Ed Sheeran the UK’s most played artist again, but won’t take it for granted

completemusicupdate.com:

Who was the most played artist on UK radio and telly, and in British pubs and clubs and such places, last year? Why, it was that Ed Sheeran, that’s who.

Yes, again.Because, I mean, we basically ran this exact same story a year ago, except in relation to 2021. A whole year’s gone by and the great people of this United Kingdom are still listening to all of Ed Sheeran’s fucking pop songs.

Oh well.We know this because UK record industry collecting society PPL has told us. It keeps track of such things as it licenses radio stations, TV channels and other businesses that play recorded music in public, and then compiles two annual Most Played charts that utilise all that lovely data.“This is Ed Sheeran’s sixth Most Played Artists chart-topping appearance in the last eight years”, PPL notes.

In fact, “only Dua Lipa’s success in 2020 has prevented him from a clean sweep of every year since 2017”.With that kind of success, the boy Sheeran is surely going to start taking all this very much for granted.