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Most Anticipated
Albums of 2021
The past year has wreaked havoc on the music industry, with live music dramatically curtailed, crew workers struggling to make ends meet, and recording studios looking for ways to operate safely. Despite these serious challenges, we've got plenty of great music to look forward to as the new year gets underway — from some of music's biggest names returning to their thrones to rising stars making new breakthroughs. Some of these albums have confirmed dates and details, others are just highly intriguing prospects on the horizon, and they're all reasons to be excited about the months to come. Here are 5 of the pop, hip-hop, rock, country, and more LPs we're hoping to hear in 2021.
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Adele, Album: TBA Release Date: TBA
Drake, Album: Certified Lover Boy Release Date: TBA`
It's been a little over five years since Adele's last album, 25, an interminable wait for her fans. But now it seems like a fair bet that the singer will finally release her fourth album sometime this year. After hosting Saturday Night
Live last fall, she joked, “I'm going back to my cave now to be the (single) cat lady that I am. Peace out til next year.” Word on the project has been scant, but news has started to trickle in. Last December, veteran drummer Matt
Chamberlain told interviewer Eddie Trunk that he was recently in the studio with Adele. “I just got to work on some new music for Adele,” he said. “To
hear that voice in my headphones gave me chills.”
A global pandemic does not suit an artist like Drake, who thrives on a steady stream of attention from the world. He was uncharacteristically quiet in 2020,except“ToosieSlide,”fromthelukewarmDarkLaneDemoTapes.His
follow-up to 2018's Scorpion, which bears the quintessentially Drake title Certified Lover Boy, was announced via a sleek and mysterious album trailer, in which we see Drake's impressive run of albums flash before our
eyes via live-action cover re-enactments. What could it possibly mean? Here's to hoping Drake sets off 2021 right.