![]() ![]() His dominance was so huge in 2022 that it truly can be said that it was his year, and deservedly so.Ĭountry music continued to see its once-niche audience go global with Morgan Wallen and Chris Stapleton among others expanding their audience beyond any region of the world. K-pop’s dominance expanded beyond just BTS and Blackpink, while Bad Bunny proved that Latin artists no longer were going to be relegated to language- or genre-specific chart. It also helped to revive many a star’s career (Sam Smith thanks you!). While Adele and Silk Sonic ended 2021 strongly and their reigns continued early into 2022, the year soon shifted back to Taylor Swift and Drake and, of course, we saw a glimpse of a comeback from Rihanna!īeyond the big artists, though, we saw numerous younger budding artists have their breakthrough moments and TikTok seemed to become the best non-label to launch artists into the mainstream. So what can be said about 2022 musically? As the world returned to a sorta normal way of life, gone were the melancholic pandemic ponderings and instead we got unabashedly commercial prospects from established artists and the blurred lines between pop, hip-hop, K-pop, country, dance and even reggaeton seemed to further crumble.
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