{"id":58979,"date":"2023-03-01T14:08:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T22:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=58979"},"modified":"2023-03-01T14:38:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T22:38:43","slug":"ed-sheeran-announces-new-album-and-shares-shockingly-sad-details-for-its-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/ed-sheeran-announces-new-album-and-shares-shockingly-sad-details-for-its-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran announces new album and shares shockingly sad details for its inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ed Sheeran&#8217;s new album <\/strong>titled<strong> Subtract (-)<\/strong> , which is expected to be the last entry of <strong>The Mathematics era<\/strong>, will finally release on <strong>May 5<\/strong>. The British singer-songwriter first confirmed he was working on a new album back in november when he became the first artist to have four albums spend a year in the Top 10 on the UK Singles Chart. He posted a video on <strong>Instagram<\/strong> celebrating this record and saying:<em>\u00a0I\u2019m going to celebrate by shooting a music video for my brand-new album, which will be out next year<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ed-Wife.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ed-Wife.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ed-Wife-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ed-Wife-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ed-Wife-750x469.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to today, the British singer and songwriter took the web by storm after months of teasing when he posted a teaser on <strong>Twitter<\/strong> which confirmed the release date and tracklist for the latest entry of his discography.\u00a0 He also released a press statement giving more insight behind the <strong>creative process<\/strong> for the creation of the album:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edsheeran\/status\/1630856148524859393\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Subtract will be released on 5th May 2023. Pre-order now \ud83d\udc9b \u2728<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W2vnTwszLX\">https:\/\/t.co\/W2vnTwszLX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZzzyBqwgle\">pic.twitter.com\/ZzzyBqwgle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ed Sheeran HQ (@edsheeran) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edsheeran\/status\/1630856148524859393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p><em>Within the space of a month, <strong>my pregnant wife<\/strong> got told she had a <strong>tumour<\/strong>, with no route to treatment until after the birth. <strong>My best friend<\/strong> Jamal [Edwards], a brother to me, <strong>died suddenly<\/strong> and I found myself standing in<strong> court defending my integrity<\/strong> and career as a songwriter. I was spiralling through <strong>fear, depression and anxiety.<\/strong> This is last February\u2019s diary entry and my way of making sense of it. This is \u2018Subtract.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>\u2018-\u2018 tracklist and album cover:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58983\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/unnamed-file-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/unnamed-file-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/unnamed-file-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/unnamed-file-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/unnamed-file-1-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/unnamed-file-1-350x350.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n&#8216;Boat&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Saltwater&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Eyes Closed&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Life Goes On&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Dusty&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;End of Youth&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Colourblind&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Curtains&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Borderline&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Spark&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Vega&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Sycamore&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;No Strings&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;The Hills of Aberfeldy&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The artist is currently touring the world with <strong>The +\u2013=\u00f7\u00d7 Tour<\/strong> (also known as <em>the Mathematics Tour<\/em>) and the North American leg will begin on May 6. It\u2019s being speculated that the tracklist will be changed and songs from the new album will be included in the show.<\/p>\n<p>Are you excited for Ed\u00b4s new music?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Sheeran&#8217;s new album titled Subtract (-) , which is expected to be the last entry of The Mathematics era, will finally release on May 5. The British singer-songwriter first confirmed he was working on a new album back in november when he became the first artist to have four albums spend a year in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":58982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,300],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pop","8":"category-tour"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58979"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=58979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}