Ed Sheeran puts Eject in his will with wife selecting 10 tracks

Ed Sheeran said he has already written instructions into his will for a posthumous album titled Eject, revealing the plan during an interview with Zane Lowe ahead of the release of his new record Play on September 12. Sheeran said the album would be compiled from songs he wrote from age 18 until his death, and that his wife, Cherry Seaborn, will be empowered to select the 10 tracks to be released after he dies.

"It is actually in my will," he told Lowe. "My will of wishes is to make a record out of all the songs from the age of 18, so when I pass away choose the 10 best." He said he intends to talk to his wife throughout his life about which songs he likes so that the release is "planned" rather than the kind of posthumous album that is "sort of unplanned."

Sheeran framed Eject as the capstone to a planned sequence of records. Play, released this week, is the first in a series he said will include Pause, Fast Forward, Rewind and Stop, with Stop preceding Eject. He described Rewind as "sort of self-explanatory," suggested Pause might be a break-themed release, and said Fast Forward could be "anything f------ kooky and futuristic." He added that Stop should be made with the same...