Setting our sights on the biggest music stories of the 2024

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🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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To ring in the new year, NPR Music's critics take over the latest episode of New Music Friday to offer predictions about the artists, genres and stories that might dominate conversations about music in 2024.

Ann Powers, Rodney Carmichael and Nate Chinen join editor Jacob Ganz to discuss whether Usher's Super Bowl performance or Dua Lipa's new sound could launch these hardworking artists to new levels of ubiquity. Is it possible for either to one steal some of the spotlight that Beyoncé and Taylor Swift dominated last year?

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0:16.0	It's new music Friday and this is going to be a conversation in which we will
0:26.4	attempt to answer the question, what do we talk about when we are not talking
0:31.6	about Taylor Swift? I talking about Taylor Swift.
0:34.3	I'm Jacob Gans, I'm an editor at NPR Music.
0:37.2	2023 is over.
0:39.5	It's January, it's 2024.
0:41.5	The year looms before us with so much potential.
0:45.0	But first we got to get 2023 out of our systems for a lot of last year.
0:49.0	It seemed like two giants just dominated the conversation.
0:52.0	Beyonce and Taylor Swift, their huge tours, the
0:55.7	eras tour, the Renaissance tour, and the movies that followed.
1:00.1	We're going to talk about what might take their place in 2024, what we hope will take their place,
1:04.7	stories that we think we won't be able to escape, stories that we will want to talk about all year long.
1:10.0	I am joined today by three great team members from NPR music, critic Anne Powers.
1:15.5	Hey Jacob. Hip-hop writer and correspondent Rodney Carmichael.
1:19.3	What's going on? And WRTI's Nate Chinan who covers jazz and classical.
1:25.0	Hey, happy New Year.
1:27.0	It's a new year.
1:29.0	If you're a long time New Music Friday listener,
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