Martin Garrix Premiered His Collab With Ed Sheeran at Ultra Music Festival
The exclusive tracks and premieres from Ultra Music Festival continue to roll in from the weekend, and this one might be the biggest surprise of them all.
Before Martin Garrix took the stage in front of millions of people on Saturday night at Ultra Music Festival, Garrix revealed in an interview that 65% of his set would be new music. That’s an insane number for a mainstage set at one of the biggest festivals in the world — most headliners play it safe with crowd-pleasers and the occasional ID sprinkled in, but Garrix basically turned his entire Ultra slot into a live unveiling of everything he’d been sitting on in the studio.
After distinguishing his track with John Legend and Avicii titled “Waiting For Love” and his new track with Usher titled “Don’t Look Down,” fans noticed that he also decided to play his new track with Ed Sheeran titled “Rewind Repeat It.”
Yeah, you read that right — Martin Garrix and Ed Sheeran. Two artists from completely different corners of the music industry, one an 18-year-old Dutch mainstage prodigy and the other a British singer-songwriter mostly known for acoustic guitar ballads, and somehow the collab actually works based on what dropped at Ultra. The track has the guitar and recognizable voice of Ed Sheeran as you can tell from the preview below, layered underneath the kind of massive festival buildup Garrix has become known for.
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For what it’s worth, this collab went on to become one of the most legendary “unreleased” IDs in dance music history. Bootlegs and live rips of “Rewind Repeat It” circulated online for years after this Ultra premiere, with fans constantly begging the two artists’ labels for an official release and speculating about whether the whole thing was stuck in contract limbo. It finally got one, retitled simply “Repeat It,” dropping officially on May 15, 2026, on Garrix’s 30th birthday, more than a decade after this exact moment at Ultra. Worth the wait? We’ll let you be the judge.
Watch Martin Garrix’s full set from Ultra Music Festival here.
