Update 2: Well, so much for the collab being an in-game concert. It turns out that the performance is actually just a link to a YouTube video, which you can check out above!
Update: Niantic has now lifted the lid on Pokémon GO's Ed Sheeran collaboration, revealing that it'll include an in-game concert and more.
The performance will be available in Pokémon GO's 'News' section starting from Monday 22nd November at 11am PST. Ed will perform several songs from his new '=' album and more:
- “Perfect”
- “Bad Habits”
- “Overpass Graffiti”
- “Thinking Out Loud”
- “First Times”
- “Shivers”
Also, all Water-type Starter Pokémon currently in the game will appear between 22nd and 30th November (apparently Ed always chooses Water starters himself). Full details on the event can be found here.
Original Article (Tue 16th Nov, 2021 16:45 GMT): Today's Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl event is one thing, but it looks like Pokémon GO has something even bigger up its sleeve.
Chart-dominating singer-songwriter sensation Ed Sheeran has teased an upcoming collaboration with The Pokémon Company and Niantic's monster-catching mobile hit, sharing a new image on social media along with a #PokemonGOxEdSheeran hashtag.
No further details on the project have been revealed this far, but we imagine fans of both Sheeran and the game are pretty intrigued to see what's coming.
If you're wanting to feel even more hype, the official Pokémon UK Twitter account has given the tease the old googley eyes...
We'll keep an eye out for further developments on this and make sure to update you when the collaboration is properly revealed.
Until then, let us know what you think it will be in the comments. Will Ed appear in-game? Will there be a Pikachu in an Ed Sheeran face mask? Time will tell.
Comments 48
Post Malone was bad enough. This is somehow worse.
This is a joke, right? Surely, it has to be. . 😵💫
Coming soon... THE ED SHEERAN POKEMON! BADHABITSMON!
by his new album, = NOW!
Can we make xEdSheeran into the new "featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series and Knuckles"?
Even One OK Rock weren't safe from being Ed'ed.
Gotta Sing 'em All!
First he makes Game of Thrones a bit worse and now this. Can’t he just stop now.
As a commenter said on Twitter... "Shape of Mew"...
Do it Ed! xD
#1 Christmas Song for 2021
Hardly Union X & Y
Man, the 10 people who are big fans of both Ed Sheeran and Pokemon GO are gonna be so pumped for this.
I was going to leave a message saying how rubbish his music is, but the fact is if we all leave comments that go up to 1000s then there are still millions of his fans out there and they have won! Xxx I’m sure he’s a nice person but his generic bland of pop twaddle is not for me xxx who’s down for listening to the sound of music soundtrack? Xxx
As expected, Nintendo Life rips whatever pop artist show up on the headlines.
Christina Aguilera, Neil Patrick Harris, Ed Sheeran… Who's next?
Why should I care?
Ed Sheehan looks like an ugly baby. I have no idea why people like him.
@BlackenedHalo I just got off the phone with my boy Shigeru and he says you don't have to care.
Okay you can bring Brie Larson back.
Dear Team Rocket:
Please kidnap Ed Sheeran.
When you make Eevee your buddy, walk with them for 50km, give them 3 berries, then you can use the new 300 pokécoin item Ed-Stone to evolve it into a Sheereon.
I'll let your own imagination work out what it will actually end up looking like.
@Perryg92 Damn... Beat me to the pun...
I predict Adam Levine next
Also, why do people hate Ed? I'm outta the loop with celebrity drama
My response to this is the same as every other musician Pokemon collaborated with this year:
Never heard of 'em.
@Goat_FromBOTW let people enjoy who they want to enjoy. His music is really good, just because he is a ugly person doesn't mean his music is bad. 🤦♂️
The ed puns here are to shiver for. 😂
@broskiplays You can love Ed Sheehan if you want. I only said that I didn’t get it.
@Goat_FromBOTW no need to insult him though.
@Goat_FromBOTW his music is actually uglier, believe it or not
Wow! Ed should work on a new song — "My Bad Habits Lead to Pikachu"
Ed Sheeran is awesome, definitely a step up from Post Malone.
Never heard of Ed Sheeran before, but among the impressions I've been from the Pokémon Go community, they're indifferent to the event's theme and only care about the Squirtle with the sunglasses returning.
They also question why the Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl event is only five days, but this event is 7 days.
Another thing is that a lot of people who play this game will play it with the sound, or at least the music turned off, soooo, yeah.
Are they trying to do Fortnite like multiverse events now too or something? Seems like an odd combination though.
Wow, a lot of hate for Ed. I prefer to ignore his music alltogether))
Who is that guy ??
If it ain't metal I don't give a carp.
I can't believe THIS is how they bring back sunglasses Squirtle for the first time since his community day.....
Comment section is totally predictable and on brand 😂
But seriously, I like Ed Sheeran and his music. I don't particularly care for these celebrity tie-ins in general.
Ok, the return of sunglasses Squirtle, one of the first and arguably the rarest costume Pokemon, is a really cool deal! (I'm also bias, Squirtle/Blastoise is my favorite Pokemon).
Not really an Ed Sheeran fan, but I really liked that I See Fire song he did for the end of the second Hobbit movie.
@wiley990 Sounds like voyeurs anthem
I actually like his song shape of you... what? It’s catchy.
This reminds me of when the Simpsons started having odd celebrity guests like Simon Cowell or Katy Perry just for the sake of getting attention because they were clearly past their prime. It reeked of a studio that was out of touch with their fans and frankly out of touch with how to entertain.
@Goat_FromBOTW I agree that he looks like a baby. Like when an infant is just born, and they're all pink and crying. Exactly like that. Maybe that's why people like him though. Because they actually enjoy looking at newborn babies in some kind of demented way. I don't know, I'm just trying to figure this out!
So much Sheeran hate. Bet if it was someone like Adele people would be foaming at the mouths with anticipation.
@PC2 I would be interested in that, mainly because Adele is extremely talented, has an insanely good voice.
In all honesty, as a fellow musician and songwriter, Ed Sheeran does not impress me at all by a creative or technical standpoint. I'd also like to say I can recognize talent and have respect for musicians while not enjoying their music (like RHCP, Aerosmith, and John Mayer). However from my very first impression years ago to this day, Ed Sheeran has left me always feeling underwhelmed, unimpressed, and quite honestly just fake. I don't consider him that talented or creative, and I feel his music could be easily written by an algorithm.
Adele, now that is another story. While not loving every song she's written or recorded, I was impressed when I first heard 19, and I am still impressed to this day.
@SpaceboyScreams This reminds me of the Skinner meme of AM I OUT OF TOUCH????
But yeah, what the Pokemon Company is basically trying to do is to desperately get any B or C-lister singer to promote Pokemon. Guys who only their friends and mothers have ever heard of. Or... Celebrities who have nothing to do with Pokemon, like Post Malone or Katy Perry. Trying to be hip and cool for the kids.
The actual implementation of this event has been embarrassing.
The in-game "concert" is just a link in a news article to a webpage with a YouTube video embed, whilst the in-game music that plays on the overworld is interrupted any time you do anything like go to catch Pokémon or do any kind of battling.
Apparently the recent Pokémon Go Festival had this same issue, special overworld music that you can't enjoy because it always resumes from the start of the track. It's still best to play this game with the music turned off, and just listen to your own.
The guy hasn't released one good album. People aren't critical, nowadays.
I'm not really a fan of celebrity tie ins 2bh but Ed is genuinely talented so fair play to him
@PBandSmelly there isn't any drama. He seems to be a fairly nice person. It's just that both his music and persona strongly alienate a sizeable amount of the population.
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