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With 152,000 album-equivalent units and 128,000 copies sold in the United States, it also opened atop the Billboard 200, tying One Direction with the Beatles for the most members (three) with a solo US number-one album. In Ireland and the Netherlands, Flicker debuted at number one. The concert tour launched on 29 August 2017, at Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. The tour was announced on July 10, 2017, via Horan's social media accounts and website. To promote the album, Horan has embarked on his first headlining concert tour, Flicker Sessions 2017. The music video was uploaded to YouTube on 21 September 2017. " Too Much to Ask" was released as the third single on 15 September 2017. The single charted within the top 10 in a number of countries and reached number 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Billboard described the song as a "R&B-inflected rock tune". Upon release it received favourable reviews from the critics. The second single, " Slow Hands", was released on. Since its release, it has peaked at number nine on the UK Singles Chart, and number 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
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It is Horan's first single outside of the boy band One Direction. The album's lead single, " This Town", was released along with its accompanying music video of a live performance on 29 September 2016.
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Horan told Zane Lowe on his Beats 1 Radio show that the album's title track, "Flicker", means the most to him and "was a very poignant moment in the recording process", to the extent that "it changed the way I recorded the rest of the album". The track list of the album was unveiled on 22 September 2017. On 15 September 2017, Horan announced the album through his social media accounts, revealing album's title, cover art and release date as well as the release of the third single from the album, "Too Much to Ask". He also revealed that he had contacted Maren Morris to contribute to his song "Seeing Blind". In August 2017, Horan debuted several songs from the album during a live show at Shepherd's Bush Empire in London. "Whenever I would pick up a guitar, I would always naturally play chords like that, and finger pick a lot and play that folky kind of style." He also described the collection as having a "folk-with-pop feel to it."
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It has been a year and a half in the making and it is finally time for people to hear it." In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Horan stated that his upcoming new album was inspired by classic rock acts, including Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles. Talking to Daily Star, Horan said: "I have been working on it since March 2016. I've made relationships with different writers up and down the years so I'm putting them into action now." In September 2016, it was announced that Horan had signed a solo deal with Capitol Records. In June 2016, Horan confirmed that he was working on his debut studio album stating "I've been in the studio writing bits and pieces.