Ed Sheeran is no longer signed to Warner Music.
The 35-year-old singer-songwriter made the announcement in his newsletter, explaining his decision after spending 15 years and releasing eight full-length albums with Asylum Records, an affiliate label of the Warner Music Group.
In the message, Sheeran starts, “A little update from me, I left my record label a month ago…"
He details how he was first discovered and signed at the age of 18 by Ed Howard and Ben Cook from Asylum, noting, “I love those guys so much.”
“Over the last 15 years, I’ve put out so much music, and had so much success with that company,” he continues. “We’ve built something amazing together, and enjoyed such life changing stuff happening to us. My life is hugely different now to what it was when I was a teenager, and I’ve been feeling in my gut for a long time that a lot of things in my professional life need to change.”
“I am, underneath it all, a singer songwriter who plays pub gigs. And I’ve sorta morphed into this pop star who plays stadiums over 15 years, it’s a super amazing thing to have happened but also a lot to get your head around,” he adds.
Sheeran says he has “SO much love and gratitude for everything we have achieved together,” and that him leaving is not “a ‘disgruntled artist leaves record label’ type situation.”
He notes that he is now a father of two, who “needs a shift and change in the way he does things professionally.”
“Thank you everyone across Warner worldwide who has worked on my projects over the last 15 years, it’s been an incredible journey,” he concludes. “Excited to see where the next 15 years takes me.”
Ed Sheeran’s last release for Warner was the deluxe edition of 2025’s Play. Last week, he put out his first track off the label, a collaboration with Martin Garrix called “Repeat It.”