Music releases for 2024

In a context where physical sales are becoming less relevant to the record market and, therefore, the appeal of Christmas, 2024 will be a year with many releases already planned for the return of the holidays, although there is still a lack of confirmed big names among them.

Among those who have given release dates, there are currently none of those figures who could paralyze the music panorama like Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny or Karol G in 2023, so the industry will be entrusted in the coming months with the possible arrival of “more or less finished” albums by Shakira, Pearl Jam, Billie Eilish and Dua Lipa.

British Dua Lipa they must face the tough challenge of equaling or exceeding the bar ‘Nostalgia for the future’ (2020), which is considered one of the best works pandemic. In the absence of more information, at least his comeback is already underway with the recent first single titled ‘Houdini’.

Which also confirmed that it exists “new album in progress” is Billie Eilish, after two previous works that did not disappoint, as well as her latest unreleased single for the ‘Barbie’ 2023 OST, the beautiful ‘What Was I Made For’, which could be one of Oscar nominated songs.

those who long sounds more rockers have luck with Pearl Jam. “Yes, we’ve done an album with Andrew Watt that’s ready, mastered, mixed and ready to go,” Matt Cameron, one of its members, confirmed a few weeks ago.

Possible editions

More uncertain is the time it might take to bring about their return to the country. recording field so much Ariana Grandewho has not released an album since ‘Pozicija’ (2020), but returned to sound studios after filming the movie ‘Wicked’, as Lady Gagaalso very focused on her role as an actress recently (her last disk‘Love For Sale’ with Tony Bennett, out in 2021).

was Mick Jagger who revealed that the recent collaboration of the dubbed ‘Mother Monster’ (Gaga) with The Rolling Stones This happened because she was working in the studio next door while they were recording ‘Hackney Diamonds’.

Other artists who are placed in the purely speculative field, but with convincing reasons to believe in their return, are Cardi B, Justin Timberlake, Lord, Morrissey, Drug and That.

In it Latin area more superb, not only eagerly awaited unreleased albums Brazilian AnitaAmerican-Venezuelan Elena RoseMexican Danna Paola and Colombian J Balvin (who herself Universal music taken for granted until the end of 2023), but above all from his compatriot Shakira.

She was undoubtedly one of last year’s queens, after her musical renaissance when converting your spite sentimental in Songs and, as he told Hola magazine, his new album will arrive “at the beginning of the year”, with songs people already know and other unreleased ones as a “living document” of his “emotions and experience in the last two years”.

Albums confirmed in the first quarter

Except guessworkthere is a lot of material that will see the light of day in the first quarter of 2024.

Thus, January 12th will bring news from Bring Me The Horizon (‘Post HUMAN: NeEX GEn’), Kali Uchis (‘Orquídeas’) and The Vaccines (‘Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations’); by Green Day (‘Saviors’) and Future Islands (‘People Who Are Gone’) on the 19th; and from SmileThom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s side project, 26 (with ‘Wall Of Eyes’).

In February there is also curiosity for listening to new works Usher (‘Coming Home’) 11.; Chromeo (‘Adult Contemporary’), Idles (‘TANGK’) and Paloma Faith (‘The Glorification Of Sadness’) on the 16th, the same day as Jennifer Lopez’s ‘This Is Me… Now’; and MGMT (‘Lost of Life’) on the 23rd.

Finally, in March, the albums from day one with Kaiser Chiefs (‘Kaiser Chiefs’ Easy Eighth Album’) will be released. 8. you will see the light of the new Grandstands (‘Bleachers’), Judas Priest (‘Invincible Shield’), The Jesus and Mary Chain (‘Glasgow Eyes’) and The Libertines (‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’).

On March 15, Lenny Kravitz releases ‘Blue Electric Light,’ a movie 22 Gossip will release ‘Real Power’, and on the 29th we’ll have to listen to Sheryl Crow’s ‘Evolution’ and Suma 41’s ‘Heaven :x: Hell’, their last album before the announced end of the band.

In Spain, Chanel’s debut has been confirmed for January 12th, and it also seems clear that there will be an album Bad GyalNathy Peluso, Love of Lesbian, Dani Fernández and Leo Rizzi, among others.