Elton John and Ed Sheeran Announce New Christmas Song

'Tis the season for Christmas music and for new Christmas music too! Elton John and Ed Sheeran are here to bring us some. 

On Monday, the two released a festive "Love Actually" themed video announcing their holiday collaboration, "Merry Christmas" will drop on Friday. 

John shared the video on Twitter, writing, "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]."

Sheeran then quote tweeted it with a red heart. 

The video shows Sheeran knocking on John's door with note cards in his hand -- just like Andrew Lincoln's character did to confess his love for Keira Knightley's "Love Actually" character. This time though, the cards read, "Hello. Last Christmas I received a call from my mate Elton John and he told me we should do a 'Christmas Song.' And I replied 'Yeah. Maybe in 2022.' But I actually wrote the chorus that day and here we are. 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…."

Fittingly, the artwork for the track shows Sheeran placing a "rocket man" astronaut tree topper on his tree as John smiles and looks on, holding a giant candy cane. 

Source: Elton John