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BRITNEY Spears.Hilary Duff.
Avril Lavigne.
Kelly Clarkson. Whitney Houston.
These pop stars will be vying for your attention this year.
Rock lovers, fret not. Expect fresh material from Maroon 5, Linkin Park, A Simple Plan and Good Charlotte. And if Axl Rose gets his act together, the return of Guns N' Roses.
Now for the bad news - we'll have to suffer more with Westlife and Backstreet Boys.
BRITNEY SPEARS Will the former Mrs Kevin Federline, with her resume of No 1 hits, slick dance moves and clever marketing keep her fans? Or will her hard-partying and crotch-flashing antics shoo away the supporters?
Remember, never underestimate this sexy mama, who has pledged to lose her pregnancy weight and reinvent herself. The only good thing about the upcoming album so far? No token contributions from Federline.
HILARY DUFF Also eager to exorcise relationship demons is Duff, 19, who recently broke up with Good Charlotte frontman Joel Madden, 27. Duff plans to spice up her saccharine-sweet image with an album, due out in April, that she says is 'a little less pop-rock and more electronic-sounding'.
But watch out: Duff's album is going head to head with Good Charlotte's new album, due in March.
AVRIL LAVIGNE Now that she's tied the knot and dyed her hair blonde, will Lavigne pull a Christina Aguilera andget serious? You wish.
The 22-year-old' s next album will be 'fast, fun, young and bratty'. Titled The Best Dam (sic) Thing, it is due in April and is lovingly co-produced by new hubby Sum 41 rocker Deryck Whibley.
WHITNEY HOUSTON It's good to have you back, Whitney, after finally ditching your has-been R&B star husband Bobby Brown.
If the 43-year-old chanteuse's collaborators (Missy Elliott, R Kelly, Ne-Yo, Akon) are a hint of what to expect, this will be an edgy, R&B album, very different from her usual octave-soaring ballads.
KELLY CLARKSON By far the most successful product of the American Idol franchise, Clarkson, 24, broke away from the cookie-cutter pop mould with her sophomore album, Breakaway, and scooped up two Grammys.
Clarkson's new album, also due out in April, will be more 'more rock, more soulful', thanks to contributions from punk rock veteran Mike Wait. Cue more Grammys rolling in.
DIDO It has been a long time since the Brit electronic-pop singer-writer' s last album, 2003's Life For Rent. The delay will be worthwhile. Dido, 35, has assured fans that it's 'full-steam ahead' in her Los Angeles studio, 'experimenting' with new sounds.
WESTLIFE The Irish boys will be back in the later half of this year with yet another release, and we can already predict more maligned covers of soppy romantic oldies, which will inevitably end up on a compilation album in time for next year's Valentine's Day. David Gates, you've been warned.
BACKSTREET BOYS Guys, we heard you the first time when you made that totally unnecessary comeback, 2005's Never Gone.
The Boys' next album, minus member Kevin Richardson, who split last year, will be out in spring and is 'very piano-driven and guitar-driven' . In other words, nothing like what former 'N Sync-er and rival Justin Timberlake does.
LINKIN PARK Enough with the side projects, remixed releases and mash-ups with rap stars supposedly in retirement. There will be a third studio album later next month. Straying away from the band's nu-metal roots, the new album promises to be a mixture of punk, classic rock and vintage hip-hop.
MAROON 5 Aptly titled It Won't Be Soon Before Long, the band's follow-up to its 2002 album has been pushed back repeatedly.
Blame it on injuries (drummer Ryan Dusick left after hurting his arms while touring) or romantic dalliances (singer Adam Levine has supposedly been dating everyone from Jessica Simpson to Kirsten Dunst). But the band has promised that the new album will be 'aggressive, upbeat and pounding'.
GUNS N' ROSES This will be the biggest surprise of the year if Axl Rose actually makes good on his word and produces the much-anticipated Chinese Democracy.
Rose has set 6 Mar as a release date - pretty ambitious, considering the 12-year delay. The buzz has been good though. Last year, several tracks were leaked onto the Internet and critics gave it a thumbs up. Still, we'll believe it only when we see it.
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