About Shivers

"Shivers" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, released through Asylum Records UK on 10 September 2021 as the second single from his upcoming fifth studio album, = (2021). "Shivers" entered at the top of the charts in both the United Kingdom and Ireland, dethroning Sheeran's previous single "Bad Habits" after eleven consecutive weeks at the summit in both countries.

Sheeran referred to the song while explaining why the album title was = instead of – like fans predicted, in which he said: "I was making the record and I wrote a song called 'Shivers' and I was like, 'This doesn't really feel like [Minus]". Sheeran wrote "Shivers" at the end of the Divide tour, when he set up a studio for at a rented farm in Suffolk where he had his last date of the tour. It took him 3 days to write the song, which was unusually long for him, as he felt the song "was too special to get wrong".