-Adele's singles will continue to smash through the year and she's gonna sweep the Grammys
-Rihanna will release her next album on Black Friday week and sell ~200k
-Rihanna will also end up with at least 2 more #1 singles by the end of the year
-Madonna will have minimal impact in the US but laugh all the way to the bank in every other country
-Beyonce will get a million cash from whatever tabloid for the first photos of her baby
All of this. Except for #2. I just don't see it for 2012.
Katy Perry is going to smash hard with her next album & will have much more respect from critics than before. Britney is going to release some new music in 2012 (probably a FF rerelease, she'll have some big hits like Womanizer again. Beyonce is going to smash with End Of Time & I Was Here, she won't take a break after a baby & will release new music, probably a new album which will be more commercial & will smash harder than ever. Madonna will have another #1 album, & 1 top 10 single from it. Probably few hits in Europe 7 a successful WW tour. Mariah is going to have another big hit with lead single from her next studio album but it's going to smash only in the USA, Europe will not use it. her album is going to underperform WW (sadly). Rihanna is going to flop with album sales, tours & her singles will underperform.. She'll finally take a break. Janet will flop hard if she'll release another studio album. Ke$ha is going to fade way & won't have Animal' success again. Ciara will surprise people with her comeback, she'll have get back her 2005 sales again. Keri Hilson will have some success. GaGa will take a break & will record a killer album for early 2013. Adele will continue her reign.
i love how everyone are talking about RiRi
We won't have Britney
Adele will re-release 21
Lady Gaga will tour
Madonna will, idk. I think something like in 2008 she had
Someone new will come and slay those other bitches
Rihanna will have new film, so she will maybe a bit slow-down
Till The World Ends will become even bigger smash in December 2012.
- Avril will have another hot 100 top 10 single with a track she wrote with The Runners and Bonnie McKee. And her album will double the sales of Goodbye Lullaby.
- Ke$ha will have a hit first single but her album will have flop sales and the rest of the singles will flop.
- Katy Perry will release an album late in the year but won't do aswell as her singles from Teenage Dream.
- Madonna will slay with her first single, she will have biggest tour of the year, and her album will sell like hotcakes.
- Kelly will have to cancel tour dates again but she will get a top 20 hit with her 3rd single.
- Britney, Gaga, Beyonce will all be pretty much inactive, with Gaga's tour going extremely well but none of her singles re-charting unless she does an EP or re-release.
- Adele will be gone
- Ciara will flop but not as hard as Basic Instinct. She will get a top 40 with her debut single and will manage to hit 100k album sales WW.
Some completely new girl is going to snatch all of your faves
Some girl from the UK is going to become popular
Gaga, Katy, and Ke$ha will lose a lot of steam (although Gaga will retain more than the other two)
Almost all of Nicki Minaj's fanbase will be disbanded
Katy Perry and Russell Brand are going to divorce, or at least be separated for a while
Britney Spears will get engaged
Rihanna will find love (but not marriage, she'll just be in a committed relationship for a while)
Girls Aloud will FINALLY reunite (although Nadine may possibly not be there)
Kylie will see strong UK and AU success, and even go #1 on the Bubbling Under chart
Khia will release a record and fall into obscurity (again)
Madonna is going to underperform, especially in the US
Sparkle will put Whitney back on the map
There will be dramatic changes to the US X Factor
A girl group will become very popular, however probably in a local sense (could be Little Mix)
Lana Del Rey will be 2012's Sky Ferreira
Taylor will sell more with her album than the next 60 entries combined again (Billboard first week sales).
Her album will finally get her general public respect (adding to the continued industry/critical respect).
Adele will take most of the year off, but what she does release will reign.
Aguilera will flop, redefine the word, even for her.
Music will show more obvious signs of moving away from the garbage we mostly hear now and back to real artists.
Alexz Johnson will break through, she's been trying for a long time, and her time is near.
Britney will try to get another album out by the end of the year.
The RIAA and record labels will finally get audited and their monopoly broken up.
Radio will die. Internet radio and streaming sites will have their turn and end radio's "importance"
The Civil Wars will rise higher and become much more well known.
Indie music, as a whole, will become more important since the power of record labels will continue to decline.
An Nsync reunion will be attmepted, but fail, since Justin is still too busy with movies.
I have feeling, Rihanna not will be release new album in 2012, maybe in December not before
Swedish House Mafia ft Rihanna
Calvin Harris ft Rihanna ( with vocals Calvin not only production)
She will be pregnat with Jay-z, but baby will be die and she will be release mature album more adult than Rated R, 84/100 metacritic
This song is going to dominate the charts WW Number 1 in 50 countries breaking Madonna's record with Hung Up, youtube covers left and right, is going to be like the Phoenix of the music industry, R.E.M will have to remaster the song and remake the video with an apocalyptic theme directed by Francis Lawrence, choreography by Boomcack if she is still alive , she will work for food stamps and tampons in exchange, special XFs by Pixar, performed at London Olympic Games to get that extra promo, so repent bitches, find Jesus and get ready for tha change and the beginning of our decay!
-Indie Producers will shine more. (Skrillex, Deadmau5, etc)
-There will be a smash hit from an unknown artist that will hit #1 (1 hit wonder )
-One famous group will be disbanded.
-Surprise comeback from an ancient artist but will flop.
-Ke$ha will have a strong comeback.
-Adele will slowly lose her momentum.
-Rock bands will gradually be more prevalent again. (Linkin Park, Mumford and Sons, Greenday, and The Killers will shine)
-There will be a super killer summer smash hit from one artist that will break records.
-Lady Gaga will release an unexpected and possibly shocking EP. But until then, she will continue to under-perform.
-A viral music video will be uploaded in 2012 and will have 500m views by the end of the year.
-Adele will basically release her whole album as singles and they will all reach #1.
-Rihanna will release a string of successful hits and TTT will go on to outsell Loud in total sales.
-No Doubt will finally release their album in the spring.
-Nelly Furtado will smash with her new single and album. It'll gain commercial and critical success.
-Rihanna won't release a new album, but she'll do more features. One will be with J. Cole but most will be with more dance producers.
-Justin Timberlake will finally make an official statement about his return to music, whether he releases a single or begins work on the album.
-Britney Spears will have something out Q4.
-Beyonce's new album won't come out until 2013 but she'll be writing/recording from the comforts of home with her family.
-Lady GaGa will change up her image again in the second half of the year.
-Katy Perry will have the song of the summer...again!
-LMFAO will actually be moderately successful and will release more singles. They'll try to release another album in Q4 but I think it'll underperform if they go ahead with that.
Let's all predict who will smash and who will flop in 2012. And at this time of the year in 2012 a mod should re-open this
thread and we will see who was right or not !!
My Predictions :
Kelly Clarkson will become a "IT" artist again and her album will sell like crazy.
Madonna will flop
Talk That Talk will underperform