Ed Sheeran officially has 12 songs in Spotify‘s Billions Club, with “The A Team” most recently passing the threshold. To celebrate, the superstar brought Spotify back to his hometown of Framlingham, Suffolk, to show off all the places and memories that inspired his biggest hits.
“I loved growing up in Suffolk. As a kid, you sort of run wild,” he says, as he showed the high school where he met his wife Cherry — whom “Perfect” and many of his love songs are about — and the castle that inspired “Castle on the Hill.” He recalls that Framlingham Castle was “where me and my mates as kids used to come to roll down and then used to come as teenagers to drink cider and smoke.”
Ed Sheeran Billions Club
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The group then heads to Decoy Studios, where Sheeran shows props from all 12 of his Billions Club songs: “The A Team,” “Shivers,” “Bad Habits,” “Beautiful People (feat. Khalid),” “Castle on the Hill,” “Shape of You,” “Perfect,” “Galway Girl,” “Happier,” “I Don’t Care (with Justin Bieber),” “Photograph” and “Thinking Out Loud.”
On his debut single, “The A Team,” and its newest milestone, Sheeran says that the accomplishment is “emotional because it harps back to a time where the idea of a billion people listening to my song was out of the question.”
Watch Sheeran’s full Billions Club: The Series episode below.
