"Old Phone" | ||||
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Single by Ed Sheeran | ||||
from the album Play | ||||
B-side | "Rapture" | |||
Released | 1 May 2025 | |||
Length | 3:41 | |||
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Songwriter(s) | Ed Sheeran | |||
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"Old Phone" on YouTube |
"Old Phone" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. It was released on 1 May 2025 under his own label Gingerbread Man Records and distributed by Warner Records as the second single from his upcoming eighth studio album, Play. [1] The track was written by Sheeran and produced by Sheeran, Ilya Salmanzadeh and Blake Slatkin. [2] [3]
In April 2025, Sheeran launched a new Instagram account to celebrate his upcoming single "Old Phone". [4] The account features a number of never-before-seen pictures, texts and lyric notes, a look back through Sheeran's mobile phone that he retired in 2015. [5] [6] He was inspired to write the new song when revisiting his recovered old phone after winning the "Thinking Out Loud" copyright lawsuit. [2]
The Emil Nava-directed music video was released on 8 May 2025. [7] It features Sheeran's pop-up Ipswich pub gig as well as similar locations around the Cape Ann area such as Cape Ann Lanes as well as fans who submitted stories from their past. [8] [9]
Credits adapted from Tidal. [12]
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Region | Date | Format | Version | Label | Ref. |
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Various | 1 May 2025 | Original | [10] | ||
11 July 2025 | [11] |