2025 Pop Culture Predictions

[Burn]

2025 is fast approaching... what are your predictions for pop culture in the coming year?

 

Mine:

- Cardi B finally releases her sophomore album.

- Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater announce their pregnancy.

- Beyoncé releases act iii. Still no visuals.

- President Jimmy Carter dies.

- Diddy is found guilty and incarcerated.

- Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announce their engagement.

- One Direction announce plans to reunite for a tour in Liam's memory. There will be no new music.

- André 3000 wins AOTY at the Grammys.

- Miley Cyrus releases one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the year.

- Mariah Carey will release several projects including Daydream 30th Anniversary Edition & Someone's Ugly Daughter (which will be released alongside each other), TEOM 20th Anniversary Edition and a brand new studio album.

Edited 8 hours ago by Burn

[The Music Industry]

Taylor releases TS12, announces The Eras Tour: Encore and terrorizes y'all for another year 

[JO1s]

JO1 gets their first Million cert with a song produce and written by one of the members.

[Dante Silva]

Madonna finally reveals her Stuart Price/ Max Martin produced opus.

[illia]

Does anyone have a link for the thread with the 2024 predictions?

[Burn]

Just now, illia said:

Does anyone have a link for the thread with the 2024 predictions?

 

[Matchatea]

-Ari and Ethan get engaged

- Lady Gaga album causes mixed reactions

- Mariah drops an album

- Ariana announces new movie project 

- Ari gets nominated for Oscar, causing controversy.

— Selena get snubbed from Oscars, but has a huge achievement in 2025.

- Drake drops a album on Super Bowl day or before superbowl.

-Drake goes to the AMA's.

-Tate has unexpected smash and has a great album rollout.

[Feanor]

Beyoncé goes on another tour, with no act 3 in sight.

'reputation (TV)' gets a big promo push à la 'RED (TV)' and debuts with 1M+, 'Debut (TV)' gets a more lowkey release.

New Morgan Wallen album drops and monopolises the US charts for half the year.

BTS get the biggest album globally with their 2025 comeback.

Kendrick Lamar delivers the best Halftime Show of the past 10 years & drops another album in the Spring.

The Weeknd will manage to get another huge smash, but the album will just do "okay".

Harry Styles and Bruno Mars (solo) also come back with new studio albums and do very well.

 

In general I can see 2025 being a "course-correction" and thus a very male artist-centric year in pop culture, like 2017 also was (and that not-so-coincidentally was Trump's first year in office too).

[illia]

- Denis Villeneuve gets snubbed by the Oscars again

- NewJeans lose the original name to HYBE; they redebut under a different name

- Lisa's and Jennie's albums get panned; Rose goes on a tour; Blackpink's album surprisingly gets acclaimed and praised by the critics

- The Substance sweep at the awards

- Rina Sawayama releases a new album; works it out on a remix with Charli XCX

- Magdalena Bay breakthrough

- Sweden wins Eurovision again; the GP fumes

- Chappell Roan sweep at the Grammys but then goes on a break; starts her new era late 2025

- Addison Rae releases a new album; it flops but the gays fully embrace her

- Cardi B releases a new album; bombs hard; melts down on Twitter

- Lorde releases a new album; becomes her most acclaimed but does poorly on the charts

- Charli XCX gets highly praised for her acting skills in her upcoming movies

- Doechii gets a hit; beefs with Nicki Minaj

[nostalgic]

Rihanna: more beauty products, no new music, recurrent streams continue to rise. In other words, same old same old 

[Wicked]

• Kendrick has a top 3 halftime show. Ever. He drops another album and it has a Jay Z feature as well as a feature from an underground lyricist. Fingers crossed for Roc Marciano.
• Drake is sued.
• Hurry Up Tomorrow is a(nother) dud but this time the masses agree.
• Clipse' comeback album is lauded and one of the rap AOTYs, has a Jay-Z feature & shots at Jim Jones.
• Madison Beer has a Carly Rae Jepsen-esque year and drops a widely lauded but commercially lukewarm album.
• xaviersobased gets a billboard hit

 

[Europe]

You all will continue to overhype Addison Rare and overlook her lack of talent while dragging Selena for the same thing. She continues to be a total non-factor outside of stan circles.

[Just a Gay on ATRL]

• Wicked wins a bunch of Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress for Ariana. Cynthia is snubbed and it's a big controversy, but she gets her win for Part 2 in 2026.
• Ariana drops Eternal Sunshine deluxe the Friday after the Oscars as a thank you to the fans. She won't have time to tour or release any other music the rest of 2025. She will be on the awards show circuit in the winter, and will use the other months between to rest before promotion cycle for Wicked 2 begins in late summer 2025. She won't have time to tour. 
• Billie wins album of the year for a second time with Hit Me Hard & Soft. She drops a deluxe of the album following the Grammys.
• Beyonce drops Act 3 in Fall 2025. She will tour after this one throughout 2026 for a tour that emphasizes Act 2 and Act 3. She will announce an extended hiatus following Act 3 and its tour.
• Taylor will announce Reputation TV at the Grammys and release it in late March. She will announce Self Titled TV in early May and release it in late July. No new album until 2026. She will lay kinda low this year besides the TVs. She'll announce her engagement to Travis in the late summer/early fall which will cause hype to build for the album in 2026. Then she will be everywhere in 2026.
• Sabrina will push Bed Chem hard in early 2025 with a controversial video. It's a hit. She then releases Juno in April or May, which is also a hit. Juno gets a remix with someone for its single releases. She then finally releases a deluxe on the 1 year anniversary of Short n Sweet in August 2025.  No new album until 2026.
• Chappell does release a new album in 2025, but it will have a weird roll-out. Nonetheless she gets another big hit. She is the controversial girl of the year but it ends up benefitting her because a song that discusses her backlash resonates with the public. She'll become deeply polarizing. The album is not what people expect, people either love it or hate it. 
• Gaga album doesn't perform well commercially but is adored by her fans who stuck with her.  Good word of mouth keeps it from totally failing and it overall does similar to Chromatica. She tours for most of 2025 and it sells well.
• Doja releases a new album and it has multiple hits and is one of the biggest albums of the year.
• Bruno releases a new album and it is also one of the biggest albums of the year.
• The Weeknd's album does good but not outstanding. the streams burn slowly but eventually end up high.  The album is well received. The era kinda comes and goes but it doesn't flop.  Kinda similar to Eternal Sunshine in 2024.  One song is huge.
• Morgan Wallen releases a new album in 2025 and it is also one of the biggest albums of the year. There are some songs that are more poppy than his past work and while the album is massive, some country fans start complaining
• Jack Harlow releases a song where he sings
• Drake drops either a song or an EP on or around Kendrick's Superbowl but it is not received well and totally tanks. Kendrick drops more new music in 2025 following a well-received HT that includes even more disses.

