Whats your feeble excuse for not listening to Ed sheeran?
Ed has broken an incredible SEVEN records after just seven days on the official album and singles charts with the new album
1 - Divide is the fastest-selling album by a male artist ever 2 - Divide sold 672,000 copies in its first week, the highest opening week album sales in Official Chart history for a male artist 3 - Streaming made up 12% of sales, the highest first-week streaming sales for an album ever 4 - Divide also scored the biggest one-week vinyl album sale in more than 20 years 5 - Ed has become the first artist to ever have every single track from an album enter the Top 20 6 - The entire Top 5 is made up of tracks from Divide – the first time an act has ever achieved this 7 - Ed has also set a new record for landing the most Top 10 singles from one album with ten tracks entering the single charts in the first week
antwon fantwon told me it was bad so I'm not gonna listen to it
Adrian Torres
did I miss some important news where something being popular suddenly meant it was automatically good or something
fuck off OP
Nolan Barnes
It's amazing how far popular music has sunk. Not that there are not artists who are popular, that are quite good, Radiohead for example. But a lot of new stuff topping charts now is just disappointing and flat out not good. Ed is a perfect example
>it's an Ed Sheeran shills himself on Sup Forums in his autistic quest to dominate anything music related episode
Ian Diaz
oh yeah? well every twenty one pilots song was written by one man.
ONE MAN
Joshua Bailey
that is wild
Ryan Collins
Never heard of him
Tyler Kelly
>Ed Sheeran's first album is called "+" >Ed Sheeran's second album is called "x" >Ed Sheeran's third album is called "÷"
What's this guy's problem? Is his next album going to be called "-"? Then what?
Alexander Thomas
Popularity ≠ skill
Jordan Perry
lol all the critics fucking hate him and his phony im just a regular guy shtick.
I guess bruce springsteen is just some blue collar dude trying to make it in this crazy world too
Christian Long
bruce springsteen is based though
Adam Diaz
he can't sing or play or write
Robert Bell
PEDMAS
Ryan Collins
Shape of you is my guilty pleasure song desu
Sebastian Martin
Bad & Boujee is still #2 you retard
Noah Hill
i know, sherrans music is dull, but its like, springsteen sings about working class shit and probably owns like 4 mansions, there is probably a better way to criticize sherran.
I actually think he is smart for doing this, what do the critics want him to do? Make music for gentrified urbanites?
Nathaniel Brooks
Springsteen is a more engaging listen than Sheeran
Elijah Scott
Based melon.
Connor Carter
>When asked who are his competitors in the industry right now, Ed Sheeran said, "I would like to emulate Adele's success. Every artist should have Adele as a benchmark. She's at the top right now." So Charlamagne stops him and tells him "Beyoncé is the bar" so Ed replies "No, I'm talking sales-wise."
That's the artist you're all trying to support and keep shilling on a chinese cartoon board. What a shame. You're all what's wrong with this world.
What most black people dont understand is that you have to be a dull cretin, inoffensive, and lowest common denominator to top the charts, this means no swearing, no over sexualisation, no booty dances.
Michel jackson understood this.
Ed boy is the nice young man your stupid mom likes, the non threatening boy next door, the every man who doesnt forget where he came from, and he makes bland inoffensive pop music for the drooling retard masses
Dylan Walker
pharrels happy song is an example of a black person doing this
Aiden Reyes
Charlemagne thinks Beyonce is at the top of the heap artistically lmao what a pleb
Bentley Perry
>talking about Stormzy Stormzy Breakfast Club when
Jonathan Hughes
>Charlamagne stops him and tells him "Beyoncé is the bar"
Justin Brown
Because his music is really fucking dull. Could someone explain why he has stuck around so long? I really don't understand the appeal
Kevin Myers
teenage white girls run the industry my man. Most males pirate their music
Daniel Reed
Fair, but I guess what I'm really confused about is why him of all people? There's lot's of singer-songwriters that are better singers, writers, looking, etc
Thomas Murphy
>Beyoncé is the bar Kek niggers can't help it. >cretin But thats all the nigger ever, I really don't get what you're trying to say.
Zachary Cooper
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Joshua Rodriguez
I thought you were talking about real sales records for a minute but apparently these are all UK specific records so who gives a fuck. This just confirms my suspicions that Brits have garbage taste in general.
Carter Perez
>Light 4
Matthew Johnson
ITT: Anti-"hipsters" #BTFO
"You hate it because it's popular" no longer an argument.
Oliver Gray
This is the power of stupid teenage girls, people. And I'll bet most of them are American, because you guys have the shittiest taste.
Jonathan Scott
What do smart teenage girls listen to?
Evan Howard
At least he is better number one than fucking bad and boujee
Dominic Lee
I know a girl who is into talking heads, gentle giant, and prog in general
Jordan Bennett
who the fuck buys these albums? seriously?
Jaxon Hughes
embarrassing taste
Adrian Barnes
You have 15 seconds to name a better current artist
Robert Gutierrez
kanye west
Nolan Ross
kanye west
Andrew Bailey
Because pop music has been garbage for 20+ years, and pop music that actually sells great numbers of records is even bigger garbage.
Mason Myers
kek this place is embarrasing
Nolan Price
bitch you're posting in an Ed Sheeran thread
Adam Roberts
lmao I bet you listen to grimes faggot
Juan Perez
>Divide sold 672,000 copies in its first week, the highest opening week album sales in Official Chart history for a male artist
bullshit probably
Jacob Long
Don't know, but maybe his last album should be called AC.
Aaron Wood
>"Beyoncé is the bar"
snrk
Andrew Collins
top 40 wise she kind of is.
