Beyoncé’s dance-music ecstasy, Dangerous Bunny’s newest world-conquering smash, Taylor Swift’s late nights, Harry Types’ tune cycle, and Pusha T’s grasp class in metaphor had been solely a few of the albums that dominated our world this 12 months

Each time we rotated in 2022, it felt like one other famous person was blowing our minds with a headline-making occasion launch. Beyoncé ended a six-year break between solo studio LPs with a masterful dance-music reinvention; Dangerous Bunny celebrated one more 12 months as the most important artist on the earth along with his newest chart-conquering smash; Taylor Swift left her cottage; Harry Types took us again to his place; Drake launched not one however two blockbusters; Pusha T reminded us that nobody raps about something in addition to he raps about his favourite topics. It was a really huge 12 months for very huge albums.

It was additionally a time for artists to stage as much as beautiful impact. Rosalía, King Princess, Omar Apollo, and Bartees Unusual are just some of those that received our consideration as new acts over the previous few years, then did actually wonderful issues with the highlight they’d earned. Elsewhere, Moist Leg got here out of seemingly nowhere to make one of many 12 months’s funniest and straight-up greatest rock albums; Steve Lacy achieved a pop breakthrough even he wasn’t anticipating; Alvvays reemerged from their Canadian hibernation with an immediate indie-pop traditional; J-Hope went solo with terrific outcomes. And people are simply a few of the sounds that formed 2022 — a 12 months in music we now have a sense we’ll be interested by (and dancing to) for a very long time to return.

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