“Shape Of You” almost didn’t make the cut!
When Ed Sheeran originally wrote the alternative track — which has been on the top Hot 100 list chat since it was released nearly a year ago — he thought he already had enough songs for his latest album, and was about to hand it off to another artist to record.
Imagine if he’d done that! In a recent interview, the British singer-songwriter dished on the process of writing and producing arguably this year’s biggest bop. Ed even revealed that he hardly remembers creating it, because it happened so fast:
“The best songs that I’ve ever written, I don’t really remember writing. They take like 20 minutes and then they’re just done. And then you move on to the next thing.”
In case you missed it, this is the hilarious way Ed celebrated being Spotify’s most streamed artist of 2017!