Blur have announced that they will release 'The Magic Whip', their first album in 12 years, on April 27. The band – Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree – made the announcement at press conference hosted by outgoing BBC Radio 1 presenter Zane Lowe at Chinese restaurant The Golden Phoenix in London's West End, which is ongoing at present. The album's producer, Stephen Street, also attended. Blur recorded an album's worth of material in five days in Hong Kong in May 2013. However, in an interview published by NME in July 2014, Damon Albarn said that because he likes to work in shorter, more concentrated periods of time he feared that he would never return to the tracks the band made while in Asia. "There are about 15 songs we recorded in Hong Kong," he said at the time. "The annoying thing is, if I'd been able to write the lyrics there and then about being there, we'd have finished the record. But sometimes, if you can't do it all at once, it dissipates really and I don't know what I'd sing about now with that record. There's some great tunes on there, but it may just be one of those records that never comes out."

Sheeran's second album is titled X, read as 'multiply', and is scheduled for Worldwide release on 23 June 2014.

"Rolling In The Deep" will be the first single released from the album. It will be released on 16 January 2011.

"Set Fire to the Rain" is a song from soul singer Adele released from her second studio album 21. It was released mid-February as the second single from the album in the Netherlands where it reached number one. The song will also be released elsewhere in Europe as the third single from the album. In Germany, Set Fire to the Rain reached No. 20 in its 6th week charting making it the highest charting song not to be released as a single since Lena's Push Forward which reached No. 15 in March 2011.