It was released worldwide on 11 August 2017 and features vocals by The X Factor finalist Jason Heerah.

In April 2016, it was announced that Dannii Minogue would be a special guest act on Culture Club's Australian tour that would happen later that year.

[1] In June, during a warm-up gig at a Melbourne nightclub called GH Hotel, Minogue performed "Holding On" as a duet with Heerah.

Later that month, during her opening act for the Culture Club concert at Rod Laver Arena, Minogue and Heerah performed the song again.

Before the tour, however, Minogue decided to release a "crisp version"[2] of the song on the same day she performed it live at the Central Station Records 40th anniversary party.