Henry Gray
That would be pretty funny. Thanks for the laugh user
Austin Foster
>metro.co.uk >mfw
Streaming has made the charts redundant when shit like this happens.
>In 2016 there were just 10 UK number one singles, the lowest since 1954.
Justin Harris
Migos, Travis Scott, Lil Yachty the list goes on..
Cameron Cooper
>chart topping waifu / memerap >god-tier
>chart topping white artist >le mainstream is bad
Hypocrites
Chase Jenkins
>no over sexualisation, no booty dances. >Michel jackson
John Walker
At least with meme rap you could see this going somewhere, with guys like Ed Sheeran it's just the same pop crap
Wyatt Wood
British Bob Dylan
Oliver Adams
she is not even an artist, but a performer
Ayden Torres
kekekek
Justin Cook
I'm gonna explain the reason this man is so popular. Is a very easy explanation, it's just he is trying to sold himself like a not pop artist, so he apeal to the "Tumblr crowd", because he is "so deep" and writing his own songs (which doesn't mean nothing with the music is bad). But he also it's making very accessible music, that seems as a contrast to other chart toppers songs, so Ed Sheeran is appreciated by "conservatives" (because of its contrast with rap) and "progressive" (because of his attitude as a "no pop artist"). He is bland as hell by the way, write the most simple lyrics that apeal to the masses, and to some """alternative""" groups, basically the industry just their likeable white boy to sing song. You could be cuck and make a relation between this and The Beatles sucess, but while The Beatles barely a year after their american sucess were recording something like Rubber Soul, Ed Sheeran's music just got progressive accessible and bland.
Jason Gray
Like Nick Drake, Bob Dylan and Tim Buckley among others.
Bentley Peterson
How is this guy so popular? He is talentless and ugly as fuck.
Brayden Wilson
>comparing tim buckley to ed sheeran what the fuck
Carter Gray
Just because an albums sells doesn't make it good. You must be new here
most of the records being broken are because we include streams as a statistic in sales now a relatively new concept it's like saying the wright brothers once held the record for fastest aeroplane speed
Album is his worst, I like New Man, but the concept of the song is still wank all of his new stuff is about how he broke up with a girl and he wants them back but doesn't really he's now the male tailor swift I saw in an interview him saying that there's no hungover introspection anymore, but that's what was remotely relateable about him
Liam Carter
I don't get the appeal of Ed Sheeran. What makes him so successful?
he's a glorified millennial whoop faggot >one millions flies can't be wrong, shit is tasty
Jacob Cook
Can someone explain to me the reason for this Artistic Pause?
>you and me are thrifty >so go all you can eat >fill up your bag >and I fill up a plate >[AUTISTIC PAUSE] >we talk for hours and hours >about the sweet and the sour
WHY does the music stop???? There hasn't been a music moment in a pop song that's annoyed me this much since "if you've been down and out about the liars and the dirty dirty cheats of the world, you could've been getting down to THIS. SIQQ. BEAT."
Xavier Edwards
>rapping over folk music
-∞/10
Mason Kelly
Michael jackson had some pretty provocative dance moves, he used to grab his crotch constantly and rub his chest all the time but I see your point.
Grayson Hernandez
Bob Dylan
Noah Hughes
>Streaming made up 12% of sales
Jaxson Campbell
Teen girls
Oliver Reed
>"No, I'm talking sales-wise."
BASED ED
Levi Kelly
What charts are we talking about? Both Billboard and the iTunes charts haven't updated since the album's release.
Logan Sanders
Frank Ocean
Josiah Lopez
>charts >sales >top 20 kek who gives a FUCK
Dominic Reyes
>listening to an ugly ginger cuck who sing about meaningless shit Sorry, I'm not 12
Christian Collins
Its the UK charts, Billboard niggercucks still probably have ''lil fucking retards mumbling to EDM'' at the top.
Gabriel Martinez
Bob Dylan's music never got blander except when he found the Lord in the 80's
Hudson Reed
kek epic win Sup Forumsro
Isaiah Evans
No, Shape of You is still #1 in America. But thanks for clarifying.
Sebastian Williams
I don't know who this guy is, sorry
William Nelson
pleb detected
preacher bob is one of his best periods
Angel Barnes
Don't you fucking talk shit about Taylor Swift you whore.
David Lewis
>>fill up your bag >>and I fill up a plate i don't get this. is he dating a klepto?
Ethan Perez
Thank you, I can't believe this is a real thread right now.
Chase Morgan
download culture has made the charts are less meaningful than any other point in history. i know any insinuation that the charts have gone downhill is met with 'HURR LE WRONG GENERATION' but genuinely over the last 10 years or so it's gotten awful. yes, there has always been trash in the charts, but in the past legit acts were still able to crack them - think of all the big beat that topped the charts in the late 90s, the french house at the start of the 00s, all the alt rocky 'britpop' acts in the late 90s and revivialshit in the mid 00s - sure you can hate all this stuff and call it crossover trash but it is at least music written by the people performing it and not borne solely out of board room meetings and focus groups.
99% of this was written by a team of producers, compared to say - 90% in the past
the problem is simple - people who actually like music nowadays, ironically enough, don't buy it
Matthew Adams
The 'HURR LE WRONG GENERATION' are just in denial that the pop scene really has seen a remarkable amount of homogenization and loss of quality compared to the pop scenes of previous decades.
Dylan Rivera
I really hate how you cant criticize pop music without some try hard poptamism faggot crawling out of the gutter yelling about "hurrrr le weong gnerushun".
