Castle on the hill: The incredible rise of Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran in 2012, 2014, and 2022.
With albums named after the mathematical symbols for plus, minus, divide and equals, Ed Sheeran knows better than anyone numbers do not lie. And those numbers tell us the 31-year-old native of Suffolk in the east of England is one of the biggest forces in pop.
He holds bragging right for the highest-grossing world tour in history, having generated over €800 million during the two years in which he took his ÷ album on the road. That places the megastar strummer squarely in the red zone at the top of the pop pyramid, ahead of U2 and the Rolling Stones.
