Ed Sheeran Talks Spotify, Being Hungover for His Best Concerts

In the midst of his increasing success in the music industry and a quick introduction to the acting world, Ed Sheeran discovered an unexpected correlation between his best concerts and the amount of alcohol consumed the night before. The X singer-songwriter recently divulged in an interview that he has nothing but appreciation for Spotify and that he "made sure" to spend the night drinking just ahead of his three sold out gigs at Wembley Stadium in London last summer, the focus of his latest concert film, Jumpers for Goalposts.

"I don't know why the best gigs I've ever played have been after real heavy nights," the 24-year-old singer recently explained, according to Billboard. "I think it's just because you walk onstage, you're not complacent, you're not onstage being like, 'Oh, I've done this a million times.' You walk onstage being like, 'You know, I'm 90 percent the human I should be so I'll make sure I give 115 percent.'"

Sheeran's three-night stint at Wembley Stadium were recorded for the upcoming concert film, which will premiere at London's Leicester Square on Thursday, where Sheeran is also slated to perform. Jumpers for Goalposts will be screened in theaters worldwide Friday through Sunday.

"I just find whenever I'm on a British Airlines flight I always watch someone's concert film and it always like, I was never really a fan of Justin Bieber, and then I watched Never Say Never and then it made sense, so I was like, 'Oh, oh. I get it now,'" Sheeran detailed. "So I wanted to make a film that I could put on British Airlines flights and have Chinese businessmen like my music."

The "Thinking Out Loud" singer attributes his ability to play Wembley Stadium to the track's overwhelming success on Spotify after reaching 500 million streams, placing him second in streams behind famed rapper Eminem. Lots of celebrities aren't too fond of Spotify, Taylor Swift being one in particular to remove her material from the streaming service last year. Sheeran said that the financial arguments should most certainly matter to smaller artists struggling to make it big but for those popular enough to tour, they "shouldn't really complain" and owe large amounts of their successes to Spotify streams, The Telegraph notes.

"I can go to Norway and Iceland and Thailand, just like random places where CD sales are not prevalent," he said. "So Spotify, for me, it works, because I am a touring act."

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Ed Sheeran, Spotify