{"id":2266744,"date":"2026-02-04T18:41:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2266744"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:41:43","slug":"zayn-announces-fifth-album-konnakol-preps-new-single-die-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/zayn-announces-fifth-album-konnakol-preps-new-single-die-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Zayn Announces Fifth Album &#8216;Konnakol,&#8217; Preps New Single &#8216;Die for Me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/music\/reviews\/zayn-debuts-new-music-las-vegas-residency-opener-concert-review-1236636611\/\">Zayn has announced<\/a> his fifth studio album \u201cKonnakol,\u201d releasing on April 17 via Mercury Records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe singer, who recently finished his Las Vegas residency, will release the project\u2019s first single \u201cDie for Me\u201d this Friday. According to a release, \u201cKonnakol\u201d \u201cexpands on the sound fans first heard on his record breaking debut studio album \u2018Mind of Mine.&#8217;\u201d The album\u2019s cover features a snow leopard, a symbol in South Asia that\u2019s meant to convey how his heritage inspired the project. At the end of each Vegas show, he featured snow leopard imagery as an Easter egg.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  size-large alignnone \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure  lrv-u-font-family-secondary u-color-medium-grey lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-light-grey-tint-two u-margin-b-150 lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1024px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  \">\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s that time again, I have been lucky enough to make a fifth studio album,\u201d said <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/zayn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_zayn\" data-tag=\"zayn\">Zayn<\/a> in a statement. \u201cKonnakol in its definition is the act of creating percussive sounds with one\u2019s voice but what it means to me lies somewhere much deeper. It is a sound that holds the reverberation of a time before words existed. I have always drawn on my heritage for inspiration since I first started making my own music, this album is a development of that understanding, knowing more now than ever, who I am, where I come from and where I intend to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tZayn recently completed his seven-night residency at Vegas\u2019 Dolby Live at Park MGM in late January. During the show, he teased unreleased music and played fan favorites across the shows, which wrapped on January 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn a review of opening night, <em>Variety<\/em> praised Zayn\u2019s performance, stating that \u201che delivered pristine vocals, his signature falsetto, and a noticeably stronger stage presence than on his last tour.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source variety.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zayn has announced his fifth studio album \u201cKonnakol,\u201d releasing on April 17 via Mercury Records. The singer, who recently finished his Las Vegas residency, will release the project\u2019s first single \u201cDie for Me\u201d this Friday. According to a release, \u201cKonnakol\u201d \u201cexpands on the sound fans first heard on his record breaking debut studio album \u2018Mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2266745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[370885],"class_list":["post-2266744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-zayn"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Zayn-Announces-Fifth-Album-Konnakol-Preps-New-Single-Die-for.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266746,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266744\/revisions\/2266746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2266745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}