Year-End Lists

Mikael Wood: The 20 Best Albums of 2022, as published by The Los Angeles Times

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2021]

1. Renaissance
   Beyoncé
2. Motomami
   Rosalía
3. Un Verano Sin Ti
   Bad Bunny
4. Midnights
   Taylor Swift
5. Blue Rev
   Alvvays
6. Big Time
   Angel Olsen
7. Bell Bottom Country
   Lainey Wilson
8. Live at the Bon Soir
   Barbra Streisand
9. Charlie
   Charlie Puth
10. More Love, Less Ego
    Wizkid

10 more not to be missed, in alphabetical order

• Being Funny in a Foreign Language
  The 1975
• The Car
  Arctic Monkeys
• Honestly, Nevermind
  Drake
• Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
  Kendrick Lamar
• Palomino
  Miranda Lambert
• Second Nature
  Lucius
• Self-Titled
  Marcus Mumford
• Ghost Song
  Cécile McLorin Salvant
• Harry's House
  Harry Styles
• Dawn FM
  The Weeknd