Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift
Anna Webber/Getty Images for Atlantic RecordsTaylor Swift and Ed Sheeran have been friends only as long as they were collaborators.
The musicians’ friendship began in 2012, the same year Swift’s first duet, “Everything Has Changed,” debuted. red album. He then appeared in the June 2013 music video for the song alongside a child actor portraying a younger version of himself.
Fast forward 10 years, Swift was featured on Sheeran’s February 2022 song “The Joker And the Queen.” This song is a full-circle moment for a celebrity friend, as Ava Ames and Jack Lewis – the “Everything Has Changed” child actor – again portrayed Sheeran and Swift’s version in the music video.
“He’ll be there when it’s all over for me,” Sheeran said Rolling Stone in March 2017. “Taylor’s kind of an anomaly in that sense. She’s everywhere because she’s the most famous woman in the world, so she can’t make a decision not to be in the press. I’m always standing up for Taylor.”
Scroll below to see the best moments from Swift and Sheeran’s friendship:
October 2012
Two months after the release of “Everything Has Changed,” Swift and Sheeran performed the track for the first time at the 2012 Jingle Ball in December.
March 2013
Sheeran was Swift’s opening act for her North American tour red tourism. In the same month the two hit the road, Sheeran died of romantic speculation between him and the singer “All Too Well”.
He told New Zealand’s TVNZ that he had been staying in a hotel room with Swift, she was just showing him new music. “I stayed there until four and I left in the same clothes, but I played my new record. It was like that,” he said. “Literally, I got in there and we passed the guitar back and forth and played one song at a time.”
Sheeran continued to joke: “The thing that amazes me with the media is that because they write about it, my friends believe it. And my friends text me like, ‘Is it true?’ So I said no, but the fact is people can believe that I feel like a stud, you know?
August 2013
Swift poked fun at her infamous 2009 VMAs moment with Kanye West in the message she wrote in a jar of jam that she gifted Sheeran for his birthday. “Yo Ed – I really 4 you and I’ll let you finish but this is the best HOUR NOW,” read the jar.
June 2014
After much speculation of Sheeran’s song “Don’t” about possible romantic betrayal from Swift, he clarified in an interview with Parade Magazine that the song is “about a famous person, but not Taylor.” The article noted that the song was also rumored Ellie Goulding.
December 2014
Swift and Sheeran were among the many celebrity performers at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2014. Although they performed their respective tracks “Blank Space” and “Thinking Out Loud” separately, they stood together during the show.
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February 2016
Swift jumped out of her chair to congratulate Sheeran after beating him for Song of the Year at the 2016 Grammys. The next day, she wrote a sweet birthday wish for her friend via Instagram.
“I don’t think he knows how much he inspires me with his passion and passion for creating new art,” Swift wrote. “But today is your 25th birthday, so I’m telling you now. You deserve everything you’ve got, and everything you’ll ever get, Ed.
July 2016
Neighbors from Rhode Island place Swift captured the audio of the BFFs duet Britney Spears‘ “… Baby One More Time” at a 2016 Fourth of July party.
January 2017
“Taylor was never the popular kid in school. I was never the popular kid in school,” Sheeran said British GQ from the success of Swift’s advertising career. “Then you get to the point where you’re the most popular kid in school – and we’re both a bit distant.”
She continued: “They want to be the biggest female artist in the world and I want to be the biggest male artist in the world. It also comes from always being told you can’t do something and being like, ‘F–k you. I can.’ ‘”
April 2017
Swift paid tribute to Sheeran in an essay for that year Time Magazine“100 Most Influential People” Edition.
“A few years ago, in a rare moment of admitting his feelings of defeat, Ed told me, ‘I’m never going to win a Grammy.’ ‘Yes, you,’ I said. ‘You’re going to sweep it all this year,'” he wrote. “It was a few weeks later when he met me in a dance-shoe shop in London, where I took out my training clothes, and said, ‘You must hear this.’ This is the finished song called ‘Thinking Out Loud,’ which went on to win Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards in 2016.
Swift asserted that Sheeran was “protected by an impenetrable and persistent armor of passion that helped him endure setbacks, disappointments or slights.”
November 2017
The pair collaborated again on Swift’s sixth studio album, Self-esteemon the track “Endgame,” which is also featured season. As they did with “Everything Has Changed” the friends performed “Endgame” for the first time at the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball that year.
Sheeran and Future appeared alongside Swift in the song’s music video, which was released in January 2018.
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September 2018
Swift and Sheeran celebrate being nominated in the same category for that year’s American Music Awards in a cute Instagram video.
“Taylor, the AMA nominations are out. It’s me, you and Drake” Sheeran told Swift. Each responded by telling her, “You’re going to win,” before admitting that they thought “Drake was going to win.”
Filmed while walking together, Swift jokingly asked Sheeran, “That’s called exercise. Have you done cardio? Guitar strumming doesn’t count.”
July 2019
After the Swift master was bought by Braun scooterfans criticized Sheeran for not speaking out in Swift’s defense. She finally broke her silence via Instagram after a fan came to her defense in the comments section of her post.
“Just because he didn’t post anything doesn’t mean he doesn’t support him, maybe he’s talking to him now, who knows,” wrote the user, to which Sheeran replied, “I’ve talked to him directly, like I did.”
November 2021
A new version of “Everything Has Changed” was featured on Swift’s re-recorded version red. Sheeran is also featured on one of the album’s vault tracks titled “Run.”
February 2022
“Joker and Queen” debut.
August 2023
Following the announcement of 1989 (Taylor Version)Sheeran addressed fan speculation about whether he and Swift had re-recorded “Endgame” for Reputation (Taylor Version).
“No, I haven’t. Not. No,” he said Andy CohenSirius XM podcast “Deep & Shallow”, confirm that it will.
August 2024
Sheeran joined Swift on stage for the fourth time Tour of Eras concert at Wembley Stadium in London. During a surprise song set, he performed a duet mashup of “Everything Has Changed” and “End Game” plus Sheeran’s hit “Thinking Out Loud.”
