The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2022. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.
For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2022 in music.
First quarter January + List of albums released in January 2022 Release date Artist Album Genre Label January3 Up10tion Novella TOP Media Kep1er First Impact Wake One, Swing January4 Onewe Planet Nine: Voyager Rock RBW January5 ASP Placebo J-pop WACK Omega X Love Me Like Spire Entertainment SixTones City Sony Music Japan January6 Burial Antidawn Ambient Hyperdub Montana of 300 Rap God Fly Guy Entertainment January7 Dope Lemon Rose Pink Cadillac BMG Gunna DS4Ever Trap YSL, 300 Inna Champagne Problems #DQH1 Dance-pop Global RuPaul Mamaru Bubblegum pop, hyperpop RuCo Inc Spector Now or Whenever Moth Noise Tony Malaby's Sabino The Cave of Winds Jazz Pyroclastic Records Twin Atlantic Transparency The Weeknd Dawn FM Dance-pop, synth-pop XO, Republic January12 Yuuri Ichi Ariola Japan January13 Excision Onyx Dubstep, death metal Subsidia Records January14 Anna von Hausswolff Live at Montreux Jazz Festival Southern Lord, Pomperipossa Records Blood Red Shoes Ghosts on Tape Alternative rock Jazz Life Bonobo Fragments House Ninja Tune Cat Power Covers Rock Domino Cordae From a Birds Eye View Hip-hop Atlantic Drew Holcomb & Ellie Holcomb Coming Home: A Collection of Songs Earl Sweatshirt Sick! Tan Cressida, Warner Eliza Gilkyson Songs from the River Wind Howlin' Dog Records Elvis Costello and the Imposters The Boy Named If Rock and roll EMI Enterprise Earth The Chosen Deathcore eOne Fickle Friends Are We Gonna Be Alright? Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds Deathcore, post-metal Nuclear Blast FKA Twigs Caprisongs Art pop, avant-pop Young, Atlantic The Lumineers Brightside Dualtone, Decca Magnum The Monster Roars SPV/Steamhammer Shadow of Intent Elegy Deathcore, technical death metal, progressive death metal Blood Blast Skillet Domininon Hard rock Atlantic Tony Martin Thorns Heavy metal Battlegod Productions Underoath Voyeurist Metalcore, post-hardcore Fearless The Wombats Fix Yourself, Not the World Post-punk, Britpop AWAL Worm Shepherd Ritual Hymns Blackened deathcore, black metal, symphonic metal Unique Leader Records January15 Molly Nilsson Extreme Synth-pop Dark Skies Association, Night School January19 Moonbyul 6equence RBW Hikaru Utada Bad Mode Pop, R&B, electronica Epic Japan, Sony Music Japan, Milan January20 Pedro the Lion Havasu Polyvinyl Rich Brian Brightside Hip-hop 88rising January21 Andrew Cyrille, William Parker, and Enrico Rava 2 Blues for Cecil Jazz TUM Records Aoife O'Donovan Age of Apathy Yep Roc Aurora The Gods We Can Touch Electropop Decca, Glassnote Billy Talent Crisis of Faith Warner, Spinefarm Boris W Alternative rock, shoegaze, dream pop Sacred Bones Christina Aguilera La Fuerza Latin Sony Latin Ghostly Kisses Heaven, Wait Akira Records Iann Dior On to Better Things Emo rap, pop rap, pop-punk 10K Iced Earth A Narrative Soundscape Janis Ian The Light at the End of the Line Rude Girl Records John Mellencamp Strictly a One-Eyed Jack Rock Republic Kiefer Sutherland Bloor Street Pheromone Recordings King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Butterfly 3001 KGLW Miles Kane Change the Show Northern soul, indie rock BMG Palace Shoals Fiction Paul Oakenfold Shine On Perfecto The Sherlocks World I Understand TeddyBoy Records Silvana Estrada Marchita Classical, jazz, Latin American folk Glassnote Walker Hayes Country Stuff the Album Country Monument Yard Act The Overload Art punk, no wave, post-punk Island Years & Years Night Call Pop Polydor YoungBoy Never Broke Again Colors Hip-hop Never Broke Again, Atlantic January26 Scandal Mirror Pop rock, alternative rock Victor Entertainment, JPU January27 Glaive Old Dog, New Tricks Interscope January28 Aaron Lewis Frayed at Both Ends Alternative country, country