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Best Part of Me

"Best Part of Me" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran featuring American singer Yebba. It was released on 5 July 2019 through Asylum and Atlantic Records, along with "Blow", as the fourth and fifth singles respectively from his compilation album No.6 Collaborations Project (2019).

"Best Part of Me"

5 July 2019 (2019-07-05)

4:03

Background and composition[edit]

About working with YEBBA, Ed Sheeran stated "I loved making [the] record. YEBBA is phenomenal, she's onto massive things".[2][3] "Best Part of Me" was announced as part of the tracklist for No.6 Collaborations Project (2019). Sheeran revealed the song's release date on 4 July 2019.[4] It was released alongside "BLOW" the next day.[5]


"Best Part of Me" is a romantic pop ballad.[6] According to Idolator's Mike Nied, the song is a romantic ballad which "builds up to a very loved-up chorus".[7] Spin's Rob Arcand wrote that it "slows things down", comparing it to Sheeran's solo acoustic rendition of the Justin Bieber collaboration "I Don't Care" (2019).[8]

 – vocals, songwriter, producer, bass, guitar

Ed Sheeran

 – featured vocals, songwriter

YEBBA

 – songwriter, producer, keyboards

Benny Blanco

Joe Rubel – producer, engineer, keyboards

Thomas Bartlett – keyboards

Pino Palladino – bass

Chris Sclafani – engineer

Gosha Usov – engineer

Archie Carter – assistant engineer

Robert Sellens – assistant engineer

Anthony Evans – editor

Stuart Hawkes – masterer

Mark "Spike" Stent – mixer

Matt Wolach – mixer

Michael Freeman – mixer

Credits adapted from Tidal.[9]

on YouTube

"Best Part of Me" (Live at Abbey Road)

on YouTube

Lyric video