Make sure to get your holiday playlists ready because Ed Sheeran and Elton John have released their holiday collaboration, Merry Christmas.

 

 

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“Just under a year ago, I called @edsheeran to see if he wanted to make a Christmas single with me and now it’s nearly here! ‘Merry Christmas’ will be out Fri 3 Dec with all proceeds from this year’s Christmas period going to the Ed Sheeran Suffolk Music Foundation & [the Elton John Aids Foundation],” Elton tweeted.  This marks Ed and Elton’s first collaboration.

 

 

In an interview with Jimmy Fallon earlier this month, Ed shared, “Elton rung me on Christmas Day to say Merry Christmas and he said, ‘”Step Into Christmas’ is No. 6 in the charts, and I’m 74, and I’m still having f—ing chart hits, this is great! I want to do another Christmas song, will you do it with me?'”

 

 

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Ed then told Jimmy he wasn’t sure how he felt about a holiday song at first, and eventually gave in, “I said to Elton, I was like, ‘I don’t really want to do a Christmas song unless we’re going in. Unless it’s like sleigh bells, ding-dong— yeah, it needs to be a proper Christmas song.’  I wrote a chorus, and then I went to go and stay with him, and we wrote three, and one of them was this one called ‘Merry Christmas.'”

 

 

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