2017 will be the year of alt-pop female artists- already a debut album from alt-R&B artist Kehlani released in January. In a male-dominated industry, these artists have produced chart-topping hits and award-winning albums. Girl power, much? Ranging from electronic to indie to R&B, they are all worthy of your listen.
- Lorde: Perhaps one of the year’s most-anticipated albums, New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde has been teasing her second album for a while now, and is rumored to release a single on March 3rd. It’s been almost 4 years since her debut album, Pure Heroine, which peaked at #1 on the Billboard 200. The single “Royals” made her one of the youngest Grammy winners of all time.
- Lana Del Rey: Almost two years after her last album, Honeymoon, the artist released a single called “Love” on February 18, then dropped multiple hints for supposedly new tracks.
- Dua Lipa: The English pop princess is set to release her self-titled debut album on June 2nd, featuring popular singles such as “Blow Your Mind (Mwah)” and “Be The One”. “I’m beyond excited to see what 2017 is going to bring,” she gushes to Official Charts.
- Tinashe: The alt-R&B artist’s third album looks it will be a second part of recent mixtape Nightride, dropped in November of last year. Joyride is expected to be released early 2017. “The album is inspiring, exciting, dangerous, adventurous, explosive!” she tells Rolling Stone.
- Zara Larsson: The Swedish singer dropped three US singles in 2016, including “Never Forget You” which peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100. “It’s soon,” Larsson told Heat Radio in October of last year. “It’s ready. It’s done. We have the artwork, but we don’t have the name- but it’s there just waiting to be released.”
- Sky Ferreira: Long-awaited after her debut Night Time, My Time in 2013, her second album, Masochism, is set to be released sometime this year according to Capitol Records. “I think the album will be a little heavier. It’s not going to be an electronic album completely — it’s going to be a blend of everything” she tells Billboard.
- Charli XCX: The English punk-pop artist is ready to switch it up with her upcoming third album following her 2016 EP Vroom Vroom., expected to be released in May. “It’s a champagne shower of badass pop,” she tells Rolling Stone.
- Bebe Rexha: The dance pop artist released her second studio EP on February 17, titled “All Your Fault: Part 1”, and we’re expecting a followup, possibly this year.
- Halsey: Almost two years since her debut album, Badlands, which peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200, the electropop artist is teasing her second. She briefly changed her Twitter bio to “I Will Be Releasing My Sophomore Album in June 2017” in January this year.
- Bea Miller: After the release of her debut album Not An Apology in 2015, the 17-year-old singer-songwriter has finished writing her second. Chapter One: Blue, released February 24th, is her second EP. Two more “chapters” will be released throughout 2017. In November, the full album will come out including all of those songs plus three new tracks.
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