{"id":185715,"date":"2025-09-12T00:06:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/09\/12\/ed-sheeran-presses-play-on-new-album-stream-it-now-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T00:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:06:26","slug":"ed-sheeran-presses-play-on-new-album-stream-it-now-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/09\/12\/ed-sheeran-presses-play-on-new-album-stream-it-now-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran Presses \u2018Play\u2019 On New Album: Stream It\u00a0Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/ed-sheeran\">Ed Sheeran<\/a> is here to <em>play<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe superstar British singer and songwriter today drops <em>Play<\/em>, his eighth studio album, which gathers the previously released singles \u201cCamera\u201d, \u201cA Little More\u201d, \u201cAzizam\u201d, \u201cSapphire,\u201d \u201cOld Phone\u201d and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tInspired, in part, by his exposure to Indian and Persian musical cultures, <em>Play<\/em> sees Sheeran enter a brand new era, after closing the chapter on his hugely successful<em> Mathematics<\/em> series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<em>Play<\/em> was an album that was made as a direct response to the darkest period of my life. Coming out of all of that I just wanted to create joy and technicolour, and explore cultures in the countries I was touring,\u201d he wrote in an Instagram post earlier in the year. \u201cIt\u2019s a real rollercoaster of emotions from start to finish, it encapsulates everything that I love about music, and the fun in it, but also where I am in life as a human, a partner, a father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTo celebrate the new release, Sheeran shares the official video for \u201cCamera\u201d, starring Phoebe Dynevor.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ed Sheeran - Camera (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O8WXFI_MSAI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWith <em>Play<\/em>, Sheeran will hope to extend his perfect streak in his homeland and Australia, where all of his studio albums have topped the national charts, including his most recent effort, 2023\u2019s <em>Autumn Variations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn the U.S., Sheeran has two career leaders on the Billboard Hot 100, including \u201cShape Of You,\u201d one of the most-streamed songs in history, and four No. 1s on the Billboard 200 chart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHe\u2019ll give the new album a push from midday today, Sept. 12, when he heads to NPR\u2019s offices, where he\u2019ll play a selection of new music on his loop station for the first-ever livestreamed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/09\/09\/g-s1-87766\/ed-sheeran-tiny-desk-concert\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Tiny Desk concert<\/a> of this scale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe four-time Grammy Award winner closed the book on <em>Mathematics <\/em>last Sunday, Sept. 7 in D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany, with the final show on his <em>+\u2212=\u00f7\u00d7 Tour (Mathematics Tour)<\/em>, a global juggernaut that began in April 2022 and featured more than 160 shows. He\u2019s booked to played iHeartMusicFestival in Las Vegas next Saturday, Sept. 20, then presses play on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsheeran.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The Loop Tour<\/a><\/em> this December for shows across Continental Europe and the U.K., followed by a run of stadium shows across Australia and New Zealand <a href=\"https:\/\/themusicnetwork.com\/ed-sheeran-expands-2026-stadium-tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">in the first quarter of 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tStream <em>Play<\/em> below.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Play\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/20dY0uZi9SzfrcWYfiWGqH?si=-6maL2zbSD6CyHAdEtazww&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/ed-sheeran-play-album-stream-it-now-1236065179\/\">Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Ed Sheeran is here to play. The superstar British singer and songwriter today drops Play, his eighth studio album, which gathers the previously released singles \u201cCamera\u201d, \u201cA Little More\u201d, \u201cAzizam\u201d, \u201cSapphire,\u201d \u201cOld Phone\u201d and more. Inspired, in part, by his exposure to Indian and Persian musical cultures, Play sees Sheeran enter a brand new era, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}