Niall Horan hopes you’re hungry, because it’s time for a dinner party.
The former One Direction member announced via his Instagram on Wednesday (March 18) that he will be dropping his highly anticipated fourth studio album in less than three months.
“My brand new album ‘dinner party’ will be yours june 5th,” Horan said in his caption.
The two-slide post features the album cover as well as the tracklist for the forthcoming project. The Dinner Party artwork features Horan in the corner of a kitchen sipping from a mug, surrounded by an eclectic collection of ceramic plates, more cups and a tea set. According to the posted tracklist, the album will have 12 songs. No features are listed on the tracklist, though it’s unknown if some could be announced in the future.
Horan’s announcement comes a few weeks after he confirmed in a post to X that his “Album is DONE” on Feb. 24. In the post, he also shared photos from the recording studio and two short instrumental snippets of what we can assume are two of the songs on Dinner Party.
Soon after the singer began teasing the lead single and title track “Dinner Party” by replying to fans’ comments with snippets of the song. In a March 2 post to Instagram, the former boy band member shared the heartfelt story behind the upcoming single. While sitting at a piano, he explained that the song is about meeting his longtime girlfriend, Amelia Woolley, which happened at a dinner party. Finally, on March 4, Horan announced that the song will be released on Friday (March 20).
Dinner Party is the follow-up to Horan’s 2023 album The Show, which hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart. To date, Horan has had seven songs hit the Billboard Hot 100, including his 2017’s “Slow Hands” (No. 11) off his debut solo album Flicker, which topped the Billboard 200. His other solo album, 2020’s Heartbreak Weather, hit No. 4 on the chart.
Fans can preorder Dinner Party from Horan’s official website. See the album announcement below.
