The lead single, Bad Habits, has been the UK No 1 for 11 weeks. He has described the butterflies on the album cover as representing “new life”, including his experiences of getting married, becoming a father and losing a friend and mentor Michael Gudinski, an Australian record label executive who died in March. His fourth solo album, =, is released on 29 October. Over the course of his career, Sheeran has been nominated for 328 different prizes and won 117 of them, including four Grammys, four Brits and four Ivor Novello awards.
I always walk away feeling sad and I don’t like it.” I’ve spoken to people and they’re like, ‘I just felt really depressed afterwards … It’s a really, really horrible atmosphere to be in there. “People get the same feeling as me at those award shows.
He said that his sentiments were common among his peers. Sheeran said that US ceremonies were worse than their UK counterparts, where “everyone gets drunk and no one really cares who wins or loses”.
