Ed Sheeran is relocating to America for the foreseeable future, he has confirmed.

The English singer, 34, said in a podcast interview that he would be ‘settling’ in the States with his family while on tour. 

Ed, who owns a property portfolio worth a staggering £70million, recently snapped up a sprawling £9million home in New York. 

Yet he spends the majority of his time at his Sheeranville estate in Suffolk with wife Cherry Seaborn and their daughters, Lyra, five, and Jupiter, three.

Speaking on the 2 Johnnies podcast, he shared: ‘I’m just about to move to America. I feel like I might be the only person moving to America.

‘I’m going on tour there for a while and I have a family so I can’t dip in and out. We’re going and settling there.’

Ed said earlier this year: ‘When you transition to country, you can’t transition back.

‘Nashville is my favourite city in the States and it’s always been my end goal to move to Nashville and transition to country.’

Ed’s decision to move abroad comes just two months after he sparked backlash for claiming he identifies ‘culturally as Irish’ despite being born and raised in England.