Shivers! Ed Sheeran reveals he’s left plans in his will for a death album – and his wife will pick the tracks
Shivers! Ed Sheeran reveals he’s left plans in his will for a death album – and his wife will pick the tracks
Ed Sheeran has revealed he’s made eerie plans to release an album after his death – with details of the record already laid out in his will should he ‘go tomorrow’.
The Shape of You singer, 34, told broadcaster Zane Lowe that the posthumous album even has a name, ‘Eject’ – his latest album is named Play – and that his wife Cherry would decide what goes on it should she outlive her pop star husband.
An interview between the Norfolk-born superstar and Lowe took a profound turn when Sheeran shared that he’s made it clear in legal documents on his estate that the career-spanning album should be released when he dies.
He told a stunned Lowe: ‘Eject is the album in the will. It’s actually in my will and Cherry gets to pick the tracks for it. It’s fully in there if I were to go tomorrow.’
The star elaborated: ‘My will of wishes is to make a record out of all the songs from the age of 18 to when I pass away.’
Sheeran admitted: ‘Lots of people won’t like that of me, but there will be lots of my fans that would find that super interesting.’
The father-of-two, who was wearing a pink hoodie and combat trousers as the two men sat on a sofa at what appeared to be Sheeran’s home on his Norfolk estate, said he plans to ‘talk to Cherry throughout my life’ about which ten tracks should be on there.
The forward-thinking revelation was praised by those who watched the clip, with one saying in the comments: ‘Not the biggest fan of Ed but the idea that he has an album called Eject and it’s in his will is pretty rock and roll!’
When the grim reaper comes for Ed Sheeran, there’ll be a posthumous album ready to release, he revealed in a new interview with Zane Lowe
Deep: The singer-songwriter spoke candidly about his plans for an album called ‘Eject’ to be released following his death. Right, Zane Lowe looked surprised after Sheeran revealed that his wishes are already in his will
Another added: ‘EJECT!! Ed goes to heaven, and then we get the last specially picked album! Oh yeah, LEGENDARY stuff right here…and a creative name.’
Earlier this week, the singer also revealed his plans to relocate to America for the foreseeable future.
The English singer is no stranger to travelling the world for his work, but said in a podcast interview that he would be ‘settling’ in the States with his family while on his next tour.
Ed, who has an impressive property portfolio worth a staggering £70million, recently snapped up a sprawling £9million home in New York.
Yet he spends the majority of his time at his Sheeranville estate in Suffolk with wife Cherry Seaborn and their daughters, Lyra, five, and Jupiter, three.
Speaking on the 2 Johnnies podcast, he shared: ‘I’m just about to move to America. I feel like I might be the only person moving to America.
‘I’m going on tour there for a while and I have a family so I can’t dip in and out. We’re going and settling there.’
The songwriter didn’t specify where in the States he would be moving to. Yet he previously said that a move to the States could be on the cards because he wanted to transition into country music.
If the star’s wife Cherry outlives him, he said she would choose the tracks he’s made from the age of 18 until his demise, saying ‘It’s fully in there if I were to go tomorrow’
Ed said earlier this year: ‘When you transition to country, you can’t transition back.
‘Nashville is my favourite city in the States and it’s always been my end goal to move to Nashville and transition to country.’
Ed’s decision to move abroad comes just two months after he sparked backlash for claiming he identifies ‘culturally as Irish’ despite being born and raised in England.
While the singer-songwriter was brought up in Suffolk, his father John hails from Belfast, meaning he spent much of his childhood in Ireland.
Opening up on his heritage on The Louis Theroux Podcast, Ed explained: ‘I class my culture as Irish. I think that’s what I grew up with.
‘My dad’s family is … he’s got seven brothers and sisters. We’d spend all of our holidays in Ireland.
‘My first musical experiences were in Ireland, I grew up with trad music in the house. So I identify culturally as Irish, but I was obviously born and raised in Britain.’
The Galway Girl hitmaker went on to say that he was ‘really proud’ of his Irish cultural roots, and that he didn’t feel that he had to ‘just be British’, as it was down to ‘how you feel’.
He said: ‘I don’t overthink it but I do feel like my culture is something that I’m really proud of and grew up with and want to express.
‘And I feel like just because I was born in Britain doesn’t necessarily mean that I have to just be [British], there’s loads of people I know that are half this or quarter this.
‘I don’t think there’s any rules to it. It should be how you feel and how you were raised and what you lean into.’
Ed spends the majority of his time at his Sheeranville estate in Suffolk (pictured) with wife Cherry Seaborn and their daughters, Lyra, five, and Jupiter, three
And when asked whether he gets ‘a lot of love’ in Ireland, the chart-topping star also praised the country as being ‘my second home’.
He said: ‘I’d say it’s basically my second home, musically. I’d say Ireland is the place that I am most successful musically.’
However Ed’s comments sparked backlash as fans took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to hit back at his claims he is Irish as they claimed he was ‘pretending’.
They penned: ‘Identifies just means to pretend’; ‘does Ed Sheeran hold eligibility to start for the Irish national football team?’; ‘They can have him’;
‘It’s not where you’re born. It’s your bloodline that determines what you are. Cliff Richard was born in India. Is he Indian? You can be born anywhere in the World. That doesn’t automatically make you part of that culture.’
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