Predictions for 2018

[NeRD]

Before you drag me for making this thread so early, it's only because after seeing another poster bump the 2017 thread, I started my predictions early which included the end of 2017! :(

Devil Marlena Nylund please don't be mad at me! :'(


Now just because I did it doesn't mean you have to. I just got on a role and s**t this thing out in around two hours so here it is! Mods feel free to close this until the later time if you like.

Previous Years:

2013: pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/127765/predictions-2013
2014: pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/134896/early-predictions-pop-music-2014
2015: pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/144973/predictions-2015
2016: pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/155218/predictions-2016
2017: pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/163507/predictions-2017
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RIHANNA - 2018 will be an INCREDIBLE year for the Queen.
She will have the lead single for R9 ready for the Grammys. She’ll get some noms for Wild Thoughts and Loyalty, with the latter having the best chance of winning.
The lead single will regain the international momentum she lost with ANTI and the album will be a return to form in regards to success specifically in the UK following the huge momentum she regained due to Wild Thoughts.
R9 will have a traditional rollout, without the bulls**t that almost ended in ANTI’s demise. When we say TIDAL exclusives, we’ll only mean the songs will be on TIDAL an hour or so before all other platforms, which won’t make much of a difference.

Ocean’s 8 will be a summer box office smash. She’ll use a song from the album to be included in the movie/or soundtrack.
Fenty Beauty will break records around the world.
She’ll begin her next WW tour late summer. Again, with much better planning resulting and much better reception.
R9 will share some of the same characteristics that ANTI had, but will be more mainstream in the vein of Unapologetic. She’ll still have the Urban cuts to dominate Urban radio.
Her and the Prince will call it quits.


KATY PERRY – They’ll possibly release one last single from Witness. She’ll go on tour while writing songs for her next album. Capitol will have much more control of this era in response to the commercial failure that was Witness. The album will be moderately successful, and so will the singles.
After realizing she’s well past her commercial peak, and going into her mid-late 30s, she’ll settle down and have a baby before the end of the year. With or without a man.

ARIANA GRANDE – She’ll ring in the New Year right in the middle of her new era. She’ll either release her lead single near the end of 2017, with the new album in the first quarter; or vice versa. The first single will be a success, potentially giving her first #1 hit. The album as a whole will be moderately successful but still paling into comparison with My Everything. She’ll go on tour, which will also be successful. But overall, will just kinda be “there”….

TAYLOR SWIFT – Will release reputation November 2017 with million first week. Other tracks from the album will be much more radio friendly/less divisive than her lead single. It’ll be a mid-tempo with a power chorus and she’ll perform it at the Grammys. It’ll go Top 3 but will be ultimately blocked by another massive Rihanna single. She’ll embark on the “reputation World Tour” in the summer which will be another blockbuster. Sold out stadiums around the world. The album will finish at 3.5-4 million in the US and 6 million WW.

BEYONCE – Beyonce won’t be attending the Grammys in 2018. She’ll be working hard preparing for Coachella while quietly recording a new album, which will be released immediately before or shortly after the festival. The album will see critical acclaim, but not to the extent of Lemonade. It’ll be more commercial, more in the vain of Self-titled. She’ll sabotage her releases so long as TIDAL is alive so don’t expect much single success. Her album will easily sell one million pure sales in the US, and do decently WW.
She’ll do promo for the Lion King and the soundtrack, with both being a success, followed by another massive WW tour.

MARIAH CAREY – She’ll finally release a new album, with lukewarm response. She’ll continue touring performing her classics, but unfortunately won’t see much commercial success again.

LADY GAGA – She’ll work really hard and finish up the Joanne Tour, but her illness will take front stage and will hinder her performance abilities. She’ll take a small break before going full-throttle for the promotion of ASIB. Unfortunately, both the movie and soundtrack will be critical and commercial failures. She’ll then take a step back to really decide the direction she would like to take her career. Little Monsters will be in a world of disarray having to deal with the criticism and bashing they thought was over after ARTPOP.


BRUNO MARS – He’ll put on a stellar performance at the Grammys and win a few awards…maybe one of the big ones. He’ll finish up the tour, then take a short break with possible writing and collaborations with other artists. New album in 2019.

