“Shape of You” by Ed Sheeran song more listened to on Apple Music

On the occasion of its ten years Apple Music He revealed the ranking of the hundred most listened songs in the last decade. “Shape of You” Of Ed Sheeran It is the most listened song on the platform. Already at the time of release, in 2017, “Shape of You” The most listened pop song record in the history of the platform by number of streams on the first day beat.

Ed Sheeran In addition, it is among the first five artists by number of songs in the Top 500, with 11 songs in the standings: Shape of You (#1), Perfect (#8), Thinking Out Loud (#64), I Don’t Care (with Justin Bieber,#131), Bad Habits (#183), Castle on the Hill (#192), Photograph (#201), The A Team. (#262), Shivers (#265), Galway Girl (#411) and Beautiful People (feat. Khalid,#454).

To celebrate the finish line, the 34 -year -old British songwriter met
Zane Lowe
of Apple Music to talk about the writing of
“Shape of You”
Revealing that initially he would not have wanted to sing it but to give it to others: “You know, when I wrote it, it didn’t even go through my head … I know it may seem strange, but I wrote many songs like this. Obviously not just like that, but in hundreds of occasions you are in the studio and you say: ‘We create an atmosphere, let’s go on, then at the end of the day we see in five or six songs if there is a good. It was my first day of work with Steve Mac, Johnny and I entered the studio and worked on a burst, a song after passage. That evening we were recording the battery for a song of “Divide”, “Eraser”, so Johnny and I went to the Rak Studios and made the song listened to Ben Cook and and Howard, who were at the head of Asylum Records-the label he had in Roster Me, Charli XCX, Anne-Marie and Rudimental. Rihanna. ‘ And they: ‘You are crazy. And I: ‘I don’t know …’ ”

This to follow the top ten of the most listened songs on Apple Music in the last ten years:

1 – Shape of You – Ed Sheeran

2 – Blinding Lights – The Weeknd

3 – God’s Plan – Drake

4 – Sunflower (Spider -Man: Into the Spider -Verse) – Post Malone, Swae Lee

5 – Rockstar (feat. 21 Savage) – Post Malone

6 – One Dance (feat. Wizkid & Kyla) – Drake

7 – Sicko Mode – Travis Scott

8 – Perfect – Ed Sheeran

9 – No Guidance (feat. Drake) – Chris Brown

10 – Bad Guy – Billie Eilish