:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/cmg/NBBAUY5JVUKEA4PIU75CIPLICA.jpg)
After Ed Sheeran teased it a while back, we now have a release date for his holiday collaboration with Elton John: a song called "Merry Christmas." The date is revealed in an adorable video inspired by everyone's favorite British Christmas movie, Love, Actually.
In the video, we see Elton answering his door to find Ed on his doorstep with a series of cue cards, which detail the story of how the collab came about.
"Hello. Last Christmas, I received a call from my mate, Elton John, and he told me, 'We should do a Christmas song,'" the cue cards read as Ed goes through them one by one. "And I replied, 'Yeah, maybe in 2022.' But I actually wrote the chorus that day, and here we are."
Ed continues to shuffle through the cue cards: "Our Christmas song, 'Merry Christmas,' is out this Friday. Go pre-order or pre-save it now. It has sleigh bells. A lot of them."
All the U.K. profits from "Merry Christmas" will be donated to Ed and Elton's respective favorite charities: the Ed Sheeran Suffolk Music Foundation and the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
Copyright © 2021, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/cmg/A3OZCKOSZ5ATTI6ZTVFTWWVTPA.jpg)
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/cmg/53VIGYPXGFGMBADJJWIZMZIZTI.png)
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/cmg/RQFA3VXOGREZVK4TCJR37DLAZQ.jpg)
Sign Up
