2022 Music Trivia
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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 Album of the Year at the 65th Grammy Awards in February 2023?
Harry's House
Harry's House won over a field that included Adele's 30 and Renaissance; Styles also took Best Pop Vocal Album that night.
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 beat higher-profile nominees including Måneskin, Latto and Anitta; her second album, Linger Awhile, had come out in September 2022.
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 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, released in June 2022, samples Robin S.'s house classic 'Show Me Love' and Big Freedia, and topped the Hot 100 that August.
Q 07Taylor Swift's Midnights, released in October 2022, was which number studio album for her?
Tenth
Tenth of her studio albums, Midnights was framed as thirteen sleepless nights from across her life; the Eras Tour was announced on Good Morning America eleven days after its release.
Q 08Which Midnights lead single topped the week Taylor Swift held every spot in the Hot 100 top 10?
Anti-Hero
Anti-Hero led the chart dated November 5, 2022, when Midnights tracks filled the entire top ten; Drake had held nine of the ten spots 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
Over 2.4 million tickets went in a day; Ticketmaster's site buckled, the general sale was cancelled, and the fallout led to a US Senate hearing in January 2023.
Q 10How many weeks did Harry Styles's 'As It Was' spend at number one on the Hot 100 in 2022?
15
As It Was spent 15 weeks at number one, yet finished only second on the 2022 year-end Hot 100, behind a track that had been on the chart 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 on the album Dreamland, and it crept up the chart for more than a year before finally reaching 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 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
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 22Kim Petras became the first openly transgender woman to win a Grammy for which 2022 duet with Sam Smith?
Unholy
Unholy topped the Hot 100 in October 2022 after a TikTok tease went viral a month before release, and won Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 65th Grammys.
Q 23Nicki Minaj's August 2022 number-one single is built on a sample of which 1981 Rick James hit?
Super Freak
At 63 she passed Cher's mark as the oldest female artist to reach UK number one; the 37 years from release to the top and the 44-year gap since 'Wuthering Heights' were records too.
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
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 the eight original songs, while Germaine Franco composed the score; it was the first Disney soundtrack to top the Billboard 200 since Frozen II in 2019.
Q 16Which 2022 album was Spotify's most-streamed album of the year?
Un Verano Sin Ti
Un Verano Sin Ti spent 13 non-consecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200, and its maker was Spotify's most-streamed artist for the third year running.
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; his 466 points gave the UK a record sixteenth runner-up finish.
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.
Super Freak, Rick James's 1981 hit, also powered MC Hammer's 'U Can't Touch This' in 1990; Minaj's track 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
Blackpink's Born Pink also became the first K-pop girl-group album to reach number one in the UK; its lead single 'Shut Down' is built on Paganini's 'La Campanella'.
Q 25Which former member of the Internet hit number one in 2022 with 'Bad Habit'?
Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy, who famously produced 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 26Who 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 27Silk Sonic won Record and Song of the Year in 2022 for which song?
Leave the Door Open
Leave the Door Open took both Record and Song of the Year; the retro-soul duo then withdrew their 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
Olivia Rodrigo also took Best Pop Vocal Album for Sour and Best Pop Solo Performance for 'Drivers License' 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' show the members as they looked in 1979, built from weeks of motion capture with the four, then in their seventies, and perform with a live ten-piece band.
Q 30Which visual-effects company created the digital 'ABBAtars' used in ABBA Voyage?
Industrial Light & Magic
Industrial Light & Magic, the effects house George Lucas founded for Star Wars, built the avatars from motion capture; the show runs in a purpose-built arena at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.