2022 Music Trivia
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59 free 2022 Music trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This music trivia 2022 quiz covers the year the charts got strange: a 1985 Kate Bush single hit number one thanks to a Netflix show, a Glass Animals song took a record 59 weeks to reach the top, Taylor Swift filled the entire Hot 100 top ten in one week, and a Spanish-language album became Spotify's most-streamed record of the year. Harry Styles ruled the summer, Beyoncé went to the club, Drake went house, and Bad Bunny went everywhere. The 59 questions run from easy (who voiced the radio host on Dawn FM, which Encanto song went to number one) to properly hard (Meat Loaf's birth name, the year ABBA's avatars are frozen in, who Harry Styles replaced as the first British male Album of the Year winner in decades). There are rounds on the two Grammy ceremonies that bookended the year, Eurovision in Turin, the hip-hop Super Bowl halftime show, and the musicians we lost in 2022, from Taylor Hawkins to Loretta Lynn and Christine McVie. Every answer is checked against the song's, album's or artist's Wikipedia article and linked from the question, so you can settle any disputes at the table. Play it solo or lift it wholesale as the music round for a 2022-themed quiz night.
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Q 01Which album won Album of the Year at the 65th Grammy Awards in February 2023?
Harry's House
Harry's House beat Renaissance, whose maker won four other Grammys that night but none of the four general categories; Styles also took Best Pop Vocal Album.
Q 02Which Lizzo single won Record of the Year at the 65th Grammy Awards?
About Damn Time
About Damn Time reached number one in July 2022 after a viral TikTok dance, and made Lizzo the first Black woman to win Record of the Year since Whitney Houston in 1994.
Q 03Which veteran blues singer won Song of the Year for 'Just Like That' at the 65th Grammys?
Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt wrote 'Just Like That' alone, about a mother meeting the man who received her late son's heart, and was the first sole female songwriter to win since Amy Winehouse's 'Rehab' in 2008.
Q 04Which jazz singer won Best New Artist at the 65th Grammys, the first from the genre since Esperanza Spalding?
Samara Joy
Samara Joy has said she knew nothing about jazz until she was 18 and studying at Purchase College; at 23 she beat nominees including Måneskin, Latto and Anitta.
Q 05Who passed Georg Solti in 2023 as the most-awarded artist in Grammy history, with 32 wins?
Beyoncé
Beyoncé's 32nd Grammy, Best Dance/Electronic Music Album for Renaissance, took her past conductor Georg Solti's 31 after she had tied him earlier the same night.
Q 06Which US number-one single led the July 2022 album Renaissance?
Break My Soul
Break My Soul topped the Hot 100 in August 2022; Robin S., whose 'Show Me Love' it samples, only learned of the song when her son rang to say she was trending.
Q 07Who is the featured guest on 'Snow on the Beach' from Taylor Swift's Midnights?
Lana Del Rey
Lana Del Rey co-wrote 'Snow on the Beach' but sang mostly backing vocals, so after fans asked for more Swift released a second version in 2023 billed as featuring 'More Lana Del Rey'.
Q 08Which Midnights lead single was number one the week Taylor Swift filled the entire Hot 100 top 10?
Anti-Hero
Anti-Hero led the chart dated November 5, 2022, when Midnights songs filled the top ten; Drake had fallen one short in 2021, when 'Stay' by the Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber held on at number six.
Q 09Which company cancelled the general sale for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour after the 2022 presale overwhelmed its website?
Ticketmaster
Ticketmaster sold more than two million tickets in a day, a record for one artist, then called off the general sale; the fallout led to a US Senate hearing in January 2023.
Q 10Which Harry Styles single spent 15 weeks atop the Hot 100 in 2022?
As It Was
As It Was led for 15 weeks, the longest run by a British act, yet finished only second on Billboard's 2022 year-end chart, behind a song that had been charting since January 2021.
Q 11Which British band's 'Heat Waves' took a record 59 weeks to reach the top of the Hot 100?
Glass Animals
Glass Animals released 'Heat Waves' in 2020; it crept up the Hot 100 for more than a year as TikTok videos spread it, and finally reached number one in March 2022.
Q 12Which 1985 Kate Bush song hit UK number one in June 2022 after featuring in Stranger Things?
Running Up That Hill
Running Up That Hill had peaked at number three in 1985; the Stranger Things boost took it to UK number one and to number three on the Hot 100, far above its original peak of 30.
Q 13Kate Bush became the oldest woman to top the UK singles chart in 2022, taking the record from which singer?
