As we are starting to become well accustomed to the 2018 life, we start to remember that there is much more time that we have to get through before the year is over. With such time comes a lot of music, and with such music comes albums for us to listen to. I calculate that this year is definitely going to be a year for the history books in terms of albums that may come out this year. Let’s narrow down the top 5 anticipated albums for 2018, and I will give my personal prediction on what date these albums may come out on.

1. Beyonce

Coming in at the top of the list is Queen Bey herself, Mrs. Beyonce Knowles-Carter. As she is one of the originators of never doing promos for their albums, Beyonce’s album has never been announced and we don’t even know if there’s an album to be anticipating for in the first place. However a list of events have given us hints that there is an album on the horizon. First it was announced that she would be headlining this year’s Coachella music festival in Los Angeles, then ticketmaster mistakenly posted the first concert date for the “One The Run 2” tour which is said to take place on July 30th.

If we know Beyonce enough, then we know that she would never do a tour without releasing a whole album beforehand. I’m excited because when she released her self-titled album, Beyonce, back in 2013 I thought that she outdid herself with that album compared to her other albums. Then we she brought out Lemonade, she completely blew her her previous album out the water. So I’m expecting for this album to be even better than Lemonade. Also if the first tour date is taking place in Philadelphia, then I’m extremely excited because that’s my hometown, and I’m definitely losing coin to see both Beyonce and Jay Z again.

Personal Prediction Date: Late March/Early April 2018

2. Rihanna

Now in the late 2000’s and early 2010’s, Rihanna was known to bring out an album every single year. There was times when I was confused on certain songs being on one album, but it was actually on the previous album. Nowadays, Rihanna is not busting out albums as she used to. However she is doing big things such as creating her own Fenty Beauty makeup line, her own PUMA clothing collection, and staring in movies such Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets and Ocean’s 8. With all of that, she have also been featured in hit songs such as Dj Khaled's Wild Thoughts and Kendrick Lamar’s Loyalty. Rihanna’s list of accomplishments in the last couple of years have been extensive, however it has been two years since her last album, ANTI, and her fans are definitely starting to crave some new music from her soon. Also I see her performing at next year’s Super Bowl Halftime show especially if she brings out this album. We will be keeping a lookout on Bad Gal Rih-Rih.

Personal Prediction Date: October/November 2018

3. Nicki Minaj

Nicki, Nicki, Nicki. What can I say. I have a bone to pick with you. Your last album, The Pinkprint, came out FOUR years ago back in 2014. That was definitely a masterpiece album, and all of the features, singles, and covers you did right before and right after the album came out were all fire. However, I feel like you started to rest on your laurels after a while. Your featured verses throughout the year of 2017 were not really on par, and I can’t think of a single single that your brought out during that year that was actually good bar wise. However, you have been MIA recently, so I smell a LP brewing up in the mix. Your most recent verses have been picking up, so I sense you’re starting to get your fans ready for this album. I will definitely be listening to this, and I will be hoping for the best with this album because its Looooooooong overdued, and everyone is ready to her that Nicki that we all know and love.

Personal Prediction Date: July/August 2018

4. Kanye West

Possibly the biggest anticipated album of the year is Mr. West’s album. In my opinion, Kanye have been a musical genius ever since he brought out the College Dropout album back in 2004. Besides his bars, his compositions alone are impecable, and I urge you all to go back and listen to his beats intensively because his beats are seriously out of this world, and are creatively amusing. Now the content of his bars for this next album is what everyone is really looking forward to because as we all know, there is no telling what’s going to come out of this man’s mouth. People are speculating that he’s going to rebuttal the things that Jay-Z mentioned about him on his 4:44 album that came out last summer. People are also speculating that he’s going to get some inspiration from the new member of his family, Chicago West. It will be interesting to see what this album is going to sound like. Fans are aching for more music from Kanye since his last album, Life of Pablo, which came out February 2016. For me, I can’t wait to see what he samples in this album since he’s the master of sampling.

Personal Prediction Date: June/July 2018