Ed Sheeran named UK’s most played artist of the year for seventh time
Seven out of top 10 most played acts, encompassing radio, broadcast and public places, are British
May 2024
Ticket touts who ‘fleeced’ Ed Sheeran and Lady Gaga fans jailed
Firm run by the ‘Ticket Queen’ sold tickets worth more than £6.5m on sites including Viagogo and StubHub
April 2024
The Ed Sheeran decade: how the everyman megastar remade music in his own image
‘This is an art form – and we’re losing it’: is the music video dying?
March 2024
Brit awards 2024 – full list of winners
The winners of every category at the 2024 Brits, updated as the ceremony progresses
February 2024
Lunch with...
James Blunt: ‘Have I changed and grown up? No, not really’
Over lunch as he turns 50, the singer tells a host of wild celebrity tales, involving Ed Sheeran and Bear Grylls, and admits that, just sometimes, the criticism can sting
January 2024
How we made
‘Ed Sheeran asked us for work experience then drank all our beer’: Nizlopi on making JCB Song
‘We’d get big, rugby-playing men coming up to us in tears and saying “I miss my dad” – or “I love my dad and I’ve never told him”’
December 2023
It's giving 2023
Tough mouths, tears and ‘accordion hands’: a courtroom sketch artist’s banner year
Tatty, naff and cheesy: why can’t Britain have a decent Christmas No 1?
Barbara Ellen
November 2023
Ed Sheeran review – Autumn Variations’ weak national elegies laid bare in singer’s first Albert Hall show
In Britain’s most prestigious venue Sheeran’s broadstroke vision is vague and deliriously unspecific, with the night saved only by a generous late helping of the hits
October 2023
Ed Sheeran objects to Royal Albert Hall’s plans to sell more seats to investors
Sumotherhood review – Adam Deacon’s gang culture parody falls flat
September 2023
Ed Sheeran: Autumn Variations review – as flat and dull as a grey sky
Plodding, genre-hopping songs all end up as unimaginative ballads, their dreary lyrics littered with gibberish – though Sheeran’s hooks remain strong on his second album this year
August 2023
Up next is … JLo? When pop stars crash karaoke
Donald Trump on Fresh Prince? Richard Branson on Friends? The worst celebrity TV cameos ever
June 2023
Ed Sheeran named UK’s most played artist of the year – again
Money, Money, Money: the singers lifting economies with their vocals
May 2023
‘It’s not a pop-the-champagne moment any more’: is the UK album chart broken?
Artists are hitting No 1, then dropping out of the Top 100 the following week. Industry figures ponder whether the chart is still a barometer of taste – or just a marketing ploy
Ed Sheeran beats second lawsuit over Thinking Out Loud and Let’s Get It On
Sheeran prevails two weeks after winning copyright case that also alleged similarities with Marvin Gaye’s 1973 hit
‘Ed Sheeran can’t go to Tesco, but I can’: the writing partners keeping music stars grounded
The Ivor awards in London this week will celebrate the collaborators who have dodged the stresses of celebrity
