Year-end time is list time! That’s why, in keeping with tradition, we didn’t miss the opportunity to choose the 50 best records of the year for the Musikexpress issue 01/2023 as the heart of our big 46-page annual review special. A highly esteemed conglomerate of incorruptible editors and authors voted for it, each of whom submitted their top 20 and from which we calculated our official top 50 in a mathematically possibly highly complicated but certainly democratic process. In all probability we will publish the complete list “between the holidays” on musikexpress.de. As an appetizer for the magazine itself and for the sake of democratic disclosure, we are already showing you which albums one or the other jury member personally celebrated the most.
After Stephan Rehm Rozanes, Linus Volkmann, Julia Lorenz, Julia Friese, André Boße, Annett Scheffel, Thomas Winkler and Frank Sawatzki, here is the top 20 by ME author Aida Baghernejad.
YEAR IN REVIEW 2022: THE 20 FAVORITE ALBUMS BY AIDA BAGHERNEJAD
1. Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
2. Moor Mother – Jazz Codes
3. Rosalia – Motomami
4. Public transport – German radio revolt
5. Nalan- I’m Good. The crying tape
6. Wet Leg – Wet Leg
7. Ibeyi – Spell 31
8. Vince Staples – Ramona Park Broke My Heart
9. King Hannah – I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me
10. Kae Tempest – The Line is a Curve
11. Shygirl – Nymph
12. Nilufer Yanya – Painless
13. Shirin David – Bitches Need Rap
14. Beyoncé – Renaissance
15. The Comet is Coming – Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
16. Moderate – More D4ta
17. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool it Down
18. Warpaint – Radiate Like This
19. Ebow-Canê
20. The losers – The losers
You can follow who, where, how and with what also reviewed the pop year 2022 at musikexpress.de/tag/ Jahresrueckblick-2022/. Do you want to vote for yourself and win prizes? This way to our Pop Poll 2022!