Ed Sheeran seemingly reveals title of new album

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Ed Sheeran has seemingly revealed the title of his upcoming new album in a comment on social media.The ‘Shape Of You’ star recently replied to an Instagram post by Memezar, which shared a screenshot about him changing his profile photo – a possible hint that Sheeran’s next era could be about to begin (via Pubity).“Ed Sheeran recently changed his profile picture guys!

What math is he gonna do next?” a fan wrote. This referred to the singer-songwriter using mathematical symbols as the names of his first five studio records: ‘+’, ‘x’, ‘÷’, ‘=’ and ‘-‘.In response, Sheeran wrote: “Irony is if you ask me anything maths related I would fail the question, I never finished high school.” He then signed off by appearing to reveal the title of his next LP. “Play coming soon though,” he added.

See below.A post shared by MEMEZAR • MEMES & MEME-CULTURE (@memezar)A post shared by Pubity (@pubity)Sheeran had previously teased the title in late 2023, when he wrote in a post online: “See you sometime next year when we press Play again on pop, and have a good holiday season x.”His latest album ‘Autumn Variations’ arrived earlier that year, quickly following on from his previous LP ‘-‘ (‘Subtract’).

The latter was said to be the final entry into Sheeran’s long-running mathematical-themed series, until later in his career at least.“I’m going to make 10 symbol records,” he explained in 2022. “But the next five won’t be maths.”That same year, Sheeran embarked on his mammoth ‘+–=÷× Tour’ (pronounced the ‘Mathematics Tour’).