ADELE – She’ll remain relatively quiet for most of the year with a new single in the late third quarter with a new album. OR possibly wait until 2019. 2019 is more likely.

BRITNEY SPEARS – She’ll release a new album. It will surprise most and do decently well commercially. She’ll embark on a WW tour and will continue dating her boyfriend.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – Will come out swinging with an EPIC Superbowl halftime performance. The performance will focus promotion primarily on the lead single. The release date of the album and a WW tour will be announced immediately after. The album will be released in the spring becoming a commercial success. He’ll start his tour in the summer, which will also be a commercial success.


ALESSIA CARA – She’ll finally release her sophomore album with great reception. The time she took in 2017 to build up her radio base will pay off, and her lead single will arguably be her biggest yet. She’ll then embark on her first solo WW tour.

MILEY CYRUS – Will embark on her Younger Now Tour, and will release one or two more singles from the album, which won’t do much as expected. Meanwhile, she’ll be recording the commercial album she should have released in 2017, and it’ll be out late 2018 or early 2019.

MEGHAN TRAINOR – She’ll release a new album which will fail to see much commercial success. She’ll find some success on HAC, but Pop radio will be over her. She’ll continue releasing music but will never achieve the success of her debut again.

CAMILA – Riding off the WW success of Havana she will release her debut album in late 2017 exceeding expectations. She will be particularly noticed for her songwriting abilities having credits on the subsequent singles in which at least one more will become a big hit. She’ll then plan to embark on a tour at medium sized venues and will continue to build up her brand. Many of her naysayers will be silenced as she will eventually be seen as a viable solo artist.

FIFTH HARMONY – Following the underperformance of their album debut sales, He Like That won’t do much despite immense promotion. There will be no more singles released from the album, and the label will face the tough decision in whether to break the girl’s contracts or invest in another album. However, they won’t have to make this decision as the girls will break up on their own.

JUSTIN BEIBER – He’ll release a new single in the Spring of 2018 with a new album in the summer. The single will likely debut at #1 but won’t be as successful as his lead single from Purpose. His second single will also be a big hit, but not as big as Sorry. His third single will only do moderately well and he’ll shift focus on a WW Tour.

SELENA GOMEZ – Upon recovering from surgery, Selena will start off the first quarter releasing the “lead” single from her next album which will be a moderate success. Neither the lead or the album will find the success of Good For You or Revival. She’ll release one or two more singles from the album but they won’t do much. She’ll then go on tour, and continue her Instagram domination.

DEMI LOVATO – Following the somewhat surprising success of Sorry Not Sorry and its parent album, Demi will also find success with the second and third singles. People will really enjoy her more R&B leaning sound, and she’ll stick with it. She’ll then go on tour, while recording the follow up attempting to replicate its success.

DRAKE – He will come back in the spring with his lead after one or two more collaborations before. The lead single will be a success, but will not be as successful as One Dance. The parent album will also be a success, but will not see the same success as Views. The era will have seemed to fade away after the second single and he will embark on another tour with additional collaborations on the side.

ED SHEREEN – Perfect will be a multi-week #1 hit. He will perform it at the Grammys and also win AT LEAST one of the big awards for Shape of You, or possibly AOTY. Perfect will carry the album at least until the early spring. He’ll release at least two more singles while embarking on his WW tour. Both being moderate hits.

ZAYN – He’ll release his sophomore album to underwhelming reception. The lead single will only perform moderately, and the era will be pretty much over after single #2 similar to his debut.

ONE DIRECTION – They’ll release one more album and go on another tour for the fans before permanently disbanding to pursue solo careers.

THE WEEKEND – He’ll perform at the Grammys, but remain relatively quiet with the exception of Die For You, which won’t do much, and a collaboration or two.

CHRISTINA AGUILERA – She’ll finally release a new album. The album will have moderate success, but won’t be worth the nearly six year wait. She’ll go on a small tour, then back to hiding for another 5+ years.

P!NK – She’ll continue promotion for her new album with a Grammy performance. The album will see two or three more singles, and will do relatively well. It will pale in comparison to her last two albums due to her weakness in streaming and the more HAC driven sound. She’ll have a successful tour.

