Here are the Billboard staff's picks for the best albums of 2022. Did your favorite make the top 50? 👇
While every year of the streaming era — maybe every year of the post-Napster era — has brought with it concerns about the health of the full-album format, 2022 ended up making a pretty convincing argument that the LP could still be just as vital in the culture as it was during Tower Records’ heyday.
But it wasn’t just the already-big going bigger in 2022. Some new and still-rising artists found their voices in unexpected and thrilling ways, scoring breakout hits and connecting with new audiences. Some veteran artists continued to hone their trademark craft, making satisfying comebacks that made us wish they hadn’t left us for so long beforehand.
Here are our 50 favorite albums from this year — sets which both made us nostalgic for the format’s past, and excited about its future.
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