#TrainingSeason is the 2026 revival trend that re-cast Dua Lipa’s 2024 single as a manifestation anthem — the hashtag collects videos in which fans pair the song with handwritten relationship wish lists, journal spreads, and prayer-like gestures as a kind of ritual for calling in the “right” partner. The trend caught after Lipa married actor Callum Turner in a May–June 2026 Sicilian wedding, since Lipa herself has described writing the song as a declaration that she was done tolerating bad dates and that she wrote down the qualities she wanted in a partner, then met and married Turner. The result is a two-year-late viral comeback: Purebreak reports a roughly 126% boost in monthly streams, Nowtrending lists it among early-September 2026’s top viral moments, and Lipa herself has reposted the trend’s clips to her own Instagram Stories.
Quick Facts
- Original song: “Training Season” by Dua Lipa, released February 15, 2024 (also Turner’s birthday)
- Original album: Radical Optimism (2024)
- Original UK chart: No. 4 debut Feb 23, 2024; No. 1 in April 2024
- 2026 revival trigger: Dua Lipa + Callum Turner wedding (May 31 London; June 5–7 Palermo, Sicily)
- Peak revival month: July–September 2026, continuing into October
- Streaming impact: ~126% monthly stream boost (Purebreak); re-entry into Spotify global chart (No. 99, early September 2026, per Nowtrending)
Origin
“Training Season” originated as a dating-fatigue song in 2024. Lipa has said the track came out of a run of bad dates — the morning after the last one, she wrote the title phrase as a declaration that her “training” was done. The single reached No. 4 on the UK Official Singles Chart on its first week in February 2024 and spent the spring climbing to No. 1 before fading from the charts in the normal fashion.
The 2026 manifestation reading is a fan reinterpretation, not Lipa’s own. The hook is Lipa’s own habit, repeated in a Drew Barrymore interview and reported by IBTimes, of writing down the qualities she wanted in a partner and treating the song as “almost a form of manifestation.” When Lipa confirmed her engagement to actor Callum Turner in Vogue in mid-2025 and then married him in a two-country ceremony in May and June of 2026 — a story IBTimes and Purebreak both tie directly to the song’s premise — fans retroactively framed the record as the thing that worked.
How It Works
A Training Season manifestation post typically does three things:
- Opens with the song. The audio is the signal; the clip syncs its ritual to the chorus or the title line.
- Shows the ritual. Fans film themselves writing down traits they want in a partner, affirmations, or specific “boxes” a future partner should check. Prayer-like hand gestures, candle lightings, and journal spreads are the most common visual payloads.
- Captions it as manifestation. The dominant caption templates — reported by IBTimes, Purebreak, Crónica and SSBCrack — are “manifesting with Training Season” and “training season is over for me too.”
Some posts are overtly joking, treating the ritual as a bit; others are sincere, aligning the video with the broader 2026 manifestation-content wave. The format is tolerant of both.
Lipa’s Role
Lipa has not launched or officially endorsed the trend, but she has engaged with it. A Brazilian fan account cited by SSBCrack reports that on July 21, 2026 she reposted several Training Season trend clips to her Instagram Stories. IBTimes also catches Lipa publicly talking about the song’s “manifestation” framing in a Drew Barrymore conversation, feeding the trend without explicitly adopting its reading as her own. In Vogue’s engagement-coverage window and in later entertainment coverage of the Sicilian wedding, Lipa has repeatedly volunteered the “I wrote down what I wanted” phrasing — a line fans have since quoted back into the trend as proof-of-concept.
Chart Impact
The revival moved real numbers. Purebreak reports a roughly 126% boost in Training Season’s monthly streams during the peak revival period. A Vietnamese Nowtrending summary says the song re-entered Spotify’s global chart at No. 99 in early September 2026, more than two years after the original 2024 release. A Billboard Brazil piece also catalogued the song as a surprise re-entry on fan lists through summer 2026. (Official UK Chart company “First Look” pieces picked up on the resurgence too, flagging the track as climbing in the chart company’s weekly previews, though specific dates on those previews are not visible in the cached results.)
Cultural Context
Training Season sits inside two overlapping 2026 pop-culture arcs: the broader manifestation-content wave on TikTok (adjacent to the “September 1st” money-manifestation sound and other “write-down-what-you-want” trends), and the ongoing meta-genre of celebrity-relationship songs being re-read by fans in light of later events. The second is a Taylor Swift–shaped vocabulary; the first is a wellness-TikTok one. “Training Season” sits where they meet — a song fans retroactively credit for a confirmed celebrity marriage, used as the audio for a ritual the song never explicitly described.
Variations & Related Tags
- #ManifestingTrainingSeason — the sincere-manifestation sub-tag
- #TrainingSeasonIsOver — the line used as a declaration post, often paired with announcements of a new relationship
- #DuaLipa — the artist
- #DuaLipaCallumWedding — the May–June 2026 wedding that catalyzed the revival
Sources
- https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/dua-lipa-training-season-manifestation-anthem-1815286
- https://news.ssbcrack.com/dua-lipas-training-season-becomes-a-manifestation-prayer-for-fans-on-social-media/
- https://www.cronica.com.ar/elcanaldelamusica/noticias/dua-lipa-y-el-nuevo-himno-para-manifestar-training-season-vuelve-a-conquistar-las-redes-4147/
- https://www.purebreak.com/news/dua-lipa-deux-ans-apres-sa-sortie-cette-chanson-devient-son-nouveau-tube-surprise/265874
- https://billboard.com.br/single-da-dua-lipa-volta-queridinho-da-galera/
- https://advertisingvietnam.com/article/nowtrending-giai-ma-nhung-lan-song-viral-tren-mang-xa-hoi-tuan-01-1509