After keeping the sessions shrouded in secrecy, Sheeran has been gearing up for the big push by releasing the singles "Bad Habits" and "Shivers" and, on Monday Oct.
It's more than enough to tide fans over for a few days. In the meantime, Billboard has compiled everything we know about the album so far.
In addition to pre-ordering the album in various formats, you can also order a special t-shirt box set, exclusive red cassette, recycled vinyl, deluxe book vinyl and other formats here , with extras including a page hard-cover book with lyrics, credits, photos and exclusive artwork and t-shirt and autographed CD. The song album features the singles "Bad Habits" and "Shivers," as well as the homage to Sheeran's mentor, late Australian promotions giant Michael Gudinski, "Visiting Hours.
The uptempo first single, "Bad Habits," rode the top spot on the English singles charts for eleven weeks and peaked at No. It was accompanied by a high-gloss video in which Sheeran stars as a glam vampire. The dance pop tune "Shivers" entered at No. He spends another late night looking for love in the special effects-heavy "Shivers" video, which finds Ed dressing up in an homage to pal Elton John's feathery outfits and hanging out in a morgue with his beloved.
If you simply cannot wait to hear the album, Sheeran provided Sheerios with a first-of-its-kind preview of the album via a collab with YouTube on a series of 14 video shorts -- one for each song on the album -- which dropped on Monday morning Oct. The clips, which each run 20 seconds or less, cover a wide range of scenes, from Sheeran pounding the drums to the high-energy opening track "Tides," to him stepping into a bathtub filled with ice while wearing a suit in the "Shivers" bit and smiling at a man dancing in a doorway with a giant bowl of chips for "Bad Habits.
Elsewhere, Sheeran and his wife Cherry lounge around, kiss and flirt in the affecting preview of the gentle acoustic ballad "First Times," Ed busts out a spray can for some freestyle painting to the strains of the wistful acoustic pop gem "Overpass Graffiti" and he spotlights his cat's adventures in the adorable "The Joker and the Queen" short for the hushed piano ballad.
In December, Ed surprised fans with the release of the guitar ballad, but he said at the time: "'Afterglow' is a song I wrote last year that I wanted to release for you. Ed released the first official single from the album, 'Bad Habits' on June See more More from Ed Sheeran. See more Must Read on Smooth. Elton John. In fact, he opened the back door and let it run into the garden, then turned a honking great spotlight on it.
Egged on by Zoe Ball, he played a world exclusive snippet of the track on an acoustic guitar from his home - where he's self-isolating after being diagnosed with Covid You can hear the full interview on BBC Sounds. The album also divided critics, with the faux-Irish lilt of Galway Girl coming in for particular scorn. Stuff magazine's Alan Perrot was particularly scathing, calling the song "cultural theft" that "appropriated an entire Irish folk tradition" while indulging in "a grab bag of Irish stereotypes that stops a 'to be sure' short of 'diddly-dee potatoes'".
Sheeran had the last laugh, of course. Logic dictated that the fourth album in the sequence should be called - subtract and Sheeran previously hinted that it would be a more stripped-back release.
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