Ed Sheeran moved 3,047,696 tickets in 52 shows of his The Mathematics Tour this year, putting him at No. 1 on the Top Ticket Sales chart, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. Coldplay sold the second-highest number of tickets this year - 2,260,651. However, the act with the highest-grossing tour is Bad Bunny, who made $373.5 million in the 12 months ending Oct. 31. Ed Sheeran grossed $246.3 million. For the first time ever, the top 10 touring acts, who also included Elton John, Harry Styles, the Weeknd, and the double bill of Def Leppard and Motley Crue, all grossed over $100 million.

Ed Sheeran scores his fourth No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart as his latest studio album '=' bows atop the with 118,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. Album sales of '=' comprise 68,000, making it the top-selling album of the week, SEA units comprise 46,500 - equaling 61.69 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs, and TEA units comprise 3,500, Billboard reports.

The last song written by just one songwriter to reach the No. 1 at the Billboard Hot 100 was Ed Sheeran’s 'Perfect' in December 2017. The last song written by a solitary female songwriter to reach No. 1 was Alicia Keys’ 'Fallin’' in August 2001. In the 1970s almost half the songs reaching No. 1 were written by just one person. Billboard wonders why and how has it come to this.A helping hand

Ed Sheeran's rare early demo CD recorded by the pop star when he was 13 has been sold for £50,000 at an auction, Sky News reports. Sheeran self-released the promo CD 'Spinning Man' in 2005, with only 21 CD copies of the recording are known to exist, and the majority, apart from the one sold, belongs to Sheeran. He said he didn't "want anyone else to get hold of a copy! Most of the songs were about a girl called Claire. She was my first love when I was 13".

Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape Of You’ is the most played song on Spotify with 2.3 billion streams, earning the singer just over £7 million. Drake's ‘One Dance’ is the second most streamed song with over 1.7 billion plays and £6 million in profits, and Post Malone’s ‘Rockstar’ came third with 1.7 billion streams and £5.8 million in royalties. Four of Sheeran's tracks make the top 100 most streamed on Spotify - collectively 'Shape of You', 'Thinking Out Loud', 'Perfect' and 'Photograph' have had 6.1 billion plays, and earned an estimated £21 million. On average, Spotify pays artists an estimated £0.0034p for every stream on the platform.

Six of ten top-grossing tours of 2019 were reunion tours or legacy acts, whose most prolific and successful musical output are years or even decades behind them. The top three earners were Ed Sheeran, Pink, and BTS, but then it travels back to the 20th century - Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Metallica, Paul McCartney, […]

"The 'Divide' era and tour changed my life in so many ways, but now it’s all over it’s time to go out and see more of the world" - British pop-singer announced, NME reports. 28-year-old Ed Sheeran added he's "been a bit non stop since 2017, so I’m just gonna take a breather to travel, […]

Ed Sheeran's albums spent 41 weeks in total at the top of UK album chart this decade, his singles spent 38, making a total of 79 weeks – more than any other artist, the Official Charts Company announced. No other artist meanwhile has spent more time in the Top 40 UK singles chart than Sheeran’s […]

Taylor Swift has topped Forbes‘ annual list of the world’s highest-paid musicians with $185m made in pre-tax earnings from June 2018 to June 2019. The bulk of Swift’s earnings came thanks to a new record deal, an array of endorsements and the tail end of her recent ‘Reputation’ stadium tour. Kanye West came in second […]

Tickets site TickX gathered Spotify data and curated a set of artists, songs and genres for the moods happy, sad, sexy, love, angry, and chill. The statistics for the list dubbed The Ultimate Playlist for Every Mood were drawn from a variety of playlists that featured those six moods as keywords. Top songs in each mood are. […]