{"id":462985,"date":"2026-05-23T06:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/462985\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:33:17","slug":"ed-sheeran-leaves-warners-atlantic-records-and-asylum-after-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/462985\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran Leaves Warner’s Atlantic Records and Asylum After 15 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter 15 years, Ed Sheeran<\/a> is no longer part of Warner Music Group. On Friday, the musician shared a newsletter with fans revealing he split from Atlantic Records and Asylum Records last month. \u201cThis isn\u2019t a \u2018disgruntled artist leaves record label\u2019 type situation,\u201d Sheeran wrote. \u201cThis is a boy who started as a teenager on the company with different priorities, to the father of 2 man who exists now, who feels like he needs a shift and change in the way he does things professionally.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tSheeran released his first album, Plus, under Atlantic\/Asylum in September 2011. The labels would go on to oversee the release of six more albums, including Multiply, Divide, Subtract, Equals, and the new series starter, Play. During this stretch of time, Sheeran went from couch surfing pub player to one of the biggest pop stars of his generation. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOver the last 15 years, I\u2019ve put out so much music, and had so much success with that company. We\u2019ve built something amazing together, and enjoyed such life changing stuff happening to us,\u201d Sheeran wrote. \u201cMy life is hugely different now to what it was when I was a teenager, and I\u2019ve been feeling in my gut for a long time that a lot of things in my professional life need to change. I am, underneath it all, a singer songwriter who plays pub gigs. And I\u2019ve sorta morphed into this pop star who plays stadiums over 15 years, it\u2019s a super amazing thing to have happened but also a lot to get your head around.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tSheeran landed with Warner after a chance meeting with Ed Howard, formerly head of A&R for Asylum, an imprint of Atlantic, at a show in Notting Hill. \u201cI was 18 and I ended up crashing at his and his now wife\u2019s house. Whilst there I played him a bunch of music, and just chatted about life and what I wanted to do,\u201d he said. \u201cI honestly didn\u2019t know at the time he worked at a record label, I thought he was just someone cool who was letting me crash on his sofa. But the next day I found out who he was, and we started chatting.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tHoward supported Sheeran by coming to the \u201ctiny tiny pub gigs no one came to,\u201d alongside Ben Cook, who previously helmed Asylum. \u201cWhen No. 5 Collaborations came out, and I was offered a deal, I signed instantly. I love those guys so much,\u201d Sheeran said, adding: \u201cI love Ed Howard forever, I love Asylum forever, and the door is always open for the future. Thank you everyone across Warner worldwide who has worked on my projects over the last 15 years, it\u2019s been an incredible journey. Excited to see where the next 15 years takes me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tWarner Music Group said in a statement via Music Week<\/a>, \u201cWarner Music Group is proud to have supported Ed through his discovery and remarkable rise over the past 15 years and grateful for his continued partnership. As we steward his iconic catalogue into the future, we\u2019ll ensure that his music will touch hearts and move feet around the world for generations to come. Everyone in the Warner Music family wishes Ed the very best as he embarks on the next chapter of his extraordinary artistic journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his note, Sheeran wrote, \u201cI leave the company with SO much love and gratitude for everything we have achieved together.\u201d While the singer-songwriter hasn\u2019t detailed where his future releases will live (Play kicks off a series that will continue with Rewind, Fast-Forward, and Stop), he previously founded his own vanity label, Gingerbread Man Records, under Warner Music Group. Play and 2023\u2019s Autumn Variations were both released under the label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 15 years, Ed Sheeran is no longer part of Warner Music Group. On Friday, the musician shared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[8720,93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-462985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ed-sheeran","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}