Beyonce:
Will release Party and Countdown as the third and fourth singles from 4, have her baby in early 2012, then release something like I Was Here to close the era. Will then fall off the face of the earth for a year or two and come back harder than ever.
Britney:
Criminal will go top 15, and maybe even top 10. But it will not touch the top 5.
The Criminal video will be overhyped to death and will end up being another Radar catastrophe.
Two more singles will be released from Femme Fatale in the form of Big Fat Bass and Trouble for Me. Both will do well.
New album will be released in late 2012 or early 2013.
Gaga:
Will hold off on Marry the Night until 2012 and release something risky like Bloody Mary, Heavy Metal Lover, or Government Hooker as the fifth single. It will only do moderately.
Will continue to have moderate success during the Born This Way era. By the time she releases MTN and/or Scheisse, it will be too late.
New album in 2013. She'll start talking about it sometime next summer.
Rihanna:
We Found Love will smash harder than just about everything out and blow the other bitches out the water.
The sixth album will be about as successful as Loud.
By the time the sixth album era is over, Rihanna will have 14-15 #1 hits.
WILL re-release the sixth album, then release a seventh album around late 2013/early 2014.
Will take a break after the seventh album.
Katy:
The One That Got Away will reach the top 10 by a smidge, which will prompt her label to do everything in their power to get it to #1, but it won't work. Single will peak around #5, #6.
A seventh single will be rumored but will never materialize.
Third album will be released in late summer/fall 2012 and will be a bit more experimental than TD, but still hit-focused. Only moderate success; same sales as TD but only 1 or 2 #1 hits and not much impact.
Will continue to fade with each release.
Ke$ha:
Will return in May 2012 with an album full of hits. Won't be nearly as experimental as she has promised. Think more TD than BTW.
Will take her into the big leagues.
Adele:
Will make everyone forget about SuBo this fall, and slay in sales.
Someone Like You will be huge for the rest of the year with more performances; pull a mini-RITD.
Set Fire to the Rain will be released around January, and will smash with a Grammy performance.
Era will wrap up with a fourth single around May/June 2012 - Turning Tables.
Fifth single from 21 will be canceled.
21 will rack up around 15 million in sales when all's said and done.
New album will be released in late 2012/early 2013.
Others:
Dev will rack up 1 or 2 more top 20 hits; The Night the Sun Came Up will struggle to go Gold; will never become relevant.
Florence + The Machine won't have the hit era they're hoping for with Ceremonials.
Sabi will wait until late 2012/early 2013 to release an album, but when she does it will do pretty well.
J. Cole will go Gold with The Sideline Story; will rack up 0 hits.
Drake will snatch every other rapper's bald scalp with Take Care; near 1 million first week.
Nicki will go WAY harder on album #2 and surprise people; will have less of a huge era than Pink Friday but will still be highly successful.
New it girl will emerge in 2012/2013 and when she does, she'll be the undeniable new it girl. No questions asked.
Yeah.
