Louis Tomlinson reveals How Did I Get Here? and 2026 world tour

Louis Tomlinson announced on Tuesday that his third studio album, How Did I Get Here?, will be released on January 23, 2026, and he simultaneously released its lead single, Lemonade. Tomlinson also unveiled plans for a 2026 world tour, titled the How Did We Get Here? Tour, which will include a North American arena leg running from June 3 in Vancouver through July 24 in Miami, and a spring European run beginning in March.

Tomlinson said the record is "the record I always deserved to make," calling honesty his "bread and butter" and saying he wears "my heart on my sleeve." He described the album as a moment in which he is "allowing myself to be the artist I'd always hoped to be" and said he is still learning and improving as a singer and songwriter. He worked on the project with coproducer Nico Rebscher during a three week trip to Santa Teresa, Costa Rica, after developing early ideas in the English countryside.

Lemonade, which Tomlinson described as needing to "sound ambitious sonically" and to be "big and fun," is positioned as a summer-ready single with a prominent chorus and arena-scale production. Tomlinson has said the song is about a woman who is "so bitter and so sweet at...