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. […]

Adele's '21' is the UK's best-selling album of the 21st Century, selling more than five million copies since being released in 2011. The record, which features the hits 'Rolling In The Deep' and 'Someone Like You', is more than a million copies ahead of the second biggest-seller, Amy Winehouse's 'Back To Black'. Adele also takes […]

The singer-songwriter's Divide tour will be officially the biggest, most attended and highest grossing of all time when he plays in Germany later. Ed Sheeran's tour began in March 2017 and will culminate at Chantry Park in Sheeran's local town Ipswich later this month. By the time the finale comes around he will have spent […]

Ed Sheeran’s star-studded 'No. 6 Collaborations Project' rules the Billboard 200 list for a second week, with 78,000 equivalent album units sold; in it's first week it sold 173,000 units. Beyoncé has a third Top 10 album this year - 'The Lion King: The Gift' debuted at No. 2 with 54,000 equivalent album units earned […]

Taylor Swift is the world’s highest-paid celebrity - according to Forbes, this year she had a pretax income of $185 million. It mostly comes from her Reputation Stadium Tour, that made $345 million overall. Other musicians in the upper echelons of the Celebrity 100 rankings are Kanye West (#3), Ed Sheeran (#5), and the Eagles […]

Ed Sheeran was the most-played artist on British radio last year, despite not releasing new music, and without an entry in the Top 10 most-played tracks, suggesting his entire catalogue of hits remains on rotation on the radio, BBC reports. It's the third time in four years that he's been the UK's most-played artist. 'Feel […]

Pop songs are the most popular choice at British funerals, and traditional hymns have been completely squeezed out. Frank Sinatra’s 'My Way' is No. 1 at the funeral chart, Ed Sheeran’s 'Supermarket Flower' is a new entry to the list, and Monty Python's 'Always Look at the Bright Side of Life' closes the Top 10 […]

Ed Sheeran has taken an aggressive stance against touts by cancelling more than 10,000 tickets for his upcoming stadium tour. After the tour went on sale, the star's team identified purchases by known touts and revoked their tickets.Any tickets listed for re-sale on sites like Viagogo were also cancelled. Fans who'd bought from those sites […]

Ed Sheeran and Kendrick Lamar were the biggest winners at the 2018 Billboard music awards, with six wins each - Sheeran got the awards in the top artist and top male artist categories, while Lamar won three rap award categories – rap artist, male rap artist and rap album. Janet Jackson made a notable speech, which alluded […]