Next year is going to be one hell of a year with the biggest names in music releasing new anticipated albums and other familiar names dropping their efforts.
Artists like Beyoncé , Lady Gaga, U2 Alicia Keys, Miley Cyrus, Cassie, Ciara, Brandy, Lily Allen, Rihanna, Ke$ha will all be releasing new music. (although the latter two are rumoured to release later this year already.)
Taylor Swift's album is scheduled to be released early October, but I'm not going to exclude her of this list as seeing she's probably going to be dominating a huge part of 2013.
Other musicians like Kanye West, Janelle Monaé etc. are also rumoured to be releasing new stuff.
The question however is, who is going to do the best & whose albums will be complete catastrophes? Take in consideration album sales, single sales, touring sales, critical acclaim, performances etc. Is 2013 going to be Lady Gaga's year? Rihanna's year? Beyonce's year? U2's year? Or a complete new artist we haven't heard of yet? Place your bets.