MAROON 5 – they’ll continue promotion of their new album after it’s release during the fourth quarter, likely performing at the Grammys. Of course, subsequent singles will enjoy great radio support, but will not chart very well on the Hot 100. It’ll be your typical Maroon 5 era post Overexposed. Nothing new here.

CARDI B – Fresh off the success of Bodak Yellow, she should be able to ride this wave a bit. Because of her likeability, I think Urban radio will be willing to at least give her a chance with the follow up but if it isn’t hot, they’ll drop her. Nonetheless, I think the follow up to BY will do well on Urban and maybe Rythmic. However, I don’t think it’ll have anywhere near the same success as BY. She’ll be the kind of artist where people will be hear for your songs if they’re hot, but won’t be willing to invest in buying your album. Therefore, I can almost already tell that her debut album numbers will be very disappointing. Nonetheless, Bodak Yellow will continue to be performed by her well into the New Year until it runs dry. Nothing wrong with that! I’ve never seen her personality to be appealing, but it seems like most do? However, I feel like it will begin to get annoying.

LUIS FONSI – Will never have a US hit again. KARMA for blocking Queen from her 15th #1…

KESHA – Will perform at the Grammys and get nominations! Even if she doesn’t win anything this is such a great thing for her. None of these subsequent singles will be huge hits from this album, but they’ll be at least moderate hits, which is great for her at this point.

- No song will tie One Sweet Day and Despacito’s most weeks at #1 record this year.
- Itunes will set a new record for its lowest HDS #1 ever.
- The new TRL will do much better than expected, but still not on par with the old TRL.
- There will be another one hit wonder…
- There will be a HUGE scandal involving a well known singer
- American Idol will BOMB.
- Billboard will make yet another huge adjustment to its metrics system.
- There will be more women at #1 on the Hot 100 than men
- The turnover rate for #1 songs will be acceptable

[Sherane Lamar]

I don't have any particular guesses for individual artists, but I don't expect Hip-Hop domination to end any time soon.

I've kind of been feeling that Kodak Black will be a bit like a mini-Fetty Wap and won't be able to make it out of 2017.

XXXTENTACION's career is dead for sure, imo. I think he will be found guilty and given at least 10 years.

I don't expect Jake Paul to make it to the second half of 2018. But I do expect him to have maybe 1 charting song.

I optimistically expect Bhad Bhabie to continue to grow.

I don't expect to ever hear from Playboi Carti again.

I expect Post Malone's next album debut to be huge akin to Lil Uzi's.

I don't expect Taylor Swift or Eminem's new albums to hold up as well as their previous ones.

I don't expect Nicki Minaj's album to do as well as her previous album.

I do expect Drake's next album to do better than More Life, but not as well as Views.

[willapted33]

This may sound biased but I'm pretty sure of it -

Kendrick will win the most Grammy's including: Album of the Year, Record of the Year (Humble), Best Rap Album, Best Rap Song (Humble, Best Rap/Sung Collab (Loyalty)

[boysilver400]

Why not?

M5 will release a new album early-mid 2018. It won't be as successful as their last but they should rack up a few hits.
Chris Brown will completely fade into obscurity for good by the end of the year. Even in Urban. Katy Perry will do the same.
Taylor will continue to get multiple #1s from reputation.
Kendrick will win more Grammys.
An unexpected artist and/or group will make a comeback. (I.E Gym Class Heroes)
Kanye will put out another album which will achieve critical success but not do very good commercially.

That's all I can think of for now. Thoughts?

[MilesW1998]

Rihanna: Her 9th studio album will be released in 2018 and will be met with mixed critical reaction and moderate commercial success. It will spawn only 1 top 10 hit, 1 top 20 hit, and 2-3 songs failing to crack the top 40.

Katy Perry: Witness will be shelved and end pre-maturely by 2018, Katy will not release any new songs from 2018 onwards.

Ariana Grande: She'll release a new album in 2018, and will be met with critical and commercial success, landing her 3 top 10 hits, and maybe her first #1.

Taylor Swift: Reputation will face criticism for her new musical direction, mixing pop/industrial pop with more urban elements like trap, rap, and a collab with Drake on the album. It will be the only album in 2017 to sell 1 million. Her commercial success will be minimal, landing only one to two other top 20 hits. This new direction could very well ruin her career.

