Gone are the days when great rock and pop musicians practically released an album a year. Now they take their time and at most ease the anxiety of their fans with individual songs, singles.
That’s why it’s rare to find a season where many rising stars and values coincide. However In 2023, albums by the Rolling Stones, Depeche Mode, Metallica, Blur, Wilco, Kylie Minogue, Drake, Troye Sivan, Miley Cyrus, Paramore and SZA were released.
The million dollar question, then, is what remains for 2024. Many characters play with the surprise factor and do not give clear indications, but others have already confirmed that they will publish a new work in the next twelve months.
Taylor Swift will definitely release a version of her album “Reputation” in 2024. Photo: Martín BonettoIt is known that there will be mega releases of big stars like Billie Eilish, The Cure, Dua Lipa, Green Day and Chance the RappeA. There are also rumors circulating that seem extremely logical, such as Taylor Swift with Reputation (Taylor’s version), Beyoncé with Renaissance: Act IIAND Ariana Grande with his first album in three years.
Green Day, “Saviors” (January 19)
Green Day, Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool and Billie Joe Armstrong pose on the red carpet as they arrive at the MTV Europe Music Awards at the FIBES Exhibition and Conference Center in Seville on November 3, 2019. (Photo by CRISTINA QUICLER / AFP)“I think this album is the best of everything Green Day has,” Billie Joe Armstrong said in a radio interview last year. That album is Saviorswhich according to the trio completed by Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool “closes the gap” between Dookie AND Idiot American. The first single was The American dream is killing me.
Naturally they will then go on tour in large stadiums and the repertoire will wink at the anniversaries of the 20 years of Idiot American and the 1930s Dookie.
Usher, “Coming Home” (February 11)
Usher’s first solo album in seven years promises to surprise, as he knows how to keep up with trends, whether collaborating with current rappers or diving into electronic dance music. In his first single Very well brought in contemporary stars Summer Walker and 21 Savage. Additionally, he will headline the Super Bowl halftime show on launch day.
MGMT, “Loss of Life” (February 23)
Andrew Van Wyngarden, of MGMT, who returns with a new album. Photo: AFPThe group led by singers and multi-instrumentalists Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser caused a sensation in 2007 with the album Oracular show. In the middle of the pandemic they released their fourth album and it was a success on TikTok. Now they look back to the 90s, as they already anticipated with the Britpop sound Mother Nature and the rock of Chewing gum dog..
Jacob Collier, “Djesse Vol. 4” (February 29)
Jacob Collier, a talent who achieves enormous success and an artistic quality that surprises his colleagues. press photoThe pop phenomenon capable of combining classical, jazz, folk, choral, R&B, hip-hop and pop music will culminate his project Djesse with collaborations from Brandi Carlile, Michael McDonald, Shawn Mendes and Stormzy. It’s worth mentioning that a year ago Mick Jagger praised him as his favorite artist when they met at a Coldplay show.
Chance The Rapper, “Star Line Gallery” (undated)
Chance The Rapper at Lollapalooza Argentina 2018. Photo: Martín BonettoFive years have passed since their debut studio album, The big dayand although he has not officially announced his return, he has talked about it in all his latest reports Star line gallery. He called it “one of my proudest projects in terms of writing and artistic vision.”
Lenny Kravitz, “Blue Electric Light” (March 15)
Lenny Kravitz in the video for “TK421”, the first single from his new album.It will be a double album where he will play most of the instruments. The conceptual thread is the exploration of love, sex and spirituality. The first single, with striptease included, was catchy TK421.
The Cure, “Songs Of A Lost World” (undated)
Robert Smith, of The Cure, at the Primavera Sound Argentina 2023 festival. Photo: Emmanuel FernándezTwo years ago, Robert Smith announced the title of the band’s next album at the NME Awards. Since then everyone has been waiting for the album, the songs of which they have already played live (also in Argentina) and appear on YouTube. Everything indicates that this year the wait is over.
Dua Lipa (untitled or dated)
Dua Lipa’s launch campaign for the release of “Houdini”. Photo: XFour years after the worldwide boom of their second album Nostalgia for the futurethe first single has already appeared: Houdini, which brings to mind a brighter, brighter disco-pop. Fact: That hit brought Kevin Parker of Tame Impala on board to work together.
Billie Eilish (untitled and undated)
Billie Eilish at Lollapalooza Argentina 2023. Photo: Emmanuel Fernández At first glance it would be strange to think of a new job, given that he was touring around the world and working on his contribution to the soundtrack of Barbie. However, he has confirmed in several interviews that he is very close to finishing his third album.
Elton John and Brandi Carlile (untitled and undated)
Elton John and Belinda Carlile. FotoFB 2019The information was provided by none other than Pete Townsend in a recent article, when he stated that his friend Elton was very enthusiastic about the album he had made as a duet with Brandi Carlile, a 42-year-old singer-songwriter who has all the respect of his colleagues, even of demanding people like Joni Mitchell, with whom he recorded.
Representatives for Elton and Carlile declined or did not respond to media requests for comment, but did not deny the information either.
Source: Clarin
