All the New Albums of 2024 to Keep on Your Radar

The "telepatía" singer announced a new album back in 2023, and after months of teasing fans with mini trailers, snippets of songs, and concept shoots, Kali Uchis released her highly anticipated album, Orquídeas in early January of 2024. The album includes tracks with features from other beloved Spanish-language reggaeton singers like Peso Pluma, Karol G, and JT, much to the delight of fans worldwide. 

Although Kid Cudi was rumored to retire back in 2022, the hip-hop icon made a major comeback with the 2024 release of Insano, which he had been working on for several years prior to its release. A frequent Instagram user, the rapper kept fans updated on the creative process throughout its production and shared his excitement for the album in a live stream in May 2023, and said that Insano is "probably the first album I've ever made where I've been truly 100% happy."

On the same day as his Super Bowl performance, Usher dropped Coming Home, his ninth studio album, and his first solo album since 2016. The R&B album includes tracks with features by Jungkook, H.E.R, Latto, 21 Savage, and more. 

Cultural icon Jennifer Lopez released This is Me...Now in mid-February. As any JLo fan could tell, the R&B album acts as a sequel to her 2002 album, This is Me... Then, and is deeply inspired by the recent rekindling of her romance with now-husband Ben Affleck, whom she famously dated from 2002 to 2004. Accompanying the album, Lopez also released a narrative-driven musical film, set to the soundtrack of the album, which told her love story in a new medium.  

British singer-songwriter-instrumentalist Jacob Collier released his genre-bending album, Djesse Vol. 4, on Leap Day this year. The Grammy winner, who is known for his frequent collaborations with other iconic artists, has been working on the album for over four years and worked with artists like Shawn Mendes, Tori Kelly, John Legend, Lizzy McAlpine, Stormzy, and Aespa, among others. 

The newest album by Bleachers, fronted by music legend Jack Antonoff, marks the group's first album in over four years. Bleachers retains the band's classic indie, synth-pop sound but incorporates fresh concepts and themes, which earned the album positive reviews from music critics and fans alike. 

Although Ariana Grande has spent the past few years busy with the filming and production of the upcoming Wicked movie musical, the pop star somehow managed to find enough time to write and record one of the most beloved pop albums of the year. Eternal Sunshine features themes of vulnerability and loss—particularly in romantic relationships—and Grande's quintessential playfulness set to a hybrid synth-pop and house sound. 

Kacey Musgraves dropped her newest country-folk album in mid-March after announcing it just over a month before its release. Despite the short time frame between announcement and release, the album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, marking it as one of her most commercially successful albums to date. The album features a dreamy, folk-pop sound that has been praised as refreshing and poetic by critics. 

Chances are—unless you live under a rock—you've heard Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter, the album that has been quickly dubbed the country release of the year. Beyoncé has notably led the vanguard of the cowboycore style renaissance this year, dominating the fashion sphere with a bevy of on-theme looks, but her attention to country culture didn't end there. On the process behind Cowboy Carter and her motivations for pursuing the genre, the "Texas Hold 'Em" singer wrote: “I did a deeper dive into the history of country music and studied our rich musical archive… the criticisms I faced when I first entered this genre forced me to propel past the limitations that were put on me.”  

Highly anticipated by fans of both artists, who have been loudly hoping for a collaboration for quite some time, Genre:Sadboy intertwines pop-punk and rap in an emotional, confessional album that takes its sound to the next level. 

BTS' J-Hope released his newest album in March of 2024, which acted as an accompaniment to the release of his docuseries, Hope on the Street, which explored his artistic connection to street dance and emphasized his passion for performance. Hope on the Street Vol. 1 was the last project recorded before embarking on his mandatory military service, meaning this drop was a welcome release for fans of the members of the iconic K-Pop group, which is currently on hiatus.  

Tomorrow x Together, one of the most emblematic 4th gen K-Pop groups, released their highly anticipated album, Minisode 3: Tomorrow in early April after teasing fans with new concept shoots from the album and the announcement of an upcoming global tour. Announced on the fifth anniversary of the formation of the group, the album marks a nostalgic return to the group's roots with the incorporation of sounds and themes from past albums.

