Ed Sheeran wows fans with debut performance of new song

The post Ed Sheeran wows fans with debut performance of new song appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Finally, fans of Ed Sheeran have heard his new song 'Sapphire' from his upcoming album Play.
He performed it during a concert for the first time during his May 30, 2025, Mathematics Tour stop in Madrid, Spain. During the next show on the following night, Sheeran once again performed it along with another unreleased song from the album called 'Opening.'
Videos have surfaced of Sheeran performing the song for the first time with his loop pedal. He had previously performed acoustic versions of it at his Old Phone pub.
The video showed him constructing the layers of the song. While the song is unreleased, the crowd chanted 'Sapphire!' during the chorus. 'Your lights, your face, your eyes exploding like fireworks in the sky,' Sheeran sings.
'Sapphire' is a signature Sheeran pop song. Its infectious and upbeat tone is bound to be an earworm for fans, and the official song drops on June 5, 2025, as a single.
It will be the third single from his upcoming album Play. Previously, Sheeran released 'Azizam' and 'Old Phone' on April 4 and May 1, respectively.
Whether or not Sheeran plans on releasing more singles for the album is unknown. Play will be released on September 12, 2025, so there will be over three months between 'Sapphire' and the album drop.
Sheeran's two shows in Madrid, Spain, mark the start of the final European leg of the Mathematics Tour. In July, Sheeran will play shows in his hometown of Ipswich, England, to promote Play.
The Mathematics Tour is Sheeran's longest to date. It started in 2022 and is in its fourth year on the road. It will conclude in September 2025 when he visits Germany again.
A total of 168 shows are planned for the tour's run over the last few years. That is still nearly 100 fewer shows than his last tour, the Divide Tour, which stretched from March 16, 2017, to August 26, 2019.
While on the Mathematics Tour, Sheeran has released two albums. Subtract and Autumn Variations both came out in 2023. Additionally, he has released a greatest hits album (The Mathematics Tour Collection) and his first live album, Tour Collection: Live.

Try Our AI Features

Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:

Learn with AIFact CheckingText to SpeechAI Summary

Related Articles

Los Angeles Times

9 hours ago

• Los Angeles Times

As war spreads, local Iranians finding comfort in L.A. Persian restaurants

Late last week, before the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear targets, Shaheen Samadi sat inside the minimalist dining room of Azizam restaurant in Silver Lake, sipping ceylon tea with cardamom, a drink that reminds him of the tea he grew up drinking. Born in Connecticut to parents who immigrated to the United States after the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Samadi moved to L.A. in hopes of connecting with its Persian diaspora community — the largest in the world outside Iran. Samadi, who describes himself as 'your friendly neighborhood Persian rapper,' has long criticized the Iranian regime in his music. All last week, he has felt terrified and angry as Israel and Iran traded deadly attacks. 'Right now, the entire Iranian diaspora community is in this weird phase of fight or flight and crippling anxiety,' said Samadi, sitting near the Azizam counter as servers walked back and forth with plates of barbari bread and khoresht. 'We like to see [the Iranian regime] getting killed. What we do not like is the casualties that come with it.' Azizam — which Times restaurant critic Bill Addison recently named one of the 101 best restaurants in California — began hosting complimentary tea and backgammon on its cozy Sunset Boulevard-facing patio in hopes of providing Iranians with a safe space to relax and come together. As Samadi explained, 'most people, their bodies are filled with blood — with us Persians, it's tea.' 'Whether you are full, half or a fraction, you are still Iranian,' read the restaurant's Instagram post Wednesday. 'Azizam was born to celebrate that and our doors are open to all.' Local Iranians all week have been finding solace in restaurants like Azizam and neighborhoods such as L.A.'s Tehrangeles, which are providing much-needed spaces to commune with their culture. While many of them fear for their families and friends in Iran, they also have hope that, as Iranian Americans, they can bridge a decades-long divide. Sal Mousavi, who visited Azizam for the first time Thursday, said that many of the menu items 'remind me of home' and that the event helped him 'focus on something else other than what's going on.' Like many Iranian Americans in L.A., Samadi doesn't condone the leadership of Iran, which his parents fled the country to escape. But he said that Persians in the United States still remain divided over the escalating conflict between Iran and Israel, and now the United States. 'I hate to say it, but it doesn't feel like a community,' Samadi said of the Persian diaspora in L.A. 'We're not united. We all have very strong opinions about things.' Since June 13, Israel has launched airstrikes on Iran that have killed at least 657 people. Iran immediately retaliated with airstrikes that have killed at least 24 people in Israel, including one that hit a hospital in southern Israel on Thursday. The United States entered the conflict Saturday with strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, authorized by President Trump. 'Many Iranians, especially those who are living here in L.A. and are living in diaspora, are deeply dissatisfied with the current regime,' said Peyman Malaz, chief operating officer of the PARS Equality Center in Sherman Oaks, a nonprofit that supports Persian immigrants. 'But of course, war is war … So what we are hearing from the community is feelings of fear and anxiety, and also uncertainty.' Adrian, who declined to give his last name, immigrated to L.A. from Tehran in 2011. He came to Azizam, which he described as a restaurant that serves the 'Persian dishes that only your mom makes at home,' for backgammon and an albaloo or sour cherry spritz. 'My mind is very preoccupied, I can barely sleep at night,' said Adrian, who has family living in Tehran. 'Just seeing the names of all the neighborhoods that I grew up in … all these places, they're being bombed. It's just so surreal. It feels like a dream — more like a nightmare.' Meanwhile in Tehrangeles — the Persian neighborhood in Westwood that became a hub in the '80s for immigrants fleeing the Iranian Revolution — shop owners report feelings of fear among their Persian customers. 'They are very worried right now,' said Ali Perkdas, the owner of Super Sun Market, a Persian grocery store that opened its doors more than 20 years ago. '[The Iranian government] cut the internet, so they cannot reach their family or friends.' Laila Massoudnia, who recently moved to L.A. from the Bay Area, said that she was struck by the welcoming, supportive communities she found. 'If anything, with all the events that have happened in the past week, I've seen so much of a united front here, regardless of whatever background we come with,' Massoudnia said. 'I didn't grow up in a community with a lot of Iranians in America, and so just to have that means the world. It doesn't make me feel alone. And I know a lot of Iranians, internally and externally, are feeling very, very isolated and alone.' Many Iranian Americans are hoping for a peaceful resolution abroad. Massoudnia emphasized that Iranians — a group of people she described as 'all about love' — have the same concerns as practically any other American, even in times of war. 'No one wants to be born in the pathway of missiles and bombs,' Massoudnia said. 'These are people with aspirations, with dreams, with hopes, who wake up every day, go to work every day ... want their kids to go to university and become educated … They have the same exact struggles as every single thought that's ever passed any American or any other person's mind.'

