Niall Horan reveals first solo album release date and debuts new single 'Too Much To Ask'

Since One Direction announced their hiatus back in October 2015, Niall Horan has released two singles and now he's told the world that a new album is on the way, and that he's released his third single! Taking to Twitter the Irish singer wrote 'It's been a long time coming but I'm delighted to announce that my new album 'Flicker' is out on the 20th October. I hope you enjoy it'.

As if that wasn't exciting enough, Niall then took to Twitter to reveal that he also has a new single out. His third single 'Too Much To Ask' is out now. Niall wrote 'I've been waiting ages for you to hear it, hope you enjoy it'.

We're sure we will! Here's a little tease of the single:

And you can listen to it in full here:

Niall also took to Twitter to reveal it's one of his favourites on the album and then tweeted 'It's a very special song to me and I hope you like it'.

Niall's first solo single, 'This Town', was released on the 6th October 2016 and peaked at number 9 in the charts. His next single, 'Slow Hands', was released on the 18th May 2017 and peaked at number 7 on the Official Chart but is still gets a lot of airplay over four months later.

Niall celebrated his 24th birthday on the 13th September and posted this picture of the amazing cake that he received.

Just to keep you going until we get to hear the new album on the 20th October, here's the lyric video for 'Slow Hands'.

And as today is all about Niall Horan, let's just enjoy 'This Town' too.

So don't forget to stick it in your diary, 20th October for the Niall Horan's new album 'Flicker'.

Like Niall, the other members of One Direction have also released solo material, we look at their journeys from One Direction to solo artists.

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