Cher
Q 21Which country legend initially declined her 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nomination, then accepted?
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton said she had not earned the honour, then accepted and was inducted in November 2022; she recorded the rock album Rockstar in 2023 to make good on it.
Q 22Nicki Minaj's August 2022 number-one single is built on a sample of which 1981 Rick James hit?
Super Freak
Super Freak also drives MC Hammer's 1990 hit 'U Can't Touch This', whose Best R&B Song win gave Rick James, credited as a co-writer, his only Grammy; Minaj's track was 'Super Freaky Girl'.
Q 23Which K-pop girl group became the first to top the Billboard 200 album chart, in 2022?
Blackpink
Cher was 52 when 'Believe' reached UK number one in 1998; Bush passed her at 63 after Stranger Things put her 1985 single in front of a new generation.
Q 14Which Encanto song topped the Hot 100 in 2022, only the second from a Disney animated film to do so?
We Don't Talk About Bruno
We Don't Talk About Bruno followed 'A Whole New World' (1993) as only the second song from a Disney animated film to top the Hot 100; Disney had put up 'Dos Oruguitas' for the Oscar instead, and it lost.
Q 15Who wrote the eight original songs on the chart-topping Encanto soundtrack?
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote all eight songs after joining the film's directors on a two-week research trip across Colombia in 2018; Germaine Franco composed the score.
Q 16Which 2022 album was Spotify's most-streamed album of the year?
Un Verano Sin Ti
Un Verano Sin Ti spent 13 weeks atop the Billboard 200; its track 'El Apagón' came with a 22-minute documentary on Puerto Rico's power cuts and residents priced out of their homes.
Q 17Which country won the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest in Turin with the song 'Stefania' by Kalush Orchestra?
Ukraine
Ukraine took a record 439 televote points; since the country could not safely host, the 2023 contest was staged in Liverpool on its behalf.
Q 18Which singer's 'Space Man' finished second for the UK at Eurovision 2022?
Sam Ryder
Sam Ryder had built his following posting covers on TikTok during lockdown; he won the jury vote a year after the UK's entry had finished last with no points at all.
Q 19Which rapper made a surprise appearance at the February 2022 Super Bowl halftime show?
50 Cent
50 Cent performed 'In da Club' hanging upside down; the show, the first halftime built around hip hop, also became the first to win a Primetime Emmy for a live variety special.
Q 20Which Foo Fighters drummer died in Bogotá in March 2022, hours before a festival show?
Taylor Hawkins
Taylor Hawkins, 50, had drummed for Alanis Morissette before joining the band in 1997; tribute concerts at Wembley and the Kia Forum followed in September 2022.
Blackpink did it with Born Pink; its single 'Shut Down' loops a violin line from Paganini's 'La Campanella', and the video restages scenes from the group's earlier videos.
Q 24Which guitarist of the band the Internet hit number one in 2022 with 'Bad Habit'?
Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy, who produced his early tracks on an iPhone, took 'Bad Habit' to number one in October 2022, the first song to top the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop and Hot Rock & Alternative charts at once.
Q 25Who won Album of the Year for We Are at the April 2022 Grammys, the first held in Las Vegas?
Jon Batiste
Jon Batiste, then bandleader on The Late Show, won five awards that night, the most of anyone; the ceremony had been postponed from January because of Omicron.
Q 26Silk Sonic won Record and Song of the Year in 2022 for which song?
Leave the Door Open
Leave the Door Open took both awards; the duo then declined to enter their album for the next year's Grammys, Bruno Mars saying they would be 'crazy to ask for anything more'.
Q 27Who won Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards held in April 2022?
Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo, 19, was nominated in all four top categories and won only this one, though she also took Best Pop Vocal Album for Sour and Best Pop Solo Performance for 'Drivers License'.
Q 28In which city has the virtual concert residency ABBA Voyage played in a purpose-built arena since May 2022?
London
London's ABBA Arena was built for the show; the four members, then in their seventies, performed every song for 160 cameras over five weeks so their avatars could look as they did in 1979.
Q 29Which visual-effects company created the digital 'ABBAtars' used in ABBA Voyage?
Industrial Light & Magic
Industrial Light & Magic, the effects studio George Lucas founded for Star Wars, scanned the four members by motion capture, then blended their movements with those of younger body doubles.
Q 30Which pop star joined Elton John on the 2022 duet 'Hold Me Closer'?
Britney Spears
Britney Spears's first release since her conservatorship ended was suggested by John's husband, David Furnish, and John hoped it would lift her confidence; it debuted at number six in the US.