Beyonce: New album will be dropped in 2018, and will spawn nearly universal critical success and commercial success in terms of the album. The singles will fail to have any longevity or chart success, snatching only 1-2 hits off the album.

Mariah Carey: No new album will be released in 2018, she will release 1-2 songs but will be met with lukewarm response, and no commercial success.

Lady Gaga: She'll officially announce a quick, pre-mature end to her Joanne world tour, due to her illness. Her commercial and critical success will hinder in 2018, Joanne comes to a quick end and A Star Is Born will produce one new song from her that will commercial be mixed, and flop as a result. No new music will come from Lady Gaga as a result of this in 2018.

Bruno Mars: With the commercial and critical success of 24K Magic, he'll put up a stellar performance at a music awards show, will do writing and musical collabs and take a break in 2018. New album in 2019.

Adele: No new music on the horizon, wait until either late 3rd/4th quarter or 2019.

Britney Spears: No new music from Britney, no album, no nothing. She's basically done at this point.

Justin Timberlake: Pulls off an epic Super Bowl performance, but pulls in the NFL's worst result for a half time performance, due to the JT/JJ controversy a decade later, and the ongoing players kneeling for the national anthem controversy. He'll release a new album in 2018 and will produce 3 top 10 hits, possibly a #1 hit for one of them. It will be met with widespread critical success.

Alessia Cara: Sophomore album will be released in 2018, and will have commercial and critical success. 2 top 10 hits, 1 top 20 hit, and 1 top 40 hit.

Miley Cyrus: Younger Now tour will commence in 2018, and will have 1-2 more singles, but will flop. She will mostly go silent in terms of music for 2018.

Meghan Trainor: She'll release a new album in 2018, but will have little to no traction, fail commercially and receive little critical attention. She's effectively done on chart success.

Camila Cabello: Havana will be an unexpected success, she'll release her debut in late 2017/early 2018, and will be met with mixed-to-positive reception, and spawn one more hit off the album. She'll start a small tour in 2018.

Fifth Harmony: Despite being better then their 2nd album, due to commercial failure, the band is essentially split, either by internal fighting among the girls, or by the record label themselves. No new music in 2018, and the end of Fifth Harmony altogether.

Justin Bieber: He'll release a new song and album in 2018, it will be a commercial success, but not as successful as Purpose. This will essentially be his More Life. 2 top 10 hits, and nothing more in 2018. Critical reception will be mostly positive.

Selena Gomez: She will officially release her lead off for her 3rd album in 2018, and will be met with critical and commercial success, so will her upcoming album. 3 top hits, and one top 40 hit.

Demi Lovato: Her new album will be met with critical success, and will expand her commercial success more. She will have no top 10's except maybe SNS (Debatable) and 2 top 20-40 hits.

Drake: He'll return in 2018, but will be met with mixed-negative reception. His next album to be released in 2018 will bee even less successful than More Life and will spawn zero top 10 hits, and only one top 20 hit. He could produce another mixtape in 2018 and be met with even less praise and success.

Ed Sheeran: Perfect will be a minor top 20-40 hit, win big at the Grammys, and will take a break in 2018.

Zayn Malik: 2nd album will underperform, both critically and commercially. Only his lead off will perform decently, being a top 20-40 hit.

The Weeknd: A new album will be released in mid 2018-early 2019, with critically mixed reception, and lukewarm commercial success. 2 top 20 hits.

Christina Aguilera: ...Nothing, I've got nothing.

P!nk: Her new album will be met with critical praise, but will underperform commercially. She'll try to promote hard on HAC and AC and do a Grammys performance for her new album. Will spawn 1 more top 40 hit, along with What About Us.

Maroon 5: Will perform better than expected critically and possibly commercially. Will spawn 1 more top 40 hit.

Cardi B: She'll be another forgotten one hit wonder, or will perform better on urban, but will fail to achieve anymore mainstream success as Bodak Yellow did.

Luis Fonsi: No more mainsteam success for Luis Fonsi outside the Latin charts.

Kesha: Will receive Grammy noms, and could win one award. No subsequent singles will become hits.

Charlie Puth: His new album will be met with critical and commerical success and will be met with noms at the Grammys. The new album will spawn 2 more top 10 hits, and 1 top 20 hit.


