{"id":14845,"date":"2025-09-14T00:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/14845\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T00:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:57:15","slug":"ed-sheeran-reveals-posthumous-album-eject-is-in-his-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/14845\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran reveals posthumous album ‘Eject’ is in his will"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed Sheeran<\/a> has revealed that plans to release a posthumous album, \u2018Eject\u2019, are already in his will.<\/p>\n

The singer-songwriter released his new studio record, \u2018Play\u2019<\/a>, today (September 12). Following 2023\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Autumn Variations\u2019<\/a>, it features the singles \u2018A Little More\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0\u2018Azizam\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0\u2018Old Phone\u2019<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u2018Sapphire\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During a recent interview for Apple Music 1<\/a>, Sheeran spoke to Zane Lowe about his vision for\u00a0his next four LPs: \u2018Pause\u2019, \u2018Fast Forward\u2019, \u2018Rewind\u2019 and \u2018Stop\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When asked if the latter would mark his final full-length release, Sheeran replied: \u201cWell, no. It actually would be \u2018Stop\u2019 and then \u2018Eject.\u2019 \u2018Eject\u2019 is the album in the will. It\u2019s actually in my will, and [wife] Cherry gets to pick the tracks for it. It\u2019s fully in there, if I were to go tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cMy will of wishes is to make a record out of all the songs from the age of 18 [until his death]. So when I pass away, choose the 10 best. Imagine if Paul McCartney<\/a> dies and there\u2019s early 16-year-old Beatles<\/a> recordings, and then right up to the 10 best of his entire career.<\/p>\n

\u201cLots of people won\u2019t like that of me, but there\u2019ll be lots of my fans that would find that super-interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sheeran said the material would only arrive \u201cafter I\u2019m dead\u201d, adding: \u201cYou know how posthumous albums come out, but they\u2019re sort of unplanned? I want to sort of make a planned one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll talk to Cherry throughout my life, [and be] like, \u2018I really like this one\u2019,\u201d he continued. \u201cI don\u2019t want to go, and someone just to jumble up stuff and put it out. I want it to be planned.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sheeran went on to say that he would \u201ctake a long time\u201d to create \u2018Stop\u2019. \u201cI think \u2018Rewind\u2019 is sort of self-explanatory,\u201d he told Lowe. \u201c\u2018Pause\u2019, I dunno \u2013 if I take a break, maybe that\u2019ll be a nice one to put out. \u2018Fast Forward\u2019 can be anything fucking kooky and futuristic.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Stop\u2019, I feel, has to be kind of the way that Jay-Z<\/a> did \u2018The Black Album\u2019 as if it\u2019s your final [album]. I\u2019m not saying that will be my final album. I think I\u2019ll probably still make music from there, but I think it has to be made with the same level of care and attention. I love \u2018The Black Album\u2019 and it\u2019s because he\u2019s like, \u2018This is my last thing I\u2019m giving to the world\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can watch the interview in full above.<\/p>\n

\"EdEd Sheeran. CREDIT: Press<\/p>\n

Sheeran\u2019s next batch of records will follow his collection inspired by mathematical symbols \u2013 comprising \u2018Plus\u2019<\/a>, Multiply\u2019, \u2018Divide\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0\u2018Subtract\u2019<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u2018Equals\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He previously shared his idea for \u2018Eject\u2019 earlier this year<\/a>, but didn\u2019t confirm that it was in his will.<\/p>\n

Sheeran recently revealed that he \u201cmade \u2018Play\u2019 and \u2018Rewind\u2019 at the same time\u201d, adding that the latter was almost ready to go<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s two months off being totally locked and loaded,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As for when fans could expect his next record to arrive, Sheeran said: \u201cI guess at some point in the next 18 months it will come out.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a three-star review of \u2018Play\u2019<\/a>, NME called the project \u201ca hasty retreat to the genre-spanning of old\u201d. It added: \u201c\u2018Play\u2019, which apparently kicks off a groan-inducing new series of albums named after buttons on a remote control, just about makes the most of his bag of tricks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Sheeran said \u2018Play\u2019 \u201cwas made as a direct response to the darkest period of my life\u201d<\/a>. Talking about its creation, he explained: \u201cComing out of all of that I just wanted to create joy and technicolour, and explore cultures in the countries I was touring.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made this record all over the world, finished it in Goa, India, and had some of the most fun, explorative, creative days of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile,\u00a0Ed Sheeran has announced a UK and European arena tour for this winter<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 including shows in Manchester and Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran has revealed that plans to release a posthumous album, \u2018Eject\u2019, are already in his will. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409,875],"class_list":["post-14845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}