In early February of 2024, indie-pop darling Maggie Rogers announced the upcoming release of Don't Forget About Me, her third studio album. In a typewritten note posted to Instagram, Rogers shared that she wrote the album over five days, and worked on two songs a day, and revealed that the album centered around the feeling of starting over—leaving home, going on a road trip, and breaking up with a partner included, although she clarified that not all of the stories included on the album are her own.

"I wanted to make an album that sounds like a Sunday afternoon. Worn in denim. A drive in your favorite car. No makeup, but the right amount of lipstick. Something classic," Rogers wrote on Instagram. 

Norwegian pop icon girl in red has announced her second debut album I'm Doing it Again Baby!, which is set to be released in early April. The singer, who is best known for her soft, slow bedroom-pop style hits "we fell in love in october" and "i wanna be your girlfriend," is experimenting with a new fast-paced, energetic glitch-core adjacent style, as seen in the recent release of several singles, including "You Need Me Now?" which features Sabrina Carpenter, off her upcoming album, marking a new era for the singer. 

After winning a Grammy for Midnights earlier this year, Taylor Swift took the opportunity to announce her new album, titled The Tortured Poets Department. While fans were expecting an announcement from the singer that night, few saw a new album coming—Reputation (Taylor's Version) was the most common fan hypothesis. 

"I needed to make it, it was really a lifeline for me, it sort of reminded me why songwriting gets me through life. I've never had an album where I needed songwriting more than I needed it on Tortured Poets," the singer told a crowd between songs on an Eras Tour stop. 

With tracks titled "So Long, London," and "Fresh Out the Slammer," fans have begun speculating that the album will deal largely with her split from Joe Alwyn, which occurred just before she reportedly began writing the album. 

After Dua Lipa deleted all of her previous Instagram posts, fans knew something was up with the pop star, and many began—correctly—speculating that a new era was in the works. Ahead of the album, the singer has released the singles "Houdini," and "Training Season," and recently announced that "Illusion" will drop on April 11.

“I can just keep on dancing and keep people dancing. “We’re trying to create a world in a different way, and sonically it was about experimenting. Thematically, it was always about resilience,” Lipa said in an Instagram post chronicling behind-the-scenes moments from the production of the album. 

Zayn's highly anticipated comeback album, Room Under the Stairs, releases later this spring. In an interview with L'OFFICIEL, the "What I Am" singer shed some light on his inspiration for the much buzzed-about title of the album and said "There’s a dark horror movie that I watched when I was growing up called The People Under the Stairs. I probably watched it when I was younger than I should have. I always thought the idea of being under the stairs had a powerful sentiment to it, and I ended up coincidentally recording most of my record in a shoe cupboard under the stairs. So I was like, This is perfect."

Room Under the Stairs touches upon Zayn's experiences as a father, his personal relationships, and his journey as an artist, resulting in a raw, honest conversational album. 

The upcoming May release of Lenny Kravitz's album Blue Electric Light marks his first album release in over ten years and the beginning of a new era for the '90s rock icon, which he ushered in with the singles "Human" and "TK421."

Actress and singer Maya Hawke recently announced the upcoming release of her third studio album, Chaos Angel, signaled by the drop of the lead single "Missing Out."

“i was born to make dance music.. i came from the clubs.. xcx6 is the album i’ve always wanted to make,” Charli XCX wrote on X. If you've been replaying "Von Dutch," the single from the album released in February eagerly awaiting new a Charli era, get ready to hit the dance floor once Brat, an album sure to be full of all your summertime party anthems, drops in June.

Billie Eilish's next studio album, Hit Me Hard and Soft is set to release before the summer on May 17. Could this album possibly hold some summer 2024 hits? In a statement, the article is described as a "diverse yet cohesive collection of songs" that is best to listen to in order from beginning to end.