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Top 89 of 2022: 40 of The Current's most-played songs

Left to right: Beabadoobee, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Left to right: Beabadoobee, Yeah Yeah YeahsArtwork by Natalia Toledo | MPR; Beabadoobee: Sara Fish for MPR; Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Jason Al-Taan

by Staff

December 27, 2022

These songs were among The Current’s most-played tracks throughout 2022.

The Heavy Heavy - “Miles and Miles”

Lizzo - “About Damn Time”

Mitski - “Love Me More”

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - “Spitting Off The Edge of the World”

Spoon - “Wild”

Rosa Linn - “SNAP”

Beach House - “Once Twice Melody”

Gorillaz - “Cracker Island f/Thundercat”

Wet Leg - “Too Late Now”

Big Thief - “Simulation Swarm”

Beabadoobee - “Talk”

Cloud Cult - “One Way Out of A Hole”

Maggie Rogers - “That's Where I Am”

Jack White - “Taking Me Back”

HAIM - “Lost Track”

Japanese Breakfast - “Slide Tackle”

LCD Soundsystem - “new body rhumba”

Bartees Strange - “Heavy Heart”

Chastity Brown - “Wonderment”

Regina Spektor - “Becoming All Alone”

Kendrick Lamar - “Die Hard”

Danielle Ponder - “Only Way Out”

Durry - “Losers Club”

Lucius - “Next to Normal”

Lumineers - “Where We Are”

Angel Olsen - “All The Good Times”

Harry Styles - “As It Was”

Margo Price - “Change of Heart”

Hippo Campus - “Ride or Die”

Metric - “All Comes Crashing”

Black Keys - “Wild Child”

Toro Y Moi - “Postman”

Trampled By Turtles - “It's So Hard to Hold On”

Phoenix - “Alpha Zulu”

Death Cab for Cutie - “Here to Forever”

The Regrettes - “Anxieties (Out of Time)”

Father John Misty - “Funny Girl”

Mt Joy - “Lemon Tree”

Fontaines D.C. - “Jackie Down The Line”

Brandi Carlile - “Broken Horses”

The Current's Top 89 Songs of 2022 will air on Sunday, Jan. 1. At 10 a.m. CT, we'll look back on past Top 89 winners. Then, around 12 p.m., we'll start this year's countdown, which wraps at 6 p.m. Hear it again starting at 8 a.m. on Jan. 2.