Most Anticipated Albums of 2013: Eminem, Beyonce, Drake & More Still Coming This Year
While 2013 already saw the release of several anticipated albums, including Kanye West's Yeezus, there's still a few more records that fans can't wait to get their hands on.
1) Mariah Carey is set to release the follow-up to 2009's Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel this year. While The Art of Letting Go was supposed to drop on July 23, the singer changed her mind.
"While making this album, I got so immersed in the creative process that I just don't feel I would be doing it justice to release it on 7/23," she tweeted in June.
While she has yet to announce the new release date, the 43-year-old has been in the studio with Bryan Michael Cox, Big Jim Wright, Hit-Boy, The-Dream, Mike Will Made It, Young Jeezy and Rodney Jerkins. When discussing the album with Billboard in March, the mother-of-two said that it will feature many ballads. She also said she "tried to keep the soul and heart" in the record.
2) Drake is another artist who postponed his album's release date. The rapper's third studio album, Nothing Was The Same, was expected on Sept. 17 but now it will hit stores on Sept. 24. The follow-up to his No. 1 album Take Care will feature collaborations with Jay Z and Lil' Wayne. It's also deemed "amazing" by Detail, a producer who worked with Drake on the album.
3) Lady Gaga's will release her third studio album, ARTPOP, on Nov. 11. She released the lead single, Applause, on Aug. 19.
"The album ARTPOP musically mirrors Gaga's creative process as she passes through the mediums of each artist she collaborates with, scoring a blueprint of her journey," Gaga posted on Facebook in July.
4) After a year of twerking, Miley Cyrus is set to release an album titled BANGERZ. The record, whose lead single is We Can't Stop, will feature collaborations with Big Sean, Ludacris, Future and Pharrell. There's also one more massive collaboration.
"We have a big surprise feature artist on the record. It might be the next single," her producer Sean Garrett told EnStars during a Aug. 13 interview. "I can't tell anyone who it is -- but she's REALLY big."
5) Beyonce is currently working on the follow-up to 2011's 4. The singer has been in the studio with Ne-Yo, Ryan Tedder, The-Dream, Greg Kurstin and Sia. The 31-year-old has reportedly been working on the record since last summer and recorded a lot of the material in the Hamptons in New York.
6) Perhaps the most anticipated of the year is Eminem's upcoming record. The rapper is set to release his first album in three years this fall. The untitled record's first single Survival was released earlier in August.
Alchemist, Eminem's DJ, told MTV in June that the album is "clearly going to further territories."
7) Justin Timberlake will release The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2 on Sept. 30 as confirmed earlier in the summer by the singer himself via his Instagram account. Alongside the release of the second part, the singer will released a compilation album with both parts entitled The 20/20 Experience - The Complete Experience on Oct. 1. Timberlake released the complete tracklist for part 2 of The 20/20 Experience on Aug. 14.
Describing how he came about releasing two parts of The 20/20 Experience, Timberlake said there was so much material to work with "it turned into twenty songs and I was able to split them up into halves."
