15 jul 2022 om 05:51
Ed Sheeran, who will perform in a sold-out Johan Cruijff ArenA on Thursday 14 and Friday 15 July, cannot be beaten off the radio with his hit singles. But you probably hear it more often than you realize. In addition to his successful own work and duets with other world stars, the artist also regularly writes songs for other artists.
By: Michiel VosOne Direction – Little Things
Sheeran finally breaks through in 2011 with the hit The A Team and is already busy writing songs for other artists. The One Direction single will be released in 2012 Little Things, which Sheeran is co-writing for the boy band with songwriter Fiona Bevan. He does not make the very first number 1 hit that Sheeran writes for himself, but for One Direction: the boy band scores with Little Things. Sheeran occasionally writes a song for them in the years that follow, until the group splits up. The first solo single from One Direction member Liam Payne, Strip That Downwas also co-written by Sheeran.
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Justin Bieber – Love Yourself
Several years before Sheeran the duet I don’t care with Justin Bieber, he has already collaborated with the Canadian pop idol. For Bieber’s album Purpose from 2015 the two write the song together Love Yourself. The song, on which Bieber – accompanied only by an acoustic guitar – addresses an ex who treated him badly, is released as a single and reaches number one on the charts worldwide.
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Rita Ora – Your Song
Rita Ora knows who to turn to for a hit. After she had a big hit in 2014 with I will never let you down (written by her then-partner Calvin Harris), in 2017 she comes up with Your Song, written by Sheeran and Steve Mac, with whom he writes much of his music. The song gives the British singer another top 10 hit. The issue will be published in 2021 big, which features Ora with Imanbek, David Guetta and Gunna. Sheeran also co-wrote this song.
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Alicia Keys – Underdog
Alicia Keys hasn’t scored any big hits for several years when she released the single in 2020 Underdog release, leading up to the album Alicia. The song, which Keys wrote with a team of songwriters, including Sheeran, isn’t as successful as songs like Girl On Fire and fallin’, but does bring Keys back into the charts. Remarkably enough, the song does not do well anywhere in the world as well as in the Netherlands.
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BTS – Permission To Dance
Sheeran seems to be well aware of what’s going on among young people, who make up a significant part of the music streaming audience. That’s how he gives the number Permission To Dance, which he wrote with a team of songwriters, for the South Korean boy band BTS. The internationally immensely popular group will release it as a separate single in 2021 and even manage to make it a number 1 hit in the United States.
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