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HARRY STYLES X LOUIS TOMLINSON

ABS-CBN News Digital Intern

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1768541676448HARRY STYLES X LOUIS TOMLINSON.png" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner"><em>Photos from Harry Styles/Facebook and @lthqofficial/Instagram</em></span></span></span></div><p>Heads up, Directioners, Harries, and Louies! Former One Direction stars Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson will begin the first quarter of 2026 with fresh music.</p><p>Styles posted on social media on Friday a seemingly disco-themed photograph that is captioned, “Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.” hinting on his fourth album release on March 6.</p><div><br/></div><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-2" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/DTifcA4j7a5/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fod2-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A2%2C%22os%22%3A26404012.5%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="746" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-2" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div><br/></div><p>Only a few minutes after, Tomlinson then announced that his new single “Imposter” will be released on January 20, ahead of his third album “How Did I Get Here?” on January 23.</p><div><br/></div><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-4" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/DTiiV3JDXDP/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fod2-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A4%2C%22os%22%3A26418523.5%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="880" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-4" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div><br/></div><p>The coincidental promotions overjoyed fans who have long anticipated for their musical comebacks.</p><p>When life threw lemons, Tomlinson made “Lemonade” and “Palaces,” the singles preceding his third solo album.</p><p>Most of the record “took shape” in Costa Rica, where, Tomlinson took a relaxed approach to recording. He even described it as a “sunny departure” from the “darkness that was a bit of the perception with me, musically and also personally” in an interview with Rolling Stone UK for n his first cover.</p><p>“As I’ve got a bit older, I’m really buying into more hippie-ish ideas. [...] I don’t think songs like ‘Lemonade,’ ‘Sunflowers,’ and ‘Lazy’ would have happened without Costa Rica,” he added.</p><p>For his part, Styles has been teasing fans of his return since December last year -- from the nostalgic and sentimental music video “Forever, Forever,” posters up at major cities bearing “WE BELONG TOGETHER,” and a cryptic website that popped out of nowhere that leads to a WhatsApp account owned by HSHQ.</p><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EaMtVAqJzOs?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><p>Billboard US reports that the album contains 12 tracks and was produced by Kid Harpoon, who also worked on his previous albums.</p><p>The &quot;As It Was&quot; singer also set up a registration for future 2026 tour dates on his official website.</p><p>Harries, Styles’ fans, jokingly dubbed this as his “employed era” after a two-year break from music.</p><p>Tomlinson last performed to the Filipino crowd in July 2022 for the Manila stop of the &quot;Louis Tomlinson World Tour 2022,” while Styles did the same for “Love On Tour” in Bulacan in March 2023.</p><p>The two were last seen on stage together with bandmates Niall Horan and Liam Payne for the “On the Road Again Tour” in March 2015, in the last two One Direction concerts in Manila.</p>

<p>Heads up, Directioners, Harries, and Louies! Former One Direction stars Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson will begin the first quarter of 2026 with fresh music.</p>

Heads up, Directioners, Harries, and Louies! Former One Direction stars Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson will begin the first quarter of 2026 with fresh music.

‘Employed era’: Louis Tomlinson gears for album release on Jan. 23, Harry Styles on March 6

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‘Employed era’: Louis Tomlinson gears for album release on Jan. 23, Harry Styles on March 6

ABS-CBN News Digital Intern,

Mary Rose Maligmat

Published Jan 16, 2026 01:43 PM PHT

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