-The most a song will get at #1 in 2018 will be 13 weeks.
-A well known 80s legend will die in 2018.
-American Idol will tank hard.
-Billboard will make another readjustment to it's metric system.
-The number of women and men at #1 will be 2:1 for men.
-3 song will spend 1 week at #1 on the Hot 100

[Sherane Lamar]

Oh yeah, and I expect Cardi B's career to play out maybe a bit like Wiz Khalifa's if she's lucky. More like Desiigner's if she's unlucky.

[54generation]

I predict cardi B will have mainstream success for at least 4-5 years lol
Migos will find more success in 2018, though not as big as in 2017
Unexpected succuessful comeback from Chris Brown in 2018, scoring decent sized hits (idk why I thought this was going to happen but whatevez)
2018 might be the year for Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez
At least 3 successful comebacks from past one hit wonders or forgotten artists scoring top 10/20 hits.
Chain smokers will do well in 2018, but not as big as their debut (excluding selfie)
I’ll post another one if I think of more

[🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾]

Adam Lambert - will release a new album

Adele - no new album this year but maybe a collaboration with another artist or a soundtrack single

Ariana Grande - will release a new album that is successful and has multiple hit singles

Beyonce - will release another visual album

BTS - will have a surprise hit that spends multiple weeks at #1 on the Hot 100

Camila Cabello - the album will finally come out in late 2017 and spawn several moderately successful singles

Cardi B - will have several more solo hits and successful features

The Chainsmokers - will have a couple of top 10 hits but will perform worse with each subsequent single

Daft Punk - will release a new album

Fifth Harmony - the group will break up once and for all with Normani being the next one to go solo

G-Eazy - new album will begin with strong sales but the singles will underperform; will do a few collaborations with some Pop gurls and will be accused of selling out

Harry Styles - will release a new album

Justin Timberlake - the new album will be successful overall but singles only peak in the top 10 on Pop; does better on AC and Hot AC; the accompanying tour will be huge

Katy Perry - will release new music

Kylie Minogue - will release a new album which will have a surprise Stock Aitken Waterman collaboration

Lady Gaga - a standalone single or two

Kesha - will do a live performance at the Grammys of "Praying"

Macklemore - will have a big surprise hit from the Gemini album

Madonna - a politically themed single but no album probably because she's doing a movie unless she does a song or songs for the soundtrack

Maluma - will have unexpected U.S. success with an English language single

Mariah Carey - a few singles or collaboration singles; maybe an EP

Maxwell - will finally release the 3rd album of his trilogy

Nathan Sykes - will release a new album that will not be very successful

Nick Jonas - will release a new album but the singles will only do moderately well

P!nk - the album will do well; the collaboration with Eminem will be released as a single

Sade - a new album will be released during the 4th quarter

Usher - will continue to face controversy and will struggle with his new releases

[.It'sGriffin]

I'll change this after the year ends.

Gucci Gang will unfortunately become a huge hit and hit the top 5 at least. Maybe even #1. Other than that, that dude, Lil Pulp, won't do anything.



But, seriously;

There will be more, or, rather, any K-Pop crossovers, although short-lasting.


POST MALONE-
His album won't do much in sales / SPS, but it'll have strong singles.
He will get a haircut, but will still look like the hobo version of Podrick fucking Payne.

XXXTENTACION-
His "creative" career will, unfortunately, end due to him going to prison for a long time, but somme of his songs will become hits because of that. If the sentence will be passed on a Friday, he will have 3+ top 10 entries in that week.


THE WEEKND-
He will drop a new album in Fall, whilst milking hype off succesful collabs.
THe ablum will do better internationally than Starboy.


CHANCE THE RAPPER-
He will release a successful album, and it will be the "DAMN." of 2018. Collabs with Logic, Macklemore and Eminem are sure to come.

CAMILA CABELLO-
Will release an album that will exceed all expectations critically and commercially. Will become more successful than 5H.

JUSTIN-
BEIBER-
Will wait for his overexposure level to drop, and release a lead single in late summer, but the album will be released in Autumn, possibly colliding with The Weeknd's release, just to block him from #1.

TIMBERLAKE-
He will join up with Pharrell to release a stand-alone song, that will be a big hit and contender for SOTS.

