Sydney radio station receives backlash after playing unreleased Ed Sheeran and Ariana Grande song

24 October 2019, 12:28 | Written by Cerys Kenneally

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(Ed Sheeran) (Ariana Grande)

A Sydney-based radio station is under fire after they played an unreleased Ed Sheeran and Ariana Grande collaboration titled "No Love For The Lonely".

Last night (23 October), Sydney's KIIS 1065 radio station posted on Twitter that Ed Sheeran and Ariana Grande had just dropped their new collaboration.

The radio station played the collaboration, but it turns out the new song is still unreleased.

SURPRISE!! @ArianaGrande and @edsheeran have just dropped a new track together #NoLoveForTheLonely Turn #KIIS1065 on NOW to hear it play #KeepKIISLoud pic.twitter.com/eNjCUfdRrZ
— KIIS 1065 (@KIIS1065) October 24, 2019

According to fans, the song had leaked on YouTube months earlier, but didn't appear on Ed Sheeran's No.6 Collaborations Project.

One Twitter user wrote, "someone getting fired cause it’s a unreleased song", while another stated, "So where is the official audio..... y’all know it was leaked a while ago... ima need the official track before I get excited."

A few other Twitter users have been posting screenshots of them listening to the song on streaming services, but it's still yet to appear on Spotify or Apple Music in the UK.

your all late to the party pic.twitter.com/lUgpv2j3TN
— (@blazed_gareth) October 24, 2019

It's unclear if the track will be released in full on all streaming services later today or tomorrow (25 October), but for now it's still unavailable.