Liam Counts '8 Including the New 1' Oasis Albums

Liam Gallagher counted eight Oasis albums in a birthday reply this week, one more than the band has released. The reply is a tease, not a confirmation, and Oasis has announced no new album at any point.

The exchange started with a fan’s birthday post on X. The fan praised “SEVEN great albums” as Liam turned another year older on 20 October 2026. Liam replied: “8 including the new 1, I mean happy birthday.”

Nine words did the rest. Screenshots crossed fan forums within the hour, and album speculation hit its highest pitch since the reunion. Every word of the reply carries a wink, and none carries a release date.

For context, the seven count rests on solid ground. The studio run starts with Definitely Maybe (1994) and Morning Glory (1995), then Be Here Now (1997). Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, Heathen Chemistry and Don’t Believe the Truth followed, and Dig Out Your Soul (2008) closed the run.

Each of the seven carries its own era of the band. Morning Glory made them the biggest band in Britain, and Be Here Now tested that fame to destruction. The later albums document a band arguing with its own legend in public.

An eighth album would end an eighteen year recording gap. Oasis last entered a studio as a band before the 2009 split in Paris. The Oasis new album page tracks the official position, which still reads: nothing announced.

Meanwhile, Liam’s own words from July argue against reading the reply literally. A fan begged him for an album that month, and he cited fear of criticism as the blocker. He joked that a flop would hurt if it failed to “sell 100 million copies in the 1st hour”.

The jokes kept coming in the same exchange. He said a new record would need to “cure bad breath and constipation for the nation”. He added that it would have to “turn back time for Cher” before he risked it.

Birthday threads rarely carry hard news in any case. Fans post praise, Liam posts chaos, and the exchange ends within the hour. This one survived because the album question sits ready to ignite at any moment.

A real eighth album would arrive very differently. The band would announce it through official channels, with a title, a date and artwork. Fans would get singles, interviews and a label campaign, not a punchline in a birthday thread.

His conclusion then was pure Liam. He told fans: “let’s just do some gigs and be happy”. Three months later, one birthday reply has restarted the whole fever anyway.

That said, his brother holds the opposite public line. Noel Gallagher told talkSPORT at the Live ‘27 announcement: “There won’t be any new music”. The Oasis Live ‘27 lineup covers both positions, and neither brother has moved since.

The Oasis albums guide gives fans the real catalogue to argue over. Seven studio albums fill 42 stadium setlists across Live ‘27 without one new song. That fact alone explains why the band feels no pressure to settle the question quickly.

The catalogue behind the joke keeps growing without new songs. Morning Glory alone holds 6.2 million UK chart units, per the Official Charts Company’s all time list. Streams and sales climb every month the reunion stays in the news.

The wait for a real answer runs through the tour itself. Forty-two shows give journalists forty-two chances to ask both brothers the same question. One of them will eventually answer it straight, on a stage or a sofa.

Fans should enjoy the tease for what it is. Liam writes his X feed like a man throwing biscuits into a piranha tank. The day Oasis records an eighth album, the band will announce it with rather more than a birthday reply.