Old Phone

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"Old Phone"
File:Ed Sheeran - Old Phone.png
Single by Ed Sheeran
from the album Play
B-side"Rapture"
Released1 May 2025 (2025-05-01)
Length3:41
Label
SongwriterEd Sheeran
Producers
Ed Sheeran singles chronology
"Azizam"
(2025) 		"Old Phone"
(2025) 		"Sapphire"
(2025)
Music video
"Old Phone" on YouTube

"Old Phone" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. It was released on 1 May 2025 by Gingerbread Man and Atlantic Records, as the second single from his eighth studio album, Play.[1] The track was written by Sheeran and produced by Sheeran, Ilya Salmanzadeh and Blake Slatkin.[2][3] The limited edition 7-inch single includes exclusive bonus track "Rapture". Sheeran performed "Old Phone" during the 2025 European leg of his +−=÷× Tour. The song peaked at numbers 17 in the United Kingdom and 38 in Ireland.

Background

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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]

Music video

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The Emil Nava-directed music video was released on 8 May 2025.[7] It features Sheeran's pop-up Ipswich, Massachusetts pub gig (filmed on 28 March 2025), as well as similar locations around the Cape Ann area, and also fans who submitted stories from their past.[8][9]

Track listing

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  • Digital and streaming single[10]
  1. "Old Phone" – 3:41
  1. "Old Phone" – 3:41
  2. "Rapture" – 3:21 (non-album track; written and produced by Sheeran, Blake Slatkin and Omer Fedi)

Credits and personnel

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Credits adapted from Tidal.[12]

  • Ed Sheeran – songwriting, production, lead vocals, guitar
  • Ilya Salmanzadeh – production, keyboards, backing vocals, programming, engineering
  • Blake Slatkin – production, keyboards, backing vocals, programming, engineering
  • Beoga – banjo, piano, strings
  • Pino Palladino – bass
  • Davide Rossi – cello, viola, violin, strings arranger
  • Gautam Sharma – dhol, percussion, tambourine
  • Lemar Carter – drums
  • Ganesh Murali – ghatam, tambourine
  • Jayesh Kathak – güiro, khartal, shaker, tambourine
  • Dylan Day – guitar
  • Tapas Ray – mandolin
  • Elvira Anderfjärd – backing vocals
  • Graham Archer – engineering
  • Jeremy Lertola – engineering
  • Michael Harris – engineering
  • Mark "Spike" Stent  – mixing
  • Bryce Bordone – assistant mixing engineer
  • Matt Wolach – assistant mixing engineer
  • Stuart Hawkes – mastering

Charts

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Release history

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Release history for "Old Phone"
Region Date Format Version Label Ref.
Various 1 May 2025
Original
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11 July 2025
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