Your predictions for the 2010's?

[radicaltheory]

So, what predictions do we all have for the 2010's music-wise? This can pertain to your favorite or least favorite artists, how do you think the music industry is going to move forward?

When/are CD's going to become non-existent, or do you think they'll become available through online only?

Will _____________ make it past their debuts, or will _____________ remain relevant throughout the next decade?

Any predictions you have to offer, I just threw out some base questions.

[Rurry]

I don't have too many predictions because who knows what will happen, really? But I think EPs may be the answer to the dwindling album market and I expect to see a lot of them this decade. They're cheap and take less time to produce, and two of the most successful recent albums have been EPs - GaGa's Fame Monster and Justin Bieber's debut. If people are going to buy an album they're more likely to buy a cheap EP then a whole album, I think.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

I like to make predictions based on other people's and just alter them or get general ideas since for the most part I don't know who's working on albums to be released later this year.

-There'll be a shocking death later this year that will be huge for this board.
-Ke$ha will be the year's big story in pop music. She'll be to 2010 what Lady GaGa was to 2009, although not on as big a scale. She won't get four #1s.
-Rihanna and Chris Brown will collaborate somehow. Whether for a music video, song, youtube video, or award show presentation or MTV Video Award performance in September.
-A song about Twitter becomes a hit.
-A big mid-2000s singer comes out as gay, much to everyone's surprise.

[dbt88]

Jan 19, 2010 15:43:43 GMT -5 Devil Marlena Nylund said:

I like to make predictions based on other people's and just alter them or get general ideas since for the most part I don't know who's working on albums to be released later this year.

-There'll be a shocking death later this year that will be huge for this board.
-Ke$ha will be the year's big story in pop music. She'll be to 2010 what Lady GaGa was to 2009, although not on as big a scale. She won't get four #1s.
-Rihanna and Chris Brown will collaborate somehow. Whether for a music video, song, youtube video, or award show presentation or MTV Video Award performance in September.
-A song about Twitter becomes a hit.
-A big mid-2000s singer comes out as gay, much to everyone's surprise.

I like your predictions, esp the shocking death and an outed singer.

- I don't believe Ke$hia will be the big story in pop music for '10. She'll be like Katy Perry before Lady GaGa came out.
- There's a restraining order against Chris Brown right? I don't know how long it is in effect but I don't see it, EVER
- Lady GaGa will continue churning out hits and setting records on CHR and maybe have a breakdown of her own
- I see Christina Aguilera going back on top of the charts. A revamped image and sound
- Britney will have another #1 hit on Hot 100 and CHR
- Avril Lavigne will totally flop
- Nicole Scherzinger's debut album will be pushed/scrapped again
- More one hit wonders are going to come out of nowhere and score #1's on CHR

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

I agree with your last prediction. I think pop music, and mainstream in general, is moving faster than it has in nearly two decades but there aren't really as many superstars. Artists get hit after hit in a shorter time and then die off. Maybe not so much one-hit-wonder as much as 4-month-wonder.

[Rurry]

Hmmm...ok, a few random predictions:

-Teen/bubblegum pop will once again return to the top of the charts sometime around the middle of the decade.
-This electronic period will be followed by an "earthy", "real" sound just like always. This shift will begin in 2-3 years. GaGa will completely drop her electronic dance act for this and pull out more songs like Speechless.
-Rap/hip hop's mainstream presence will continue to die out and will be completely out of the mainstream by 2012. Popular 2000s hip hop songs such as Low, Ridin', In Da Club, ect, will be laughed at and ridiculed similar to the way we ridicule the whole 'disco craze' of the 70s.
-Ke$ha will be big for a few months but I think her novelty will wear out after 2-3 more singles. She'll probably completely revamp her image for her second album.
-Jay Sean = the music industry's Chris Brown replacement.
-Similar to Britney (and to a lesser extent, Mariah) in the 00s, a major artist from the previous decade/start of this decade will see a major "fall from grace" sometime around the middle of the decade. Then, they'll clean themselves up and have a big comeback towards the end of the decade. (It would be nice if the whole breakdown wouldn't happen this decade though. But it seems to happen pretty much every decade.)

