Beyoncé’s highly celebrated album, ‘Renaissance‘ has been named world’s number 1 album of 2022 by Rolling Stone.
According to Rolling Stone, only a few of the albums that dominated our world this year included Beyoncé’s dance-music ecstasy, Bad Bunny’s most recent chart-topping hit, Taylor Swift‘s Midnights, Harry Styles’ song cycle, and Pusha T’s masterclass in metaphor.
Beyoncé ended a six-year hiatus between solo studio albums with a masterful reimagining of dance music; Bad Bunny celebrated yet another year as the biggest artist in the world with his most recent chart-topping hit; Taylor Swift left her cottage; Harry Styles took us back to his place; Drake released not one but two blockbusters; and Pusha T reminded us that no one raps about anything as well as he raps about his favorite topics. For really large albums, it was a very big year.
Additionally, it was a period when artists advanced to stunning effect. Rosala, King Princess, Omar Apollo, and Bartees Strange are just a few of the new acts that caught our attention in recent years before going on to accomplish truly amazing feats in the spotlight.
See top five (5) albums of 2022 according to Rolling Stone below:
Renaissance – Beyoncé
The year’s most memorable musical performance was Beyoncé’s astonishing solo comeback on Renaissance. With the rapturously victorious piano house of “Break My Soul,” she achieved a massive Number One solo hit, her first in more than ten years, and received overwhelming critical acclaim for her performance.
Un Verano Sin Ti – Bad Bunny
The superstar’s most freewheeling project to date is Bad Bunny’s sun-drenched homage to Puerto Rican summers, yet there’s a weight to the way it breaks record after record: The LP broke records by becoming the first all-Spanish language album to be nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammys, becoming the most streamed album on Spotify when it initially came out, spending more time at Number One on the Billboard 100 than any other album this year.
Midnights – Taylor Swift
For an ode to insomnia as only Taylor Swift could capture it on Midnights, she left the woods and walked inside, to a room adorned with the finest wood-paneled walls and mustard couches. Synth-sparkling gems like “Maroon” and “Question…?” feel like distant relatives of 1989, but this is the kind of relative that enjoys talking about the cocaine-fueled Seventies while playing Fleetwood Mac tunes on their old Wurlitzer.
Motomami – Rosalía
For years now, debates over genre, race, and culture in Spanish-language music have been sparked by the Catalan shapeshifter. But with the multilingual Motomami, she fully committed to the role of a smug pop globalist, displaying equal amounts of her love for Kate Bush, M.I.A., and Camarón de la Isla.
Harry’s House – Harry Styles
On Fine Line, Harry Styles created the ideal blueprint for a contemporary pop smash; nevertheless, with Harry’s House, he chooses to throw it out and start over. It is a colorful, amusing, and intensely emotional song cycle about establishing various forms of home while evading capture. He transitions quickly between Tokyo-style city pop (“Music for a Sushi Restaraunt”), disco flash (“Satellite”), and hazy hippie psychedelia (“Grapejuice”). It took “As It Was” six months to leave the Top Five despite being a deeply personal and intimate song that went on to become the year’s biggest success. But it shares the same heart as “Matilda,” a stirring guitar ballad about witnessing a friend cope with a traumatic family experience.