[BloodLuster]

Billie wins her 2nd AOTY

reputation TV smashes and a vault track becomes a hit

Lana books more stadiums and sell them out

[sugarysunflower]

Adele releases a surprise project on the same week as TS12

 

Harry Styles new album will dominate 

 

Rihanna, Ariana, Lana and Gaga will get pregnant at some point in the year 

 

Mariah finds a new love 

 

Ballads come back - from Bruno, to Ed, to Biebs

 

Xtina and Britney release new albums 

 

GTA6 mania - blows all the records and everything else out of the water 

 

Melania Trump gets on the cover of Vogue 

 

Billboard gets hacked

 

Universal Music Group's stock tanks 

 

 

[trainsskyscrapers]

- Beyonce tours in summer 2025, and releases a one-off single or two. (Adele / Coldplay and Bruno Mars, respectively? I don't think Ryan Tedder was lying)

- J Cole releases his side project "It's A Boy" to acclaim.

- TSwift releases a Reputation vault track featuring Kanye West, and his verse begins with an apology about the VMAs before a pig-latin spiral into the Diddy case, causing him to have to appear as a witness.

- Donald Trump gets sick during a speech, playing golf, or at a press conference. JD Vance makes a large gaff/freudian slip/mistake.. causing scandal on TV.

- Aaliyah's evil uncle has a change of heart when that new Aaliyah album is released, and suddenly JoJo gets rights to her four albums of unreleased songs.

- Cardi B gets a Beyonce collaboration for her album, causing Nicki to spiral yet again.

- Jay-Z ignores 50 Cent and Dame Dash for another year, potentially buying back the stake in his debut album that Dame lost to tax arrears.

- Britney Spears works on a dark, resilient album with William Orbit, Cirkut, and The Weeknd. Kevin Federline starts strange Twitter rant and goes back and forth with Azealia Banks.

- Ciara has another child with Russell Wilson.

- Paris Jackson's music is somehow included in her dad's biopic, resulting in a sudden spike up the charts.

- ASAP Rocky is convicted of his weapons charge, and blurts out in court while being taken away that Rihanna is his wife. Drake spirals further.

- Drake continues to release music to diminishing returns as he does not want to admit he lost, and somehow ends up married for several months to JLo.

- Azealia Banks actually releases a project of some sort that is well-received. She moves to Sweden permanently.

- Serena & Venus Williams go for one last doubles title at either Wimbledon or the US Open, with Venus retiring at the end of the year.

- TSwift releases debut (TV) and features a sizable artist from that era: someone like Daniel Powter, Matt Nathanson, Ashlee Simpson, or Norah Jones.

- Kelis shows up to the premiere of the Pharrell biopic uninvited to stir up mess on the red carpet and get ownership of her music back.

[makeawish]

eventually someone is gonna be right about jimmy carter dying

[gustavothehuman]

Predictions

• Harry smashes hard with his new record (unfortunately).
• Miley delivers one of the best albums of the year.
• Taylor gags everyone with how good Debut TV is and people outside the Swifties will fall in love with her again.
• Beyoncé surprise-drops Act III and embark on a tour for the whole trilogy, finally visiting places she left out before (i.e. Latin America, Oceania).
• Gaga has a great year with performances at Coachella, Glastonbury and a free show in Rio de Janeiro.

Just me manifesting

• Coldplay get inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, release a smash hit with Bruno Mars, appear on Act III and close their tour at Maracanã Stadium.
• Elon Musk finally d!3s in the most painful way possible.

 

Edited 5 hours ago by gustavothehuman

[The Music Industry]

3 hours ago, sugarysunflower said:

Adele releases a surprise project on the same week as TS12

 

Why would she do that knowing damn well she'd be #2 

[Onyxmage]

7 hours ago, Burn said:

Miley Cyrus releases one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the year.

[LittleStarmen]

chappel roan releases serious music and that flops

Taylor goes back to country to appeal more republican base

[GraceRandolph]

Rebecca Black smashes with RB2.

[Iceland]

Camullla will reopen her tumblr

and become a full time blogger

[Into The Void]

I predict another year with no album by Rihanna 

 

Former has beens have a smash hit

Edited 1 hour ago by Into The Void

[Donquizote]

Ari gets nominated for Oscar

Taylor releases new album

Adele goes into hibernation and hiding, but she announces surprise concerts in UK

Taylor gets engaged to Travis, but later breaks up

Gaga releases new album to critical acclaim

Gaga bounces back and stars in a high profile movie

Kim K stars in an acclaimed movie and receives Oscar buzz