ED SHEERAN is getting ready to take a break.

At the final show of his “Divide” tour Monday, the 28-year-old singer revealed that he planned to take a break from music for a while. According to The Sun, Sheeran told the crowd in Ipswich, England, that it would be his “last gig for probably 18 months.”

“As you may or may not know, I’ve been on the ‘Divide’ tour for over two years now and this is the last day of the whole thing,” he reportedly told the crowd of his tour, which kicked off in Italy back in March 2017. “There is something very bittersweet about it. I love that you guys are here and we are ending it in Ipswich.”

He went on to detail his massive tour, during which, he said, he played in front of 9 million people. According to Pollstar, his “Divide” tour was the highest-grossing tour of all time, reaching a staggering overall gross of US$775.6 million from 8.9 million tickets of 280 shows sold on six continents.

“We’ve played all around the world. Glastonbury, Wembley Stadium. All these amazing venues, America, New Zealand, Australia, Asia, South America — it’s been a wild one,” he said, according to the outlet. “I was told before I came on that now at the end of this tour I’ve played to 9 million people around the world. It is the biggest tour ever.”

“It’s been an emotional day for a lot of people backstage. It kind of feels like, in a weird way, that you’re breaking up with a girlfriend that you’ve been with for years,” he added. “It sounds odd but it has been a long tour.”

In a post to his Instagram Story on Wednesday, Sheeran assured his fans that his break from music would be temporary. “I’m not bloody retiring either; press are being over dramatic,” Sheeran, who confirmed in July that he and Cherry Seaborn had tied the knot, wrote. “I’m having 18 months off to make another album and hang out with my cats.”(SD-Agencies)