60 free 2022 Music trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 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 60 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 the 2023 Grammy for Album of the Year, the first by a British male solo artist since 1989?
Harry's House
It beat four other nominees including Adele's 30. George Michael's Faith had been the last winner by a British man, 34 years earlier.
Q 02Which Lizzo single won Record of the Year at the 65th Grammy Awards, making her the first Black woman to win it since Whitney Houston in 1994?
About Damn Time
A TikTok dance by Jaeden Gomez pushed the song to number one in the summer of 2022. Whitney Houston's winner had been 'I Will Always Love You'.
Q 03Which veteran blues singer won Song of the Year for 'Just Like That' at the 65th Grammys?
Bonnie Raitt
She beat a field of pop superstars, and became the first female solo songwriter to win the category since Amy Winehouse in 2008.
Q 04Which jazz singer won Best New Artist at the 65th Grammys, the first from the genre since Esperanza Spalding?
Samara Joy
Joy beat higher-profile nominees including Måneskin, Latto and Anitta. She had only released her second album, Linger Awhile, a few months earlier.
Q 05Who passed Georg Solti in 2023 as the most-awarded artist in Grammy history, with 32 wins?
Beyoncé
The record-breaking win was Best Dance/Electronic Album for a 2022 record. Solti had held the record since 1997 with 31.
Q 06Which US number-one single led the July 2022 album Renaissance?
Break My Soul
It samples Robin S.'s 1990 house classic 'Show Me Love' and Big Freedia. 'Cuff It' became the album's second big hit months later.
Q 07Taylor Swift's Midnights, released in October 2022, was which number studio album for her?
Tenth
It was framed as thirteen sleepless nights from across her life. The Eras Tour was announced on Good Morning America eleven days after the album came out.
Q 08Which Midnights lead single topped the week Taylor Swift held every spot in the Hot 100 top 10?
Anti-Hero
Its video has Swift confronting a giant version of herself. Drake had previously held nine of the top ten, in 2021.
Q 09How many tickets did the Eras Tour sell on the first day of its US presale in November 2022, a record?
Over 2.4 million
Ticketmaster's site buckled and the general sale was cancelled, prompting a US Senate hearing. Robbie Williams had held the record with 1.6 million in 2005.
Q 10How many weeks did Harry Styles's 'As It Was' spend at number one on the Hot 100 in 2022?
15
It was still only the number two song of the year on the Hot 100, behind a track that had been on the chart since early 2021.
Q 11Which British band's 'Heat Waves' took a record 59 weeks to reach the top of the Hot 100?
Glass Animals
The song had been released in 2020 on the album Dreamland and crept up the chart for more than a year before finally hitting 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
It had originally peaked at number three in 1985. In the US it climbed to number three on the Hot 100, far above its original peak of 30.
Q 13At what age did Kate Bush become the oldest female artist ever to top the UK singles chart, in June 2022?
63
Q 21Which country legend initially declined her 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nomination, then accepted?
Dolly Parton
She went on to record a rock album, Rockstar, in 2023 to earn the honour properly. Eminem, Duran Duran and Lionel Richie were inducted the same night.
Q 22Kim Petras became the first openly transgender woman to win a Grammy for which 2022 duet with Sam Smith?
Unholy
It topped the Hot 100 after going viral on TikTok a month before release, and won Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.
Q 23Nicki Minaj's August 2022 number-one single is built on a sample of which 1981 Rick James hit?
Super Freak
It was also a record 37 years between a song's release and its reaching number one, and a 44-year gap since her previous chart-topper, 'Wuthering Heights'.
Q 14Which Encanto song topped the Hot 100 for five weeks in 2022, only the second Disney animated song to do so?
We Don't Talk About Bruno
The first was 'A Whole New World' from Aladdin in 1993. Disney had submitted '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
Germaine Franco composed the score. It was the first Disney soundtrack to reach number one since Frozen II in 2019.
Q 16Which 2022 album was Spotify's most streamed and the first Spanish-language Album of the Year Grammy nominee?
Un Verano Sin Ti
Its maker was Spotify's most-streamed artist for the third year running. The album spent 13 non-consecutive weeks on top of the Billboard 200.
Q 17Which country won the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest in Turin with the song 'Stefania' by Kalush Orchestra?
Ukraine
The winners 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
Ryder had built his following posting covers on TikTok during lockdown. It was the UK's sixteenth runner-up finish, a record.
Q 19Which rapper made a surprise appearance at the February 2022 Super Bowl halftime show?
50 Cent
He performed 'In da Club' hanging upside down. It was the first halftime show built entirely around hip hop, and 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
He was 50, and had drummed for Alanis Morissette before joining the band in 1997. Tribute concerts at Wembley and the Kia Forum followed in September.
The same riff powered MC Hammer's 'U Can't Touch This' in 1990. The song was 'Super Freaky Girl'.
Q 24Which K-pop girl group's Born Pink was the first album by a female Korean act to top the Billboard 200, in 2022?
Blackpink
It also became the first K-pop girl-group album to hit number one in the UK. The lead single was 'Shut Down', built on a Paganini violin caprice.
Q 25Which former member of the Internet hit number one in 2022 with 'Bad Habit'?
Steve Lacy
The song was the first ever to top both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop and Hot Rock & Alternative charts at the same time. Lacy recorded early tracks on an iPhone.
Q 26Who won Album of the Year for We Are at the April 2022 Grammys, the first held in Las Vegas?
Jon Batiste
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 27Silk Sonic won Record and Song of the Year in 2022 for which song?
Leave the Door Open
The retro-soul duo then withdrew the album from the following year's Grammys, saying they had already won enough for it.
Q 28Who won Best New Artist at the Grammys in April 2022, the year after 'Drivers License' and Sour?
Olivia Rodrigo
She also took Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Solo Performance that night. Doja Cat's win came in the duo/group category, for 'Kiss Me More'.
Q 29ABBA Voyage, the virtual residency that opened in London in 2022, shows the band as they looked in which year?
1979
The 'ABBAtars' were built from weeks of motion capture with the four members, who were in their seventies, and perform with a live ten-piece band.
Q 30Which visual-effects company, famous for Star Wars, created the digital 'ABBAtars' used in ABBA Voyage?
Industrial Light & Magic
The show runs in a purpose-built arena in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, with a live ten-piece band playing alongside the avatars.