Entertainment • 24 November 2025

Ed Sheeran admits his daughters prefer Moana soundtrack over his hit songs

Ed Sheeran's impressive music career has seen him win several Grammys, Brit Awards and number one hits but his daughters would rather listen to a Disney soundtrack than his music

Ed has spoken about his daughters (Image: Apple TV via Getty Images)

Ed Sheeran may be a multi award winning Grammy musician, his young daughters would rather listen to Disney's Moana soundtrack than his hit songs. The musician shares daughters, Lyra, five, and Jupiter, three, with his wife Cherry Seaborn and reveals he does test out new material on them, but they appear to be his harshest critics. Ed, 34, said: "They like certain songs. When I sing the Moana soundtrack it goes down well. Yesterday I sang them a new song and they were like 'can you sing Moana'."

Ed says his daughters prefer the Moana soundtrack

The star has enjoyed a long career producing some of the most loved music including number one hits Shape of You, Thinking Out Loud and Perfect.

His revelation comes as it was reported that Taylor Swift has fallen out with her 'second brother' Ed after releasing her new album close to Ed's own new project.

The duo have been friends since 2012, and appeared on stage together a number of times. The friendship is now said to be "strained" as Ed was none the wiser about Taylor's The Life Of A Showgirl album rollout.

Ed announced he was releasing his eighth studio album, Play, on 12 September, and months later, Taylor revealed she would be releasing her own album on 3 October, which was just weeks after Ed's.

An insider claimed: "Ed takes these things really seriously, and carefully plans his album releases. He announced his album with four months' notice, but then Taylor announced her's for just two weeks after.

'"It left his team scrabbling to get as much attention before her's dropped. He was very much put out and understandably peeved." Speaking to MailOnline, they claimed it "wasn't the first time Taylor pulled a similar move".

Taylor also revealed Ed found out about her engagement to NFL star Travis Kelce via her Instagram announcement despite them being good friends.

While promoting her album, The Life Of A Showgirl, Taylor took to The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to discuss her music and engagement.

Host Jimmy asked about which rumours about her were true and which were lies during a fun segment, with him asking: "Did Ed Sheeran learn about your engagement on Instagram?"

As Taylor admitted: "That's so true", the presenter fell to the floor in shock before the songstress tried to explain herself.

She went on to add: "I have a perfect explanation. He doesn't have a phone. He doesn't have a phone...You have to email him or FaceTime him, and he has to find an iPad, and they have to give it to him like he’s a child.

"This is one of my absolute favourite people on the planet. When the news came out, I was like, ‘We forgot to call Ed!" Ed backed this up while shooting down any claims of a rift, he said, "I have actually got rid of the iPad was well . I am not on anything anymore.

"My way of doing it is that me and Taylor are mates. And we saw one another we had a four hour catch up super close and we see each other when we see each other. And we lock back in to where we left off."