Most Popular Records of 2022 Various Artists

A recently published report from Luminate (the US music market monitor that provides data for Billboard charts) indicates that the popularity of new music is shrinking.

Meanwhile, Variety got Luminate to collect data on the best-selling albums on vinyl from the first half of 2022, and the resulting top-50 list seems to support that trend.

Harry Styles’ Harry’s House is No. 1 on the list, but it’s the only album in the top 10 that was released this year. Olivia Rodrigo’s 2021 album Sour comes in at second, Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid M.A.A.D City (2012) is third, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumors (1977) is fourth, and Tyler The Creator’s Call Me If You Get Lost (2021) is fifth.

Elsewhere, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon is No. 15, while The Weeknd’s Dawn FM is No. 22 and Drake’s Take Care is No. 47, both albums representing the Canadian artists’ only appearances on the chart. The timing of this is fortuitous for Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, who recently declared in regards to Drake and The Weeknd, “I am far, far, far more important than any of them will ever be, however many billions of streams they’ve got.”