In a new cultural crossover that promises to leave an indelible mark on the global music scene, British music sensation Ed Sheeran has joined forces with Punjabi superstar Karan Aujla for a new single.
The collaboration that brings together Sheeran’s mainstream pop sensibilities and Aujla’s Punjabi prowess, will delight fans with a music video shot in New York. The track is set to release in October.
Sheeran revealed the news during a recent interview. “The first time I sang in Punjabi was doing ‘Lover.’ Diljit was teaching, and then obviously doing it with Arijit. And I’ve just done a tune with Karan Aujla as well, where we’ve done like a little bit of that,” he said casually, hinting at the scale of the track.
Speaking about the upcoming video, Sheeran added, “We shot the video in New York last week. It’s really good. It’ll come out, I reckon, sometime in October.”
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Reflecting on his love for Punjabi, the singer said, “What I found learning the bits that I’ve sung in Punjabi is a kind of melodic language, and even without melody, how poetic it is. The things that you say in English—when we translate it, sometimes it just doesn’t feel the same. So, when you sing it in Punjabi or Hindi, whatever it might be, it always sounds way more beautiful.”
This isn’t Sheeran’s first rodeo with Punjabi. He performed an unplugged rendition of “Lover” during Diljit Dosanjh’s Dil-Luminati tour and later collaborated with Arijit Singh on the chart-topping track “Sapphire,” which ranked at #8 on Billboard Global 200 as of June 2025.
With Aujla, however, Sheeran took things a step further, working on his pronunciation under the rapper’s guidance. “Like with Karan, sitting with him and him being like, ‘No, you say it like this, no, you say it like this.’ And I said, be really, really brutal with me. And so, we sat together and he was brutally honest and we made it work. I’m just really excited now,” he shared.
For Aujla, fresh off the success of his album P-Pop Culture, which debuted at No. 3 on Billboard Canada’s charts, the collaboration represents another milestone moment—one that underscores Punjabi pop’s growing global reach.
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