KHALID-
Will continue to blow up, he'll release an album late in 2018, with the lead single debuting in the lower range of the top 10.

PANIC! AT THE DISCO-
Will make a comeback, with 2-3 singles going top 20. The album will do way better than expected.

PORTUGAL. THE MAN-
Although they won't reach the level of success that they did with Feel It Still, they will be huge on the alt scene.

RIHANNA-
Will rule the summer with the #1 album of the year.


Maroon 5-
The album will be way better than expected. It will seem as if they are starting to return to their original sound.

[Normi]

RIHANNA - She will slay 2018.
At the beginning of the year she will give clues on new music to create hype and drop the single 1-2 weeks before the Grammy's and perform it there. Although it won't debut at #1, thr Grammy's will give it enough of a push to jump to #1 and stay there for a while. The album which will come out in Q2 will be the album of the summer and she'll rule the summer with singles #2 and #3 + another big collabo. She will finally be seen as an album artist artist as well similar to Beyoncé making a play in Album of the year in both Year-End charts and Grammy's 2019.

Her side projects will continue to be big.

KATY PERRY – She'll continue touring 'Witness' which will be seen as a commercial success and release a ballad/semi-ballad like 'Bigger Than Me' right before the Grammy's to perform it but the song will flop as well. After the tour ends, she will take a break, maybe even go to therapy and doesn't release a new album this decade.

ARIANA GRANDE – She'll release her first single in Q2 which will debut in the Top 10. Her new album will be more personal and even have a song on it that's obviously about Manchester. It will spawn her first #1 song which will be celebrated enormously.

TAYLOR SWIFT – 'reputation' will be met with mixed critics and she will be doomed over by some, yet the single released right after the album jumps to #1 because of the video and stays there a couple of weeks and has some longetivity. However, she'll only have one more Top 10 from the album while the other singles don't do as good. Radio will start losing interest in her.

BEYONCE – People will be sceptical on new Beyoncé music after 'Mi Gente'. She will release the album which won't be visual in Q2 or Q3 it will be much more GP-pleasing spawning a Top 10 single. Yet, she won't regain her popularity that she once had.

MARIAH CAREY – At most a new song near the end of the year. Diva keeps being a diva.

LADY GAGA – She’ll rep up her Joanne world tour and take another break. Nothing new from her.

BRUNO MARS – He’ll have one more Top 10 hit from 24K (possible Chunky) and win big at the Grammys. But new music is still to come. He will have a big song as a featured artist.

ADELE – No new music from her until 2020.

BRITNEY SPEARS – She will focus on her family and release a christmas single.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – Performs at the Super Bowl which is met with positive response where he debuts his new lead single that will debut at #1. His album will also be crazily successful but less than his previous albums.

ALESSIA CARA – The lead single to her 2nd album will be released in Q2 and be successful. The album will also see a lot of success. She will be seen as an established artist by the end of the year.

MILEY CYRUS – The album won't spawn any hit singles. She will continue working for her charity and perform on various events to raise awareness.

MEGHAN TRAINOR – Her next single will flop which could possibly lead to no album for her this year.

CAMILA – She will have success with 'Havana' and release her album in early 2018. One more song will be equally successful and then she starts a tour.

FIFTH HARMONY – They try to make 'Sauced Up' work as a single. It flops. They 'take a break' although it's obvious they're breaking up. One of them starts a new career by the end of the year but flops harder than any of the 1D members.

JUSTIN BIEBER - New single in Spring 2018. But it won't be as successful as his earlier work. Still a Top 5 hit. Album will sell well but his glory days of 'Purpose' are gone.

SELENA GOMEZ - She'll release another single but this time a slower more personal song that'll become a fan favorite. It won't be successful but create enough buzz to make her release her album.

DEMI LOVATO – 3 more singles will be released - two of which crack the Top 30 while the other one bombs and misses the Hot 100.

DRAKE - His new solo single will be seen critically and only make the Top 15 for a week. The second single before the album will feature a big female artist (not Rihanna) and reach #1 creating enough buzz for his album.

ED SHEREEN – He will reach the Top 10 with 'Perfect' and release one more single that isn't successful. He will win one Grammy and take another break after the tour.

ZAYN – A single will be released that is more GP-friendly and becomes a 'SOTT' sized hit. His second album will only debut in the Top 5.

