How being music's Mr Nice Guy contributed to biggest crisis of Ed Sheeran's career
He has sold more than 120 million records and spent more than 1,000 weeks on the US album charts.Part of his appeal - apart from those insidiously catchy songs - is his everyman persona. He looks and dresses like a fan on the train home from Glastonbury, rather than one of the festival's headliners.He has carefully cultivated a non-threatening, everyone welcome public image. In 2014, he donated his entire wardrobe to charity shops.
- ▪He has sold more than 120 million records and spent more than 1,000 weeks on the US album charts.Part of his appeal - apart from those insidiously catchy songs - is his everyman persona.
- ▪He looks and dresses like a fan on the train home from Glastonbury, rather than one of the festival's headliners.He has carefully cultivated a non-threatening, everyone welcome public image.
- ▪In 2014, he donated his entire wardrobe to charity shops.
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How being music's Mr Nice Guy contributed to biggest crisis of Ed Sheeran's career<div class="ssrcss-1553su4-ErrorMessage eitf6465"><div class="ssrcss-h7lv7m-StyledInnerContainer eitf6464"><div class="ssrcss-nbxsk2-TextContent eitf6461"><h2 type="normal" class="ssrcss-89o2pv-Heading e10rt3ze0">To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.</h2><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10">This video can not be played</p></div></div></div>Figure caption, Will Ed Sheeran cancel his tour as support acts quit?ByMark SavageMusic correspondentPublished16 September 2026, 12:50 BSTUpdated 1 minute agoSinger Ed Sheeran is facing the biggest controversy of his career after a storm over a decision to drop support act Macklemore from his US stadium tour following the rapper's…
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