{"id":1639,"date":"2026-02-04T17:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2026-02-04T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:54:12","slug":"zayn-announces-new-album-konnakol-lead-single-die-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/zayn-announces-new-album-konnakol-lead-single-die-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Zayn Announces New Album \u2018KONNAKOL\u2019 &amp; Lead Single \u2018Die For Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pop star has announced his fifth studio album, \u2018<strong>KONNAKOL.<\/strong>\u2018<\/p>\n<p>\u2018KONNAKOL\u2019 will be released on <strong>April 17 <\/strong>via <strong>Mercury Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"primis10TGJ\" data-refreshrate=\"0\">To whet appetites, the LP\u2019s first single, \u2018<strong>Die For Me,\u2019<\/strong> drops this Friday (<strong>February 6<\/strong>).<\/div>\n<div id=\"primis10TGJ\" data-refreshrate=\"0\">\nBilled as a Pop-forward affair, the project is also touted as his most culturally inspired body of work to date.<\/p>\n<div id=\"primis10TGJ\" data-refreshrate=\"0\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaking on the album, Zayn said:<\/p>\n<div id=\"primis10TGJ\" data-refreshrate=\"0\"><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201c\u2019KONNAKOL\u2019 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.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"primis10TGJ\" data-refreshrate=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The announcement follows the success of his first-ever Las Vegas residency, where he previewed unreleased material from the album.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pop star has announced his fifth studio album, \u2018KONNAKOL.\u2018 \u2018KONNAKOL\u2019 will be released on April 17 via Mercury Records. To whet appetites, the LP\u2019s first single, \u2018Die For Me,\u2019 drops this Friday (February 6). Billed as a Pop-forward affair, the project is also touted as his most culturally inspired body of work to date. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[160],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","author-urbanafrica"],"authors":[{"term_id":160,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"urbanafrica","display_name":"URBANAFRICA","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-FFB50F59-0D6C-491C-BACA-64123F72D056.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-FFB50F59-0D6C-491C-BACA-64123F72D056.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}