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Save Myself

2017 song by Ed Sheeran

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ97275204 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Save Myself" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. It was included on the deluxe edition of his third studio album ÷ (2017) and is the sixteenth and the closing track. It was written by Amy Wadge, Ed Sheeran and Labrinth with Sheeran and Labrinth handling the production. After the album's release it charted at number 19 on the UK Singles Chart, despite not being an official single.

Critical reception

Celeb Mix writer Ellie Doe-Demosse stated: "And to end such a beautiful, banger of an album we end with Save Myself, which is another touching song.

Editorial summary

“Save Myself” enters the record as 2017 song by Ed Sheeran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Save, Myself and song can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Save, Myself and song.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Save Myself” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Save, Myself and song provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q97275204. The first chronological checks are 2017.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Save Myself”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Save Myself primary sources, Save Myself archive and Save research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Save Myself”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Save Myself” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.