[gin]

Nicole Scherzinger will explode.

[Stephen]

GaGa will try a different, more natural sound and completely flop.

[Tanisha Thomas.]

That Melanie Fiona will become one of the most critically acclaimed new artists or the year and also be a consistent seller in album sales.

[rellybois]

LOL basically everyone has taken things that happened in the 00s and applied it to this decade

But I do agree with whoever said Ke$ha would not be the Gaga of '10... I think she'll do well with a couple of singles but it'll be like Katy Perry before Gaga... another major female artist will break out and eclipse her

I only see Taylor Swift becoming bigger and expanding her fanbase

[K-Row b!tch]

Jan 19, 2010 20:04:45 GMT -5 Tanisha Thomas. said:

That Melanie Fiona will become one of the most critically acclaimed new artists or the year and also be a consistent seller in album sales.

Meh, she seems like another Jazmine Sullivan clone.

[Tanisha Thomas.]

Jan 19, 2010 20:24:22 GMT -5 K-Row b!tch said:

Jan 19, 2010 20:04:45 GMT -5 Tanisha Thomas. said:

That Melanie Fiona will become one of the most critically acclaimed new artists or the year and also be a consistent seller in album sales.

Meh, she seems like another Jazmine Sullivan clone.

Nah, I love Jazmine, but the only similarities is the grit in their voices. Melanie is prettier, more marketable, and put out a better album. I can see Melanie being a lot more successful than Jazmine in the long run. But only time will tell.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Oops, I only made predictions for 2010 and not for the decade. hahahaha

[LegendaryLover]

Kelly trying electro-pop and succeed
Avril rising back with her UMS/LG style
Carrie going pop and stays there forever
Katy flopping with 2nd album
Leona getting back success in US
a new artist that explodes like gaga in 09

[yosafbridge]

A new country super-group arises which crosses over successfully --best bet is Lady Antebellum.There's a huge gap in the market right now for melodic yet organic(read non-electronic) pop music and there's also room for less testosterone-fueled groups(ie non-KOL-type male dominated rock groups).

Lady Antebellum fits the bill on both counts.

[rellybois]

Jan 21, 2010 4:00:34 GMT -5 LegendaryLover said:

Kelly trying electro-pop and succeed
Avril rising back with her UMS/LG style YES
Carrie going pop and stays there forever NO
Katy flopping with 2nd album PROBABLY
Leona getting back success in US NO
a new artist that explodes like gaga in 09 YES

[David]

Thanks to Taylor Swift, more country acts start to crossover

Nicole Scherzinger has a sex tape leak. However, instead of it hurting her career, she finally gets a hit. Then after the followup single bombing, another "sex tape scandal" with her happens. She gets another hit.

Britney comes back with an album that blows everyone away. She becomes massive again.

Pink and Carey decide to have a baby. She releases acoustic album for the fans this fall.

[Gaz@NokiaMusic]

Well for the most part I'm into bands and this forum is mostly pop based so my only pop prediction is that Lady Gaga is going to kill-off that character and be reborn as someone else... much like the ongoing Marilyn Manson theme changes.

[Deleted]

Some general predictions for music over the next decade…

• Continuing the trend of the last half of the noughties, different countries' music scenes will become even more homogenized. Even more foreign artists will find chart success in the US, and there will be less and less difference between countries' charts.
  
  
• At one point in the decade the Top 10 of the Hot 100 will be made up entirely of non-American artists.
  
  
• By 2013 there will be a backlash against the dance influences that have been gaining momentum in the US and finding their way more into more pop, R&B and hip-hop elsewhere.
  
  
• Heading towards the middle of the decade there will be a genuine Alternative music movement crossing over and dominating the US mainstream in a way not seen since the heyday of Grunge.
  
