Ed Sheeran reflects on the time he almost gave up on music career: ‘I didn’t want that pressure’
Ed Sheeran has been dishing out hits for over a decade. With four solo studio albums and multiple global tours under his belt, the singer has experienced all of the highs and lows of the music industry — but in 2017, he was ready to walk away from it all.
“The album was bigger than people thought it was gonna be,” he told Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist in a candid interview. “And then suddenly, you come to the end of this thing and you have the biggest streaming song in the world, the most attended tour in the world, the highest grossing tour in the world, the album sold 25 million copies, and then everyone’s kinda looking at you going, ‘Hey, yeah. We’re gonna do that again, but better.’ And I didn’t want that pressure.
“It wasn’t retiring, but it was retiring from giving a f———,” he said. “I wasn’t necessarily wanting to step away from music, but I was definitely wanting to step away from it being a professional hobby.”
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