rock Valory Music Amber Mark Three Dimensions Deep PMR Anaïs Mitchell Anaïs Mitchell Folk, indie folk, chamber folk BMG Bad Suns Apocalypse Whenever Indie rock, post-punk Epitaph Beirut Artifacts Indie rock Pompeii Earthless Night Parade of One Hundred Demons Nuclear Blast Eels Extreme Witchcraft Garage rock E Works, PIAS Five Time Gigi De Lana Gigi De Lana Star Jethro Tull The Zealot Gene Folk, progressive rock Inside Out Katie Dey Forever Music Katie Dey Krallice Crystalline Exhaustion P2 Records, Gilead Media Kyle It's Not So Bad Maddie & Tae Through the Madness, Vol. 1 Country pop UMG Madrugada Chimes at Midnight Warner MØ Motordrome Pop Columbia NLE Choppa Me vs. Me Trap Warner Pinegrove 11:11 Americana, emo, indie rock Rough Trade Praying Mantis Katharsis Hard rock Frontiers Sebastián Yatra Dharma Latin, pop Universal St. Paul and The Broken Bones The Alien Coast ATO Steve Vai Inviolate Instrumental rock Favored Nations The Whitlams Sancho EGR
February + List of albums released in February 2022 Release date Artist Album Genre Label February1 Ayaka Love Cycle A Station February2 Airi Suzuki 26/27 Zetima Cynhn Blue Cresc. Imperial, I Blue Milet Visions SME @onefive 1518 J-pop, electropop Amuse Inc. February4 2 Chainz Dope Don't Sell Itself Trap Def Jam Animal Collective Time Skiffs Indie pop, neo-psychedelia Domino As It Is I Went to Hell and Back Post-hardcore, pop-punk, electronic rock Fearless Bastille Give Me the Future Pop rock, power pop, synthwave EMI Beam Alien Dancehall, trap Epic Black Country, New Road Ants from Up There Post-rock, chamber pop, art rock Ninja Tune Cate Le Bon Pompeii Art pop Mexican Summer Circa Survive A Dream About Death Rise Dr. Dre Grand Theft Auto: The Contract Aftermath, Interscope Hippo Campus LP3 Indie pop, soft rock, indie rock Grand Jury Music Jennifer Lopez and Maluma Marry Me Dance-pop, pop, reggaeton Universal Studios, Sony Latin Junglepussy JP5000 K.Flay Inside Voices / Outside Voices Indie rock BMG Rights Management Korn Requiem Nu metal Loma Vista Marissa Nadler The Wrath of the Clouds Sacred Bones Mitski Laurel Hell Synth-pop, indie pop, electronic rock Dead Oceans A Place to Bury Strangers See Through You Dedstrange Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory MNRK Saba Few Good Things Hip-hop, neo soul Saba Pivot LLC Saxon Carpe Diem Heavy metal Silver Lining The Slow Show Still Life PIAS, Velveteen Records Venom Prison Erebos Century Media Yeule Glitch Princess Glitch pop Bayonet Records February7 J. Holiday Time Empire February9 Liyuu Fo (u) r YuU Lantis February10 Gloria Groove Lady Leste Sony Music Brazil February11 Alt-J The Dream Art pop, alternative rock, indie rock Infectious, Canvasback Amorphis Halo Progressive metal, melodic death metal, folk metal Atomic Fire Records Amos Lee Dreamland Dualtone Author & Punisher Krüller Industrial metal, experimental metal Relapse Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You Folk rock 4AD Cult of Luna The Long Road North Sludge metal, progressive metal, post-metal Metal Blade Eddie Vedder Earthling Rock Seattle Surf, Republic Foxes The Kick Dance-pop PIAS Frank Turner FTHC Xtra Mile Graace Self Preservation Sony Music, The Orchard Half Alive Give Me Your Shoulders, Pt. 1 RCA Joss Stone Never Forget My Love R&B Bay Street Records Joywave Cleanse Hollywood, Cultco Kim Petras Slut Pop Dance-pop Republic Mary J. Blige Good Morning Gorgeous Hip-hop, R&B 300, Mary Jane Productions Maverick City Music Breathe Tribl Records Once Human Scar Weaver Groove metal, melodic death metal earMUSIC Raveena Asha's Awakening Warner Shamir Heterosexuality Synth-pop, industrial, R&B AntiFragile Music Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators 4 Gibson Records Snoop Dogg BODR West Coast hip-hop, G-funk Death Row Snot Ethereal 300 Spoon Lucifer on the Sofa Indie rock, blues rock Matador Trentemøller Memoria