  
• By the end of the decade Hip-Hop will dominate the charts again in the manner it did in the early noughties.
  
  
• By the end of the decade Asian music will dominate the charts. This will continue well into the 2020s.
  
  
• Around the middle of the decade there will be a huge legal movement that either completely halts illegal downloading or completely kills off physical product.
  
  
• There will be a general speed-up as record labels utilize the Taylor Swift method of releasing tracks before an album's launch and random new songs after. There will be more EPs released Fame Monster-style. This will eventually lead to an almost entirely singles-based market by 2019.
  
  
• Conversely, a clutch of critically acclaimed albums that will eventually be looked upon as all-time classics will be released as this singles-based market allows musicians to take more artistic risks.
  
  
• At least one track will have sold a million copies in a week by 2012.

[David]

There will be a wave of Reggae/Folk music sometime around 2013!

[dbt88]

Taylor Swift will top everything in the year-end charts of a certain year

[Deleted]

Jan 19, 2010 18:46:25 GMT -5 gin said:

Nicole Scherzinger will explode.

u mean like she have a bom inside her body and explode and never exist in this world again?

[Deleted]

Jan 27, 2010 10:45:22 GMT -5 @backintime said:

Some general predictions for music over the next decade…

• Continuing the trend of the last half of the noughties, different countries' music scenes will become even more homogenized. Even more foreign artists will find chart success in the US, and there will be less and less difference between countries' charts.
  
  
• At one point in the decade the Top 10 of the Hot 100 will be made up entirely of non-American artists.
  
  
• By 2013 there will be a backlash against the dance influences that have been gaining momentum in the US and finding their way more into more pop, R&B and hip-hop elsewhere.
  
  
• Heading towards the middle of the decade there will be a genuine Alternative music movement crossing over and dominating the US mainstream in a way not seen since the heyday of Grunge.
  
  
• By the end of the decade Hip-Hop will dominate the charts again in the manner it did in the early noughties.
  
  
• By the end of the decade Asian music will dominate the charts. This will continue well into the 2020s.
  
  
• Around the middle of the decade there will be a huge legal movement that either completely halts illegal downloading or completely kills off physical product.
  
  
• There will be a general speed-up as record labels utilize the Taylor Swift method of releasing tracks before an album's launch and random new songs after. There will be more EPs released Fame Monster-style. This will eventually lead to an almost entirely singles-based market by 2019.
  
  
• Conversely, a clutch of critically acclaimed albums that will eventually be looked upon as all-time classics will be released as this singles-based market allows musicians to take more artistic risks.
  
  
• At least one track will have sold a million copies in a week by 2012.

most of your prediction make sense to me...u are right,asian artist music still havent break the america market.this could happen in the future,if not this decade,it could be next decade.i mean who could have predict country to crossover.it is just a matter of time where trend changes.

[fullhousefan]

Probably still rap/r&b/alternative/teen pop based like the 90s and the 00s, sadly. unless 2012 happens!

[dbhmr]

The only prediction I have is that they will come up with a way to make illegal downloading either impossible or, more likely, such an incredible pain in the ass that people will begrudgingly begin to pay for things again, or just go without the latest flavor of the month and sales will stabilize at a low number. I think this will also go hand in hand with a change in the way we buy music, whether it's more EPs than albums or whatever.

[Legoman]

Madonna will date Bart Simpson

[fullhousefan]

The Knife will have a hit single in the US (wishful thinking?)

[Tanisha Thomas.]

R&B Ballads will crossover over to pop successfully as it did in the 90s and early 00s.

[fullhousefan]

Feb 17, 2010 2:26:57 GMT -5 Tanisha Thomas. said:

R&B Ballads will crossover over to pop successfully as it did in the 90s and early 00s.

Eek i hope not, I can do without more generic neo-R&B ballads.

[Tanisha Thomas.]

And I can do without the generic POPcorn sh!t that's topping the charts now ("Down," "Tik Tok," "Right Round).