Ed Sheeran

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mickk

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28,857 posts

242 months

Friday 10th March 2017
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He's doing something right.



MTech535

613 posts

111 months

Friday 10th March 2017
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Bloody Coldplay.





Chart Domination!

Mr Gearchange

5,892 posts

206 months

Friday 10th March 2017
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Sorry state of affairs.

HappyMidget

6,788 posts

115 months

Friday 10th March 2017
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Listened to the Ed Sheeran Chart Show on the way home, some decent music tbh. Good on him.

Mothersruin

8,573 posts

99 months

Friday 10th March 2017
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Kay Burley was prattling on about him yesterday. Apparently she thinks this album is the greatest music ever made and was visibly offended when the hired 'expert' said it was bland and a bit meh.

Only heard the clip played and he sounds about right.

Mr Gearchange

5,892 posts

206 months

Friday 10th March 2017
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Mothersruin said:
Kay Burley was prattling on about him yesterday. Apparently she thinks this album is the greatest music ever made and was visibly offended when the hired 'expert' said it was bland and a bit meh.

Only heard the clip played and he sounds about right.
Kay Burley is a cretinous fool who is out of her depth on a freshly mopped floor.
If she told me the sky was blue I'd still have to go outside and check.

Brads67

3,199 posts

98 months

Friday 10th March 2017
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God he`s dull

otherman

2,191 posts

165 months

Friday 10th March 2017
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The chart thing is just because each track sale from the album counts as a 'single' sale, because of the on-line compilation.

Mr Snrub

24,977 posts

227 months

Saturday 11th March 2017
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I just cannot stand the white guy with acoustic guitar genre. Songs that are basically written to try and get women into bed by showing how "deep" and "meaningful" you are

PistonBroker

2,419 posts

226 months

Saturday 11th March 2017
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Mr Snrub said:
I just cannot stand the white guy with acoustic guitar genre. Songs that are basically written to try and get women into bed by showing how "deep" and "meaningful" you are
No, me either.

Nor can my brother which is really frustrating as he's a ginger who plays acoustic guitar. I wish he'd just embrace the concept and make us all rich! :-p

My daughter, who's 10, is really into him at the moment. I will say, the first two off this new album have grown on me to a certain extent, but I heard Galway Girl for the first time last night and just began laughing. WTF????!!!!

Anglade

239 posts

120 months

Saturday 11th March 2017
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I don't usually mind him that much but wow that track "Galway Girl" is absolutely horrendous....

Yipper

5,964 posts

90 months

Saturday 11th March 2017
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otherman said:
The chart thing is just because each track sale from the album counts as a 'single' sale, because of the on-line compilation.
Yes, streaming music songs, from Spotify etc., is skewing the UK singles chart in favour of popular and new albums. Students and middleaged people are piling online all at once to get their new Ed fix.

anonymous-user

54 months

Saturday 11th March 2017
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Yipper said:
Yes, streaming music songs, from Spotify etc., is skewing the UK singles chart in favour of popular and new albums. Students and middleaged people are piling online all at once to get their new Ed fix.
It seems that now the chart format favours the bigger acts.

All they have to do is put out some bland song that isn't awful and ride the hype train to multiple weeks at number 1.

It's the reverse of when they first opened it up to online sales and newer acts started breaking up the more established ones.

lucido grigio

44,044 posts

163 months

Saturday 11th March 2017
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I would have been the first reply to this thread but didn't want to offend any fans ,now I find

that there isn't many on here.

His songs are too wordy, just boring.

Evanivitch

20,072 posts

122 months

Saturday 11th March 2017
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Ed Sheeran basically has the pop market cornered. Given that he's written big hits for several other acts and just keeps a few for himself (possibly not his best ones, but perhaps the one's he enjoys more), he's just a money making machine.

I think it's funny he took a "gap year" and supposedly took it in isolation from social media and the such, but still managed to bag Swifty's crew and a party with a princess.

Not bad for a was-fat ginger.

MitchT

15,865 posts

209 months

Saturday 11th March 2017
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Mr Gearchange said:
Kay Burley is a cretinous fool who is out of her depth on a freshly mopped floor.
rofl

Wacky Racer

38,157 posts

247 months

Saturday 11th March 2017
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He had a cameo role in Bridget Jones's Baby....was quite good in that....biggrin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FIpJqW5Mz4

Walter Sobchak

5,723 posts

224 months

Saturday 11th March 2017
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His music doesn't appeal to me whatsoever but musics so subjective and people must see something in his stuff, either that or young people just have exceptionally bad taste.

Yipper

5,964 posts

90 months

Saturday 11th March 2017
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Sheeran's music is cr*p, but the British music industry is in collapse and it needs him (and Adele) real bad. Those two are possibly the last wave of truly global British pop stars.

AdeTuono

7,251 posts

227 months

Saturday 11th March 2017
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Yipper said:
Sheeran's music is cr*p, but the British music industry is in collapse and it needs him (and Adele) real bad. Those two are possibly the last wave of truly global British pop stars.
How sad is that, from a country that gave the world The Beatles, Stones, The Who, Zeppelin and a myriad of smaller, but no less talented bands?

I despair, I really do, if the best we can come up with is that miserable dross. And don't get me started on Coldplay. Or Sam Smith, who should have been drowned at birth, rather than subject us to his whinging excuse of a voice.