Louis Tomlinson will kick off next year with his third solo album, as How Did I Get Here? will be released on Jan. 23, 2026, the One Direction star announced on Tuesday (Sept. 30). The upcoming full-length’s lead single, “Lemonade,” also debuted on Tuesday as the ‘Hottest Record’ on BBC Radio 1 before hitting streaming services.

“I sum up it as ‘The record I always deserved to make,” Tomlinson says of his upcoming album in a press release. “My bread and butter is my honesty. I genuinely wear my heart on my sleeve, and I hope it comes through in the music. I’m still learning and getting better as a singer and a songwriter. I find it impossible to be complacent; it’s not in my vocabulary. For the first time now, I’m allowing myself to be the artist I’d always hoped to be.”

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