Ed Sheeran f/ Taylor Swift - "The Joker and the Queen"

[Juan Carlos]

From his latest album =. A remix of the track will be out in January.

[Taylor.]

i wanted taylor to do more features... but not like this

[spiritboy]

I love their friendship and how they support each other.

[taylor]

Can't wait. Ed Sheeran is overhated for actually no reason around here, and his album is great. Can't wait to get TWO new songs from this pair in the next couple months.

[Choco]

I love the Twitter reactions about the huge smash incoming like "End Game" didn't underperform it's way into oblivion a few years ago when both were on far better standing with radio.

I've liked the collabs they've done so far. Excited to hear this.

[Joe1240]

It will the first time that Taylor will have featured on an Ed Sheeran song and it will be Taylor's most commercial feature in years[Babe,Gasoline,Renegade & Birch all didn't do much at all in recent years] Always looking forward to new Taylor Swift.

[taylor]

Oct 29, 2021 22:47:42 GMT -5 Joe1240 said:

It will the first time that Taylor will have featured on an Ed Sheeran song and it will be Taylor's most commercial feature in years[Babe,Gasoline,Renegade & Birch all didn't do much at all in recent years] Always looking forward to new Taylor Swift.

I don’t know if I would say the two in bold didn’t do much. Taylor’s name power alone on “Babe,” despite her presence being hardly more than that of a background vocalist, gave Sugarland an amazing comeback after having been away for seven years. “Babe” wound up peaking at #17 on the Country Airplay chart, which is honestly nothing to sneeze at; again, Sugarland had been away for seven years and their previous single hadn’t managed to even crack the Top 50 if I recall correctly. It also remains Taylor’s best showing yet on country radio following her transition to pop.

”Renegade” has also had some considerable HAC/AC airplay, or so I thought. It was played quite frequently on my local station during the summer, alongside “willow,” which was still dying down.

[Taylor.]

Seems to be coming imminently. She's been added to the lyric video credits on Youtube.

[g8erboi]

Hyperventilating

[Taylor.]

[Au$tin]

Man, I want to be excited for this, but my god the original is so dull and unless this remix really switches up the production, I don't imagine Taylor is going to make it any better.

[kimberly]

[Active Aggressive]

One of my faves. I am pumped! Anything is better than 2Step, though.

[Rhythm Nation]

Snippet is out on his insta, new lyrics for Taylor's part :)

[born]

This soundtrack ballad sound does not really work for her (as we’ve seen in “Beautiful Ghosts”) but who are we kidding, I’m still gonna stream.

[Taylor.]

Yeah, I was hoping the remix would switch up the production but this still sounds like a snooze from the snippet.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

It wasn’t a standout for me when listening to the album but I do remember thinking it was a nice change from his usual sappy love ballads. Tbh I haven’t listened to it since the album came out so I might just wait until Friday to hear the remix.

[christianlarson9]

Given "Shivers" and "Message In A Bottle" are done at Pop Radio, do we think this will get a formal radio push?

If it's pushed to Pop, I can only see a Top 15 peak and 10-15 weeks on the chart at best. It would be another easy hit at HAC/AC formats though IMO.

[Taylor.]

Music video (described as a 'big production') also dropping Friday. I'm assuming there will be a radio deal.

[jred]

So was “Overpass Graffiti” scrapped? I thought they planned to send that to Pop.

[NeRD]

With the charts being so weak a #1 debut on the Hot 100 isn't out of the question.

[spiritboy]

This won't be pushed to Pop from what i've read. Peru will be the Pop single while this will be AC/Hot AC single.

[Jose Polica]

[breathingrande]

Yeah this is good for a HAC snooze...
He has better songs for pop on his album

[Marooned@Midnight]

I think it’s silly not to push to pop immediately as well. Easy on Me was just a multi week number one. Yeah it was Adele but pop has a tolerance and desire for slower songs too.

[Enigma.]

Feb 9, 2022 19:37:32 GMT -5 NeRD said:

With the charts being so weak a #1 debut on the Hot 100 isn't out of the question.

If there was any interest towards the song... but there is not. The original was just performed at the BRITs and the boost was very small.

[Joe1240]

It should have a good debut week although, it will be all over the Spotify/Apple Music New Music Friday Playlists. There will be a lot of curiosity streams this week.

[Taylor.]

http://instagram.com/p/CZzBvwJMNf1

Might be a sequel to Everything has Changed with even the same kids grown up?

[Joe1240]

It is the same kids from Taylor and Ed’s video Everything Has Changed

[Jose Polica]