Barack Obama is aware of what’s good. The former president revealed his playlist of favourite songs from 2022 on Friday (Dec. 23).
“I always enjoy sharing my end of year music playlist with all of you — and this year we heard a lot of great songs. Here are some of my favorites,” he tweeted. “Are there any songs or artists I should check out?”
Indeed. Of the 25 songs he listed, 13 of the artists who created these tunes are nominated for 2023 Grammy awards. And the genres are fairly various. Obama’s favorites run the gamut from hip-hop to nation, Afrobeats to pop, Latin to rock and extra.
So what did he spin on repeat this 12 months? Everything from Kendrick Lamar’s “The Heart Part 5,” which the artist shock dropped days forward of the May arrival of Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers; to Bad Bunny’s “Titi Me Pregunto” off this 12 months’s Top Billboard 200 Album Un Verano Sin Ti; Beyonce’s “Break My Soul” from Renaissance; Zach Bryan’s “Something in the Orange”; “Maggie Rogers’ “That’s Where I Am”; Burna Boy’s “Last Last”; Lizzo’s “About Damn Time” and extra.
The solely artist who made it onto the former president’s favourite songs of the 12 months playlist each in 2021 and 2022 is Lizzo. Last 12 months, Obama repeatedly spun the “2 Be Loved” singer’s Cardi B collab “Rumors.”
See which tunes made the forty fourth president’s record of favourite songs in 2022:
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