--- title: Ed Sheeran New Music: "Shape of You", "Castle on the Hill" description: Ed Sheeran released two new singles at midnight Friday, ending a two-and-a-half-year new music drought for the British singer-songwriter. T canonical: https://time.com/4624762/ed-sheeran-new-album/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-06T05:20:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:34:48.121Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Ed Sheeran Is Back With 2 New Tracks og:description: Here's where you can listen to "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill" og:url: https://time.com/4624762/ed-sheeran-new-album/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a2f1dacd5752669/6988b48f524fc0485edfaa33/ed-sheeran-press-photo-1-credit_-greg-williams.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: ed-sheeran-press-photo-1-credit_-greg-williams og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ed Sheeran Is Back With 2 New Tracks twitter:description: Here's where you can listen to "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a2f1dacd5752669/6988b48f524fc0485edfaa33/ed-sheeran-press-photo-1-credit_-greg-williams.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Listen to Ed Sheeran's Two New Tracks _Shape of You_ and _Castle on the Hill_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 6, 2017 5:20 AM UTC  Greg Williams—Atlantic Records  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 6, 2017 5:20 AM UTC [Ed Sheeran](http://time.com/4446236/ed-sheeran-lawsuit-marvin-gaye-thinking-out-loud/) released two new singles at midnight Friday, ending a two-and-a-half-year new music drought for the [British singer-songwriter](http://time.com/4507478/ed-sheeran-donates-suit-grammys/). The two tracks, called “Shape of You” and “Castle on the Hill” were [teased by Sheeran](http://time.com/4620753/ed-sheeran-teases-music/) on Twitter earlier this week. Breaking a year-long social media silence, the 25-year-old artist took to the site to post two crpytic tweets, one gif featuring the words, “When I was six years old I broke my leg…,” on a blue background and another with a minus sign followed by a colon on the same background, sparking rumors that he would be releasing his highly-anticipated third studio album. > [](https://twitter.com/edsheeran/status/816313214774509572) > [](https://twitter.com/edsheeran/status/815950803789717504) Then on Friday Sheeran tweeted “Cause I’ve been away for a bit here’s two singles rather than one.” > [](https://twitter.com/edsheeran/status/817236159512383489) You can listen to “[Shape of You](https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shape-of-you-single/id1191554840)” and “[Castle on the Hill](https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/castle-on-the-hill-single/id1191555115)” on iTunes. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4624762/ed-sheeran-new-album/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4624762/ed-sheeran-new-album/"},"headline":"Listen to Ed Sheeran's Two New Tracks Shape of You and Castle on the Hill","datePublished":"2017-01-06T05:20:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:34:48.121Z","description":"Sheerios, rejoice!","url":"https://time.com/4624762/ed-sheeran-new-album/","keywords":["Music","ed sheeran"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a2f1dacd5752669/6988b48f524fc0485edfaa33/ed-sheeran-press-photo-1-credit_-greg-williams.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a2f1dacd5752669/6988b48f524fc0485edfaa33/ed-sheeran-press-photo-1-credit_-greg-williams.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ed-sheeran-press-photo-1-credit_-greg-williams","caption":"","creditText":"Greg Williams—Atlantic Records","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4624762/ed-sheeran-new-album/","name":"Listen to Ed Sheeran's Two New Tracks Shape of You and Castle on the Hill"}}]}] ```