Ed Sheeran Leaves Warner Music After 15 Years

May 22, 2026 7:31am PT Ed Sheeran Leaves Warner Music After 15 Years

By Jem Aswad

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As rumored, Ed Sheeran has left Warner Music after 15 years and eight full-length albums, the singer confirmed via a statement published in Music Week.

With an estimated 200 albums sold since his 2011 debut “+” and one of the most-streamed songs in history with “Shape of You” (which has accumulated nearly 5 billion streams on Spotify alone), Sheeran is one of the world’s top recording artists and by most measures the biggest artist on the Warner roster. He was signed to the Warner subsidiary Asylum Records in the U.K., with his albums being released through Warner’s Atlantic label in the U.S. While his earlier albums are owned by Warner, the rights to his more recent releases are held by his own Gingerbread Man label and licensed to Warner.

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