£100k a day... not bad for an ex-busker, Ed!
IN his teenage years Ed Sheeran was either sofa surfing or busking for small change on the streets.
Now it has been revealed that the singer- songwriter earned almost £100,000 every day in 2019, making him one of the world’s highest-earning solo musicians.
Other solo high- earners include Jay-Z, P Diddy and Madonna.
Accounts released yesterday show that his company Ed Sheeran Ltd made a gross profit of £36,456,811 last year, equating to £99,881 a day, and he paid £6,931,700 in tax.
Multi-award winning Sheeran, 29, worth a total of £ 200 million, earned almost 55 per cent more than he did in 2018, when he made £23,770,262. And over the last three years his gross profits totalled £87,603,273. Sheeran topped the UK albums chart with his debut + (Plus) in 2011. His second, × (Multiply) was released in 2014 and became the second-bestselling album worldwide of 2015. His third, ÷ (Divide) followed in 2017, and his Divide world tour broke records as the highest-grossing concert tour, making £596million. Sheeran, who has sold more than 150 million records, was among the top five highest-paid solo artists of 2020, placed fourth with earnings of £49million, according to Forbes’ annual Highest Paid Celebrities list.
Top was US rapper Kanye West who made most of his £131 million from his Yeezy sneakers deal with Adidas. Second was Sir Elton John with £63million, while Ariana Grande earned £56 million.
Sheeran also owns a £57million property empire, including his £3.7million Suffolk estate, dubbed ‘Sheeransville’. This has a recording studio, a pub and a wildlife pond.
Sheeran has slowly accumulated five properties on the site since first buying it in 2012. He shares it with his wife Cherry Seaborn, 28, and their daughter Lyra Antarctica who was born in August.