| Record of the Year | Self-Released Record of the Year |
Wet Leg – Wet Leg
Blue Rev – Alvvays* Stumpwork – Dry Cleaning* I Walked with You a Ways – Plains* Diaspora Problems – Soul Glo* A Light for Attracting Attention – The Smile | Two Sisters – Sarah Davachi* "Cool Kids " – Echosmith* Jersey Girl – Jessie Baylin* Rita Wilson Now & Forever: Duets – Rita Wilson* When the Lights Go – Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs |
| A2IM Humanitarian Award | Best Alternative Rock Record |
| Killer Mike* Allison Russell* Björk* Hopeless Records* Margo Price* Tegan and Sara | Wet Leg – Wet Leg* Blue Rev – Alvvays* Stumpwork – Dry Cleaning* Laurel Hell – Mitski* Painless – Nilüfer Yanya |
| Best American Roots Record | Best Blues Record |
| Big Time – Angel Olsen* Fortune Favors the Bold – 49 Winchester* El Mirador – Calexico* The Man from Waco – Charley Crockett* This Is a Photograph – Kevin Morby* Denim & Diamonds – Nikki Lane | Done Come Too Far – Shemekia Copeland* Bloodline Maintenance – Ben Harper* Outdated Emotion – Delbert McClinton* Set Sail – North Mississippi Allstars* I Need a Job...So I Can Buy More Auto-Tune – Swamp Dogg |
| Best Classical Record | Best Country Record |
| Pigments – Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn* We Will Live On – Deru* memorie – doeke* Invisible Forces – James Heather* At the Crest – Jonas Colstrup* Lost & Found – Sean Shibe | I Walked with You a Ways – Plains* "Cypress Hills and the Big Country" – Colter Wall* Run, Rose, Run – Dolly Parton* Neon Blue – Joshua Hedley* Blackberry Rose – Lavender Country* "Change of Heart" – Margo Price* Jerry Jeff – Steve Earle and The Dukes |
| Best Dance Record | Best Electronic Record |
| "Water" – Bicep* "Good Times/Problemz" – Jungle* "Happy Ending" – Kelela* "Can't Stop Thinking About" – Logic1000* "Strong" – Romy featuring Fred Again* "DJ Kicks" – Theo Parrish | The Last Goodbye – Odesza* Fragments – Bonobo* Topical Dancer – Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul* I Love You Jennifer B – Jockstrap* Let's Turn It Into Sound – Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith* Nymph – Shygirl* No Rules Sandy – Sylvan Esso |
| Best Folk Record | Best Heavy Record |
| Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You – Big Thief* Age of Apathy – Aoife O'Donovan* Quitters – Christian Lee Hutson* Pre Pleasure – Julia Jacklin* Quiet the Room – Skullcrusher | Hellfire – black midi* The Death of Peace of Mind – Bad Omens* "Riptide" – Beartooth* Gnosis – Russian Circles* Trouble the Water – Show Me the Body* Diaspora Problems – Soul Glo |
| Best Hip-Hop/Rap Record | Best Jazz Record |
| Louie – Kenny BeatsRTJ Cu4tro – Run the Jewels* Cheat Codes – Danger Mouse and Black Thought* Melt My Eyez See Your Future – Denzel Curry* Few Good Things – Saba* As Above, So Below – Sampa the Great | "The Garden Path" – Kamasi Washington* Where I'm Meant to Be – Ezra Collective* Anyhow – Leland Whitty* Living Sky – The Sun Ra Arkestra* New Standars Vol. 1 – Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, Linda May Han Oh, Nicholas Payton, and Matthew Stevens |
| Best Latin Record | Best Outlier Record |
| "Ya No Estoy Aquí" – Helado Negro* Boleros Psicodélicos – Adrian Quesada* IRE – Combo Chimbita* Quietude – Eliane Elias* If You Will – Flora Purim* Estrela Acesa – Sessa* Marchita – Silvana Estrada | Please Have a Seat – NNAMDÏ* Time Skiffs – Animal Collective* Matisyahu – Matisyahu* Jazz Codes – Moor Mother* COMETA – Nick Hakim* Glitch Princess – yeule |
| Best Pop Record | Best Punk Record |
| Muna – MUNA* Fossora – Björk* Two Ribbons – Let's Eat Grandma* Second Nature – Lucius* Stay Proud of Me – NoSo* Hold the Girl – Rina Sawayama* Crybaby – Tegan and Sara | Growing Up – The Linda Lindas* Back Home – Big Joanie* Endure – Special Interest* The Hum Goes on Forever – The Wonder Years* Loggerhead – Wu-Lu |
| Best R&B Record | Best Re-Issue |
