A single post remains on Zayn's Instagram - a video trailer for his next release. The video looks like a trailer for a gangster action film, as the words "seduction", "power" and "greed" flash across the screen.

The caption reads "04.12.18", suggesting that this new music will be released this Thursday.

Fans have noticed that deleting all posts from social media was recently done by Taylor Swift, prior to dropping her single "Look What You Made Me Do".

Zayn was a member of the most successful contemporary boy band One Direction from 2010, with bandmates Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles and Mullingar's own Niall Horan. In March 2015, Zayn left the band, saying, "I am leaving because I want to be a normal 22 year old."

Since then, he won the 2016 American Music Award for New Artist of the Year, with his debut single 'Pillowtalk' from album 'Mind of Mine' debuting at No.1 on the US Billboard 200.

Watch the teaser below

04.12.18

A post shared by Zayn Malik (@zayn) on Apr 7, 2018 at 7:53pm PDT