Ed Sheeran is gearing up to release a "big pop" album in 2025

This is not a drill: Ed Sheeran is readying a "big pop" album for 2025.

He may have released not one but two studio albums last year, but 2024 has passed us by with just one single release from the busiest man in pop. 

But don't worry - it looks like there will be a lot to come from Ed next year.

In a new interview with Variety, Ed confirmed that he has finished his next album and already filmed two music videos for its rollout. He'll shoot another two videos in the new year, just in case that wasn't enough for you.

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Ed also teased a major pop promo campaign for the album in contrast to his last LP, 2023's folk-leaning Autumn Variations, which "was obviously a completely different record that didn’t really call for big pop stuff". Ed added: "It feels like I’m getting back into big pop for the first time in a long time. It's quite exciting."

Despite its lack of commercial flash, Autumn Variations still debuted at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart, becoming his seventh chart-topping LP in the UK. However, compared to previous eras, just one entered the UK Top 40.

2023 also saw Ed release the concluding album in his Mathematics series, Subtract also hit Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart, with its lead single, the Max Martin-produced Eyes Closed, becoming Ed's landmark 14th Number 1 single - which puts him equal third (with Westlife and Cliff Richard) on the all-time list, behind only Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

It's safe to say that Ed knows a thing or two about the "big pop stuff". Last year we revealed that he has the biggest Number 1 single and album of the entire streaming era with his 2017 album Divide and its tropical-flavoured lead single Shape of You.

In the meantime, Ed is entering this year's Christmas Number 1 race with Under the Tree, a festive original that he's written for Richard Curtis's animated Netflix film That Christmas. Discussing his collaboration with the writer-director, Ed said in August:  "He came to me two years ago to play me the rough of That Christmas. It was just sketches and voices, but it blew me away. So emotional, yet so heartwarmingly funny, like all Richard Curtis movies.

"The scene that we wrote this song for is so heartbreaking," he continued, "but so real for many people at Christmas spending it without the ones they love, for so many reasons."

Another of Ed's festive songs, the 2021 chart-topper Merry Christmas with Elton John, is also in the running having re-entered the Top 10 of the Official Singles Chart.