It is time. Mike Jones and his cats have officially crunched all the numbers, and we now have the results for the 2022 Obligatory Year End Awards & Top 50.5 Songs of 2022 brought to you by Miller Lite!
Here are all the favorites from 2022 as voted on by the ALT 104.5 community!
Best Album of 2022: Unlimited Love - Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Runner Up: Mainstream Sellout - Machine Gun Kelly
Artist of The Year for 2022: Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Runner Up: Paramore
Best New Artist of 2022: Måneskin
- Runner Up: Wet Leg
Best Music Video of 2022: Edging - blink-182
- Runner Up: This Is Why - Paramore
Favorite cover song of 2022: As It Was - Arcade Fire
- Runner Up: Beggin - Måneskin
Favorite Philly-area Band/Artist of 2022: The Wonder Years
- Runner Up: The War On Drugs
Favorite concert/performance of 2022: My Chemical Romance at Wells Fargo Center
- Runner Up: Turnstile at The Fillmore
Favorite Philly-area live music venue of 2022: The Fillmore
- Runner Up: Union Transfer
Most Overlooked Artist of 2022: Phoenix
Most Anticipated Album for 2023: This Is Why - Paramore
Favorite App: Twitter
Favorite Band/Artist to follow on socials: blink-182
Favorite Podcast: The Always Sunny Podcast
TOP 50.5 Songs of 2022
- RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Black Summer
- MANESKIN - Beggin
- IMAGINE DRAGONS - Enemy From League Of Legends
- KATE BUSH - Running Up That Hill
- GLASS ANIMALS - Heat Waves
- HARRY STYLES - As It Was
- ALL TIME LOW - Monsters f/blackbear
- BLINK-182 - EDGING
- PARAMORE - This Is Why
- BLACK KEYS - Wild Child
- COLDPLAY X BTS - My Universe
- BEACH WEATHER - Sex, Drugs, Etc.
- AJR - I Won't
- VANCE JOY - Clarity
- BOYWITHUKE - Toxic
- THE KILLERS - Boy
- DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE - Here To Forever
- GORILLAZ - Cracker Island f/Thundercat
- MAGGIE ROGERS - Want Want
- FLORENCE + THE MACHINE - My Love
- BOB MOSES - Love Brand New
- TWENTY ONE PILOTS - The Outside
- WEEZER - A Little Bit Of Love
- PANIC! AT THE DISCO - Viva Las Vengeance
- CAFUNE - Tek It
- PORTUGAL. THE MAN - What, Me Worry?
- PANIC! AT THE DISCO - Don't Let The Light Go Out
- LUMINEERS - Where We Are
- ALL TIME LOW - Sleepwalking
- THE 1975 - I'm In Love With You
- SAM FENDER - Seventeen Going Under
- IMAGINE DRAGONS - Bones
- ROSA LINN - SNAP
- SPOON - Wild
- GAYLE - abcdefu
- JIMMY EAT WORLD - Something Loud
- WEEZER - Records
- RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Tippa My Tongue
- MANESKIN - SUPERMODEL
- THE MAINE - Loved You A Little f/TBS & Charlotte Sands
- MUSE - Won't Stand Down
- JACK WHITE - What's The Trick
- PHOENIX - Tonight f/Ezra Koenig
- WET LEG - Chaise Longue
- GIRL IN RED - I'll Call You Mine
- TALK - Run Away To Mars
- LOVELYTHEBAND - Sail Away
- PHOENIX - Alpha Zulu
- FOALS - Wake Me Up
- YUNGBLUD - The Funeral
50.5 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE - The Foundations Of Decay