ONE DIRECTION – By the end of the year when all boys have released solo albums they will release a new single which will debut at #1. This doesn't lead into a new album just yet though.

THE WEEKND - His new single in the summer will be a Top 3 hit and lead into his next album due fall. Won't be as big as his two previous record though.

CHRISTINA AGUILERA – Her new album will drop in Q3 with one single released beforehand but not too many people will care

P!NK – One single of the album will be a 'Try'-sized hit. She will continue to be seen as a respected artist.

MAROON 5 – 'What Lovers Do' reaches the Top 10 and they release their album in the Summer and spawn a big single that even older M5 fans like.

NICKI MINAJ - Will finally release her new album featuring one hit song with Rihanna. The typical fan-favorite ballad on the album won't miss and be released as a single.

LIL UZI VERT - Releases another mixtape and one of its songs hits #1 for a week.

POST MALONE - His new project will be reviewed nevatively but still succeed. Another single other than rockstar will hit #1 (rockstar will soon enough)

CARDI B - She won't release her album but create a lot of buzz with feuds, diss tracks and more hits.

KESHA - Will hold an emotional speech at the Grammys. She will release 'Woman' as the 2nd single but it and the 3rd single will flop. Her tour will do extremely well though.

KHALID - 'Young, Dumb & Broke' will be a Top 5 hit and might sneak a week at #1. 'Silence' will reach the Top 15 and the 3rd single from his debut will do moderately well too. His lead single for the next album likely due late in the year will debut in the Top 10. He'll also win Grammy for Best New Artist

[redrooster]

Gotye, Hozier, Owl City, Daniel Powter and D4L will all make comebacks.

[.It'sGriffin]

Sept 30, 2017 2:35:40 GMT -5 .It'sGriffin said:

POST MALONE-
His album won't do much in sales / SPS, but it'll have strong singles.
He will get a haircut, but will still look like the hobo version of Podrick f**king Payne.

By that I don't even mean that he reminds Daniel Portman, when I think of Pod I see him with Post's face.

[Deleted]

Lana Del Rey will release an EP The Architecture for Lust for Life

Charlie Puth will have more big hits

Wwe will have naked photos of Zayn :) 

[newpower]

I predict Maroon 5 will be a band again. Make Maroon 5 great again!

[shrk314]

Overall I think the biggest artists of 2018 will be...

Justin Timberlake
Superbowl performance, Hit single, Q2 album

Imagine Dragons
Big hits in Thunder and Whatever It Takes, Worldwide Tour

Taylor Swift
Not as big an era as 1989, but still massive

Twenty One Pilots
Hit Single, Q4 album, big tour

Chance The Rapper
Q2 Album, big tour

Beyonce
Q4 album, more commercial and poppy

Weeknd
Big Q3 album, Hit singles

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

Rihanna - two big hits (one #1)

Eminem - just one top 5 hit

Katy Perry - Roulette will underperform. She will have one big collaboration.

Imagine Dragons - Thunder top 5, Whatever It Takes top 10

Ed Sheeran - Perfect will hit top 3. Next single will be "Dive"

Ariana Grande - will score #1 with big rap artist

Justin Timberlake - lead single top 3 hit for sure. Also, he will have big collaboration.

The Weeknd - two top 10 hits

Sam Smith - His 2018 singles will underperform

Sia - Just one 10/15 hit in the US, but her other songs will be huge WW.

Taylor Swift - will score one or two top 10 songs in 2018 but not big hits. Reputation will be the best selling album of 2018.

twenty one pilots - huge hit, maybe #1. Their album will be big.

*Beyonce and The Weeknd will collaborate in "50 Shades" soundtrack

*Madonna will score top 40 hit

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Well I mean, it's not necessarily *my* thread idea, even though it kind of was something I brought here years ago and kept up each year since. I'm more annoyed that this thread was started now instead of in the thick of yearend discussion/new year renewal. Not sure why there's a need to rush everything all the time. But sure. Have at it.

[Sherane Lamar]

Logic will be the among the next set of artists to have 5+ songs debut in the same week.

[Au$tin]

Someone bump this in December so I can make predictions then.

[Walking Contradiction]

Alternative and CHR will become increasingly interchangeable.

