For the second year in a row, I will be ranking my top 50 songs of the year. It was a truly incredible year for music, which is what made it that much harder for me to rank both my favorite songs and albums of the year. I literally just finished the “Favorite Albums of 2022” article a couple minutes ago… so my brain is slightly fried. But we are to list my favorite songs of the year. So… let’s get into it.
- Drake – A Keeper
- Drake & 21 Savage – Hours In Silence
- Central Cee – Cold Shoulder
- Future – WAIT FOR U ft. Tems & Drake
- Metro Boomin – Superhero (Heroes & Villains) ft. Future & Chris Brown
- Burna Boy – Last Last
- Central Cee – One Up
- Drake – Flight’s Booked
- Burna Boy – Alone
- Giveon – Get To You
- Drake – I Guess It’s F**k Me
- Kendrick Lamar – The Heart Part 5
- Metro Boomin – Metro Spider ft. Young Thug
- Central Cee – Straight Back To It
- Burna Boy – It’s Plenty
- Metro Boomin – Around Me ft. Don Toliver
- Giveon – Another Heartbreak
- Giveon – july 16th
- Drake – Texts Go Green
- Headie One – Illegal
- Giveon – dec 11th
- Tory Lanez – No More Parties In LA
- Central Cee – Khabib
- Stormzy – Hide & Seek
- SZA – Low
- Vory – Lesson Learned
- Metro Boomin – Trance ft. Young Thug & Travis Scott
- Rod Wave – No Deal
- Drake – Jumbotron Shit Poppin
- Drake & 21 Savage – Spin Bout U
- Drake – Sticky
- Stormzy – Holy Spirit
- Bad Bunny – Efecto
- Chris Brown – Forbidden
- Vory – Serenity Freestyle
- Fridayy ft. Vory – God Sent
- Lil Uzi Vert – Just Wanna Rock
- Kendrick Lamar – Count Me Out
- SZA – Far
- Stormzy – I Got My Smile Back
- Burna Boy – Different Size ft. Victony
- SZA – Open Arms ft. Travis Scott
- Dave – Starlight
- Quavo & Takeoff – HOTEL LOBBY
- Drake – Massive
- Drake & 21 Savage – Major Distribution
- Headie One – 50s
- YoungBoy Never Broke Again – Fish Scale
- SZA – Seek & Destroy
- Lil Durk – Blocklist
Once again, I couldn’t figure out a way to make it “50-1” so here’s the very anti-climatic list for my songs of the year. Some songs that just missed the cut were “Slip” by SoFaygo ft. Don Toliver, “Chose” by YoungBoy Never Broke Again and “Out thë Way” by Yeat. A year ago today, I dropped both “songs of the year” and “album of the year” article. I’m in a very different place then I was a year ago, but the goal hasn’t changed one bit. Whether I make money off of this or not, I’m enjoying every second of it.
Thank you all for tuning in. This is YSN, for the second to last time in 2022, signing out.