Martin Garrix & Ed Sheeran Release ‘Repeat It’ After 12 Years

Martin Garrix and Ed Sheeran’s Repeat It finally gets its official release after first being previewed at Ultra Music Festival Miami in 2015 Martin Garrix and Ed Sheeran are finally releasing Repeat It on Friday, May 15, in honor of Martin’s 30th birthday, bringing one of EDM’s longest-running unreleased IDs into an official release after more than a decade. The track first began in 2014, before Martin Garrix previewed it at Ultra Music Festival Miami in 2015, where fans came to know it as Rewind Repeat It. For years, the collaboration stayed caught between its festival-history status and the label complications connected to the period before Martin Garrix became independent. Now, after fan uploads, release petitions, renewed 2026 teasers, and an official confirmation from Martin Garrix, Repeat It is finally leaving its unreleased-ID status behind as the collaboration prepares for its official release on Friday, May 15. View this post on Instagram A post shared by STMPD RCRDS (@stmpdrcrds) How Martin Garrix and Ed Sheeran’s Repeat It All Started in 2014 Martin Garrix and Ed Sheeran were first linked to Repeat It in 2014, long before the track became known through live rips, fan uploads, and years of release speculation. The earliest public mention came during Miami Music Week, when Martin Garrix spoke about working with Ed Sheeran while he was still in the Spinnin’ Records period of his career. At that stage, the song was not being presented as a finished single. Reports around the Miami press event said the track still needed more work and would also need approval from Ed Sheeran’s label, which now reads like the first public sign of the release complications that followed it for years. It also places the collaboration in a very specific 2014 context: Martin Garrix was still close to the global breakout of Animals, while Ed Sheeran was entering the x era, before dance collaborations had become a regular part of pop release cycles. The creative history behind Repeat It also points back to Los Angeles, where Martin Garrix later said he and Ed Sheeran met and began exchanging ideas. Ed Sheeran sent over a voice note with a melody, giving Martin Garrix a vocal idea to work around from the start. That detail matters because the track was not simply a festival instrumental with a pop vocal added later. It began through an exchange between a producer closely associated with big-room festival records and a songwriter whose work was centered on melody, phrasing, and direct lyric writing. Ed Sheeran later said he had finished his first EDM song with Martin Garrix, while Martin Garrix explained that people found the pairing strange at the time because their styles did not naturally align. That early contrast gave Repeat It a different place in both artists’ histories before fans heard it under its original ID name, Rewind Repeat It, at Ultra Music Festival Miami in 2015. Why Rewind Repeat It Got Stuck Between Label Timing and Old Contract Issues The reason Rewind Repeat It stayed unreleased was not simply that Martin Garrix and Ed Sheeran moved on from the song. The problem started much earlier, when the track still needed approval from Ed Sheeran’s label before it could come out. By 2017, Martin Garrix had explained that the collaboration had been planned as an official single, but the release became difficult because the labels could not agree on timing. Part of that issue came from Ed Sheeran’s own release schedule, with reports saying his side wanted to prioritize other Ed Sheeran songs first. For a track that was already being played in festival sets, that delay mattered because unreleased IDs rely heavily on timing. Once the original window passed, Rewind Repeat It was no longer just waiting for a date. It was caught between two artist calendars, two label systems, and a release plan that had already lost its first chance. The situation became even harder because the song belonged to an earlier part of Martin Garrix’s career. Rewind Repeat It was made while Martin Garrix was still tied to the Spinnin’ Records era, before he became independent and launched the next phase of his career through his own label structure. By 2018, Martin Garrix was openly saying that he did not think the song would ever be released, with the issue being linked to old rights and contract complications from that period. That is why the long wait around Repeat It became different from a normal unreleased ID story. Fans kept asking for it because they had already heard the song, but the release was stuck behind business details that could not be solved by demand alone. The track stayed alive through live recordings, fan uploads, and petitions, but its official release needed the rights, label timing, and artist-side approvals to finally line up. How Repeat It Finally Returned in 2026 The 2026 return of Repeat It did not begin with a standard single announcement. It started with Martin Garrix and Ed Sheeran being seen together again in Ne