Harry Styles, Bad Bunny, BLACKPINK among artists who rocked post-COVID NYC in 2022

Chart-topping stars gave the New York music scene a major tuneup in 2022.

Concert residencies rocked Madison Square Garden and high-profile tours hit the city as New York continued to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic that shut down entertainment for much of the previous two years.

Audiences proved ready for live music’s return, as concertgoers flocked to sold-out shows at Yankee Stadium, the Prudential Center and more.

Here are the artists who hit a high note in New York this year.

Harry Styles, seen here performing at Madison Square Garden in 2021, returned to the arena for 15 concerts in 2022. ((C)Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for HS)

Harry Styles

Fresh off the May release of his album “Harry’s House,” Styles made MSG his home with a 15-concert residency in August and September.

Dressed in feathers and sparkles, fans repeatedly packed the world’s most famous arena as Styles serenaded with mostly solo hits — though he did delight One Direction diehards by including “What Makes You Beautiful” on his setlist.

The Garden concerts helped highlight a massive year for Styles, whose new album topped charts throughout the world and whose single “As It Was” set a record for a U.K. artist with 15 weeks at No. 1 in the U.S.

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Bad Bunny performs at Yankee Stadium on Aug. 27. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

Bad Bunny

It was another good year for Bad Bunny, who hit a home run with two sold-out shows at Yankee Stadium over the summer.

The buzzworthy Bronx gigs welcomed more than 100,000 attendees combined, helping fuel the biggest tour of 2022. The reggaeton rapper led all artists by grossing $373.5 million across the 65 concerts on his “World’s Hottest Tour,” according to Billboard.

The Puerto Rican superstar’s latest album, “Un Verano Sin Ti,” topped the U.S. chart after its May release, became the first Spanish-language project to get a Grammy nomination for album of the year and spawned the wildly popular singles “Tití Me Preguntó” and “Me Porto Bonito.”

Rosé, Jennie, Lisa, and Jisoo of BLACKPINK perform at the 2022 MTV VMAs at the Prudential Center in Newark. (John Shearer/Getty Images for MTV/Paramount G)

BLACKPINK

BLACKPINK’s red-hot year included a chart-topping sophomore album in “Born Pink” and a world tour drawing massive demand in every area.

K-pop’s top girl group made its U.S. awards show debut at August’s MTV VMAs at the Prudential Center in Newark, giving a rousing performance of the hit “Pink Venom” that had Taylor Swift singing and dancing along.

BLACKPINK then returned to the Prudential Center for two sold-out shows in November. The group starring Jennie, Lisa, Jisoo and Rosé was named Time magazine’s 2022 entertainer of the year.

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Lizzo at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 2. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

Lizzo

Lizzo also dazzled the Prudential Center with a VMAs performance, then attracted more than 20,000 fans at back-to-back MSG concerts in October.

One of those Manhattan shows included a viral moment in which Lizzo FaceTimed an audience member’s ex-boyfriend and called him out in front of the crowd.

This year saw Lizzo release a No. 1 single in “About Damn Time” and a Top 5 album in “Special.” She received five 2023 Grammy nominations, including in each of the top three categories.

Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 24. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images)

Billy Joel

The Piano Man certainly had audiences back in a New York state of mind.

After resuming his monthly MSG residency late last year, Joel continued to sell out concerts throughout 2022 in perhaps the greatest symbol of New York entertainment’s return to normalcy.

Joel’s residency now stands at 85 shows since it began in 2014, and he’s already announced Garden gigs every month through June.

“The crowd is always great at the Garden,” Joel told the Daily News last year.

“We’ve been all over the world, and the Garden, we think, has the best ambiance for sound. And it’s just always exciting.”

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Taylor Swift performs her song “All Too Well” at the Tribeca Festival. (Elise Ryan/AP)

Taylor Swift

The 11-time Grammy winner didn’t tour in 2022, but she still managed to strike a chord with New Yorkers.

Swift’s screening of her “All Too Well: The Short Film” was a highlight of June’s Tribeca Festival, where she gave a surprise performance following a talk about the project she wrote, directed, produced and starred in.

“I always sort of thought [film directing] was something that other people did, and I just would be around it, and in my head I’d think, ‘Oh, I love that they did that. I would’ve done that differently,’” Swift said at the event. “The lists of things that I was absorbing became so long that eventually I thought, ‘I really want to do this.’”

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