It all starts with Bowie’s “Toy” box for his 75th birthday, followed by exciting new releases every week. The next pop year should be a good one again, including comebacks and superstar albums.
That even what feels like an eternal pandemic cannot paralyze the creativity of music stars was just shown by the jam-packed pop autumn with new albums from Helene Fischer and Abba to Ed Sheeran and Coldplay to Adele and Sting.
This year there are again many big names on the release lists. Some are already known, others are at least well-founded speculations: 22 names for 2022 – an alphabetical outlook.
Picture book with innovative pop
The four Austrians hold up the subscription in their homeland
Top positions in the charts anyway. And in this country too, after the mega-album “Schick Schock” (2015) at the latest, they stand for innovative pop. With the record “Yellow is the field” (March 25th) the gentlemen are going on tour in spring – and this time they are making a stop at the Philharmonics.
Björk with 80 to 90 beats
The tenth studio album by the Icelandic superstar could be in the starting blocks. Not much is known yet, but the eccentric pop diva has already talked about the potential “Utopia” successor on Icelandic radio. Most of the songs have 80 to 90 beats per minute because “I run at that speed”.
David Bowie forever
The British who died in 2016 would be 75 years old
Became pop magician on January 8th. As a commemoration, the opulent “Toy” box set comes out one day before: songs recorded in 2001 but not released at the time – mostly new recordings of lesser-known pieces from 1964 to 1971. Welcome consolation for those in mourning.
BTS usher in a new chapter
The South Korean boy band lays in the
Weltstar-Liga take a short break – to “get new inspiration and recharge your batteries”. The holiday season of the seven singers should soon be followed by an album that, after the collaboration with Coldplay (“My Universe”), is supposed to usher in a “new chapter”.
Casper is melancholy
In the title song to «Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt» (25.
February) the rapper puts on brilliant cutlery made of pianos and strings. The subject: mental health. His fifth solo record again seems to be a confrontation with worldly heaviness and melancholy, as the second single “TNT” suggests.
Liam Gallagher continues to stink
The younger ex-Oasis brother has been indulging himself since the beginning
hardly a break in his solo career. With “C’mon You Know” (May 27th), the third album in five years is now due. Allegedly, a song on it is said to be dedicated to his brother and archenemy Noel. “It’s a naughty little song, but lovely,” Liam whistled.
Back to nature with metronomy
“Small World” (February 18) presents itself with a full
Laid-back sound. A return to simple pleasures, nature and simple songwriting, as the record company writes. It doesn’t matter that the British aren’t returning to electro pop on their seventh record from their great breakthrough “Nights Out” (2008).
Placebo have shrunk
“Beautiful James” is an impressive forerunner of the British album, which has meanwhile shrunk to a duo. Nine years after the last record, “Never Let Me Go” (March 25th) shows a distrust of the world. “My reaction to most things is just disappointment,” said singer Brian Molko recently to the Guardian.
Porcupine Tree makes a comeback
In addition to the new Marillion album, expected in March
the huge art rock community around the world is particularly excited about the comeback of the trio of progressive maestro Steven Wilson, Gavin Harrison and Richard Barbieri. “Closure / Continuation” (June 24th) should – so hope
many fans – leaving Wilson’s controversial pop tendencies behind.
The Rolling Stones carry on
That the oldest rock band in the world with the
Death of drummer Charlie Watts himself does not seem to be true. In any case, it goes lively live
continues, and according to “Rolling Stone” magazine, Mick Jagger and Co. want to finally release the long-awaited new album at the age of 60.
The Scorpions very classic
If you still believe in good old hard rock, you should
Make a note of February 25th: Appropriately, “Rock Believer” is the title of the stadium band’s 18th studio album from Hanover. The work was created in a very classic way – “all together in one room, just like back in the 80s”, says front man Klaus Meine.
Mike Singer relies on emotions
When he was just in his early twenties, the pop singer was already bringing his
fifth record out. The adaptation of Matthias Reims “Damn I love you” provides a good foretaste of “Emotions” (March 18). He also stole the famous Alphaville line for “Forever Young”. There is also a song with Vanessa Mai.
Soft cell with a retro sensation
Marc Almond and David Ball just presented
general enthusiasm for her 40 year old masterpiece “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret” live. The British synth-pop kings also had new songs heard. The new album “Happiness Not Included” (February 25th) can already be considered the retro sensation of 2022.
Sports fans Stiller are celebrating a comeback
You’re playing again. After her last
The Munich-based company took a five-year break from their number one album, “Sturm & Stille”. This year there should now be a new record, as singer Peter Brugger recently revealed. With “Rock am Ring” and “Rock im Park” the athletes are back on the festival stage.
Tears For Fears with late work
Since the global success of her monumental record “The
Seeds Of Love »(1989) it became more and more quiet around the 80s pop duo Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith. Around 18 years after the first comeback, “The Tipping Point” (February 25) is set to usher in a strong late work. The epic title track sounds very promising.
The Weeknd stays tuned
The Canadian pop singer recently shot the single
“Take My Breath” or collaborations with Post Malone (“One Right Now”) and Swedish House Mafia (“Moth To A Flame”) raise the level of awareness noticeably. A world tour is coming up in the summer, plus a new record. It should probably be called “The Dawn”.
The Temptations celebrate 60th
You’re the epitome of Detroit Motown soul
where this band was formed in 1960. The musicians, who have received several Grammys – for many the best black vocal group ever with hits like “My Girl” or “Papa Was A Rolling Stone” – are celebrating six decades of success with their comeback album “Temptations 60” (January 28).
Clever German pop from Tocotronic
The show band of the intellectual “Hamburg School”
has chosen a traditional political catchphrase as the album name: “Never again war” (January 28) even tops the previous title “Infinity” (2018). Singer Dirk von Lowtzow and his friends may have thought of some clever things about beautiful melodies.
Sven Väth relies on “Catharsis”
He is now 57 years old, but DJ sets up to 15
The German techno pioneer still trusts himself hours of length: “It’s like high voltage for me,” he recently told the “ZEITmagazin Frankfurt”. To the comeback singles “Fetters” and “Mystic Voices” in
this year, the new solo album “Catharsis” will follow at the end of February.
Eddie Vedder likes it anthemic
The front man of the biggest remaining grunge rock band
Pearl Jam likes to do the unexpected solo, such as soundtracks such as “Flag Day” or “Ukulele Songs”. The harbingers of “The Long Way” and “The Haves” now indicate that the US singer is again showing his most anthemic side on the album “Earthling” (February 11th).
Jack White in a double pack
His riff monster hit “Seven Nation Army” is out of the
Sports arenas have become indispensable – but the US blues rocker was also successful after the White Stripes. The twelve-time Grammy winner for 2022 has 23 new tracks in the pipeline, distributed among the albums “Fear Of The Dawn” (April 8th) and “Entering Heaven Alive” (June 22nd).