There’s an old saying in the record business about albums – it shipped platinum and returned gold. Which is all a way of saying that the music industry’s numbers that are sometimes thrown about on sales, online views and tickets should be taken with a grain of salt.
This week in music:
KATY DID, SAYS JURY – A federal…
Ed Sheeran's documentary Songwriter, which Apple Music acquired in a seven-figure deal before the film’s Tribeca Film Festival deal this spring, is getting ready to hit the stage. The film from Sheeran’s filmmaker cousin Murry Cummings that chronicles the making of his 2017 album Divide will hit theaters via Abramorama…
The 2018 Billboard Music Awards were handed out on Sunday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas with Ed Sheeran taking the night’s biggest prize for Top Artist. The “Shape of You” singer and Kendrick Lamar were the night’s top winners, receiving six awards each. Other winners of the evening included Taylor Swift…
EXCLUSIVE: Apple just won an auction for world screen rights to Songwriter, the Murray Cummings-directed documentary that shows singer Ed Sheeran as he finds the handle on writing and performing his distinctive songs. Deal is low to mid-seven figures for world rights, and Apple will make it an event release that…
Setting his sights on the songwriting process of Grammy-Award winning singer-songwriter Ed Sheehan with Songwriter—his feature debut, which screened at the Berlin International Film Festival before moving on to Tribeca—Murray Cummings’ documentary came about as unusually and organically as any could.
The Songwriter…
Ed Sheeran made a surprise visit to the Berlin Film Festival on Friday to talk up the documentary Songwriter, a special out-of-competition entry at the fest which wraps tomorrow. The singer-songwriter phenom, who made a much-hyped appearance in Game Of Thrones last year, and in Bridget Jones's Baby playing himself…
As the Berlin Film Festival approaches next week, organizers have announced that Willem Dafoe is this year’s recipient of the Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement. The Berlinale has also set the international jury which weighs the main competition films, and added the final title to that roster: Erik Poppe’s U…
U2’s Bono, responding to the cancellation of his band’s concert in St. Louis tonight, says he’s “deeply saddened” by events in the city. Quoting Martin Luther King Jr. – “Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability” – Bono asks in an Instagram message, “…is this 1968 or 2017?” (See it below).
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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's Game of Thrones Season 7 debut.
The truly ambitious scope of tonight's revenge filled and sometimes funny Game of Thrones Season 7 debut can perhaps best be summed up in its final words as the thrust of Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) towards claiming the Iron Throne…
James Corden’s Late Late Show, in London Tuesday night, unveiled its latest Carpool Karaoke with Ed Sheeran, though the two Brits shot it previously, in Los Angeles.
The pair opened the segment with Sheeran's latest hit single Shape of You before talking about Sheeran's year off. Corden pressed Sheeran about the…
