Need something to look forward to? Browse our calendar of album release dates and get excited about the records due to drop in 2022. With live music back in force, we can hopefully look forward to a year of excellent album releases in 2022. To the best of our knowledge these are the albums that will be released in 2022. Will we finally get a new Cardi B album? Will new mum Rihanna have time to finish R9? Will Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ be the gift we all hope it to be? Here’s what we know so far about the year’s upcoming releases.
| 17 June 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Alanis Morisette | To Storm Before The Calm (meditation album) |
| Foals | Life Is Yours |
| Joey Bada$$ | 2000 |
| Perfume Genius | Ugly Season |
| Nova Twins | Supernova |
| 24 June 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Alexisisonfire | Otherness |
| Conan Gray | Superache |
| Lupe Fiasco | Drill Music In Zion |
| MUNA | MUNA |
| Regina Spektor | Home, Before And After |
| Soccer Mommy | Sometimes Forever |
| Zola Jesus | Arkhon |
| GIVĒON | Give Or Take |
| 1 July 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Burna Boy | Love Damani |
| Guided By Voices | Tremblers And Goggles By Rank |
| Moor Mother | Jazz Codes |
| Municipal Waste | Electrified Brain |
| 8 July 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Katy J Pearson | Sound Of The Morning |
| Laura Veirs | Found Light |
| Rae Morris | Rachel@Fairyland |
| Viagra Boys | Cave World |
| NoSo | Stay Proud Of Me |
| 15 July 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead | XI: Bleed Here Now |
| Beabadoobee | Beatopia |
| Black Midi | Hellfire |
| Interpol | The Other Side Of Make Believe… |
| Lizzo | Special |
| Mabel | About Last Night… |
| Noah Cyrus | The Hardest Part |
| Superorganism | World Wide Pop |
| Sabring Carpenter | Emails I Can’t Send |
| 22 July 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Jack White | Entering Heaven Alive |
| ODESZA | The Last Goodbye |
| She & Him | Melt Away: A Tribute To Brian Wilson |
| Sports Team | Gulp! |
| The Sadles | Colder Streams |
| Ty Segall | Hello, Hi |
| Flo Milli | You Still Here, Ho? |
| 29 July 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Amanda Shires | Take It Like A Man |
| Maggie Rogers | Surrender |
| Beyoncé | Renaissance |
| Ena Mori | Don’t Blame The Wild One! |
| 5 August 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Kasabian | The Alchemist’s Euphoria |
| Lauv | All 4 Nothing |
| 12 August 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Pale Waves | Unwanted |
| NIKI | Nicole |
| 19 August 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Cass McCombs | Heartmind |
| Hot Chip | Freakout/Release |
| Panic! At The Disco | Viva Las Vengeance |
| The Mountain Goats | Bleed Out |
| 26 August 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Ezra Furman | All Of Us Flames |
| Julia Jacklin | PRE PLEASURE |
| Stella Donnelly | Flood |
| 2 September 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Two Door Cinema Club | Keep On Smiling |
| Yungblud | Yungblud |
| Franc Moody | Into The Ether |
| 9 September 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| The Afghan Whigs | How Do You Burn? |
| Jockstrap | I Love You Jennifer B |
| Sudan Archives | Natural Brown Prom Queen |
| Wyldest | Feed The Flowers Nightmares |
| 16 September 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Crack Cloud | Tough Baby |
| Death Cab For Cutie | Asphalt Meadows |
| Rina Sawayama | Hold The Girl |
| Whitney | SPARK |
| Blackpink | Born Pink |
| Jessie Reyez | Yessie |
| Joe Keery | Decide |
| 23 September 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Editors | EBM |
| Tim Burgess | Typical Music |
| Maya Hawke | Moss |
| Christine & The Queens | Redcar les adorables étoiles |
| WILLOW | COPINGMECHANISM |
| 30 September 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Bjork | Fossora |
| Pixies | Doggerel |
| Shygirl | Nymph |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Cool It Down |
| 7 October 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Alvvays | Blue Rev |
| Sorry | Anywhere But Here |
| The Orielles | Tableau |
| 14 October 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| The 1975 | Being Funny In A Foreign Language |
| Alaskalaska | Still Life |
| The Big Moon | Here Is Everything |
| Mykki Blanco | Stay Close To Music |
| 21 October 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Dry Cleaning | Stumpwork |
| Taylor Swift | Midnights |
| Arctic Monkeys | The Car |
| 28 October 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Benjamin Clementine | And I Have Been |
| 4 November 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Special Interest | Endure |
| 11 November 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| 18 November 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| Weyes Blood | And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow |
| 25 November 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| 02 December 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| 09 December 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| 16 December 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| 23 December 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| 30 December 2022 | |
| Artist | Album |
| TBC 2022 | |
| Sky Ferreira | |
| Cardi B | |
| Rihanna | |
| BROCKHAMPTON | |
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