Newsweek

12 hours ago

• Newsweek

Ed Sheeran Describes Working on F1 Movie Song as a 'Match Made in Heaven'

Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Ed Sheeran has unveiled an official song of the upcoming F1 movie called 'Drive' on Instagram and shared that working on a project related to Formula One was "a match made in heaven." Set to release on June 25 (June 27 for North America), F1 promises fans to instantly connect with the sport, given the strong emphasis on authenticity while filming. The story is about a veteran driver, Sonny Hayes, played by Brad Pitt, who returns to an underdog F1 team to mentor a young driver, portrayed by Damson Idris. Co-produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Joseph Kosinski, famous for his work on Top Gun: Maverick, F1 promises high-speed drama while keeping F1 realism in check. Ed Sheeran poses for a photo outside the Oracle Red Bull Racing garage prior to Sprint Qualifying ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Miami at Miami International Autodrome on May 03, 2024 in Miami,... Ed Sheeran poses for a photo outside the Oracle Red Bull Racing garage prior to Sprint Qualifying ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Miami at Miami International Autodrome on May 03, 2024 in Miami, Florida. MoreWhile critics have weighed in on the F1 movie, very little has been spoken about the official song and the artists who composed it. Now, Ed Sheeran has opened up about his song 'Drive,' sharing how he enjoys making songs for movies and how his past association with F1 just made everything better. He wrote: "I got asked to do a song for the F1 movie. I knew that I wanted to make a proper rock song for it, a proper driving song. something you'd wanna turn up to the fullest amount whilst driving. I wrote it in the studio with Blake Slatkin and John Mayer, then we got Pino Palladino and Dave Grohl to be the final jigsaw pieces of the song. Pure dream team for the genre of rock, and I really feel what we created fits the scene in the movie so well. [sic] "I LOVE making songs for movies, ever since I did I See Fire for The Hobbit. It really lets me as a movie fan, behind the curtain, help create the perfect song for a scene in a movie. Movies and art are the only hobbies outside of music I really have, and I love my time at the F1 whenever I get to go play there. So this was like a match made in heaven. I'm so honoured to work with such great musicians on it, and hope you guys love the end result. drive out now" [sic] Ed Sheeran performed at the 2024 Miami Grand Prix last year and revealed that he was a big F1 fan. However, most of his knowledge about the sport came from Netflix's Drive to Survive docuseries, which he described as the "best crash course" for F1. He said: "I watched all of Drive to Survive and I guess that's like the best crash course that you can do in it is just watch that and most people that I know that love it now are into it through that. "I'm just about to do the hot lap with George Russell which will be fun. I met Verstappen last time who was lovely. I'm meeting Leclerc later and yeah, it's good." Watch the official Drive music video:

Yahoo

17 hours ago

• Yahoo

NEWS OF THE WEEK: Court rejects Ed Sheeran Thinking Out Loud copyright case

A minority owner of a Marvin Gaye song has tried tirelessly to sue Sheeran over the alleged similarities between Sheeran's hit and Let's Get It On, but the High Court has refused to accept the lawsuit. "No reasonable jury could find that the two songs, taken as a whole, are substantially similar in light of their dissimilar melodies and lyrics," the judge declared, as reported by USA Today. Back in November, the High Court found that Sheeran did not infringe on Gaye's copyright, citing that the songs share only the "fundamental musical building blocks".