Spotify Says Ed Sheeran Puts More People To Sleep Than Any Other Artist

Spotify Says Ed Sheeran Puts More People To Sleep Than Any Other Artist

As someone who spent an embarrassing amount of time watching old Ed Sheeran videos with a friend the other night, this headline kind of confounded me. I stayed up worrying about the wayward girl in Sheeran’s video for “The A-Team,” unable to sleep wondering how many pre-pubescent individuals swore off eyeliner for life (among other things) after seeing it for the first time. In any case, this headline isn’t about Sheeran’s videos and self-serious visual aesthetic, it’s about his aural ~mellow vibes~. Spotify tells Billboard that “Thinking Out Loud” is the most-streamed song around the world on 2.8 million “sleep” themed playlists. The list of the top 20 songs to be found on such playlists around the world includes a whopping total of seven Sheeran singles. Maybe this is how Sheeran became Spotify’s most-streamed artist of 2014! One of those overnight streaming schemes, perhaps? Check out the 20 most slept-to (but certainly not most slept-on) songs below.

01 Ed Sheeran – “Thinking Out Loud”
02 Sam Smith – “Stay With Me”
03 Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do (from Fifty Shades of Grey)
04 Ed Sheeran – “I See Fire”
05 Sam Smith – “I’m Not The Only One”
06 Rain Sounds – “Rain For Sleep”
07 John Legend – “All Of Me”
08 The Weeknd – “Earned It” (from Fifty Shades of Grey)
09 Passenger – “Let Her Go”
10 Birdy – “Skinny Love”
11 A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera – “Say Something”
12 Rihanna, Paul McCartney, Kanye West – “FourFiveSeconds”
13 Ed Sheeran – “The A-Team”
14 Ed Sheeran – “Tenerife Sea”
15 Ed Sheeran – “Give Me Love”
16 Ed Sheeran – “Lay Me Down”
17 Coldplay – “Fix You”
18 Ed Sheeran – “Photograph”
19 Ed Sheeran – “Kiss Me”
20 Sam Smith – “Latch (Acoustic)”

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