| Natural Brown Prom Queen – Sudan Archives* Let Me Down Easy: Bettye LaVette in Memphis Sun Records 70th / Remastered 2022 – Bettye LaVette* "Texas Sun" – Khruangbin and Leon Bridges* S/T – Thee Sacred Souls* Remember Your North Star – Yaya Bey | Fela with Ginger Baker Live! – Fela Kuti* Bon Iver, 10th Anniversary Edition – Bon Iver* In My Own Time, 50th Anniversary Edition – Karen Dalton* Words & Music, May 1865 – Lou Reed* Nancy & Lee – Nancy Sinatra* Wild Creatures – Neko Case* A Message from the People – Ray Charles |
| Best Rock Record | Best Singer-Songwriter Record |
| Skinty Fia – Fontaines D.C.* When the Wind Forgets Your Name – Built to Spill* Fear of the Dawn – Jack White* Sometimes, Forever – Soccer Mommy* Lucifer on the Sofa – Spoon | And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow – Weyes Blood* Warm Chris – Aldous Harding* "You're Not Alone" – Allison Russell featuring Brandi Carlile* Weather Alive – Beth Orton* Boat Songs – MJ Lenderman |
| Best Soul/Funk Record | Best Spiritual Record |
| Sentimental Fool – Lee Fields* Live in Stockholm 1972 – Ray Charles* Love & Algorhythms – Seratones* The Alien Coast – St. Paul and The Broken Bones* I Need a Job...So I Can Buy More Auto-Tune – Swamp Dogg | JAMIE – Montell Fish* And Now Let's Turn to Page... – Brent Cobb* Worship Anywhere: Live from Camp NewBreed – Israel & New Breed* Church Clothes 4 – Lecrae* Look Up! – The Harlem Gospel Travelers |
| Best Sync Usage | Best Global Record |
| "A Flower Called Nowhere" by Stereolab in Atlanta* "Go Home" by Angel Olsen in Empire of Light film trailer* "Water No Get Enemy" by Fela Kuti in Airbnb ad* "Don't Lose Sight" by Lawrence in Microsoft ad* "Drink Before the War" by Sinéad O'Connor in Euphoria | "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" – Rodrigo y Gabriela* En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog – Dungen* Electricity – Ibibio Sound Machine* Let the Festivities Begin! – Los Bitchos* Afrique Refait – Mdou Moctar* Kel Tinariwen – Tinariwen* Ali – Vieux Farka Touré and Khruangbin |
| Breakthrough Artist/Release | Creative Packaging |
| Sudan Archives* Allison Russell* Charlotte Sands* Soul Glo* The Linda Lindas | Ants from Up There – Black Country, New Road* 2020 Collectors' Set – Jack White* Words & Music, May 1965 – Lou Reed* Laurel Hell – Mitski* Circuital (Deluxe Edition) – My Morning Jacket* Dopesmoker, Weedian High-Fi Edition – Sleep |
| Independent Champion | Label of the Year (Big) |
| Bandcamp* Aaron Axelsen* FUGA* Redeye* Secretly Distribution* TuneCore | Partisan Records* ATO Records* Hopeless Records* Merge Records* New West Records* Ninja Tune* Sub Pop Records* Third Man Records* Warp Records |
| Label of the Year (Medium) | Label of the Year (Small) |
| Captured Tracks* City Slang* Daptone Records* Glassnote Records* Saddle Creek* Yep Roc Records | Innovative Leisure* Don Giovanni Records* Fire Talk* Oh Boy Records* Topshelf Records |
| Best Live/Livestream Act | Best Remix |
| Low Live* Bartees Strange – Live at the Getty* Black Pumas – Colors Live at Abbey Road Studios* Idles – Live on From the Basement* King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard at Red Rocks* Phoebe Bridgers – Glastonbury 2022* Wet Leg – US 2022 Tour | "Too Late Now" – Wet Leg* "Do It to It" – ACRAZE + Tiësto* "Wretched" – Bartees Strange* "Cliché" – Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul* "Nothing Is Safe" – Clipping* "Get Sun" – Hiatus Kaiyote* "Midnight Sun" – Nilüfer Yanya |
| Video of the Year | Best Short-Form Video |
| "Ur Mom" – Wet Leg* "Hawk for the Dove" – Amanda Shires* "Jackie Down the Line" – Fontaines D.C.* "Thank You" – Jaywood* "Parasites" – NoSo* "Spitting Off the Edge of the World" – Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Mahal TikTok series – Toro y Moi* "Scooter" – Belle and Sebastian* Hellfire TikTok Promotion – Black Midi* The Runner – Boy Harsher* "Pistol" – Cigarettes After Sex* Louie 001 Instagram vignette series – Kenny Beats |
| Marketing Genius | Special awards |
| Wet Leg – Wet Leg * Skinty Fia – Fontaines D.C. * IMPERA – Ghost * Natural Brown Prom Queen – Sudan Archives * Cool It Down – Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Independent Icon Award: Marshall Allen and The Sun Ra ArkestraIndependent Icon Award: Martha Reeves |