New Liam Payne music will be released posthumously by his collaborator Sam Pounds.

The One Direction star performed Do No Wrong with North Carolina singer Pounds before he died aged 31 on October 16 after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Pounds took to X, ex-Twitter, to say the song would be out on Friday and hoped “this song overshadows the negative echoes”.

He said: “I pray that this will be a blessing to the world, as Liam has always dreamed.

“I pray that the angels comfort you all every day as they listen. I pray that this song will be a blessing to (sister) Ruth, (son) Bear and the whole family.

“I pray that this song will overshadow the negative echoes. I pray that supernatural positive healing power embraces each of you.”

Payne shared his only child with Girls Aloud star Cheryl, with whom he was in a relationship from 2016 to 2018, after rising to fame on The X Factor with the rest of his boy band.

Last week, all five of One Direction’s studio albums, which he recorded with his bandmates, returned to the UK top 40, as vigils continue to be held by fans around the world in Payne’s memory.

His latest solo track Teardrops debuted at number 85 in his most recent UK chart release when it was released earlier this year.

Tributes continued to pour in for Payne, with his bandmates Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson paying tribute shortly after his death.

Payne had struggled with alcoholism at the height of his fame, telling a 2021 edition of The Diary Of A CEO podcast host Steven Bartlett that he hit “rock bottom” before entering rehab.

In 2023, he posted a video about being in a rehab facility in Louisiana, saying he had “taken more control of life.”

Argentina’s public prosecutor’s office continues to investigate the circumstances surrounding his death.

It is being treated as “an inconclusive death” and an initial post-mortem examination found she died instantly from multiple trauma and “internal and external bleeding”.

Emergency services were called the day Payne collapsed at the Casa Sur Hotel in front of a “guest who was under the influence of drugs and alcohol and had destroyed some items in the room”.

Payne was due to appear on a new Netflix show called Building The Band alongside fellow judges American singer and actress Nicole Scherzinger and former Destiny’s Child star Kelly Rowland before he died.