Post

I’m sorry, it doesn’t matter how significant and salient the issues are, you simply cannot make me have an opinion on the humans “Macklemore” and “Ed Sheeran” in 2026. I will not do it. I refuse to opine.

11 reposts196 likes

Ed hit the coveted "1st artist w/ 4 songs > 3b streams" metric this year. But he had to return the $700 that paid when age assurance tech said 96% of listens were bots :( His claim — "My audience is just ...like that!" — failed. With only 2b from touring so far, guy could use walkin' around cash.

Sure, it’s also about billionaire control of monopoly entertainment venues, and a lack of organized labor protection for working artists, and a bunch of other stuff too actually