Best Albums of 2022
Explore the best albums of 2022, based on over 2 million album rankings across 60,000 charts.
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"A very ambitious project from Big Thief that shows a huge amount of potential but I don't think they have reached their absolute peak yet. You can see the group growing in quality through their albums and they just keep going up and up with this new release. This is primarily due to them being mo..." [+] Reply
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2022
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3,948
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"Perhaps the greatest artist of his century and/or genre, Kendrick delivers another masterpiece that once again sounds like nothing he did before. In doing so, he made arguably his least commercial and least accessible album coming after his most accessible one. Took a few listens for it to click ..." [+] Reply
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Sean | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +9 votes (11 helpful | 2 unhelpful)
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2022
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"First, don't want to ruin this experience for anybody by over hyping it. Take it in in a natural way. So, Beach House is my favorite. I contemplate my favorite album of all time as Teen Dream, Bloom, Depression Cherry, and now Once Twice Melody. This album blows me away with the sonics and sounds..." [+] Reply
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C_Krug2009 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2022
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"It's no Lemonade but it's pretty cool, especially the back half. It all flows together nicely like an endless dance club night out haha. Have been to a few haha, dancing in public isn't for me but I can see the appeal. They could literally just play this entire album and it'd be about the same as..." [+] Reply
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ExTeaSea | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (2 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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2022
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1,739
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"This might just overtake Ants From Up Here as aoty for me. This is absolutely spectacular in every conceivable way." Reply
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2022
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1,491
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"The best solo album from Black Thought imo great production from Danger Mouse. Belize was great." Reply
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2022
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1,458
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"By far my AOTY. And that's not a dig at other albums dropped this year — that's just how good this is" Reply
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LebowskiRams | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2022
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1,298
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"Great album that shows that straight-forward rock music is still alive and kicking" Reply
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Cargusbralem | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2022
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"Such a complex and interesting piece of work from Woods. I particularly enjoy his lyricism and the detailed palette of samples used in the production." Reply
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2022
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"Okay this is Denzel Curry's best work. Melt Session and Walkin set up what could be an outstanding album – in truth it's more of a mixed bag from there, with low low like X-wing just boring trap crap, and Zatoichi being a pretty nice collab with Slowthai that is a fun addition toward the end of t..." [+] Reply
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Arthurknight | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2022
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Total albums: 455. Page 1 of 46
Best Albums of 2022 composition
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| King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | 6 | 1% | |
| Weezer | 4 | 0% | |
| Sault | 4 | 0% | |
| Tedeschi Trucks Band | 4 | 0% | |
| Iannis Xenakis | 3 | 0% | |
| Röyksopp | 3 | 0% | |
| Neil Young | 3 | 0% | |
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455 | 46% | |
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185 | 19% | |
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51 | 5% | |
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35 | 4% | |
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29 | 3% | |
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25 | 3% | |
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24 | 2% | |
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Best Albums of 2022 chart changes
| Biggest climbers Biggest climbers in top 100 since last month |
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Up 15 from 89th to 74th |
Up 4 from 102nd to 98th |
Up 3 from 69th to 66th |
| Biggest fallers Biggest fallers in top 100 since last month |
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Down 2 from 39th to 41st |
Down 2 from 66th to 68th |
Down 2 from 82nd to 84th |
| New entries New entries in top 100 since last month |
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Up 4 from 102nd to 98th |
Up 1 from 101st to 100th |
| Leavers Leavers from top 100 since last month |
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Down 51 from 95th to 146th |
Down 1 from 100th to 101st |
