THE RUNDOWN
Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran have been friends and collaborators for over a decade.
Sheeran has appeared on Swift's albums Red, reputation, and Red (Taylor's Version).
They've often performed onstage together, and their last performance was at Swift's Eras Tour in 2024.
Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran have been friends and collaborators for years. Since meeting in 2012, the pair have gone on to make songs and perform onstage together. They also make it a point to speak highly of each other publicly. Even today, their bond is still going strong. Ahead, an inside look at their friendship timeline.
2012
Swift and Sheeran's friendshipreportedlybegan in 2012 after he discovered that she had written his "Lego House" lyrics on her arm during a performance in Australia. "I heard his song 'Lego House' in Australia when I was on theSpeak Nowtour," Swift toldRolling Stonein 2017. "It just cut through everything else." According to the outlet, their managers introduced them.
That same year, the pair collaborated on "Everything Has Changed," which they wrote on Swift's trampoline. The track appeared on Swift's albumRed.She co-wrote the song with Sheeran, and he's also featured on it.
In December, they performed together for the first time at Z100's Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden.
2013
March 2013
Sheeran joined Swift on The Red Tour as her opening act. In an interview withRolling Stone, Sheeran described the experience as"the most amazing fucking tour in the world."
June 2013
They released the official music video for "Everything Has Changed," which starred younger versions of themselves.
2015
February 2015
When Swift won her first Brit award for best international female artist, she thanked Sheeran in her speech.
"Honestly, I know I wouldn't be up here if it wasn't for one of my best friends, who took me to pubs and taught me how to make a good cup of tea and taught me everything I know about the U.K.," she said. "I just want to say I love you, Ed Sheeran."
2016
February 2016
They both attended the Grammys that year, where Sheeran won Song of the Year for "Thinking Out Loud" and Swift won Album of the Year for1989.
2017
March 2017
About her friendship with Sheeran, Swift toldRolling Stone, "We've gotten matching Scottish folds, made each other arts and crafts Christmas presents, vacationed with our families, and had each other's backs."
She continued, "He is the James Taylor to my Carole King, and I can't imagine a time when he wouldn't be."
Sheeran added, "She would be there if everything ended for me. Taylor is kind of an anomaly in that sense." He also defended her against the haters. "She's omnipresent because she's the most famous woman in the world, so she can't make the decision to not be in the press. I always stick up for Taylor."
November 2017
On November 10, Swift released her albumreputation, which featured another collaboration with Sheeran, "End Game." Future also appeared on the track.
2021
November 2021
Swift released her re-recording ofRed, titledRed (Taylor's Version)on November 12. Sheeran re-recorded his vocals for their 2012 song, "Everything Has Changed."
2023
May 2023
In aninterviewwith Zane Lowe for Apple Music, Sheeran spoke about his friendship with Swift. "I have long, long, long conversations with Taylor about stuff," he said. "I feel like she's one of the only people that actually truly understands where I'm at. She's a solo artist, she [performs in] stadiums."
He also revealed that they spoke right before he sat down for the interview. "Everything that was on our minds, we talked about," he shared. "I mean that in itself is kind of therapy as well because you're actually talking to someone that genuinely gets it. That has all the things that you feel and have insecurities about and how other people treat you or how your family treats you, how your friends treat you, she's just basically in the same sphere."
2024
February 2024
They were photographed together at the Grammys. That night, Swift took home two awards: Album of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Album forMidnights. Sheeran was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album for- (Subtract).
August 2024
On August 15 and 16, Sheeran joined Swift during her Eras Tour stops at Wembley Stadium in London.
2025
October 2025
On October 6, Swift appeared onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonand explained why Sheeranrevealedthat he found out about herengagementto Travis Kelce on Instagram.
"He doesn't have a phone," she said. "This is one thing I love about him. It's very eccentric. Love it. But when I'm going through saying, 'Hey, who should we call? Who should we FaceTime?' I'm going through my texts and being like, 'Who have I texted within the last like, month of my life?'"
She added, "You have to email him or FaceTime him, and he has to find an iPad and they have to give it to him like he's a child. This is one of my absolute favorite people on the planet. When the news came out, I was like, 'We forgot to call Ed!'"
Sheeran confirmed this on Fallon's TikTok, writing, "Hello from my allotted iPad time, this is factual."
November 2025
Sheeran spoke withAccess Hollywoodabout catching up with Swift after her engagement to Kelce.
"I'm not self-conscious about my relationship with her," Sheeran said. "We've been friends for very, very many years. We're super close and we see each other when we see each other, and when we see each other, we lock back into where we left off."
He continued, "My way of viewing it is like, me and Taylor are mates and I will see her. And I saw her a week after that [the engagement] happened, so I did that interview and then I saw her and you talk in person."
He added that they "had like a four-hour catch-up and it's life stuff rather than, like, I don't know, you know what I mean? I kind of feel like being in touch with everyone, sort of you lose actual human connection."
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