As the #1 Spotify Artist in the world, Ed Sheeran may be the quintessential pop star of the 2010s: a singer/songwriter who seems to acknowledge no boundaries between styles or eras, creating a sound that’s idiosyncratic and personal. Sheeran borrows from any style that crosses his path — elements of folk, hip-hop, pop, dance, soul, and rock can be heard in his big hits “The A Team”, “Sing”, “Thinking Out Loud”, and “Shape of You” — which gives him a broad appeal among different demographics. After a hiatus, Sheeran returned with “Bad Habits” in JUne 2021; the single topped the charts in nearly every country, currently sitting at over one billion plays on Spotify, in good company with “Perfect” and “Shape of You”, also amassing over two billion plays each.