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Steal Ed Sheeran’s Creative Routine to Write Better Articles

6 min readNov 25, 2021

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88% of his songs don’t make a public appearance.

Ed Sheeran has been on topping music charts for the past decade. His journey to fame didn’t happen overnight. Ed spent years doing small nightclub gigs and singing on the streets of London.

If you want to learn more, I’d recommend watching the documentary about him called Storyline. It gives you a cool behind-the-scenes look at how he creates top musical hits.

Ed Sheeran has held #1 spots for years.

  • Perfect has logged 187 weeks to date in the Top 100.
  • 22 Ed Sheeran songs have 1,000,000+ UK chart sales.
  • Shape Of You is the UK’s most-streamed song of all time.
  • Shape Of You has 2,975,437,400+ plays on Spotify. (yes, that’s almost 3 billion). And it’s the #1 streamed song on Spotify, ahead of #2 by 300 million.
  • Ed’s second-best, Perfect, *only* has 1.9 billion Spotify streams.

Needless to say, Mr. Sheeran knows how to make popular music.

Here are three tips from Ed Sheeran that help him create songs that millions of people play on their radio. You can use these tips to write articles that millions of people are reading.

Write as fast as…

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Nick Nolan
Nick Nolan

Written by Nick Nolan

Freelance marketing consultant | Writing about Copywriting, SEO, and Social Media