelight- will go a long way into how you value this album. Because purely taken as a piece of music, it rarely gels into anything substantial. In hindsight, I w...""I think how much you're fascinated with everything Taylor Swift- particularly both the icon and what people perceive her as out of the limelight- will go a long way into how you value this album. Because purely taken as a piece of music, it rarely gels into anything substantial. In hindsight, I was harder on Folklore & Evermore on the time which mostly seemed to be about the ballyhooed "I can't believe Taylor INVENTED indie folk music!" overpraise, but it actually felt like a positive exercise to move away (at least for the most part) from all the first-person taylor drama and actually rejigger her interest in character-based songwriting which has always been a much more engaging style than her attempts at meta self-reflection. And again the Songwriting is key, because these often aren't even really full songs, just coasting on the modern snippet-based music trend that a 30-second mood stretched out to the brim is a full idea on it's own right. A lot of it is ressurecting already-dated trends (the endless vocoder use, purring baselines, moody Odd Future and 808 cast-off riffs) as well as some of her own old sounds (particularly the steely synths of 1989, though intentionally fragmented here to emphermal results), which doesn't help that most of the songs still are all Taylor, all the time- a whole lot of humble brags about how personal fallouts and media scrutiny made her the better person, and more record-industry drama BS (which leads to the most tedious attempt at a noirish revenge song anyone could imagine). I donno, there are some highlights, the end couple of songs are pretty solid vintage Taylor with some modern trimmings and "You're On Your Own Kid" is a lyrically strong, more outward look on how the earnest romantic teenage longing of her earliest work has fractured as time passes and pleasing enough I'll completly forgive it rips off the sound of Melodrama's masterpiece "Hard Feelings" (and no blaming Antonoff here, I doubt he was even in the studio here considering the complete auto-pilot production job). Obviously an album that would look more towards the growth of her now adult fanbase and how her music has affected them rather than herself would've been a more interesting prospect, instead we get an album that coasts on what we've heard all Before, both from Taylor and much of the styles that were popular in her heyday. It's not terrible by any means, but perhaps the worst thing Taylor could do is make a terminally uninteresting album that even when spinning you can forget you're even listening to it and realize there's better things to do with your time." [+] Reply

cestuneblague | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (4 helpful | 1 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

156 charts

Rank Score:

467

Rank in 2022:

Rank in 2020s:

170

Overall Rank:

3,224

Average Rating:

67 (168 votes)

Comments:

36.

Labyrinthitis

Destroyer

"Pretty sure this is the most I've enjoyed Destroyer. Loved the singles and the album has a great flow. Has like a similarity to early Brian Eno which includes Another Green World and like a hint of Talking Heads so like that Eno/Byrne album or something? I dunno it's super cool and exciting music..." [+] Reply

ExTeaSea | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

117 charts

Rank Score:

445

Rank in 2022:

Rank in 2020s:

174

Overall Rank:

3,351

Average Rating:

74 (117 votes)

Comments:

37.

Laurel Hell

Mitski

"The overall theme of the “Laurel Hell” seems to be emotional vulnerability. Mitski sings about expectations, not feeling loved, and anxiety fairly earnestly. “Stay Soft” embraces the topic best with its scared but very affirming discussion of sex. A limitation is many of the songs feel underwritt..." [+] Reply

- titansaurs28 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

183 charts

Rank Score:

441

Rank in 2022:

Rank in 2020s:

177

Overall Rank:

3,372

Average Rating:

72 (184 votes)

Comments:

38.

Chloë And The Next 20th Century

Father John Misty

"I know this album has left a bad taste for a lot of long time fans and it’s by no means his best album I personally really enjoy the new direction. I love the jazzy roaring 20s kind of vibe. I feel like this album had a lot of potential but came out half baked. Not great but an interesting new so..." [+] Reply

- Toffuey | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

135 charts

Rank Score:

440

Rank in 2022:

Rank in 2020s:

178

Overall Rank:

3,378

Average Rating:

71 (139 votes)

Comments:

39.

No Thank You

Little Simz

"Feels like a slightly stripped down and perhaps more immediate piece of work from Simz in comparison to the epic conceptual heights of her previous album 'Sometimes I Might Be Introvert', mixed with a dash of SAULT-esque rootsiness via the occasional inclusion of traditional percussion or gospel ..." [+] Reply

- jbentley3997 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

148 charts

Rank Score:

433

Rank in 2022:

Rank in 2020s:

180

Overall Rank:

3,426

Average Rating:

76 (131 votes)

Comments:

40.

SOS

SZA

"Come on, what on earth is the point of clogging up these comment sections with a copy paste of the album's tracklist? With or without your personal rating of each song, it just goes against the design of the website." Reply

- lylecatcliffe | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Year of Release:

2022

Appears in:

138 charts

Rank Score:

425

Rank in 2022:

Rank in 2020s:

186

Overall Rank:

3,483

Average Rating:

73 (118 votes)

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Best Albums of 2022 composition

Artist	Albums	%

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	6	1%
Tedeschi Trucks Band	4	0%
Sault	4	0%
Iannis Xenakis	3	0%
Zach Bryan	3	0%
Weezer	3	0%
Ryan Adams	3	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	453	45%
	192	19%
	50	5%
	32	3%
	32	3%
	26	3%
	23	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	984	98%
Yes	16	2%

Live?	Albums	%
No	979	98%
Yes	21	2%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	997	100%
Yes	3	0%

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