Ed Sheeran: England’s Biggest Ginger

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Ed Sheeran: England’s Biggest Ginger Mar 9, 2017 19:15:57 GMT

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Ed Sheeran announced a 48-date North American tour on Wednesday, in support of his new LP Divide (styled as ÷).

The Shape of You singer took to Twitter before his performance on The Today Show to announce the news.

Ed will be coming back to North America to play 48 dates starting this Summer. Tickets on general sale Friday 17th March.

A limited number of tickets will be available via a fan presale that starts 10am local time on 13th March.

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
June 29 || Kansas City, MO || Sprint Center
June 30 || Des Moines, IA || Wells Fargo Arena
July 1 || St. Paul, MN || Xcel Energy Center
July 7 || Toronto, ON || Air Canada Centre
July 9 || Buffalo, NY || KeyBank Center
July 11 || Philadelphia, PA || Wells Fargo Center
July 14 || Uncasville, CT || Mohegan Sun Arena
July 15 || Uncasville, CT || Mohegan Sun Arena
July 18 || Quebec City, QC || Videotron Centre
July 19 || Montreal, QC || Bell Centre
July 22 || Winnipeg, MB || MTS Centre
July 23 || Saskatoon, SK || SaskTel Centre
July 25 || Edmonton, AB || Rogers Place
July 28 || Vancouver, BC || Rogers Arena
July 29 || Tacoma, WA || Tacoma Dome
July 30 || Portland, OR || Mode Center
August 1 || Sacramento, CA || Golden 1 Center
August 2 || Oakland, CA || Oracle Arena
August 4 || Las Vegas, NV || T-Mobile Arena
August 5 || Glendale, AZ || Gila River Arena
August 6 || San Diego, CA || Valley View Casino Center
August 10 || Los Angeles, CA || Staples Center
August 15 || Denver, CO || Pepsi Center
August 17 || Tulsa, OK || BOK Center
August 18 || Dallas, TX || American Airlines Center
August 19 || Houston, TX || Toyota Center
August 22 || San Antonio, TX || AT&T Center
August 25 || Duluth, GA || Infinite Energy Center
August 29 || Tampa, FL || Amalie Arena
August 30 || Miami, FL || American Airlines Arena
August 31 || Orlando, FL || Amway Center
September 2 || Raleigh, NC || PNC Arena
September 3 || Charlotte, NC || Spectrum Center
September 5 || Charleston, SC || North Charleston Center
September 7 || Louisville, KY || KFC YUM! Center
September 8 || Indianapolis, IN || Bankers Life Fieldhouse
September 9 || Cleveland, OH || Quicken Loans Arena
September 12 || Omaha, NE || CenturyLink Center
September 15 || Chicago, IL || Allstate Arena
September 17 || St. Louis, MO || Scottrade Center
September 19 || Washington, DC || Verizon Center
September 22 || Boston, MA || TD Garden
September 26 || Pittsburgh, PA || PPG Paints Arena
September 27 || Detroit, MI || Little Caesars Arena
September 29 || Brooklyn, NY || Barclays Center
September 30 || Brooklyn, NY || Barclays Center
October 3 || Columbus, OH || Nationwide Arena
October 6 || Nashville, TN || Bridgestone Arena

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Ed Sheeran: England’s Biggest Ginger Mar 15, 2017 19:20:57 GMT

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Ed Sheeran’s record-breaking success has prompted calls for a “drastic rethink” of the UK singles chart as his bestselling album hit No 1 across the world.

The singer-songwriter’s third album, ÷ (Divide), is the No 1 album in charts in the UK, US, Australia and around Europe after becoming the fastest-selling album by a UK male artist.

But while in the UK all 16 of Divide’s songs dominated the Top 20 singles chart, fuelled by the burgeoning popularity of streaming services like Spotify, there were concerns that the dominance of the singles chart by one artist was destroying its credibility.

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Ed Sheeran: England’s Biggest Ginger Mar 24, 2017 19:16:00 GMT

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In addition to racking up the accolades and revenue, Ed Sheeran’s hits have a tendency to bring other songwriters out of the woodwork to point out similarities between his tracks and theirs. The redheaded moppet’s previously contended with copyright infringement lawsuits over 2014’s “Photograph” and “Thinking Out Loud.” Now, rather than make his lawyer continue to work for their retainer, Sheeran’s just gone ahead and given a songwriting credit on “Shape Of You” to the writers of “No Scrubs.”

The similarities between the tracks are clear from the opening of “Shape Of You,” which will sound awfully familiar to fans of TLC’s FanMail, which spawned the “No Scrubs” single. But their sonic resemblance was presumably lost on Sheeran’s team during the recording process, though now that the song is No. 1 on the Billboard chart, they’ve gone ahead and listed former Xscape members Kandi Burruss and Tameka Cottle, as well as producer Kevin Briggs, on the track. Burruss, Cottle, and Briggs wrote “No Scrubs” in the late ’90s, which was released as a single in 1999. In addition to splitting up the royalties, the decision to give Burruss & Co. credit should also fend off most accusations of scrub- or buster-like behavior against Sheeran.

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Ed Sheeran: England’s Biggest Ginger Jun 30, 2017 18:58:11 GMT

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Pop star Ed Sheeran has headlined Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage, just six years after his debut at one of the festival's smallest venues.

In 2011, the star played the solar-powered Croissant Neuf stage, playing "to about 500 people".

On Sunday, he closed the festival, attracting a much younger audience than Friday and Saturday's headliners, Radiohead and Foo Fighters.

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Ed Sheeran: England’s Biggest Ginger Dec 3, 2017 18:25:08 GMT

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Beyoncé can make even the most unexpected collaborations sound meant to be, whether it's with Coldplay or Dixie Chicks, and tonight, she added Ed Sheeran to that ever-growing list. The singer hopped on a remix of Sheeran's song, "Perfect," which was included in his album, ÷ (Divide), that released in March this year.

The confessional, romantic ballad is reminiscent to Sheeran's 2014 hit, "Thinking Out Loud," but he thinks believes it's better. The singer-songwriter told Music Choice in January: "I think the song 'Perfect' is actually better than 'Thinking Out Loud.' I think there was always a scare that 'Thinking Out Loud' would define me and define my career. So I wrote a lot of songs trying to beat it and now I think I have beaten it."