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Pop music in 2014: what to look out for this year

Source: Guardian
A few weeks ago, one of the most powerful men in the music industry, Columbia Records boss Rob Stringer, was interviewed about his label's plans for 2014. He mentioned the forthcoming January release from Bruce Springsteen - 'High Hopes", a collection of covers, outtakes and "reimagined" versions of songs from previous albums - and, more speculatively, a forthcoming album by Pharrell Williams. Then he added, vaguely, "at some point, Beyonce will put a record out and when she does it'll be phenomenal". As it turned out, Beyonce's album arrived without warning three days after Stringer gave his interview.
Beyonce's eponymous fifth album went on to sell more than 800,000 copies in three days. Given its success, it seems inconceivable that more artists won't try to repeat the feat over the next 12 months, not least because the sneak attack manages to diffuse the weight of expectation placed on a hotly
anticipated album and circumvents the chance of bad reviews: you'll still get the coverage, but you'll already have sold a lot of albums before anyone gets round to reading it. You can understand why someone like Adele, whose third album is supposed to come out this year, might seriously consider that approach, given that she's charged with the thankless task of following up the biggest-selling album of the last decade. You might consider it if you were U2, also slated to reappear this year, as a means of injecting a degree of unpredictability into a career that hasn't exactly flagged in recent years - most bands would kill for a career slump involving a world tour that grossed $736m, as U2's 2009-2011 “360 Degree” tour did -but that has suffered from a sense of diminishing returns when it comes to new albums: 2009's “No Line on the Horizon" was their lowest-selling in a decade.
That said, there are a handful of major albums with fixed release dates: not just Springsteen but the second albums by acclaimed US alt-rockers Warpaint and UK dance star Katy B, whose 2011 debut "On a Mission" brilliantly rendered a variety of underground club genres - drum 'n' bass, dubstep, garage, UK funky - into sparkling pop music. Scheduled for March is Lily Allen's comeback album, which apparently features songs, inspired by both
“the experience of motherhood" and her Twitter feud with rapper Azaelia Banks. Equally intriguing is the prospect of Lana Del Rey's ’Ultraviolence" - an album on which you hope the singersongwriter is going to attempt a Bowie-esque reinvention of her persona, and R&B producer Frank Ocean following up 2012's acclaimed "Channel Orange" with an album he's suggested is inspired by the Beach Boys.
Elsewhere, 2014's first two guaranteed critical hits look like
being Canadian singersongwriter St Vincent's eponymous album - released in February and already trailed by a wildly acclaimed single "Birth in Reverse", and the debut album by Sky Ferreira, which is already available to hear on YouTube. The year's big archival release, meanwhile, looks like being a follow-up to Michael Jackson's posthumous 2010 album, "Michael", a record that received what you might tactfully describe as a mixed reception, with members of the Jackson family claiming that several tracks actually featured a Michael Jackson impersonator. It's to repeat the formula of getting old Jackson tracks remixed by a contemporary producer (Timbaland is involved) while fans are apparently excited that it may include Jackson's thought-provokingly titled 1989 outtake "Do You Know Where Your Children Are?"