Year-End Lists

Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2022

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2012]

1. Big Thief
   Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
2. Billy Woods
   Aethiopes
3. Black Country, New Road
   Ants From Up There
4. Nilüfer Yanya
   Painless
5. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul
   Topical Dancer
6. Kendrick Lamar
   Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
7. Jockstrap
   I Love You Jennifer B
8. Beyoncé
   Renaissance
9. Soul Glo
   Diaspora Problems
10. Weyes Blood
    And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
11. The Smile
    A Light for Attracting Attention
12. Backxwash
    His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering
13. Dry Cleaning
    Stumpwork
14. Chat Pile
    God's Country
15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
    Cool It Down
16. Conway the Machine
    God Don't Make Mistakes
17. Black Midi
    Hellfire
18. Alex G
    God Save the Animals
19. Sudan Archives
    Natural Brown Prom Queen
20. Florist
    Florist
21. FKA twigs
    Caprisongs
22. SZA
    SOS
23. Gilla Band
    Most Normal
24. Alvvays
    Blue Rev
25. Björk
    Fossora
26. Denzel Curry
    Melt My Eyez See Your Future
27. Beth Orton
    Weather Alive
28. Special Interest
    Endure
29. Angel Olsen
    Big Time
30. Burial
    Antidawn
31. Sharon Van Etten
    We've Been Going About This All Wrong
32. Tomberlin
    I Don't Know Who Needs To Hear This...
33. Charli XCX
    Crash
34. Plains
    I Walked With You A Ways
35. Shygirl
    Nymph
36. Bill Callahan
    YTI⅃AƎЯ
37. Hikaru Utada
    Bad Mode
38. Billy Woods
    Church
39. Rosalía
    Motomami
40. Destroyer
    Labyrinthitis
41. Ghais Guevara
    There Will Be No Super​--Slave
42. Duster
    Together
43. Ravyn Lenae
    Hypnos
44. Carmen Villain
    Only Love From Now On
45. Empath
    Visitor
46. Cate Le Bon
    Pompeii
47. Grace Cummings
    Storm Queen
48. Horsegirl
    Versions of Modern Performance
49. Earl Sweatshirt
    Sick!
50. Tengger
    Earthing