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For the fourth time in his career, Ed Sheeran has the No. 1 album in the U.S.  The British singer-songwriter officially toppled Drake’s Certified Lover Boy for the top spot on the Billboard 200 with his new album =, Billboard reports. Sheeran’s latest release earned 118,000 equivalent album units in its first week, while CLB brought in 67,000 equivalent album units. […]

Ed Sheeran’s Saturday Night Live performance went off without a hitch. He performed “Shivers” off his newly released studio album =. Uncertainty surrounded the gig after Sheeran revealed he had tested positive for COVID-19 last month. The Grammy-winning singer/songwriter announced his diagnosis in an Oct. 24 Instagram post, telling fans he had to cancel in-person commitments as he completed the […]

Kieran Culkin isn’t the first Culkin to host Saturday Night Live. And he surely isn’t the youngest. His brother Macaulay was just 11 years old when he did it.  But that didn’t stop Kieran from making his SNL comeback 30 years after he appeared on his brother’s episode. Now, he’s got the hosting powers himself, and […]

Ed Sheeran returns with another taste of his upcoming studio album = (Equals). On Thursday, the UK singer/songwriter released his “Shivers” track along with its official video directed by Dave Meyers. The visual follows a love-struck Sheeran as he attempts to woo a woman—played by actress AnnaSophia Robb—he met by chance in a diner. The video has a […]

Ed Sheeran and Eminem have worked on a few collaborations together, but one of the formative moments in their working relationship came when they bonded over their love of video games and superheroes. Speaking with Apple Music 1’s Rebecca Judd, Sheeran thought back to his first time visiting Em’s studio in Detroit and how they talked for hours about […]

Ed Sheeran has marked his return with the new single and video for “Bad Habits.” The singer has been hinting at the song’s arrival over the last few weeks, teasing fans with clips and stills of him dressed as a vampire in a pink suit with blonde hair and wild makeup.  “I’ve been working away […]

A pair of songwriters, Konstantine Lois and Shane Williams, have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit over the 2018 hit “Eastside,” according to TMZ.  The two say that they wrote a song called “Loveless” three years prior (2015) for Williams’ group American XO. They say that “Eastside” (which went 4x Platinum and peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Top 100 in […]

The Weeknd continues to obliterate the charts with his smash single “Blinding Lights.” “Blinding Lights” has now spent a record 28 weeks in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100, surpassing the previous high held by Ed Sheeran with “Shape of You.” It’s the latest accomplishment in what has turned into a string of accolades for The […]

In a candid new video titled “Finding Peace at the Top of the Music Industry,” superstar Ed Sheeran opened up about his battle with binge eating and alcohol abuse during the “lowest” point in his life back in 2015.  The conversation was filmed for the Hay House Chasing the Present Summit, an event meant to […]

As the usual end-of-year hoopla continues, fellow students of pop culture are dually met this time around with meditations on the closing out of a particularly stacked decade.  Adding to the conversation this week is the release of Spotify’s annual ranking of the year’s most-streamed artists, accompanied this go-around by similar stats for the decade. […]