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Music currently relies on the momentum of the surprise release.
In most cases, speculation is the name of the game, whether we like it or not.
Ed Sheeran was inescapable.
Cardi B was too.
Nicki Minaj probably shouldve released an album, but didnt.
So what will 2018 bring?
Some of the releases below are coming, for sure.
Others on this list are just extremely educated guesses.
Is any song as good asNo Flex Zone?
So what, then, does Camila Cabello have to say?
Then they did it all over again the very next year withNouns,their first proper LP.
But when your former name is Rich Chigga, it also kind of makes sense.
Youre already getting too much.
Nothing, if you ask Nicki Minaj.
It stands as one of the best pop albums of the decade.
But with so much critical value now attached, how does she even begin to top it?
It was 33 minutes long; it called itself a prelude to histruesecond albumKing Push.
(It was also quite good.)
But given that Push always moves according to his own timetable, who knows?
However, we do regularly think about how Kanye holed himself up at the top (the top!)
And 2017 was a relatively quiet musical year for Bey the woman birthed twins!
which means she still released four features, appeared on Jay-Zs album, had a No.
1 song, and signed on to voice Nala in theLion Kingremake.
Shes set to headline Coachella in April, right around the two-year anniversary ofLemonade.
I didnt mean to make an album, and I dont know if its done at all, shesaid.
But I just have a bunch of songs that I really like.
Ive just been working and creating and inspired.
Part of that inspiration?
That possibility is greatly reduced when the band premieres notonebuttwogorgeous tracks onTwin Peaks.
Of course, since Drake was still Drake, taking a year lightly meant releasingan 80-minute collection.
Still, he didnt bother making music videos for it, or even submitting the thing to the Grammys.
Now that hes given the public some time off, theres only one thing left to do.
(Besides quitting music altogether and moving into acting, that is.)
Presumably, that sequel, titledBandana,could arrive this year.
Madlib tends to mine unlikely records for psychedelic samples to create collage opuses that conjure entire alternate worlds.
I dont say this to write off the weight of her music, though.
According to my complex math, that means that now its probably 88 percent done.
What does that mean for his next record?
