2022 Music Predictions

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Okay, place your bets, make your predictions, the bolder the better!

What will 2022 bring?
Who will continue to succeed?
Whose current era will come to a screeching halt? Who will make a massive comeback, expectedly and inexpectedly?
What former one-hit-wonder will come back and get a second surprise hit?
What 90s artist will earn a (new) top ten this year?

Anything goes, because as we’ve seen in recent years, sometimes reality is more unbelievable and creative than what we’ve come up with.

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

• Shawn Mendes will finally come out
• Taylor Swift churn out a few more TV's before announcing a new album at the end of the year.
• A country/hip hop crossover will hit #1
• American Idol will finally announce the end of the line
• TikTok will begin to decline as a force in the music industry
• Billboard will rejigger the Hot 100 again and throw the charts into turmoil for a few weeks and then everybody will forget it ever happened
• Madonna will release a new album and it will flop. She will have an Instagram hissy fit about how nobody understands her art, probably post some nudes, and get banned.
• Olivia Rodrigo will release a follow up album that will do OK, but nowhere near as well as Sour. The internet will declare her dead and she will never be heard from again.
• Mariah will release a new Christmas album in September - it will just be 14 different versions of AIWFCIY
• There will be some over the top charity single with everybody and their mother singing on, it will be super hyped and nobody will care about it once its released.

[JukeboxJacob]

TikTok will become more and MORE of an influence on the charts, Billboard will eventually incorporate it directly into their formula