The 40 Best Albums of 2022
The gallery on this page contains Metacritic's list of the 40 best-reviewed albums of 2022, ranked by Metascore. This list only includes new albums receiving at least 7 reviews from professional critics.
Otherwise, all full-length studio albums (or mixtapes) released between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022 are eligible, though reissues, live albums, box sets and other compilations are excluded. (Those excluded titles are included in a separate list at the end of the gallery.) Albums are ranked by Metascore prior to rounding based on scores as of December 19, 2022.
Metacritic's Official #1 Album of 2022
(#1) It topped our chart at midyear, and nothing changed over the past six months: Rosalía's third LP is simply the best-reviewed album of 2022. Somehow besting the Spanish pop artist's stellar sophomore set El Mal Querer, which made her an international star and a multiple Grammy winner, Motomami once again finds the artist experimenting with genre and form. It also finds her collaborating with Pharrell Williams and The Weeknd, among others. Motomami has already won four Latin Grammy Awards (including Album of the Year) and has a shot at another Grammy Award in February.
“An album that not only marks Rosalia’s true arrival, it moves her toward the front line of today’s musical innovators.” —Variety
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