The announcement comes following the news that the Divide tour is the highest grossing of all time
Ask any musician and they’ll tell you that as exhilarating as world tours are, they’re also incredibly tiring. And for Ed Sheeran, who’s been on hisSpeaking on stage at the final gig of the tour, Sheerantour for over two years now and this is the last day of the whole thing. There is something very bittersweet about it. I love that you guys are here and we are ending it in Ipswich. This is my last gig for probably 18 months.
He continued, acknowledging the mammoth scale of the tour, saying, “We’ve played all around the world. Glastonbury, Wembley Stadium. All these amazing venues, America, New Zealand, Australia, Asia, South America – it’s been a wild one. I was told before I came on that now at the end of this tour I’ve played to nine million people around the world. It is the biggest tour ever.”
Ending such a huge undertaking doesn’t come lightly with the singer likening it to a breakup. “It’s been an emotional day for a lot of people backstage. It kind of feels like, in a weird way, that you’re breaking up with a girlfriend that you’ve been with for years. It sounds odd but it has been a long tour.”a whopping CAD$1 billion, making the Grammy Award winner the highest paid musician of 2018 and the tour the highest earning of all time.
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