In My Room Voivod Synchro Anarchy Progressive metal, thrash metal Century Media Wilkinson Cognition Sleepless Music Zeal & Ardor Zeal & Ardor Black metal, industrial metal, blackgaze MKVA February14 Apink Horn K-pop IST Taeyeon INVU K-ballad, dance, pop SM February15 Black Dresses Forget Your Own Face Industrial, noise pop Blacksquares Records February16 Alice Glass Prey//IV Electronic Eating Glass Records Team Shachi Team Warner Music Japan February18 Annihilator Metal II Thrash metal, heavy metal earMUSIC Bad Boy Chiller Crew Disrespectful Bassline House Anxiety, Relentless Beach House Once Twice Melody Dream pop, neo-psychedelia, chamber pop Sub Pop Big K.R.I.T. Digital Roses Don't Die R&B, funk BMG Bloodywood Rakshak Folk metal, nu metal, rap metal Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros Live in Colorado Rock, Americana Third Man Broods Space Island Island Currensy and the Alchemist Continuance Hip-hop Jet Life, ALC Records, Empire Esprit D'Air Oceans Power metal, electronicore Starstorm Records Hurray for the Riff Raff Life on Earth Nonesuch Immolation Acts of God Death metal Nuclear Blast Josef Salvat Islands Leafy Outlook Khruangbin and Leon Bridges Texas Moon Lavender Country Blackberry Rose Country, Americana Don Giovanni Metronomy Small World Because Midnight Oil Resist Alternative rock Sony Music Australia Oliver Tree Cowboy Tears Country, pop, pop rock Atlantic Rokia Koné and Jacknife Lee Bamanan Bambara music, electronic dance music Real World Said the Sky Sentiment Lowly Sally Shapiro Sad Cities Italians Do It Better Sea Power Everything Was Forever Golden Chariot Star One Revel in Time Progressive metal Inside Out Music White Lies As I Try Not to Fall Apart PIAS Yeat 2 Alive Geffen February21 STAYC Young-Luv.com High Up February22 Joan Osborne Radio Waves R&B, rock Womanly Hips Records Nmixx Ad Mare JYP Parannoul White Ceiling / Black Dots Wandering Around February23 Ai Dream Pop, R&B EMI Billlie The Collective Soul and Unconscious: Chapter One Bass house, jazz Mystic Story Super Beaver Tokyo Sony Music Japan February24 Kanye West Donda 2 Kanye West February25 Adult Becoming Undone Dais Allegaeon Damnum Technical death metal, melodic death metal Metal Blade Avril Lavigne Love Sux Pop-punk, skate punk, emo pop Elektra, DTA Records Bad Omens The Death of Peace of Mind Alternative metal Sumerian Basia Bulat The Garden Orchestral music Secret City Beth Hart A Tribute to Led Zeppelin Provogue Blood Incantation Timewave Zero Ambient, space music Century Media Brooke Ligertwood Seven Worship Sparrow caroline caroline Rough Trade Carson McHone Still Life Merge Central Cee 23 UK drill ADA CMAT If My Wife New I'd Be Dead Country pop CMATBaby, AWAL Conway the Machine God Don't Make Mistakes Hip-hop Shady Corey Taylor CMFB... Sides Heavy metal, hard rock Roadrunner D'Virgilio, Morse & Jennings Troika Progressive rock, folk rock, pop rock Inside Out Music Dashboard Confessional All the Truth That I Can Tell Hidden Note, AWAL EarthGang Ghetto Gods Southern hip-hop Dreamville, Interscope, Spillage Village Gang of Youths Angel in Realtime Alternative rock Mosy Recordings, Sony Music Australia Guns N' Roses Hard Skool Hard rock Geffen Half Man Half Biscuit The Voltarol Years Post-punk R. M. Qualtrough HammerFall Hammer of Dawn Power metal, heavy metal Napalm Johnny Marr Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 BMG Judy Collins Spellbound Folk Cleopatra Kodak Black Back for Everything Atlantic Mom Jeans Sweet Tooth Robert Glasper Black Radio 3 Loma Vista Sasami Squeeze Indie rock, nu metal, industrial Domino Scorpions Rock Believer Heavy metal, hard rock Vertigo Sevdaliza Raving Dahlia Art pop, alternative R&B, trip hop Twisted Elegance Superchunk Wild Loneliness Merge Tears for Fears The Tipping Point Pop rock, electropop, art pop Concord
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