Zayn Malik Announces New Album ‘Room Under the Stairs’

Zayn Malik is releasing his first album in three years in just two months. The "Pillowtalk" singer announced details of his upcoming fourth studio album Wednesday (March 13) on Instagram. Zayn, 31, titled his album Room Under the Stairs and revealed its illustrated cover artwork. With a blue side profile of his face, there is also a blueprint of a house being built within a forest.

The next few slides show the blueprints in color. Featured at the start of a room is a bunch of guitars and what looks to be a studio, with a monitor and desk chair. The last slide shows another angle of the same house but expanded with more rooms and a second floor.

Set for a May 17 release through Mercury Records, the album will mark Malik's first with the label, which is also home to artists including Noah Kahan and Post Malone. The father, who shares daughter Khai with ex-girlfriend Gigi Hadid, will introduce fans to the album with its debut single, "What I Am," set to drop on Friday, March 15. His last album was 2021's Nobody Is Listening.

Malik made a surprise appearance during The Tonight Show, interrupting host Jimmy Fallon's monologue to drop off a very important piece of information. Wearing a leather trench coat, fans shrieked as he strutted to the host. He played a snippet of his album's lead single and slipped Fallon a folded card. "Jimmy, look to your right for my album. My new single, 'What I Am,' is out this Friday."

One fan commented on the late show's Instagram: "HE SAID NOTHING AND LOOKED SO SEXY DOING IT OMG." Another stated, "This is the most social thing he’s done in 5 year." A third wrote, "Walked, served looks, promoted, left." Another fan hilariously said, "zayn leaving without zaying anything is so him [crying emojis]."

Last week, Malik teased the project with a short video on Instagram. "I think the intention behind this album fully is for the listener to get more insight on me personally as a human being," he said in the clip. "My ambitions, my fears… and for them to have a connection with that. And that's why it's so raw, you know? There's just me writing this. I didn't want anyone else to be in between me and the music, and the music and the people listening to it."

At the end of the video, Malik crooned in what appeared to be a new song snippet, "If I told you I loved you, would you say that it's f---ed up?" His caption repeated the lyrics.

Last month, Rolling Stone reported that Malik spent many years writing the upcoming album alone at his Pennsylvania home. As we reported last summer, the singer-songwriter said, "I'm doing a record I don’t think people are really gonna expect. It’s a different sound for me."

At the time, he continued, "And it’s got some more narrative going on, like real-life experiences and stuff. My daughter’s mentioned in there a couple of times."

As we kick off 2024, many of our favorite musicians are planning to hit the road once again. Some are continuing their tours from last year, expanding dates in cities that have sold out and filling up stadiums for their ever-devoted fans. Gametime has released new data highlighting the most anticipated concert tours of the year based on average ticket price -- and some of the numbers are astounding. It is no surprise that the highest-priced tours belong to Taylor Swift and Adele, as we've covered their past ticket prices being thousands of dollars.

Swift's Eras Tour shows last three-and-a-half hours as she covers all aspects of her career, from country to pop to indie. With her two “surprise songs” each night, fans are always eager to find out what songs she’ll choose for that segment. On top of that, her timing is impeccable for fans “itching for a post-pandemic live music immersive experience.” Another factor is how much Swifties appreciate Taylor’s dedication to her craft: writing all her songs and reclaiming ownership of all of her music by re-recording her discography. Fans have also been buying and streaming the new versions of her old songs and the bonus tracks on her re-recorded versions of her albums. Her tour is expected to pass $1 billion in sales by this March and if that happens, the singer-songwriter will make history.

Then there's Adele, whose Las Vegas residency, Weekends With Adele has reached the finale. With 32 dates, the English singer-songwriter will be at The Colosseum at Caesar's Palace from January to June. Known for spending time chatting with her fans and making her way down to the audience, the candid moments during Adele's residency has become well-documented on social media, showing the fun times fans have to see her.

Take a look below at which five music artists have the hottest concert tickets of 2024 so far, based on the prices of their tickets on Gametime.

Kicking off our list of the highest priced tickets of 2024, the "Piano Man" singer will only be performing for 15 dates. However, his average ticket price is $560.07 and he will be all over the globe, starting with a sold-out show in Tokyo, Japan, on January 24. With more sold-out shows sprinkled throughout his scheduled performances, Joel added additional dates to his original ten events. In additon to his Madison Square Garden residency, he will also play Florida, Texas, California, Washington, Illinois, Colorado, Missouri, and Wales.

The "WHERE SHE GOES" singer and rapper will be on his Most Wanted tour, with 47 dates. His median ticket price is $661.01, starting in Utah at the end of February. Bad Bunny will also be making stops in nearly every state: Nevada, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Minneapolis, Missouri, Illinois, Ontario, Michigan, Washington, D.C., New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and ending in Florida on May 28.

The "vampire" singer embarks on her GUTS World Tour, with her tickets' median price being $734.17. Rodrigo will be touring the US for 46 dates with accompanying acts Pinkpantheress, The Breeders, Chappell Roan, and Remi Wolf at select cities. The singer will kick off the tour a few days after her 21st birthday in California, before making stops in Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Canada, Massachusetts, then New York. She will leave North America for tour dates in Ireland, the UK, Scotland, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain, and Portugal. After a few weeks break, Rodrigo will return to North America for 18 more dates, finally closing out her tour on August 17 in Los Angeles.

Coming in at second place, Adele's continuation and end of her Las Vegas residency boasts $2,079.42 as her median ticket prices to watch her perform live. The "Easy on Me" singer will be performing for 32 dates over the course of 2024, from January 19 to June 15 at The Colosseum at Caesar's Palace. She had 24 shows in 23 and the English singer-songwriter is set to outdo herself with the additional dates this year. Reflecting on X (formerly Twitter), the Grammy winner said, "This residency, these shows have changed my life. I desperately needed to fall back in love with performing live again, and I have."

The pop icon's median ticket price for her 2024 Eras Tour is a whopping $3,525.42, having her claim the top spot for highest-priced tickets of the year. With 18 tour dates this year, Swift will be heading all over the globe, making stops at Australia, Japan, Singapore, France, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Poland, Austria, then heading back to the US. She will be performing in Florida, Louisiana, and Indiana, before going global once again in Canada, closing out her tour on December 8 in Vancouver.