Year-End Lists

Dan DeLuca: Best Pop Music Albums of 2022, as published by The Philadelphia Inquirer

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

1. Motomami
   Rosalía
2. AIIR
   Sault
2. Earth
   Sault
2. Today & Tomorrow
   Sault
2. Untitled (God)
   Sault
3. Cheat Codes
   Danger Mouse and Black Thought
4. God Save the Animals
   Alex G
5. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
6. Farm to Table
   Bartees Strange
7. American Heartbreak
   Zach Bryan
8. Boat Songs
   MJ Lenderman
9. The Spur
   Joan Shelley
10. Palomino
    Miranda Lambert

Honorable mentions

• Blue Rev
  Alvvays
• Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
  Big Thief
• The Boy Named If
  Elvis Costello & The Imposters
• The Sea Drift
  The Delines
• I Love You Jennifer B
  Jockstrap
• Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
  Kendrick Lamar
• Lucifer on the Sofa
  Spoon
• Ramona Park Broke My Heart
  Vince Staples
• SOS
  SZA
• Painless
  Nilüfer Yanya