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Welcome to the 24th Songs of the Week of 2022. This week’s list features several artists from Down Under, with some great tracks from artists from both Australia and New Zealand. There were too many fantastic songs this week, so we have a super-sized Top 15 main list and lots of strong honorable mentions too.
"We don't want to be a party band," Smith Westerns guitarist and co-songwriter Max Kakacek says from his cell phone while visiting friends in Austin, Texas, just a few days after the Chicago-based wunderkinds' performance at Coachella.
Whitney Cummings plays someone evidently based on herself and her real-life experiences in this eponymous show.
From The Strokes to Olivia Rodrigo to Frank Ocean, here are our picks for the greatest debut albums since the dawn of the new millennium.
New Pop Songs: No Rome, Trina, Sufjan Stevens, Turnstile and more.