[Walking Contradiction]

Sept 30, 2017 5:05:40 GMT -5 redrooster said:

Gotye, Hozier, Owl City, Daniel Powter and D4L will all make comebacks.

I'm guessing this is a joke, but I could actually see the first two happening. Wouldn't completely rule out Owl City either.

[newpower]

Donald Trump will be a featured artist in a rap song. They will sample his voice saying some non-sense and it will become viral. Trumpeters will buy the song because they buy anything with his name attached. Trump will take credit for saving the music industry. However, he will refuse to be part of the music video or go to TRL to promote.

[djkhaled]

Sept 29, 2017 22:29:07 GMT -5 Sherane Lamar said:

Oh yeah, and I expect Cardi B's career to play out maybe a bit like Wiz Khalifa's if she's lucky. More like Desiigner's if she's unlucky.

Wiz had his biggest hit years after black and yellow

[djkhaled]

Hotline bling will go number one sometime in the next century.

[Mr. Thonk Eyes]

Nov 22, 2017 16:00:06 GMT -5 Walking Contradiction said:

Alternative and CHR will become increasingly interchangeable.

I would say this has basically already happened with CHR and Hot AC.

[mrmike855]

My relatively uninformed thoughts:

I feel like Taylor Swift and Katy Perry aren't going to have good 2018's. Katy Perry is either going to sit out 2018 or try to release a new album. If she releases a new album, it will be very front-loaded and will only be remembered as the album the killed her career. Taylor Swift will have a couple more fairly successful hit songs, but the year will be dominated by celebrity feuds, political controversy and backlash over her musical direction. Despite Reputation selling extremely well, it won't have the longevity of 1989 and she'll become the next Kanye West.

Ke$ha will struggle to come up with a big follow-up to Praying as the sympathy over her fades away (sorry, but that's why Praying got as big as it did, imo) her next single edges into the top 40, but she fades into the background

Camilla Cabello establishes herself as a hitmaker as she has multiple top 10s off her album. She becomes a bigger deal than Fifth Harmony ever was and Fifth Harmony will mostly be remember for producing Camilla instead of their own material

Without Camilla, 5H will struggle to find an identity and will fail to score a significant hit. The group struggles to stay together and eventually breaks up.

I have a feeling the Ariana Grande will have a big comeback single, and then fail to follow it up. 

The Latin explosion is going to cause many Spanish hit songs to cross over and they'll become so successful that they won't even need English translations

Trap is going to (sadly) be even more dominant as Apple Music is heavily tilted towards it. The trend of rappers having one hit and then fading continues at a larger rate

That's all I've got. I'm probably way off on most of these things. But it's fun to speculate.

[willapted33]

Post Malone will achieve world dominance, landing every song from his new album/mixtape in the top half of the Hot 100 and probably getting a few top 5 hits in 2018.

[rainie]

Nov 22, 2017 22:26:35 GMT -5 djkhaled said:

Sept 29, 2017 22:29:07 GMT -5 Sherane Lamar said:

Oh yeah, and I expect Cardi B's career to play out maybe a bit like Wiz Khalifa's if she's lucky. More like Desiigner's if she's unlucky.

Wiz had his biggest hit years after black and yellow

Yeah but that was largely a fluke due to him being featured on a heavily promoted tribute to Paul Walker where he didn't even sing the hook. Now I'm not saying he did nothing on the song, and I'm sure his presence certainly didn't HURT how the song did, but the fact that he hadn't scored a hit multiple years before SYA and hasn't scored a hit since then seems to point to it being an anomaly.

[djkhaled]

Nov 23, 2017 15:57:04 GMT -5 rainie said:

Nov 22, 2017 22:26:35 GMT -5 djkhaled said:

Wiz had his biggest hit years after black and yellow

Yeah but that was largely a fluke due to him being featured on a heavily promoted tribute to Paul Walker where he didn't even sing the hook. Now I'm not saying he did nothing on the song, and I'm sure his presence certainly didn't HURT how the song did, but the fact that he hadn't scored a hit multiple years before SYA and hasn't scored a hit since then seems to point to it being an anomaly.

He has scored other hits. None as big as those two, though. He is still a decently large name. But I see your point.

[NeRD]

It's December!