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Coffee Break: 2022

by Jill Riley and Nilufer Arsala

January 30, 2025

Room set up for The Happy Hour on Thursday, September 29, 2022 at Surly Brewing Co.
Room set up for The Happy Hour on Thursday, September 29, 2022 at Surly Brewing Co. Darin Kamnetz for MPR

We still have a few days left before hopping off memory lane, and today the history train stops in 2022! It’s the year of the slap heard around the world, Kate Bush returned to the Billboard charts with her 1985 single "Running Up That Hill” thanks to the show Stranger Things, and Beyoncé released the album Renaissance, the first in her album trilogy (and we can’t wait for Act III!)

From The Current: The Current's Top 89 Songs of 2022

Take a look at your favorite songs from three years ago, and let’s take a quick trip back in time by crafting a playlist full of your favorite songs from 2022!

So, for today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs from The Current’s Top 89 Countdown from 2022 would you like to hear?


Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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Songs Played
Durry- Losers Club
Harry Styles- As It Was
Orville Peck- The Curse of the Blackened Eye
Angel Olsen- All The Good Times
Steve Lacy- Bad Habit
King Princess- Let Us Die
Beyonce- Break My Soul